Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Location Aware Health Monitoring System For Emergency Cases

: Patient monitoring system has drawn considerable attention of the researchers for the last few years. An effective patient monitoring system should be able to record, display, and transmit patients’ critical physiological data to their healthcare service providers from anywhere at any time. Recently, mobile technology has led to significant innovations in this field ranging from implantable devices to smart applications. In this work, we present an innovative patient monitoring system that integrates an application and wearable devices to monitor the patients’ critical physiological data. In addition, it uses the global positioning system (GPS) so that patients and healthcare service providers can track each other. We have field tested our system and the results show that our proposed system can send vital physiological data as well as the location information of patients to a remote healthcare service provider with a high precision. The system also generates alarm messages for the patients and it also assists the patients to locate the nearby healthcare service providers. The location information is automatically updated with the patients’ movement.
Effectiveness of anterior resection with total mesorectal excision in curative treatment for rectal carcinoma in males

niej z całkowitym wycięciem mezorektum (TME) w radykalnym leczeniu raka odbytnicy u mężczyzn, u których, zdaniem części autorów, uzyskanie adekwatnych marginesów radialnych może być trudniejsze niż u kobiet. Materiał i metody: Prospektywnej ocenie poddano kolejnych 43 mężczyzn z histologicznie potwierdzonym rakiem odbytnicy, operowanych od 01.1998 r. do 12.1999 r. U pacjentów wykonano przednią resekcję odbytnicy z zaoszczędzeniem zwieraczy metodą TME. W stadiach B i C wg Dukesa stosowano leczenie uzupełniające: 8 chorych otrzymało neoadjuwantową radioterapię i 6 kursów chemioterapii po zabiegu, 15 skojarzoną radiochemioterapię adjuwantową. Wyniki: Nie zanotowano śmiertelności pooperacyjnej. U 4,6% pacjentów stwierdzono wyłącznie wznowę miejscową, u 18,6% wyłącznie przerzuty odległe, u 4,6% oba typy nawrotu. Całkowite przeżycie 5-letnie wyniosło 71,5±9,8% (Kaplan-Meier). W stadium A wykazano 100,0±0,0% przeżyć, w B 60,0±13,1%, w C 25,0±16,4% (P<0,05, test log-rank). Obecność przerzutów w węzłach chłonnych była czynnikiem pogarszającym rokowanie z wysoką znamiennością statystyczną (P<0,001): Nvs N+, odpowiednio 82,9±6,5% vs 25,0±16,4% przeżyć. U wszystkich pacjentów N+ z nawrotem obserwowano uogólniony rozsiew choroby nowotworowej. Wnioski: Technika TME pozwala na osiągnięcie niskiego odsetka wznów miejscowych i poprawę przeżyć odległych u chorych na raka odbytnicy, dlatego powinna być niezbędnym elementem postępowania chirurgicznego. Mimo skutecznej kontroli miejscowej uzyskanej dzięki TME i postępów leczenia uzupełniającego rokowanie u pacjentów z przerzutami w węzłach chłonnych jest złe.
Czech students and mitigation of global warming: beliefs and willingness to take action

Abstract The future life-styles and pro-environmental behaviour of today’s younger students will be a cardinal factor in mitigating the severity of projected climate change. In this study, Czech students at upper-primary and secondary-school levels responded to a set of covertly paired statements designed to assess their beliefs concerning the usefulness of actions that might ameliorate global warming and the degree to which they are willing to act. Relations between their beliefs and willingness to act were assessed by means of an index of Potential Effectiveness of Education (PEE). The results show that Czech students are generally sceptical about the usefulness of the actions suggested and are among the less willing, in a wider international context, to participate in actual processes that might ameliorate global warming. However, Czech secondary-school students, particularly females, are significantly more willing to act than upper-primary students. Although relatively high PEE values were observed, Czech students tend to underestimate the role of personal consumption and male students in particular are not willing to take actions that involve no immediate personal benefit. Our results thus emphasize the importance of adjusting school curricula by promoting insight into the topic of global warming, and extending that understanding into practical measures.
Community-based distribution of family planning services in humanitarian settings: identified need and potential from Malakal South Sudan.

