Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Nutritional Behaviors and Perceived Barriers Among University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

PURPOSE: This study was a) performed to evaluate to what degree Jordanian university students display healthy nutritional behavior, b) which socio-demographic variables impact on it, and c) to identify perceived barriers toward not eating healthy foods. METHOD: A cross-sectional descriptive survey based on a questionnaire, was completed by Jordanian university students (n =1.180). RESULTS: Students show a low level of a nutritional behaviors score (10 from 20). The most common types of food/drink consumed were caffeine drinks and the rarely or never consumed one was fish. The perceived barriers for not eating healthy food reported were: i) Healthy foods are expensive, ii) Lack of time, iii) Poor choice of healthy foods, iv) living alone at home, v) Don’t know how to cook, and vi) Don’t like/enjoy healthy foods. CONCLUSIONS: Increased nutritional awareness and healthier nutrition are needed to improve nutritional behavior because it connected with improving health status and academic achievement. Perceived barriers for not eating healthy food should be considered in planning university nutritional programs.
Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer in Indonesia: Study of 14 Population Based Cancer Registries

Background: Childhood cancer was about 3%-5% cases of all cases. Dharmais National Cancer Hospital was pointed out by Ministry of Health as National Quality Control of Cancer Burden Data in 2016. To provide national cancer burden data, Ministry of Health established 14 population based cancer registries in 2016, located in 14 provinces in Indonesia. The coverage area was 26 districts/municipalities in each selected provinces with total coverage number of population was 14% of Indonesia. Aim: This study was to describe quality data of 14 population based cancer registries in Indonesia and to describe the epidemiology of childhood cancer during 2008-2012. Methods: We used 14 population based cancer registries data that collected in Office of National Quality Control of Cancer Burden Data, Dharmais National Cancer Center, within age 0-19 years old during 2008-2012. We analyzed quality data of 14 population based cancer registries data based on WHO-IARC rules for cancer registry data. Results: There were 4156 cases. The average of percentage microscopic verification was 59%, 7 out of 7 provinces had lower percentage of microscopic verification. The highest was South Sulawesi (98%) followed by Central Java (92.9%), and East Borneo (79.4%). Most of them had over 25% of DCO. DKI Jakarta had the highest incidence age-standardized rate (7.1) followed by Bali (4.9) and North Sulawesi (4.8). The most frequent childhood cancer cases were in male (57%), between 10-14 years old. Both in male and female had similar rank of the most frequent cases, other malignant epithelial (22.4%: 17.2%), leukemia (19.3%: 14.3%), and other and unspecified malignant tumor (9.4%: 8.4%). Conclusion: The coverage and quality data of childhood cancer in 14 population based cancer registries data were low. Each population based cancer registries should improve the process of cancer registration.
Special Section: Blood-Based Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementias A b and tau structure-based biomarkers for a blood- and CSF-based two-step recruitment strategy to identify patients with dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease

