Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SERUM STEROID HORMONE RESPONSES TO ACUTE RESISTANCE EXERCISE

•y Objective•zThe aim of this investigation was to evaluate serum steroid hormone responses to acute resistance exercise. •yMethods•zSubjects were young healthy males (n=6) and females (n= 6). Each group performed three sets of 10 leg press and 10 bench press exercises at an intensity of their individual 10-repetition maximum (1ORM), with 1 min rest between sets. Blood samples were collected before (Pre-Ex) and immediately following the exercise (P0), 30 mm (P30), 60 mm (P60), and 24 hours (P24h) after the exercise. Levels of blood lactate, serum testosterone, dehydroepian drosterone sulfate (DHEAS) and cortisol were determined. •yResults•z The levels of blood lactate in males and females significantly increased at P0 and P30 compared with Pre-Ex (p<0.05). In males, the serum level of testosterone significantly increased at PO (p<0.05), whereas in females, it significantly decreased at P0, P30, P60, P 24 h. (p<0.05). The level of DHEAS significantly increased at PO in both males and females (p<0.05). •yConclusion•zThe change in the level of testosterone was different between males and females, but that of DHEAS showed a similar pattern for both sexes. The data suggest that DHEAS could be a useful indicator for evaluating the anabolic status of acute resistance exercise in females. (Jpn. J. Phys. Fitness Sports Med. 2001, 50 : 293•`302) key word : testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, resistance exercise, female
HCP-01DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF HIGH-GRADE GLIOMA IN PATIENTS WITH HIV

BACKGROUND: While opportunistic infections and lymphoma are common causes of a brain mass in immunosuppressed patients with HIV, primary brain tumor is more likely in those with CD4 counts > 500 cells/mm3. Small series have noted a higher than expected frequency of high-grade glioma (HGG) in HIV patients, but they remain rare with fewer than 40 cases reported. This study adds 4 from an inner city population. METHODS: Retrospective case series. Chart review. RESULTS: Four patients were identified – 3 women with GBM and 1 man with anaplastic astrocytoma (AA). Median age at tumor diagnosis was 57.5 (range 48-66). All patients were on HAART at time of diagnosis and median CD4 count was 516 cells/mm3 (range 359-888 cells/mm3). For 3 patients with available data, median time between HIV and HGG diagnoses was 5 years (range 2-8). Median time from presentation to HGG diagnosis was 34 days (range 9-59). At presentation, HGG was considered the most likely diagnosis for all GBM patients; differential for the AA patient included low-grade glioma, infectious or inflammatory process. Three patients underwent CSF sampling to investigate alternate diagnoses. Empiric toxoplasmosis therapy was initiated in 1, but stopped after 4 days. All patients underwent subtotal resection followed by chemo-radiation with temozolomide (TMZ). No patient required dose reduction for hematological toxicity. One experienced a drop in CD4 count to 29 cells/mm3 despite undetectable viral load. Two patients received therapy at recurrence; agents included bevacizumab and irinotecan. Three died (OS range 4-17 months); 1 remains alive 22 months from diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: HGG should be a strong diagnostic consideration in immune-competent HIV patients presenting with brain mass. Additional testing for toxoplasmosis and lymphoma is low-yield and should not delay surgical diagnosis. Treatment for HGG in such patients should be the same as the general population.
From Theory to Application: Real-Time Sparse SAR Imaging

In recent years, the sparse signal processing technique has shown significant potential in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, such as image performance improvement and downsampled data-based image recovery. However, due to the huge computational complexity needed, the existing sparse SAR imaging methods, such as conventional observation matrix-based and azimuth-range decouple-based algorithms, are not able to achieve real-time processing, especially for the large-scale scenes, which seriously restricts its application in some fields, e.g., real-time monitoring and early warning. To solve this problem, this article presents a novel real-time sparse SAR imaging method, which can get a similar image performance to that obtained by the existing sparse imaging methods, to reduce the computational complexity to the same order as that required by matched filtering (MF)-based algorithms. This means that with the proposed method, real-time data processing for practical large-scale scene sparse reconstruction becomes possible. Experimental results based on simulated and real data along with a performance analysis are presented to validate the proposed real-time sparse imaging method.
Influencia de la comunicación familiar y pedagógica en la violencia escolar