Displacement can increase people’s desire and need for family planning while they simultaneously experience barriers to access. While community-based approaches to the distribution of family planning methods have been well-established and documented in other development contexts since the 1970s limited documentation exists for community-based distribution (CBD) of contraceptives in humanitarian settings. The Women’s Refugee Commission and American Refugee Committee (ARC) implemented a pilot project on CBD of family planning services in Malakal South Sudan to examine whether CBD is applicable and feasible in a humanitarian setting and would enhance people’s access to and use of contraceptives. Through close consultation with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the project was implemented from May 2010-August 2011 in three administrative units in Malakal with a total population of 79700. In August 2011 a process evaluation was conducted consisting of a household survey focus group discussions in-depth interviews and a review of routinely collected data. Qualitative data showed community openness to CBD. Current demand for family planning services appeared to be driven by changing circumstances including lifestyle changes. Respondents did not naturally link conflict to challenges in obtaining family planning services. Analysis of routinely collected data reflected an increase in uptake at the community level. From the collected data continued need and existing evidence from development contexts CBD of family planning services appears feasible and promising even in a volatile setting.
Professional language competence of technical university students: concept, its specificity and development

The objective of this paper is to provide a strict definition of a concept “competence” which can be used in the context of professional language training of technical university students.The literature review shows the necessity of the development of professional language competence in future tool-making engineers that technical universities in Russia train. Based on this review, the structure of this competence has been identified. Also, the process of professional language competence development is thoroughly analyzed so that the conclusions about the stages of this process and the necessary pedagogical conditions that a teacher must follow are determined.
Ergebnisse der Einführung eines allgemeinen „Screening auf Mangelernährung“ in einem großen Versorgungskrankenhaus

Zusammenfassung Einleitung: Ein Screening auf Mangelernährung bei der stationären Aufnahme im Krankenhaus wird schon seit 2003 vom Europarat gefordert, ist jedoch in Deutschland bisher nur wenig verbreitet. In der vorliegenden Studie werden die ersten Ergebnisse der Implementierung eines allgemeinen Screenings auf Mangelernährung in einem großen Versorgungskrankenhaus vorgestellt. Patienten und Methoden: Vom 1.10. 2009 bis 31.3. 2010 wurde im Klinikum St. Georg Leipzig im Zeitraum von 6 Monaten prospektiv die Einführung eines Screenings auf Mangelernährung evaluiert. Nicht eingeschlossen waren primär intensivmedizinisch behandlungspflichtige sowie pädiatrische Patienten und Brandverletzte. Als Screeninginstrument wurde der Nutritional Risk Score (NRS) 2002 eingesetzt. Im Screening auffällige Patienten wurden weitergehend ernährungsmedizinisch und anthropometrisch mittels bioelektrischer Impedanzanalyse (BIA) untersucht. Im Untersuchungszeitraum wurden 18 777 Patienten stationär aufgenommen. Ergebnisse: Durch das Präscreening wurden 3532 Patienten (18,8 %) als Risikopatienten eingestuft. Nur 1660 Patienten des Risikokollektivs (47,0 %) wurden weiter untersucht. Von diesen wurden 354 Fälle (21,3 %) als manifest mangelernährt klassifiziert. Die extrapolierten Ergebnisse ergeben auf das Gesamtkollektiv gerechnet einen Anteil von 4,0 % Patienten mit manifester Mangelernährung. Das durchschnittliche Alter der manifest mangelernährten Patienten lag bei 67,3 ± 17,2 Jahren. Der durchschnittliche NRS-Score betrug in der Subgruppe der Mangelernährten 3,6 ± 0,7 Punkte, der Körpermassenindex (BMI) 18,9 ± 2,4 kg/m² und der Phasenwinkel 3,9 ± 1,4°. Die Krankenhausletalität der mangelernährten Patienten betrug 8,2 %. Fälle von Mangelernährten mit einem Phasenwinkel < 3 wiesen eine signifikant erhöhte Letalität von 17,0 % auf. 58,2 % der mangelernährten Patienten hatten eine längere Verweildauer als die im DRG-System vorgegebene mittlere Verweildauer. Bei der Kodierung der ernährungsmedizinischen Diagnosen in der Internationalen Krankheitsklassifikation (ICD) E46 und R64 ließ sich im G-DRG-System 2009/2010 und 2015 eine Erlössteigerung erzielen. Schlussfolgerung: Basierend auf unseren Screeningdaten im unselektionierten Aufnahmekollektiv eines Krankenhauses der Schwerpunktversorgung ist davon auszugehen, dass jeder 20. Patient manifest mangelernährt ist und jeder 5. Patient als Risikopatient zu gelten hat. Mit der Implementierung eines allgemeinen ernährungsmedizinischen Screenings, einschließlich Assessment (BIA etc.), lassen sich Risikopatienten für einen verlängerten Krankenhausaufenthalt und eine erhöhte Krankenhausletalität identifizieren.
Challenges and Limitations of IEEE 802.1CB-2017