Introduction: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) diagnosis requires invasive CSF analysis or expensive brain imaging. Therefore, a minimal-invasive reliable and cost-effective blood test is requested to power large clinical AD trials at reduced screening failure. Methods: We applied an immuno-infrared sensor to measure the amyloid- b (A b ) and tau secondary structure distribution in plasma and CSF as structure-based biomarkers for AD (61 disease controls, 39 AD cases). Results: Within a ﬁrst diagnostic screening step, the structure-based A b blood biomarker supports AD identiﬁcation with a sensitivity of 90%. In a second diagnostic validation step, the combined use of the structure-based CSF biomarkers A b and tau excluded false-positive cases which offers an overall speciﬁcity of 97%. Discussion: The primary A b -based blood biomarker funnels individuals with suspected AD for subsequent validation of the diagnosis by structure-based combined analysis of the CSF biomarkers A b and tau. Our novel two-step recruitment strategy substantiates the diagnosis of AD with a likelihood of 29. (cid:1)
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ILLNESS PERCEPTIONS AND HEALTH-PROMOTING BEHAVIORS AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ILLNESS PERCEPTIONS AND HEALTH-PROMOTING BEHAVIORS AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION By Elizabeth A. Wagner Over half of all Americans who suffer a new myocardial infarction (MI) will have a recurrent MI. Risk for subsequent heart related events could be reduced through the regular practice of health-promoting behaviors (HPB). One area that may impact patients’ HPBs is their perception of the MI. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between illness perceptions and HPBs. Pender’s Health Promotion Model served as the primary theoretical framework guiding this research. Additionally, concepts from Leventhal’s Common Sense Model of Illness Representations were integrated. A convenience sample of 40 participants, who suffered a first-time MI treated with angioplasty or stent, was examined in this descriptive, correlational study. Instruments included a demographic questionnaire, the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire, and the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II. Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s r were used to describe the sample and evaluate relationships between illness perceptions and HPBs. The average age of respondents was 63 years and most were male (65%). A significant positive correlation between the illness perception of personal control and overall HPBs, as well as the subscales of nutrition and spiritual behaviors, were identified. Additionally, a significant positive correlation was demonstrated between level of concern and the HPB subscales physical activity and nutrition. These findings elucidate the opportunities for nursing to influence HPBs. Tailoring patient education strategies to impact illness perceptions, particularly understanding of the seriousness of MI and promoting a sense of control, may influence healthy lifestyle choices and improve outcomes in persons with heart disease. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ILLNESS PERCEPTIONS AND HEALTH-PROMOTING BEHAVIORS AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
SYMBIOTIC NITROGEN FIXATION IN ORGANIC FARMING

U poljoprivrednoj proizvodnji dusik je vrlo cesto osnovni ogranicavajuci cimbenik rasta i razvoja biljaka, a s time i postizanja optimalnih prinosa. Najvece zalihe ovog elementa nalaze se u atmosferi, gdje je dusik u molekularnom obliku kojeg biljke nisu u mogucnosti usvojiti i iskoristiti. Nedostupan dusik iz atmosfere se kroz proces fiksacije veže u nove spojeve te na taj nacin postaje dostupan mikroorganizmima i biljkama da ih iskoriste za svoje metabolicke potrebe. Simbiotska fiksacija dusika najznacajnija za poljoprivrednu proizvodnju nastaje kao rezultat simbiotskih interakcija između kvržicnih bakterija i leguminoza, nakon cega slijedi infekcija i nodulacija. U kvržicama, uz prisutnost enzima nitrogenaze dolazi do procesa fiksacije dusika u kojem se atmosferski dusik prevodi u amonijak kojeg biljka dalje ukljucuje u svoj metabolizam te ga iskoristava za svoje raznovrsne potrebe. U ekoloskoj poljoprivrednoj proizvodnji koja je koncipirana na nacin da teži ocuvanju prirode i okolisa, jedno od osnovnih nacela je sjetva leguminoznih usjeva jer na taj nacin poljoprivredno tlo obogacujemo dusikom te poticemo povecanje i održanje njegove plodnosti sto u konacnici donosi mnogostruke pozitivne ekonomske i ekoloske ucinke.
Paraneoplastic Syndromes in Dogs

Para Neoplastic Syndromes (PNS) are defined as a heterogeneous group of clinical and/or laboratory abnormalities that precede or occur simultaneously with a neoplasm or its metastases. PNS can occur in both small animals and humans with comparatively similar symptoms (Table 1), being considered indirect side effects of cancer and may arise from humoral, hormonal, tumor or immune response to neoplasms, and characterized by ectopy of sites distant from the neoplastic site. Although important and described as important predictors or markers of possible regression or progression of oncologic disease, studies reporting the prevalence of these alterations in veterinary are not available currently, being largely restricted to human medicine, where approximately 75% of cancer patients reportedly display paraneoplastic changes during the evolution of the neoplasia [1] .
PBS

