Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Review on Pharmacological Aspects of Holarrhena antidysenterica

DOI: 10.21276/sajp.2018. 7.12. 5 Abstract: Medicinal plants have been known for millennia and are highly esteemed all over the world as a rich source of therapeutic agents for the prevention of diseases and ailments. Holarrhena antidysenterica commonly known as kurci, kurchi or kutaj is being used from ancient time. Holarrhena antidysenterica (syn. H. pubescens) belonging to the family Apocynaceae, is commended for the medicinal applications of its stem bark, leaves and seeds in Ayurveda. From the past years, various phytochemical has been isolated from the plant and shown the traditional pharmacological activities such as analgesic, antibacterial, anti-diarrhoeal, anti-diabteic, anti-oxidant, anti-urolithic and anti-inflammatory activities. Moreover, recent studies have shown the new activities viz. Angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitory, acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity, Anti-amnesic activity and neuroprotective activity. This review is a step to open insight for therapeutic uses for various diseases.
Efetividade do conceito de Mulligan comparativamente ao exercício terapêutico supervisionado na diminuição da dor no ombro em atletas de Polo Aquático

Background: This study layed on the application of the Mulligan techniques which have as objective pain reduction, increasing articular range of movement and improve functionality, as well as on the application of a supervisionised exercise program on the shoulder. The objective of an exercise program on the shoulder might be directed to pain reduction, to the balance and increase of muscular strenght, as well as to reestablish the articular range of movement pain free. Objectives: This study had as an objective the comparison of the Mulligan concept efficiency with a program of therapeutic exercises to reduce shoulder pain in water polo athletes. Methods: Na almost-experimental study was made in which the sample of 13 male athletes and 11 female athletes that experienced shoulder pain in ages between 19 and 32 (n=24). A questionaire was given to collect information about the athlete characterization and presence of pain. The evaluation was made in several moments , before treatment and after the first, second and third weeks of treatment, using the EVA scale. Estathistic: next it was made a discritive estathistic analisis using the Willcoxon test, T test to test the association between shoulder pain intensity and the different moments of its evaluation. A significance level of 0,05 was used. Results: the results showed that in the two groups the athletes a decrease in shoulder pain intensity, though the intervention with MVM resulted in faster and more efficient results in pain decrease, comparatively to the intervention with supervisionised therapeutic exercises in water polo athletes with shoulder pain. Conclusion: the intervention with mobilization with movement had more efficiency in shoulder pain reduction comparatively to the intervention with supervisionised therapeutic exercises in athletes with shoulder pain.
The relationship between Iranian minority speakers ' academic achievements and their proficiency in L 2 ∗

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between language proficiency (LP) of Persian native speakers and bilingual speakers' academic achievement (AA). Four groups of Armenian and Persian high school students (60 males and 60 females) participated in the study. The data were collected through the Persian reading comprehension test (RCT) and the students’ end-of-the-year-grade point averages (GPA). The results indicated no difference between the language proficiency of Armenians and Persians. Moreover, the results showed an approximately similar positive correlation between LP and AA for all the groups irrespective of their first language (L1) background.
Variational Inference with Orthogonal Normalizing Flows

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Modelling heat loss through multi storey double skin façade as preliminaries for an energy efficient control strategy

The paper introduces a novel strategy to improve energy consumption by applying new technical solution in Double Skin Façade (DSF) systems. The strategy is based on equalizing thermal loss through all elements of the envelope, but without direct action on interior zone. The focus of this study is in modelling as preliminary action before designing an efficient control strategy through Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based on Lyapunov-like tuning. Results of other experiments will justify the usage of this simplified differential description in further control study of DSF dynamics.
A Numerical Algorithm for Solving Constrained Optimization Problems by Quasi-Newton Methods

A numerical algorithm is presented for finding a local optimum of nonlinear programming problems that use quasi-Newton methods. The algorithm uses the squared slack variable philosophy and an updated formula with a numerically stable method for maintaining the positive definiteness at each iteration. A modification of the starting matrix of approximation of the Hessian by the BFGS formula is also given. Some numerical results are given to show the efficiency of the algorithm.
CSP nhibition of the MEK / ERK pathway reduces microglial ctivation and interleukin-1-beta expression in spinal cord schemia / reperfusion injury in rats

34 The Journal of Thoracic and Cardio bjectives: Ischemic spinal cord injury is a serious complication of aortic surgery. lthough the extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 are generally regarded as elated to cell proliferation and survival, increasing evidence suggests that the role f the extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathway in ischemia/reperfusion injury s much more sophisticated.
Computational optimization of a UFAD system using large eddy simulation

