Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
KinFit: A Factual Aerobic Sport Game with Stimulation Support

Overweight and obesity is a situation where a person has stacked too much fat that might affect negatively his/her health. Many people skip doing exercises due to several facts related to the encouragement, health-awareness, and time ar-rangement. Diverse aerobic video games have been proposed to help users in do-ing exercises. However, we observe some limitations in existing games. For in-stance, they don’t give correct scores while wearing Arabic traditional suits, they don’t consider showing immersive realistic scenes, and they don’t stimulate users to do exercises and keeping them encouraged to play more. We propose in this paper an aerobic video game that displays real scenes of aerobic coaches and keeps the user notified about doing exercises. It is a kind of serious games that allows users to learn aerobic movements and practice with aerobic coaches. It contains several exercises in which each can be played on normal screen or in fully immersive virtual reality (VR). While the user is playing, he/she can see the playing score with the estimated amount of burned calories. It stores the time when the user plays to remind him/her about doing exercises again. The profound user studies demonstrated the usability and effectiveness of the proposed game.
Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of prescription writing as per Medical Council of India guidelines among interns in a Medical College

Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of prescription writing among interns in medical college.Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among the interns in a Medical College, after taking approval from the Institutional Ethics Committee. Participants were asked to write prescription for a common ailment in a given prescription blank page. A structured questionnaire was designed based on new Medical Council of India (MCI) prescription writing pattern to analyse the prescription. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics.Results: Among 84 interns, most of the participants had written the drug by generic name (95.2%) and have signed in the prescription sheet (98%). None of them were aware of the latest prescription writing pattern recommended by Medical Council of India (MCI). The writing of generic name in capital letter was not done by 97.6% of interns. Conclusion: Our study concluded that interns were not aware of new Medical Council of India (MCI) prescription writing pattern. Majority of interns have made errors while writing the prescription. Thus there is a need for regular formal education regarding prescription writing, before the start of internship. They can be given training under medical education unit regarding the recent updates of prescription writing.
A Body-and-Mind-Centric Approach to Wearable Personal Assistants

Tight integration between humans and computers has long been a vision in wearable computing (“man-machine symbiosis”, “cyborg”), motivated by the potential augmented capabilities in thinking, perceiving, and acting such integration could potentially bring. However, even recent wearable computers (e.g. Google Glass) are far away from such a tight integration with their users. Apart from the purely technological challenges, progress is also hampered by the common attempt by system designers to deploy existing interaction paradigms from desktop and mobile computing (e.g. visual output, touch-based input; explicit human-computer dialogue) to what is in fact a completely new context of use in which computer users interact with the device(s) on the move and in parallel with real-world tasks. This gives rise to several physical, perceptual, and cognitive challenges due to the limitations of human attentional resources. In fact, while wearable computers in recent years have become smaller and closer to our bodies physically, I argue in this thesis that to achieve a tighter man-computer symbiosis (e.g. such that some everyday decision-making can be o✏oaded from human to system as in context-aware computing) we also need to tie the computer system closer to the conscious and unconscious parts of our minds. In this thesis, I propose a conceptual model for integrating wearable systems into the human perception-cognition-action loop. I empirically investigate the utility of the proposed model for design and evaluation of a Wearable Personal Assistant (WPA) for clinicians on the Google Glass platform. The results of my field study in a Copenhagen hospital simulation facility revealed several challenges for WPA users such as unwanted interruptions, social and perceptual problems of parallel interaction with the WPA, and the need for more touch-less input modalities. My further exploration on touch-less input modalities such as body gestures and gaze, showed the great potential of using eye movements as an implicit input to WPAs. Since the involuntary eye movements (e.g. optokinetic nystagmus) are unconscious reflections of the brain to external stimuli, analyzing such involuntary eye movements by WPAs opens new opportunities for unconscious interaction (and man-machine symbiosis). Our EyeGrip prototype successfully demon-
Sexual behavior and pregnancy outcome in HIV-infected women

Sexual behavior and pregnancy outcome data for 392 HIV-infected women were analyzed. During the 6 months before study entry, 71.2% (279 of 392 women) were sexually active. In multivariate regression, women with baseline CD4+ > or = 200/microl were more likely than women with CD4+ < 200/microl to be sexually active (adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 1.75; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.06-2.88; p = .03). Consistent condom use was reported with 58.4% (149 of 255) of steady male partners and 65.7% (23 of 35) of casual partners. Overall, 90.3% of 279 sexually active women were using contraception. Among women aged between 15 and 44 years (n = 320), the incidence of pregnancy in the year before HIV diagnosis was 27.5 per 100 person-years (PY) (95% CI, 22.1-33.9) compared with 8.3/100 PY (95% CI, 6.8-10.2) in the time since HIV diagnosis (p < .001). The incidence of therapeutic termination of pregnancies conceived in the 20 weeks before HIV diagnosis (10.6/100 PY) was more than triple that after diagnosis (3.1/100 PY; p = .001). After publication of results of zidovudine prophylaxis of mother-to-child transmission, pregnancy rates did not increase, but the incidence of therapeutic abortion dropped from 4.3/100 PY to 1.4/100 PY (p = .009). Knowledge of sexual behavior, including pregnancy frequency and outcome, can assist in tailoring counseling for HIV-infected women concerning sexual and reproductive health.
Motivation as a Predictor of Therapeutic Engagement in Mandated Residential Substance Abuse Treatment