For many Ethernet-based real-time systems, such as those from automotive, avionics, and industry automation domains, fault tolerance is emerged as an essential requirement for enabling fail-safe or fail-operational behavior. Consequently, the IEEE 802.1CB-2017 standard was published. It is currently the only available time-sensitive networking group standard offering protection against transmission errors. It tackles these faults by preventively replicating the frames and transmitting redundant copies via different paths to the destination. However, in contrast to its obvious advantages, the standard contains some pitfalls: most notably, it lacks protection mechanisms against inadequate configurations, which can not only invalidate the intended increase in reliability but even actively jeopardize the safety of the network. Due to the lack of alternative mechanisms, it is crucial to fully understand the fundamental properties of the standard and its implications on the safety aspects of the network traffic. In this letter, we identify critical aspects and limitations of the standard. We demonstrate the risks of inadequate configurations, discuss their ramifications. Finally, we provide an intuition and initial steps toward deriving the formal worst-case timing analysis of the standard, which is a key requirement for its safe and efficient implementation in the aforementioned real-time domains.
Servitization and the Effect of Training on Service Delivery System Performance

Manufacturers moving into services must design a service delivery system that can effectively and efficiently support their product‐service offerings. Commonly, such manufacturers outsource customer service and support to independent service suppliers, while maintaining the ownership and control of certain service units. Despite the increasing number of studies in service triads investigating ways that may improve service performance and customer satisfaction, the dynamics of mixed‐ownership service delivery systems have remained understudied. By deploying the Motivation–Opportunity–Ability (MOA) framework, and synthesizing insights from research in franchising and the literature on training effectiveness, we hypothesize that manufacturer‐led formal training increases the service performance of the entire network, but that outsourced service units choose more suitable training courses and derive comparatively higher performance benefits than company‐owned ones. We test (and find support for) our hypotheses within the UK service network of a major commercial vehicles manufacturer, using several panel data regression models and objective measures of training and performance. This study primarily contributes to the literature on servitization and service triads by showing the performance‐enhancing capacity of manufacturer‐led training. The results have practical implications for the development and implementation of the service operations strategy of servitized manufacturers that support customers through mixed‐ownership service networks.
Correlation of high body mass index and circulating tumor cell positivity in patients with early-stage breast cancer.

1600^ Background: The prognostic relevance of both body mass index (BMI) and circulating tumor cells (CTC) has been confirmed in different trials for patients with early breast cancer. This analysis evaluates the correlation between high BMI and CTC positivity as risk factors for reduced disease free and overall survival. Methods: Data of 3658 patients of the SUCCESS A trial have been analyzed. CTC count and BMI were documented before (N = 2026) and after (N = 1504) chemotherapy. Within this trial patients with early breast cancer were randomized to two chemotherapy regimens and received either 3 cycles of fluorouracil, epirubicin and cyclophosphamide followed by 3 cycles of docetaxel (FE100C-Doc) or 3 cycles of fluorouracil, epirubicin and cyclophosphamide followed by 3 cycles of docetaxel and gemcitabine(FE100C-DG). In addition, patients were randomized to zoledronic acid either for 2 or 5 years. CTC were analyzed using the CellSearch System (Veridex, USA). Different groups of bodyweight were classified.
Big data deployment in containerized infrastructures through the interconnection of network namespaces

Big Data applications tackle the challenge of fast handling of large streams of data. Their performance is not only dependent on the data frameworks implementation and the underlying hardware but also on the deployment scheme and its potential for fast scaling. Consequently, several efforts have focused on the ease of deployment of Big Data applications, notably through the use of containerization. This technology was indeed raised to bring multitenancy and multiprocessing out of clusters, providing high deployment flexibility through lightweight container images. Recent studies have focused mostly on Docker containers. Notwithstanding, this article is actually interested in recent Singularity containers as they provide more security and support high‐performance computing (HPC) environments and, in this way, they can make Big Data applications benefit from the specialized hardware of HPC. Singularity 2.x, however, does not isolate network resources as required by most Big Data components. Singularity 3.x allows allocating each container with isolated network resources, but their interconnection requires a nontrivial amount of configuration effort. In this context, this article makes a functional contribution in the form of a deployment scheme based on the interconnection of network namespaces, through underlay and overlay networking approaches, to make Big Data applications easily deployable inside Singularity containers. We provide detailed account of our deployment scheme when using both interconnection approaches in the form of a “how‐to‐do‐it” report, and we evaluate it by comparing three Big Data applications based on Hadoop when performing on a bare‐metal infrastructure and on scenarios involving Singularity and Docker instances.
A study of spot weld pull-out failure (PF) mechanism under different loading conditions for stainless steel and mild steel joints