La violencia escolar hace alusion al acoso y agresion entre iguales en la escuela. A nivel comunicacional, se ha estudiado este problema analizando la incidencia de los medios y las relaciones interpersonales en las conductas agresivas. Este articulo aporta una perspectiva de la violencia escolar centrada en determinar la influencia de la comunicacion familiar y pedagogica en adolescentes agresores y victimas en la escuela. Se uso un diseno no experimental de tipo correlacional-transversal con una muestra de 1.082 adolescentes (M=15,61; DT=0,90). Se aplicaron tres escalas confiables que evaluaron las agresiones entre adolescentes y la comunicacion parental y pedagogica. Los hallazgos indican que las agresiones entre adolescentes y la comunicacion que estos tienen con sus padres y profesores presentaron diferencias asociadas al genero (p=0,00). La comunicacion ofensiva entre padres e hijos (? =0,225; p=0,00) predijo el aumento de la victimizacion escolar. Pedagogicamente, se encontro que la comunicacion del profesor orientada a generar disciplina en los alumnos (? =? 0,297; p=0,00) y hacerles ver la importancia de estudiar y aprender (? =? 0,120; p=0,04) predicen respectivamente, la disminucion de los comportamientos agresivos entre adolescentes y la victimizacion. Estos hallazgos novedosos en materia pedagogica evidencian la necesidad de fortalecer la comunicacion interpersonal de los estudiantes con sus padres y profesores para lograr resultados eficaces en la implementacion de estrategias de prevencion e intervencion contra la violencia escolar.
Risk Factors of Premature Infants in the Rural Areas of Azadshahr City: a Case-Control Study

Background: Preterm birth is one of the most remarkable reasons for neonatal and infant mortality and morbidity across the world. This study aimed to determine risk factors of premature infants in the rural area of Azadshahr city, Iran. Materials and Methods: A case-control study was conducted on all premature and low birth neonates (less than 37 weeks and weight less than 2500 grams). Data were collected by records in 30 health houses located in the rural areas of Azadshahr city durring 2013 to 2016. Two groups (case and control) were matched by gender and health houses. A trained midwife was collected data by using of a researcher-made checklist. To describe mean and standard deviation of the demographic characteristics, descriptive methods were used. To analyze, inferential statistic tests such as Chi- square, and independent t-test were implemented through SPSS (version,16). Significant level was also taken < 0.05. Results: In total, 112 girl infant and 101 boy infant were explored. The mean age of mother in the case and control groups was 26.14+ 8.4 and 25.67+ 9.1 years old respectively. There was a significant difference between the two groups in terms of prenatal care and pregnancy complications. In addition, a remarkable relations was found between polytocous and delivery time (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Providing mothers with necessary information in terms of interval between births, and the importance of prenatal cares in the pregnancy period to prevent complication seems to be likely useful.
Making Japenese Ukiyo-e Art 3D in Real-Time

Ukiyo-e is a traditional Japanese painting style most commonly printed using wood blocks. Ukiyo-e prints feature distinct line work, bright colours, and a non-perspective projection. Most previous research on ukiyo-e styled computer graphics has been focused on creation of 2D images. In this paper we propose a framework for rendering interactive 3D scenes with ukiyo-e style. The rendering techniques use standard 3D models as input and require minimal additional information to automatically render scenes in a ukiyo-e style. The described techniques are evaluated based on their ability to emulate ukiyo-e prints, performance, and temporal coherence.
Financial sector development : Stability or instability ?

