Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Clinical Examination and Self-Reported Upper Extremity Impairments in Patients with Long-Standing Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Aim The aims of the current study were (1) to determine the prevalence of upper extremity impairments (UEIs) in patients with type 1 diabetes by clinical investigation; (2) to investigate if self-reported impairments were concordant with clinical findings and if key questions could be identified; and (3) to investigate if answers to our self-reported questionnaire regarding UEIs are reliable. Methods Patients with type 1 diabetes were invited to participate in a cross-sectional study of clinical and self-reported (12 items) UEIs in adjunction to ordinary scheduled clinical visit. Before the visit, a questionnaire on UEIs was filled in twice (test-retest) followed by clinical testing at the planned visit. Results In total, 69 patients aged 45 ± 14 years and with diabetes duration 26 ± 15 were included in the study. In the clinical examination, two-thirds (65%) of the patients showed one or more UEI, with failure to perform hand against back as the most common clinical finding (40%) followed by positive Phalen's test (27%), Tinel's test (26%), and Prayer's sign (24%). UEIs observed by clinical examination were often bilateral, and multiple impairments often coexisted. Self-reported shoulder stiffness was associated with impaired shoulder mobility and with Prayer's sign. Self-reported reduced hand strength was associated to lower grip force, Prayer's sign, trigger finger, fibrosis string structures, and reduced thenar strength as well as reduced shoulder mobility. In addition, self-reporting previous surgery of carpal tunnel and trigger finger was associated with several clinical UEIs including shoulder, hand, and finger. The test-retest of the questionnaire showed a high agreement of 80-98% for reported shoulder, hand, and finger impairments. Conclusion UEIs are common in type 1 diabetes. Self-reported shoulder stiffness and reduced hand strength might be used to capture patients with UEIs in need of clinical investigation and enhanced preventive and therapeutic strategies, as well as rehabilitative interventions.
Predicting the Working Time of Microtasks Based on Workers' Perception of Prediction Errors

Crowd workers struggle to earn adequate wages. Given the limited task-related information provided on crowd platforms, workers often fail to estimate how long it would take to complete certain microtasks. Although there exist a few third-party tools and online communities that provide estimates of working times, such information is limited to microtasks that have been previously completed by other workers, and such tasks are usually booked immediately by experienced workers. This paper presents a computational technique for predicting microtask working times (i.e., how much time it takes to complete microtasks) based on past experiences of workers regarding similar tasks. The following two challenges were addressed during development of the proposed predictive model --- (i) collection of sufficient training data labeled with accurate working times, and (ii) evaluation and optimization of the prediction model. The paper first describes how 7,303 microtask submission data records were collected using a web browser extension --- installed by 83 Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) workers --- created for characterization of the diversity of worker behavior to facilitate accurate recording of working times. Next, challenges encountered in defining evaluation and/or objective functions have been described based on the tolerance demonstrated by workers with regard to prediction errors. To this end, surveys were conducted in AMT asking workers how they felt regarding prediction errors in working times pertaining to microtasks simulated using an "imaginary" AI system. Based on 91,060 survey responses submitted by 875 workers, objective/evaluation functions were derived for use in the prediction model to reflect whether or not the calculated prediction errors would be tolerated by workers. Evaluation results based on worker perceptions of prediction errors revealed that the proposed model was capable of predicting worker-tolerable working times in 73.6% of all tested microtask cases. Further, the derived objective function contributed to realization of accurate predictions across microtasks with more diverse durations.
Address Sequence Generator for Memory BIST

In this paper a method of construction of a generator for address sequences with given values of switching activity, based on the Idea of Antonov and Saleev and with use of Toeplitz and Hankel matrices, was proposed. The broad possibilities of this approach and the limitations associated with conflicting requirements for the values of the rows of the matrix and their linear independence are shown. Examples of the formation of standard address sequences used for self-testing of storage devices are described
A comparison of immunohistochemical assays and FISH in detecting the ALK translocation in diagnostic histological and cytological lung tumor material