Block storage provides virtual disks that can be mounted by virtual machines (VMs). Although erasure coding (EC) has been widely used in many cloud storage systems for its high efficiency and durability, current EC schemes cannot provide high-performance block storage for the cloud. This is because they introduce significant overhead to small write operations (which perform partial write to an entire EC group), whereas cloud-oblivious applications running on VMs are often small-write-intensive. We identify the root cause for the poor performance of partial writes in state-of-the-art EC schemes: for each partial write, they have to perform a time-consuming write-after-read operation that reads the current value of the data and then computes and writes the parity delta, which will be used to “patch” the parity in journal replay. In this article, we present a speculative partial write scheme (called PARIX) that supports fast small writes in erasure-coded storage systems. We transform the original formula of parity calculation to use the data deltas (between the current/original data values), instead of the parity deltas, to calculate the parities in journal replay. For each partial write, this allows PARIX to speculatively log only the new value of the data without reading its original value. For a series of n partial writes to the same data, PARIX performs pure write (instead of write-after-read) for the last n-1 ones while only introducing a small penalty of an extra network round-trip time to the first one. Based on PARIX, we design and implement PARIX Block Storage (PBS), an efficient block storage system that provides high-performance virtual disk service for VMs running cloud-oblivious applications. PBS not only supports fast partial writes but also realizes efficient full writes, background journal replay, and fast failure recovery with strong consistency guarantees. Both microbenchmarks and trace-driven evaluation show that PBS provides efficient block storage and outperforms state-of-the-art EC-based systems by orders of magnitude.
Elucidation of clinicopathological factors associated with improved clinical outcomes for carinal pneumonectomy in T4 non-small cell lung cancer

Surgical resection remains the gold standard of care for localized disease in the therapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Over the past half-century, various advances have been made in the field of surgical therapy including patient selection and perioperative management. Within this context, pneumonectomy is still considered to involve several challenges associated with high postoperative morbidity and mortality (1). On the other hand, pneumonectomy is not always sufficient for the radical resection of T4 diseases extending to the mediastinal structures, and extended pneumonectomy (EP) Original Article
Función renal, niveles urinarios de cadmio y plomo en niños del municipio de Naguanagua (estado Carabobo, Venezuela), expuestos a humo de tabaco ambiental

Objetivo: los metales presentes en las fases gaseosa y particulada del humo del tabaco ambiental, son considerados nefrotóxicos. En esta investigación se evaluó la función renal y niveles urinarios de cadmio y plomo en niños expuestos al humo de tabaco ambiental en una comunidad del municipio Naguanagua (Carabobo, Venezuela). Materiales y métodos: la muestra estuvo conformada por 43 niños (21 expuestos y 22 no expuestos), a quienes se les determinó en orina puntual índices urinarios cadmio/creatinina, plomo/creatinina, albúmina/creatinina, calcio/creatinina, fosfatasa alcalina/creatinina y β-2-microglobulina/creatinina. Resultados: en el grupo expuesto existe una correlación positiva y significativa entre β-2-microglobulina/creatinina y albúmina/creatinina independientemente del género y la edad. Los valores absolutos de los marcadores nefrotóxicos correlacionaron positiva y significativamente con sus índices, lo que indica que es útil la corrección con creatinina, con excepción de la Fosfatasa Alcalina la cual refleja mejor su utilidad diagnóstica en valores absolutos. Plomo/creatinina, β-2-microglobulina y Calcio/creatinina mostraron diferencias estadísticamente significativas al estratificar la muestra según grupo etario. La excreción urinaria de cadmio, tanto el grupo expuesto como el control supera ciertos puntos de corte descritos en investigaciones internacionales. Conclusiones: la evaluación de la toxicidad renal debe contar con el monitoreo de varios marcadores, dado que algunos serán más sensibles a los cambios precoces debido a exposiciones crónicas.
A Review Of CryoSat-2/SIRAL Applications For The Monitoring Of River Water Levels