Studies of community-based substance abuse treatment indicate that motivation for treatment is critical for retaining clients in the program and for their becoming therapeutically engaged in the recovery process. Relatively little work, however, has examined the effect of motivation on therapeutic engagement in criminal justice settings. Baseline and during-treatment data were collected prospectively from 419 probationers remanded to a 6-month modified therapeutic community. Findings showed that desire for help and treatment readiness were associated with indicators of therapeutic engagement even after statistically controlling for additional factors that could have confounded these relationships. Targeted readiness and induction interventions are therefore recommended for offenders with low motivation who are remanded to treatment in correctional settings.
MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL BASED ON LATE SEMANTIC FUSION APPROACHES- EXPERIMENTS ON A WIKIPEDIA IMAGE COLLECTION

This paper proposes an improved system using a textual pre-filtering combined with an image re-ranking in a Multimedia Information Retrieval task. Three different sub systems Text based subsystem, content based subsystem and fusion of both subsystems is used for multimedia information retrieval processes to overcome semantic gap in a given query. To get the accurate result we use Multimedia information retrieval on publicly available Image CLEF Wikipedia Collection. Keywords—Content-based information retrieval, multimedia information, multimedia retrieval, text-based image retrieval
Community cum hospital based case control study on maternal mortality. Final report.

Reduction of maternal mortality depends on the effective treatment of pregnancy-related complications. However delineation of the factors that determine survival in a woman who develops a complication has not been addressed often in maternal mortality literature. This study attempts to address this issue using a matched case-control design which compared 345 maternal deaths to women who survived after having a similar biomedical complication. The study showed that 72% of the maternal deaths were underreported due to nonregistration of deaths (31.4%) as well as misclassification (40.5%). In addition the study demonstrated that the delay in seeking care and too many and inappropriate referrals through lower levels of the health system not capable of dealing with the problem significantly increased the risk of dying. In view of this the need to improve registration of deaths and to implement a stricter vigilance over medical certification of cause of death is suggested. Overall the study findings have shown the need for inclusion of prompt and accessible medical management as an essential component of maternal mortality prevention programs.
Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics - From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications

This chapter starts with an overview of Monte Carlo computer simulation methodologies which are illustrated for the simple case of the Ising model. After reviewing importance sampling schemes based on Markov chains and standard local update rules (Metropolis, Glauber, heat-bath), nonlocal cluster-update algorithms are explained which drastically reduce the problem of critical slowing down at second-order phase transitions and thus improve the performance of simulations. How this can be quantifi ed is explained in the section on statistical error analyses of simulation data including the effect of temporal correlations and autocorrelation times. Histogram reweighting methods are explained in the next section. Eventually, more advanced generalized ensemble methods (simulated and parallel tempering, multicanonical ensemble, Wang-Landau method) are discussed which are particularly important for simulations of fi rst-order phase transitions and, in general, of systems with rare-event states. The setup of scaling and fi nite-size scaling analyses is the content of the following section. The chapter concludes with two advanced applications to complex physical systems. The fi rst example deals with a quenched, diluted ferromagnet, and in the second application we consider the adsorption properties of macromolecules such as polymers and proteins to solid substrates. Such systems often require especially tailored algorithms for their effi cient and successful simulation.
High sensitivity GPS performance analysis in degraded signal environments

This thesis deals with GPS receiver sensitivity analysis, characterization of interference sources prevalent in degraded signal environments and quantifies measurement availability, signal fading, pseudorange errors, positioning accuracy and position solution availability using an unaided high sensitivity GPS receiver. High sensitivity GPS utilizes total signal dwell times longer than the 20 ms maximum for conventional GPS receivers and results in more signal gain. A description of how this is accomplished is provided. Testing of the high sensitivity GPS receiver involved hardware simulations and extensive field testing in a forest, urban canyons, and in an indoor environment. The high sensitivity receiver tested, developed by SiRF Technologies Inc., provides more measurements with fewer losses of signal tracking in all environments tested with a signal tracking sensitivity of -186 dBW. Increased tracking capability is highly beneficial in terms of solution availability and increased redundancy for reliability of navigation. However, reliable navigation is a primary concern as interference effects, namely signal cross-correlation, multipath, and echo-only signals, lead to large measurement errors. Navigation accuracy and reliability using a high sensitivity GPS receiver is discussed and recommendations are made for improvements.
World Music: Whose Music and Whose World?