Recent decades have seen a wave of liberalization in the markets for goods and services and financial markets and the development of financial systems. This has resulted in a series of benefits - illustrated by the development of the financial sectors of developing countries - and potential costs - rising uncertainty, increasing financial instability and a greater probability of crises. The characteristics and extent of the net benefits - in terms of financial stability - of waves of internal and external financial liberalization are the subject of a controversial debate, which remains today the main occupation of public authorities in developed countries and developing countries (Including Tunisia and Morocco).
Utilité des fonctions diagnostiques de l'insuffisance cardiaque dans le suivi des patients appareillés d'un système de resynchronisation

En depit de nombreux progres therapeutiques, l'insuffisance cardiaque reste un probleme majeur de sante publique. La derniere innovation en date, la resynchronisation cardiaque, fait actuellement partie de l'arsenal therapeutique dans des indications bien precises. Un des elements cles de la physiopathologie de l'insuffisance cardiaque est la presence d'une activation neuro-hormonale. Celle-ci comprend, d'une part, l'activation du systeme renine-angiotensine-aldosterone et, d'autre part, une hyperactivation du systeme sympathique associee a une diminution du tonus parasympathique. L'analyse de la variabilite de la frequence cardiaque (VFC), au travers de la mesure des variations des intervalles RR consecutifs, permet une etude indirecte et non invasive du controle exerce par le systeme nerveux autonome sur le cœur. De larges etudes ont montre l'interet pronostique de la mesure de VFC en post-infarctus du myocarde et dans l'insuffisance cardiaque. Des etudes recentes soulignent l'impact favorable de la resynchronisation cardiaque sur la VFC et la balance sympatho-vagale. Certains dispositifs de resynchronisation sont capables d'enregistrer la VFC au long cours, en mesurant en particulier des parametres tels que la deviation standard des intervalles RR. L'objet de cette revue de la litterature est de determiner l'utilite de l'etude de la VFC chez les patients insuffisants cardiaques reynchronises et d'evaluer son interet pronostique.
TCEMD: A Trust Cascading-Based Emergency Message Dissemination Model in VANETs

Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) have recently attracted considerable attention from both industry and academia for improving road safety and traffic efficiency. Trust modeling plays a significant role in VANETs, however, the existing trust models cannot primely conform to the characteristics of VANETs. This article proposes a novel trust cascading-based emergency message dissemination (TCEMD) model which incorporates the entity-oriented trust values into data-oriented trust evaluation in an efficient manner. In the proposed model, when an emergency event (e.g., an obstacle in front of the road) occurs, the emergency messages can be disseminated among the nearby vehicles in a trust cascading manner, where the entity-oriented trust values (which are evaluated and updated by leveraging the trust certificates and are contained in the messages) are adopted as important weights. Subsequently, the theoretical analysis for the robustness against several kinds of attacks and malicious behaviors, failure tolerance features, compatibility for several kinds of special situations, and incentive mechanisms in the TCEMD model are detailed. Afterwards, a series of simulations and analyses are conducted in a typical highway environment, and the results reveal that the proposed model significantly outperforms the existing models in several cases.
Mortality and Morbidity in Elective Patient of Coronary Artery Bypass Graph at National Cardiovascular Center, Harapan Kita Hospital, Indonesia

This study is aimed to find out mortality and morbidity in the elective patients while waiting and description of waiting time in elective patients at The Department of cardiovascular surgery, Harapan Kita Hospital. This study research was using quantitative and qualitative design study. The quantitative data collected prospectively within two months from August until September 2010. From 58 patients, one patient died while waiting and one patient falls into stroke. There’s no adequate system in scheduling patient, including put the patient into the list of que, decide the urgency and remove the patients from the list. It’s known that morbidity and mortality are not found as a significant event happened while waiting for CABG in this study. It’s difficult to ignore the two patients, especially after knowing there’s no adequate system to decide wait time and schedule at The Department of cardiovascular surgery, Harapan Kita Hospital, while resources are still quite enough (facility and human resources) to accommodate all the cases.
Clover nodule bacteria as bioindicators of soils contaminated with heavy metals