In the present study, the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) turbulence closure is implemented, for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, to investigate the air conditioning system in a large space. The results of LES simulations are validated against experimental measurements and the model is used to study the effect of different design variables, including the Air Changes per Hour (ACH), supply temperature, and return air vent height, on design objectives, such as local and global thermal comfort indexes and the energy saving parameter, via a systematic multi-objective optimization approach. The sensitivity analysis shows that the global and local thermal comfort indexes are most sensitive to the air supply temperature while the energy saving is sensitive to ACH and the supply temperature to the same extent. In addition, the return air vent height affects the energy saving more than the other objectives. Finally, with the best design proposed by the multi-objective optimization, an energy saving of 22.9% is achievable while keeping the thermal comfort indexes within the allowable range.
Biochemistry for the Medical Sciences

This outstanding text, written in a clear, concise and easy-to-read style, provides students with an in-depth explanation of how each metabolic pathway is directly related to physiology, pharmacology, and clinical medicine. Emphasis is given to those medical problems encountered most frequently in daily clinical practice. Basic metabolism is presented as a coherent part of physiology and reference is made to the matabaolic aberrations seen in clinical situations.
Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania

Prologue 1 Orientations Part I A Short Genealogy of Traditional Medicine 2 Witchcraft, Oracles and Native Medicines 3 Making (Tanzanian) Traditional Medicine Part II Hailing Traditional Experts 4 Intimate Becomings 5 Institutional Evocations Part III Healing Matters 6 Alternative Materialities 7 Interferences and Inclusions 8 Shifting Existences (or Being and Not-Being) Conclusion Postcolonial Ontological Politics Epilogue Glossary Notes References Index
Taxpayers’ Behavior and the Flypaper Effect

This paper provides a new explanation for the flypaper effect, a well known empirical result whereby transfers to a government increase public expenditures more than an equal amount of additional taxpayers’ income. The flypaper effect is fully explained by taxpayers’ behavioral responses to the tax rate and income. A lump-sum increase in income is shown to lead to three effects on optimal government decisions that have not yet been described in the literature. The flypaper effect arises simply because public expenditures are cheaper when financed with intergovernmental transfers.
Caregiver burden in the families of the patients suffering from bipolar affective disorder

Background: Bipolar affective disorder is a disabling illness which causes a considerable degree of burden on the caregivers. Few studies from India have measured the burden of care in bipolar affective disorder and its association with caregiver variables. Aims: This study aimed to evaluate the burden experienced by the caregivers of patients with bipolar disorder and to evaluate the association with various socio-demographic factors of the caregivers and clinical variables of patients with caregiver burden. Methodology: 100 caregivers of patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder, aged 18 years or more, of either gender, living with the patient for at least one year were assessed by Family Burden Interview Schedule (FBIS), DUKE-UNC Functional Social Support Questionnaire (FSSQ) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30). Results: Higher caregiver burden was associated with caregiver variables like female gender, illiterate status, low socioeconomic status, advancing age, being married and having lower social support. Among the clinical variables, longer duration of being involved in the care of patients was significantly associated with higher burden scores. Higher burden was associated with longer duration of illness and higher number of lifetime episodes. Better compliance with medication was associated with lower caregiver burden. Conclusions: Higher caregiver burden among the caregivers of patients with bipolar disorder is associated with many of the caregiver variables and longer duration of illness. Higher social support is associated with lower caregiver burden.
Integrated Nutrient Management : Concepts and Experience from Sub-Saharan Africa

In Africa, 28 percent of its landmass, 874 Mha, is potentially suitable for agricultural production. Of the potentially suitable agricultural land, 34 percent comprises arid and semiarid lands (ASAL) that are too dry for rainfed agriculture. The semiarid regions have a shortened length of growing period (75-129 days) compared to the subhumid (180-269 days), and the humid ( > 2 7 0 days) zones. The dynamics of agroecosystems show that the farming systems practiced have gone through diverse changes from traditional shifting farming systems to permanent and intensified arable and mixed farming systems. The changes are coping strategies to respond to the environment, and its changing biophysical and socioeconomic circumstances. Africa has 340 million people, over half of its population living on less than US$1 per day, a mortality rate of children under five years of age, of 154 per 1,000, and a life expectancy of only forty-eight years (Benson, 2004). The average annual increase of cereal yield in Africa is about 10 kg ha the rate known as that for extensive agriculture neglecting external in-
Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Effective : September 1 , 2018