This article reflects on the contemporary phenomenon of ‘world music’, exploring how the commodified genre has developed and been marketed since the 1980s, and the implications that the genre has both for academic studies of music and culture and for the continuing sustainability of local music and cultural diversity. The article starts with a discussion of the bifurcation of world music between the commercial (a mix of relatively popular commodified forms that are often hybrid collaborations) and ethnographically rooted music (often archive or field recordings of ‘authentic’ traditions), and the challenges faced by the latter in a market dominated by the former. It utilizes critiques by Outhwaite, Said, Moretti, Adorno and others of Eurocentricism, orientalism and popular culture to position comments by, and products produced for, the world music community. Commentary is informed from a variety of sources - from musicians and producers, published texts, and from an Internet blog that began in response to my initial discussion of this topic in my 2008 inaugural professorial lecture at the University of London. Commentary builds a perspective on world music as particular mixes of the familiar and exotic/ Other that are typically experienced - using concepts elaborated by Guillermo Gomez? Pena and Anahid Kassabian - as ‘lite difference’ through ‘audio tourism’. A chronological perspective that begins with the promotion of gramophones in the early twentieth century is offered to show how world music has developed. And Korea provides a case study of the effort one country’s music industry is making to enter the commodified world music arena, noting how Korean funding agencies increasingly move from support of the iconoclastic traditional music (kugak) to contemporary genres such as the western? meets? eastern kugak fusion. The article ends by asking what the future might hold, and whether, as the recorded music industry declines, local music can continue to be championed.
Levels and risk factors of operative deliveries in four health facilities in Kisumu District, Kenya.

A prospective study was conducted in Kisumu district, a region characterised by a high incidence of maternal and infant mortality, to determine the levels and prevalence of maternal and perinatal complications and suggest ways to make maternal and child health programmes in the area more effective and practical. Four health facilities (two health centres and two hospitals) were selected to act as sentinel centres with two each representing urban and rural clusters. From these sentinel facilities, all the obstetric related cases were recorded between January and July 1997 and the outcome of the pregnancy was recorded. Some details about the respondents' socioeconomic, demographic, biomedical and environment characteristics were also recorded. A total of 1455 cases were recorded out of which 59% experienced obstetric-related complications whereas 41% had no noticeable complication. Of those with complications, 18% had a caesarean section and 6% had a ventouse delivery. Cross-tabulations and multivariate ana.
Application on Query of Distributed Database Based on Improved Genetic Algorithm

The query cost usually as an important criterion for a distributed database. The genetic algorithm is an adaptive probabilistic search algorithm, but the crossover and mutation probability usually keep a probability in traditional genetic algorithm. If the crossover probability keep a large value, the possibility of damage for genetic algorithm model is greater; In turn, if the crossover probability keep a small value, the search process will transform a slow processing or even stagnating. If the mutation probability keep a small value, a new individual can be reproduced difficultly; In turn, if the mutation probability keep a large value, the genetic algorithm will as a Pure random search algorithm. To solve this problem, proposed a improved genetic algorithm that multiple possibility of crossover and mutation based on k-means clustering algorithm. The experiment results indicate that the algorithm is effective.
Aspecte imagistice a leziunilor sistemului musculo-scheletal la pacienţii dializaţi cronic cu hiperparatiroidism secundar

Departamentul Medicină Internă Clinica Medicală nr.5 (Reumatologie si Nefrologie) USMF “Nicolae Testemiţanu” Centrul Dializă si Transplant Renal IMSP Spitalul Clinic Republican Catedra Urologie si Nefrologie Chirurgicală USMF “Nicolae Testemiţanu”
An adaptive circuit for low-power sensor processing: Mismatch effects

This paper presents a study of mismatch effects in a digitally programmable analogue processor designed for small embedded applications. Circuit programmability allows for its adaptation to deviations in circuit operation or environmental effects. Starting from circuit simulation data, the system-level operation is modelled, showing its robustness to circuit mismatch. Simulation results of the proposed processor applied to compensate the response of a sinusoidal sensor and its robustness to mismatch are presented.
Motivational Teacher Development and Teacher Effectiveness in Universal Secondary Education in Uganda

This study was intended to examine the effect of Motivational Teacher Development on Teacher Effectiveness inUniversal Secondary Education (USE) in Yumbe District – Uganda. The study adopted a Case Study Design to allow in-depth study. Quantitative and Qualitative research paradigm were engaged. A total of 120 questionnaires were administered to the respondents and all the questionnaires were received back, registering a response rate of 100%. Descriptive statistics were the main technique used to analyze the data generated to produce results. On the overall, the study established that Motivational Teacher Development was inadequate and that it contributed to teacher ineffectiveness in USE schools in Yumbe District.
A Cross-sectional Survey of the Awareness of Common Mental Disorders Among Urban and Rural Residents in Northern China