The article presents the results of a study of vital activity of nodule bacteria of Trifolium praténse, Trifolium hibridum, Trifolium alexandrinum and Trifolium incarnatum as environmentally friendly bioindicators in soil toxicity assessment. The study focused on the number of nodules and their stain with leghemoglobin. The materials were taken from the plots artificially contaminated with heavy metals (lead (Pb), arsenic (As), mercury (Hg), fluorine (F), zinc (Zn) and cobalt (Co)). The results of the experiments showed that environmental distress occurs when the nitrogen-fixing nodules are stained pink or red in the range of 8-15%, which indicates that the lead content in the soil exceeds the threshold limit value (TLV) by 1.2-1.5 times. A significant decrease in nodule activity and weak or no stain were observed with an increase in mercury concentration by 1.1 times. It was found that the mass of rhizobium or the supply of organic nitrogen obtained by plants from fixation from the air is directly dependent on the grass density. At high concentrations of heavy metals in the soil, the nodule bacteria lose the amount of leghemoglobin, therefore the stain of bacteria is disrupted, so this indicator can be used as a bioindicator in soil toxicity assessment.
SPLENIC ABSCESS: REVIEW ARTICLE

Case report of splenic abscess in a 35 year old male is presented with review of the literature. The patient was admitted with left sided lower chest pain and fever without any significant abnormality on physical examination and haematological investigations. On imaging studies a large splenic abscess was diagnosed which was initially treated by broad spectrum antibiotics. Aspiration under sonographic control was unsuccessful due to thick pus and debris in the abscess. Open splenectomy was done with a complete recovery of the patient. Splenic abscess is an infrequent clinical entity and carries a very high mortality in the untreated cases. Pathognomic clinical features of left hypochondrial pain, splenomegaly, fever and leucocytosis are present in only one-third of the cases. Diagnosis is mostly done by imaging, either Abdominal Sonography or CT Scan. So far no prospective study has been done to rationalize the management, probably due to paucity of cases. Antibiotics alone or with percutaneous drainage under imaging control are successful in many cases. Failed aspirations and splenic abscesses with concomitant pathologies need splenectomy. Splenectomy and complete removal of the source of the infection is still the mainstay of treatment. Detailed review of the available literature of the clinical problem and various methods of treatment of splenic abscesses are discussed in the article.
Nontraditional Approaches to Assessing Journal Importance: Case Study of Russian Journals on Earth Sciences

Abstract Currently, a broad set of bibliometric indices for evaluation of journal quality, the level of its internationalization, and interactions between serials are available. However, some cases require one to obtain more precise methods to assess journals, e.g., when estimating new journals, selecting them into international citation databases, increasing their rank, broadening their readership, or optimizing editorial policy. To cope with new challenges, new approaches have been introduced including altmetrics and various analyses of editorial board composition and impact. Analyzing altmetrics and studying geographic diversity on editorial boards, comparing these data with that of journal authors, and evaluating research efficiency of editorial board members enables one to use new approaches to assess the rank of serials. This paper considers current research reports on altmetrics, geographic diversity, and publication activity of editorial board members of top journals on Earth Sciences published in the Russian Federation and recognized as international serials. It was found that such altmetrics as abstract views, full text views, and a number of viewed papers are now available as additional metrics to evaluate journal quality. Furthermore, provided that the data on altmetrics are complete, they can be considered as a specific predictor for future citations and other citation-based indices. Editorial board analyses demonstrate a correlation of bibliometric indices of editorial board members with that of a journal. As for geographic diversity, only half of the analyzed journals demonstrate a strong correlation between the number of foreign members on editorial boards and geographic representativeness of a journal, mainly due to the local nature of geosciences and trade secret mode in much of mining research. Generally, the obtained findings highlighted the efficiency of new approaches to evaluate journal quality both in the case of the absence of citation-based journal metrics and as an additional tool to traditional indices.
Evaluation Maturity Level IT Risk Management of Metatrader Software Using Risk IT Framework With Domain Risk Governance (RG)