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DAMAGE IDENTIFICATION WITH SENSOR PLACEMENT AND REFERENCE FREQUENCY CHOSEN BASED ON THEORETICAL ERRORS

This paper presents a vibration-based damage identification technique for structures using Fourier amplitudes of acceleration responses generated by ground shaking. The proposed damage identification technique estimates structural damage by solving a simultaneous equation. This simultaneous equation is derived from the equation of motion of the structure before and after damage and composed by structural parameters of the intact state, such as mass, damping and stiffness, and measured Fourier amplitudes of the damaged state. Questions as to where to put sensors and Fourier amplitudes at which reference frequency should be used are unsettled. Since there always exist modeling and measurement errors, and since identification accuracy depends on the sensor placement and reference frequency, determination method of the sensor placement and reference frequency giving better accuracy is important. Therefore, the determination method based on theoretical error of the simultaneous equation is also proposed in this study. In the proposed method, the sensor placement and reference frequency generating small condition number of the coefficient matrix of the simultaneous equation is recommended. The validity of the damage identification technique and determination method is confirmed through experiment on a cantilever beam.
Frotis de sangre periférica y alteración orgánica en la preeclampsia-eclampsia

Introducción: la preeclampsia-eclampsia tiene un sustrato fisiopatológico común que es la lesión del endotelio vascular, condicionante del desarrollo de microangiopatía trombótica-hemolítica, que propicia la alteración de órganos blanco, el frotis de sangre periférica es un estudio sencillo que apoya el diagnóstico y pronóstico de esta entidad. Objetivo: hacer una correlación clínico-patológico entre pacientes con preeclampsia-eclampsia, los hallazgos morfológicos del frotis de sangre periférica y el desarrollo de alteración orgánica. Material y pacientes: se diseñó un estudio piloto prospectivo, transversal y comparativo de pacientes que ingresaron a la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos del Hospital con diagnóstico de preeclampsia-eclampsia durante un periodo comprendido de junio de 1999 a febrero del 2000, y fueron manejadas de acuerdo con el protocolo del propio hospital que incluyó la realización de un frotis de sangre periférica a su ingreso. El método consistió en hacer una revisión de los expedientes consignando las disfunciones documentadas de acuerdo con el criterio internacional y dividimos la población en dos grupos: grupo A = pacientes con frotis negativo y grupo B = pacientes con frotis positivo, se calculó razón de momios y se comparó cada grupo en cuanto a las principales variables valoradas mediante la prueba paramétrica t de Student y los resultados los expresamos en media, desviación estándar y porcentajes. Resultados: incluimos 77 pacientes: nueve (12%) con frotis negativo identificando una alteración orgánica (grupo A), 78 pacientes (88%) con frotis positivo documentando 56 disfunciones orgánicas (grupo B). La razón de momios de 34, destacando diferencias significativas en variables hematológicas y renales principalmente. Se concluye que de acuerdo con la medida de riesgo calculada, se estima que la probabilidad de que una paciente con preeclampsia-eclampsia desarrolle alteración orgánica, es 34 veces mayor cuando se asocia a un frotis de sangre periférica positivo, por lo que proponemos que esta prueba se realice a todas las pacientes con esta patología como una prueba predictiva de alteración orgánica que además resulta ser barata y fácil de hacer.
Effect of fine lactose fraction on in vitro deposition of Mometasone furoate dry powder inhaler *

Dry powder inhaler (DPIs) has attained considerable attention due to their propellant-free formulation and the patient’s inherent coordination with actuation. Dry powder inhaler consist of micronized (<5um) drug alone or mixed with carrier particles. Lactose is the more widely used carrier in dry powder inhalers (DPIs). This study was carried out to investigate the effect of weight fraction of fine lactose as a carriers on aeroionisation behaviour of Mometasone furoate dry powder inhaler.Lactohale 200 and Lactohale 210 two commercial lactose monohydrate were belened in different ratios with fixed amount Mometasone furoate . A low resistance Rotahaler and medium resistance Cyclohaler were used to evaluate the effect of inhaler design on the deposition profiles of Mometasone furoate.Average fill weight per capsule, content uniformity, Uniformity of delivered dose by DUSA, invitro depositon, Moisture content, Assay . Twin stage liquid impinger was used to determine the invitro deposition of Mometasone furoate.Better invitro depositon was observed formulation having lactose ratio (70:30),that is 70% coarse lactose and 30% lactose fine .
ON THE INTERACTION OF TONE AND STRESS IN CONTOUR TONE LANGUAGES : A PROSODIC ACCOUNT