Objective:To know urban and rural residents' awareness about common mental illnesses.Methods:A multi-stage stratified random sample of 1374 urban residents from Tianjin city and 963 rural residents from Laiwu(Shandong Province)was selected to be administered a survey in their homes.Finally,564(41.9%)urban respondents and 602(62.5%)rural respondents finished the survey.Results:The proportions of urban versus rural subjects who had heard of the terms 'schizophrenia','alcohol dependence or alcoholism',and 'depression' were 82.6% versus 50.2%,75.9% versus 41.9%,and 76.4% versus 34.6%,respectively(Ps0.01). Among those who had heard of the three types of disorders,the proportions of urban versus rural subjects who thought it was not worthy to prevent suicide in persons with schizophrenia,alcohol abuse or depression were 81.3% versus 71.9%,73.4% versus 65.9%,and 86.3% versus 76.4%,respectively,the proportions of urban versus rural subjects who considered persons with these disorders 'madmen'('fengzi')were 31.3% versus 41.4%,7.2% versus 18.3%,and 8.1% versus 20.2%,respectively(Ps0.01). Conclusions:Compared to urban residents,rural residents are more likely to lack knowledge about common mental disorders and to discriminate against persons with common mental disorders.The public education programs about mental health and suicide prevention should be focused on rural areas.
Esej o człowieku

The aim of the article is to present the life and academic achievements of Ernst Cassirer, an important philosophical figure in the first half of XXth century. Renowned for his groundbreaking theory of symbolic forms, both an accomplished historian of philosophy and ideas and at the same time an important theoretician of scientific knowledge in its multiple and various forms, is worth reminding to the wider audience, especially now when his numerous manuscripts finally saw the daylight. Eighteen volumes of his previously unpublished material in many ways changes the common opinions on Cassirer’s philosophy, usually found in popular handbooks and encyclopedias. Even the advanced studies and interpretations of his work need to be necessarily and thoroughly reconsidered.
Exercise stress, nutrition and novel measures of in vivo immunity

In order to assess the influence of physical stress, such as exercise and nutritional restriction, on immunity, there is a need for well-controlled field studies and use of clinically relevant and practical in vivo measures of immune competence. The broad aim of this thesis was to examine the reductive effects of physical stress on immune responses in humans. Firstly, a daily mixed nutritional supplement prevented the decrease in circulating total leukocytes, lymphocytes and monocytes and increased saliva secretory immunoglobulin-A during 8 weeks of arduous military training, compared with a comparative control group (Chapter 4). A stronger approach to investigate the effects of physical stress includes utilising a measure of in vivo immunity, such as experimental contact hypersensitivity (CHS) with the novel antigen Diphenylcyclopropenone (DPCP). Prolonged, moderate intensity exercise, but not short, high or short, moderate intensity exercise, impaired induction to DPCP, despite elevated circulating catecholamines and greater circulating cortisol following short, high intensity exercise (Chapter 5). Experimental CHS was then coupled with a suction blister technique at the site of DPCP sensitisation to measure cutaneous cytokines thought to orchestrate dendritic cell migration and successful induction of new immune memory. After demonstrating this technique to be repeatable (Chapter 6) and identifying 6 h of patch exposure as a suitable time to initiate suction blisters (Chapter 7), results showed prolonged, moderate intensity exercise had no effect on local cutaneous interleukin (IL)-1β, tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α and IL-10 (Chapter 8), thought to be implicated in the initial events of immune induction. Therefore it is possible that prolonged, moderate intensity exercise suppresses further downstream events of immune induction, rather than local inflammatory processes at the skin. Topical application of DPCP provides an attractive tool for the assessment of in vivo immunity in future exercise stress and nutritional intervention studies. Further research is required to identify the mechanisms involved in the suppression of CHS responses to DPCP after prolonged, moderate intensity exercise.
Different Mining Techniques for Health Care Data Case Study of Urine Analysis Test

To make huge amounts of data that is produced by health care information systems useful and important to the potential, we apply knowledge discovery. This study considers urine analysis test results as an input data to different data mining techniques in order to discover the hidden and meaningful patterns in data. It also shows results of evaluation and analysis for data patterns. Data mining techniques were, 1) Classification to support functionality for alerting about new instance that does not match the predicted value by classification model, 2) Association rules to inform about relations and changeability between elements, 3) Clustering to categorize patients into separate groups to give an indication about how to deal with each patient, and 4) Outlier analysis to discover the most sick patients or unfamiliar cases that need a special care. Resulting knowledge were novel, actionable, understandable, and valid. This was stated by applying two methods of evaluation, first was a survey about results and was filled by medical specialists, second was by cross validation and T-Test.