ABSTRACT Spot weld pull-out failures (PFs) on mild steel and stainless steel joints were investigated under different loading conditions using lap-shear test, cross-tension (KSII) test and coach-peel test. Regardless of the joint type, joints tested with lap-shear test showed the highest weld strength followed by KSII and coach-peel tests, respectively, for the same welding current. Analyses with experimental samples and finite element analysis showed that PFs due to different loading conditions were governed by either tensile stress, shear stress or bending stress. The tendency to fail via weld PF increased from welds tested with KSII test, coach-peel test and lap-shear test for similar steel joints within a range of welding currents. This study also showed that the weld diameters for PF depend on the joint type as well as loading conditions and did not conform to the recommended weld diameters by the automotive standards.
Robust optimal strategies for an insurer under generalized mean-variance premium principle with defaultable bond

Abstract In this paper, we analyze a robust optimal investment-reinsurance problem involving a defaultable security for an ambiguity-averse insurer(AAI), who worries about uncertainty in model parameters. The insurer can trade in a risk-free asset, a stock and a defaultable corporate bond. The price process of the stock is described by a constant elasticity of variance(CEV) model. In particular, the reinsurance premium is calculated according to the generalized mean-variance premium principle. Using the dynamic programing approach, we study the pre-default case and the post-default case respectively, and then derive the optimal strategies and the corresponding value functions under the worst-case scenario. Moreover, the verification theorem is given under an inequality condition. Finally, we give some numerical examples to illustrate our main results.
Prevalence and risk factor analysis for post-partum depression in women: a cross-sectional study at tertiary care centre

According to American Psychological Association (APA) postpartum depression is defined as “a serious mental health problem characterized by a prolonged period of emotional disturbance occurring at a time of major life change and increased responsibilities in the care of new born”. Postpartum depression (PPD) is non psychologic depressive episode that occurs after 1st week of postnatal period and can last up to 14 months of child birth. PPD can have pernicious effect on mother and child bonding. It can be detrimental for the offspring and can negatively affect her marital relationship. Undiagnosed and untreated PPD can lead to chronic recurrent depression and interpersonal problems in later life.
Study on psychiatric morbidities in patients with newly (recently) detected type 2 diabetes mellitus

1Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2Consultant Psychiatrist, EMS Memorial Cooperative Hospital and Research Centre, Perrinthalmanna, Kerala, India, 3Professor, Department of Endocrinology Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, 4Consultant Psychiatrist, Mahadeva Neuropsychiatry Centre, Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, 5Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Department of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Fiji National University, Fiji, 6Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University. Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
The role of ozone treatment as integrative medicine. An evidence and gap map

Introduction The Brazil has one of the largest public health systems in the world and in the 1980's, Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine were introduced. In 2018, the treatment with ozone became a complementary integrative practice showing several benefits. However, its effectiveness needs to be researched. The objective of this evidence gap map is to describe contributions of Integrative Medicines-Ozone treatment in different clinical conditions, to promote evidence-based practice. Methods We applied the methodology developed by Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information based on the 3iE evidence gap map. The EMBASE, PubMed and Virtual Health Library databases, using the MeSH and DeCS terms for the treatment with Ozone were used. Results 26 systematic reviews were characterized, distributed in a matrix containing 6 interventions (parenteral oxygen/ozone gas mixture; parenteral ozonated water; systemic routes; topical application ozonated water; topical oxygen/ozone gas mixture; and topical ozonated oil) and 55 outcomes (cancer, infection, inflammation, pain, quality of life, wound healing and adverse effects). 334 associations between intervention and outcome were observed, emphasizing the parenteral oxygen/ozone gas mixture intervention (192 associations, 57%). Conclusions The evidence gap map presents an overview of contributions of Ozone treatment in controlling pain, infections, inflammation and wound healing, as well as increasing the quality of life, and it is directed to researchers and health professionals specialized in Ozone treatment. No serious adverse effects were related. Therefore, this treatment may be even more widely known as an integrative treatment, considering its low cost, efficiency and safety. Future studies should adopt economic impact assessments and the organization of health services.