In register tone languages, prominence and tone are related such that prominent (stressed) position and high tone are mutually attracted, as are non-prominent position and low tone. From the available literature, it appears that nothing is known about the relationship between stress and tone in contour tone languages. We examine this question, focusing principally on Tone 2 (T2) sandhi in Mandarin, because it is uniformly accepted as being triggered by stress. As there is little agreement on the other factors involved in T2 sandhi, we first undertake an experiment that seeks to better establish the facts. From the acoustic analysis of the results, we argue that T2 sandhi applies only when T2 syllables occur in unstressed position. We briefly extend our examination to the other three tone sandhi processes in Mandarin and conclude that all tone sandhi processes in the language are stress-driven: stress governs the realization of tone such that prominence makes tone high and rise and non-prominence makes tone level. We conclude more generally that a bipartite relationship holds between stress and tone in contour tone languages: there is a correlation between high/(low) register and the presence/(absence) of stress, and a correlation between contour/(level) tone and the presence/(absence) of stress.
Diversity and Trustedness to Increase Structural Robustness in Networks

In a networked system, any change in the underlying network structure, such as node and link removals due to an attack, could severely affect the overall system behavior. Typically, by adding more links and connections between nodes, networks can be made structurally robust. However, this approach is not always feasible, especially in sparse networks. In this paper, we aim to improve the structural robustness in networks using the notions of diversity and trustedness. Diversity means that nodes in a network are of different types and have many variants. Trustedness means that a small subset of nodes are immune to failures and attacks. We show that by combining diversity and trustedness within the network, we can significantly limit the attacker’s ability to change the underlying network structure by strategically removing nodes. Using pairwise connectivity as a measure, we show that by appropriately distributing trusted nodes and assigning types to nodes, network robustness can be significantly improved. We analyze the complexity of diversifying and computing a set of trusted nodes, and then present heuristics to compute attacks consisting of node removals. We also present heuristics to defend networks against such attacks by distributing node types and trusted nodes. Finally, we evaluate our results on a set of benchmark networks to demonstrate the usefulness of our approach.
The structure of propositions and cross-linguistic syntactic variability

In Jeffrey King’s theory of structured propositions, propositional structure mirrors the syntactic structure of natural language sentences that express it. I provide cases where this claim individuates propositions too finely across languages. Crucially, King’s paradigmatic proposition-fact ^that Dara swims^ cannot be believed by a monolingual Greek speaker, due to Greek syntax requiring an obligatory article in front of proper names. King’s two possible replies are: (i) to try to streamline the syntax of Greek and English; or (ii) to insist that English speakers can believe propositions inexpressible in Greek. I argue that the former option entails giving up a neo-Russelian framework, and the latter makes King’s account arbitrary or trivial. I conclude that the mirroring claim is untenable.
Self-regenerative and Self-enhanced Smart 1 Graphene / Ag 3 PO 4 Hydrogel Adsorbent under Visible Light 2

11 A new self-regenerative and self-enhanced smart adsorbent is synthesized by 12 hybridizing the photocatalyst Ag3PO4 nanospheres into the 3D graphene oxide (GO) 13 hydrogel, and then used to absorb and mineralize the artificially synthesized dyes 14 methylene blue (MB) and methyl orange (MO). The results indicate that Ag3PO4 15 particles anchored on the GO sheets densely and firmly with the average diameter of 16 ~20 nm. The large specific surface area (SSA) (~100.29 m/g) of the samples could 17 provide many adsorption sites for organic dyes to get good removal effectiveness. The 18 results showed that the 3D graphene/Ag3PO4 composites exhibit excellent removal 19 effectiveness of MB and MO as well as reusability. Especially, the adsorption ability 20 of the adsorbent increased greatly after one-time recycling. The negatively charged 21 functional groups of rGO sheets can attract the silver ions (Ag+), which can help the 22 Ag3PO4 particles anchored on the rGO sheets. Besides, the rGO hydrogel has 23 adsorption ability toward dyes, which can help increase the contact chance between 24 dyes and nanoparticles Ag3PO4. The positive effects between Ag3PO4 and GO could 25 be contributed to adsorption activity and photocatalytic properties. This study 26 provides a green way to fabricate self-regenerative and self-enhanced smart hydrogel 27 Page 1 of 19 New Journal of Chemistry N ew Jo ur na lo fC he m is tr y A cc ep te d M an us cr ip t adsorbents under visible light. 28 29