Regarding hydrology applications and particularly the monitoring of river water levels from space, the CryoSat2 ice mission has two main valuable characteristics: (1) its geodetic orbit and (2) the altimeter’s SAR and SARin modes. The benefits of the geodetic orbit of the satellite have been illustrated in the frame of the ”20 years of progress in radar altimetry” symposium (Venice, 2012) [2]. It has been shown that, with such an orbit, the way river water level was monitored using conventional altimeters had to be revisited. In particular, using LRM mode only, CryoSat-2 allowed us to build spatio-temporal time series of the river water level, to map river’s topography and eventually derive pseudo-time series and pseudo-profiles of the river. This paper focuses on the new ways to use altimetry for the monitoring of river water levels. SIRAL’s (CryoSat-2 altimeter) SAR and SARin modes have the ability to deliver surface heights with an unprecedented along-track resolution of about 300 m. Moreover, using the SARin mode (involving the satellite’s two antennas), the crosstrack angle of the retracked echo is also available in routine. These two aspects of the SARin mode (high resolution and cross-track angle) make it a new tool to distinguish whether the retracked echo came from the surface of interest (e.g., a river) or any other reflective object nearby the surface of interest (e.g., another river section, lakes or temporary lake after flooding events or any other specular surfaces). We introduce the multiple benefits of using the intermediate multi-look matrix (also known as stack matrix), among them: (1) to refine and select among the multiple Doppler-beam waveforms before averaging and retracking them, and (2) to be able to study the surfaces response according to their view angle. Custom products processed at ESA (ESRIN) by Dinardo et al. [7], in the perspective of Sentinel-3, as well as official CryoSat-2 L1b and L2 products were used to illustrate these perspectives. The paper mainly introduces the potential new applications brought by SIRAL’s SAR and SARin modes. Finally, combined with its really dense geodetic orbit, CryoSat-2 can be seen as a topography mission that paves the way toward the SWOT mission.
A potential tool for the detection of plant viruses through serological and molecular approaches

Plant viruses cause major losses to several agricultural and horticultural crops around the world. In contrast to other plant pathogens, there are no immediate strategies accessible yet to control infections and subsequently, the current measures rely on indirect strategy to deal with the plant viral diseases. Therefore, three strategies for detection and identification of viruses in plants. One of the strategies is physical perception by expertise and microscopic methods able to verify shape and size of viral particles. Second strategy is based on the viral coat proteins. These are agglutination tests, precipitation test, Enzyme-linked immunosorbent Assays (ELISA) and immunoblotting. In this strategy of detection of virus coat protein, precipitation methods are more precise and sensitive. The third method is nucleic acid based methods, so they are nucleic acid hybridization, PCR, RT-PCR, Real Time PCR, IC-PCR, Nano Cips, DNA microassay and Multiplex PCR. Nucleic acid based detection like DNA microarray and nano chip are more sensitive and accurate techniques to detection of the viral particles than other methods. Availability of these detection strategies provides greater flexibility, sensitivity and specificity for rapid detection of virus, epidemiological studies, plant quarantine, seed certification and breeding programs. Hence, these detection strategies to improve knowledge and strengthen skills for virus diagnosis of plant virology are essential for plant disease management.
Progressive Rendering of Transparent Integral Surfaces

Integral surfaces are a useful method in illustrative and geometry-based flow visualization, as they convey shading, depth and geometric information better than their line-based counterparts. However, they are not as frequently used as line-based techniques due to the added complexity that arises from their computation. Frontline-based methods, such as stream surfaces and path surfaces require an adaptive subdivision of the frontline, whereas advected surfaces, such as streak surfaces and time surfaces, require refinement and possibly retriangulation of the entire surface after each time step. In this paper, we extend an image-space surface rendering technique to support transparency, which enables the application of illustrative surface rendering techniques without the need to adaptively refine frontlines or entire surfaces. We develop a pixel-based dynamic tree data structure that is progressively filled with integral curves and compactly stores the transparent layers arising in the rendering of the surfaces. We apply the method to the illustrative rendering of path surfaces and streak surfaces in a number of time-dependent vector fields. This is the authors preprint. The definitive version is available at http://diglib.eg. org/ and http://onlinelibrary.wiley. com/.
Aortic valve sparing surgery—patient selection and techniques

Aortic valve sparing root replacement (VSRR) is an attractive alternative to composite graft replacement in young patients with root aneurysms. The preservation of a native aortic valve provides more physiologic hemodynamics, avoids the complications associated with valve replacement and is associated with excellent long-term survival. However, this has to be weighed against the risk of reintervention due to valve repair failure in specific patients. This can be optimized through careful patient selection and surgical technique. The aim of this article is to review these important considerations for planning VSRR.
Perineal Colonization Rate and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Group B Streptococcus in Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Korean Women