The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which companies anticipate and reduce information technology risks that will occur, it is necessary to evaluate information technology risk management. The method used in this study was evaluating information technology risk management is the Domain Risk Governance (RG) contained in the IT Risk Framework. The evaluation process using this framework and domain is that it can measure the level of company maturity in carrying out information technology risk management. The results of this study are companies knowing the level of maturity in implementing IT risk management at level 2 (recurring) and level 3 (defined), knowing the GAP between the current level of maturity with the target level of maturity and can increase the current level of maturity to achieve the target level it is desirable to use the recommendations given. So companies can compete with competitors in providing services, ensuring that IT risk management activities are aligned with company objectives, reducing losses in the IT implementation process, integrating IT risk strategies with business strategy risk decisions, and ensuring that decisions are made according to company objectives based on opportunities and the consequences that have been made.
IN VITRO STUDY ON THE EFFICACY OF HERBAL MOUTHWASH/MOUTHRINSE AGAINST SELECTED ORAL PATHOGENS

Oral hygiene is the practice of keeping the Fauces clean to prevent oral problems, most commonly, dental cavities, gingivitis, and halitosis. All cavities occur from acid demineralisation of teeth, where chewing, food trapped on teeth. The dead and dying bacteria release a sulphur compound which has an unpleasant odour giving out bad breath. To evaluate in vitro, efficacy of a herbal mouthwash formulation against Streptococcus mutans and Candida albicans, the normal microflora which turns to opportunistic pathogens, causing dental problems. Twelve herbs viz., Azadirachta indica (leaf), Cinnamomum verum (bark), Citrus lemon (fruit rind), Emblica officinalis (fruit), Ocimum sanctum (leaf), Piper longum (fruit), Piper nigrum (fruit), Punica granatum (fruit rind), Syzyium aromaticum (Bud), Terminalia chebula (fruit), Terminalia bellirica (fruit), Zingiber officinale (Rhizome) were extracted in ethanol by soxhlet extraction. The individual herbal extract, polyherbal extract and the same incorporated in Mouthwash formulation were tested for its antimicrobial efficacy against S. mutans MTCC 890 and C. albicans MTCC 3017 culture by Zone of inhibition test. Mean and standard deviation were used for statistical analysis. The herbal extract (100 microlitre (µl)) was showing 20 ± 0.5 milli meter (mm) diameter against S. mutans. The Mouthwash formulation showed Zone of inhibition of 10±2 mm against S. mutans. Base formulation without herbal extract was also not showing zone of inhibition. There is no antifungal activity against C. albicans. Study reveals that the extract in the formulation was effective against the S. mutans, a causative agent for dental caries.
Ketamine-Propofol (Ketofol) as a Viable Alternative in a Septic Patient with Mediastinal Mass Requiring General Anesthesia for Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography

Airway compromise and cardiovascular collapse can be anticipated in a patient with mediastinal mass due to aneurysm of ascending and arch of aorta during any stage of anesthesia. Presence of septic shock limits the use of anesthetic agents. The adverse effects of ketamine or propofol are dose dependent and tend to oppose each other cardiovascular effects. The combination of ketamine and propofol may potentially balance each other’s haemodynamic adverse effects and therefore, offer a safer alternative for procedural sedation in critically ill. An elderly emaciated lady diagnosed with acute cholecystitis and cholangitis in septic shock had fusiform aneurysm of ascending aorta and arch of aorta with mediastinal compression. She underwent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogram (ERCP) under total intravenous anesthesia with a combination of propofol and ketamine which preserved spontaneous ventilation. Haemodynamics were maintained with the judicious use of intravenous fluids and vasopressors. *Corresponding author: Dr. Surjya Prasad Upadhyay, Specialist Anaesthesiology, NMC Hospital DIP, Dubai Investment Park, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tel: 00971554078445; E-mail: run77in@yahoo.com