Background: Group B Streptococcus (Streptococcus agalactiae, GBS) is a major cause of severe infections in neonates, including bacteremia, pneumonia, and meningitis, and is generally vertically transmitted from a colonized, pregnant woman to her infant. Penicillin is the drug of choice to treat GBS infections, because GBS strains are uniformly susceptible to penicillin. Recently, however, penicillin resistant GBS strains have been reported and the rates of erythromycin and clindamycin resistance have increased. We evaluated the perineal colonization rates and antimicrobial susceptibility of GBS strains isolated from pregnant and non-pregnant women. Methods: The antibiotic susceptibilities of a total of 180 GBS strains isolated from two university hospitals and one reference laboratory between May 2008 and January 2009 were determined using disk diffusion and broth microdilution methods. The presence of erythromycin resistance genes was confirmed by PCR. Results: The average colonization rate of pregnant women was 5.5%. The overall colonization rates of pregnant and non-pregnant women ranged between 5.5% and 7.5%. All 180 GBS strains were susceptible to penicillin. Fifty strains (27.8%) were resistant to erythromycin, whereas 78 (41.1%) were resistant to clindamycin. The ermB gene was identified in 40 isolates and 44 isolates had constitutive macrolidelincosamide-streptogramin B resistance phenotypes. Conclusion: Our findings indicate an increased GBS colonization rate and an increase in macrolide resistance in GBS strains in recent years, emphasizing the need for further surveillance and continual monitoring of antimicrobial susceptibility. (Korean J Clin Microbiol 2009;12:180-185)
The Nature of Consciousness and its Relation to the Brain

This paper presents an enquiry into the essential nature of phenomenal consciousness and its relation to the neural correlates of consciousness in the brain (NCCs). It first combines critical accounts of current ideas about the nature of NCCs themselves and about what constitutes phenomenal consciousness. This is followed by an examination of how these two may be related with a particular focus on pointing out the defects in the currently most popular hypothesis in this field, namely the identity theory. The conclusion is that we need a better theory. A candidate for this theory is presented in some detail that involves higher-dimensional geometry.
NEAR-MARKERLESS POSITION MEASUREMENT USING GENETICS AND POINT-TRACING ALGORITHMS

this paper present the preliminary results of the development of a position measurement vision system. In particular the procedure for the point matching are reported. This is made with an algorithm divided into two different phases: the first one is for the initial maching, and uses special a genetic algorithm; the second one is for the measurement phase and uses the difference between different frame to compute the point matching. After the description of the algorithms there are the results and the discussion of some tests.At the end there are some coclusion that describe the next steps of the work.
The Risk of Outsourcing: Hidden SCA Trojans in Third-Party IP-Cores Threaten Cryptographic ICs

Side-channel analysis (SCA) attacks - especially power analysis - are powerful ways to extract the secrets stored in and processed by cryptographic devices. In recent years, researchers have shown interest in utilizing on-chip measurement facilities to perform such SCA attacks remotely. It was shown that simple voltage-monitoring sensors can be constructed from digital elements and put on multi-tenant FPGAs to perform remote attacks on neighbouring cryptographic co-processors. A similar threat is the unsuspecting integration of third-party IP-Cores into an IC design. Even if the function of an acquired IP-Core is not security critical by itself, it may contain an on-chip sensor as a Trojan that can eavesdrop on cryptographic operations across the whole device. In contrast to all FPGA-based investigations reported in the literature so far, we examine the efficiency of such on-chip sensors as a source of information leakage in an ASIC-based case study for the first time. To this end, in addition to a cryptographic core (lightweight block cipher PRESENT) we designed and implemented a voltage-monitoring sensor on an ASIC fabricated by a 40 nm commercial standard cell library. Despite the physical distance between the sensor and the PRESENT core, we show the possibility of fully recovering the secret key of the PRESENT core by processing the sensor's output. Our results imply that the hidden insertion of such a sensor - for example by a malicious third party IP-Core vendor - can endanger the security of embedded systems which deal with sensitive information, even if the device cannot be physically accessed by the adversary.