Le Quesne, J., Maurya, M. , Yancheva, S. G. , O'Brien, M. , Popat, S. , Wotherspoon, A. C. , . Nicholson, A. G. (2014). A comparison of immunohistochemical assays and FISH in detecting the ALK translocation in diagnostic histological and cytological lung tumor material. Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, 9(6), 769-774. https://doi.org/10.1097/JTO.0000000000000157, https://doi.org/10.1097/JTO.0000000000000157
The Structure of Climate Variability Across Scales

One of the most intriguing facets of the climate system is that it exhibits variability across all temporal and spatial scales; pronounced examples are temperature and precipitation. The structure of this variability, however, is not arbitrary. Over certain spatial and temporal ranges, it can be described by scaling relationships in the form of power laws in probability density distributions and autocorrelation functions. These scaling relationships can be quantified by scaling exponents which measure how the variability changes across scales and how the intensity changes with frequency of occurrence. Scaling determines the relative magnitudes and persistence of natural climate fluctuations. Here, we review various scaling mechanisms and their relevance for the climate system. We show observational evidence of scaling and discuss the application of scaling properties and methods in trend detection, climate sensitivity analyses, and climate prediction.
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Twenty-five samples of Bulimulus species are studied, partly from localities within their known distribution range, partly based on interceptions where the material originates from localities where the species seem to be recently introduced and non-native. Molecular study of cytochrome oxidase 1 (CO1) reveals the origin of some of these introductions, but is less conclusive for others. Four different methods for species delimitation were applied, which did not result in unambiguous species hypotheses. For a rapid identification of morphologically indistinct species, a more comprehensive database of sequences is needed. 1 2 3
Export Competition

The paper develops a simple model of foreign market entry with a continuum of heterogenous industries. In each industry ex ante symmetric firms produce a homogenous good and compete for rents in the domestic and the foreign market facing stochastic productivity. A fall in beachhead cost (globalization) leads to (i) more firms within an industry and more industries becoming exporters, (ii) a fall in industry export price but an increase in its variance, (iii) a rise in industry profits, national income and the gap between profit and labor income when the exporting country is su ciently small, (iv) more unemployment and government unemployment benefit payments when labor is industry-specific, and (v) higher firm e ort when productivity is endogenous. JEL-Classifications: D4, F1, H2
Environmental characterization of microhabitats used by amphibians in the Tensift region of Morocco: An explanatory assessment using Artificial Neural Networks

An adequate understanding of the relationship between amphibians and their habitat has been among the main challenges in herpetology in recent decades, particularly given the role of global change in the rapid declines of this group worldwide. Using the Artificial Neural Networks approach (ANN), we examined the environmental factors determining the occurrence of amphibians in the aquatic ecosystems in Tensift region of Morocco. We applied this modeling technique to 14 environmental factors and the presence of amphibian species collected from 40 sites. The results showed that the ANN is a useful approach to evaluate the effects of habitat factors on species occurrence. The model correctly classified all species with high performance. The best result was obtained for Bufo spinosus data, with a recognition percentage of 93.6% and a prediction performance of 99.4%. Of all factors studied, altitude was key in explaining the species distribution and richness, followed by hydroperiod and conductivity, for almost all species. The importance of other factors varied according to species. Principal Component Analysis differentiated a community composed by three species of Bufonidae (Bufotes boulengeri, Sclerophrys mauritanica and Barbarophryne brongersmai) that are close to Hyla meridionalis, while Bufo spinosus, Discoglossus scovazzi and Pelophylax saharicus were influenced by other environmental factors. The results provide important new information that will support conservation decision making for the protection of amphibian populations and their habitats in the studied region
Smart monitoring of knee range of motion and activity type for knee rehabilitation

Introduction The goal of rehabilitation in patients suffering from knee osteoarthritis is to improve knee function, minimize pain and mitigate further disease progression. The beneficial effect of rehabilitative interventions, however, is often lost due to poor compliance coupled with low levels of physical activity. The use of wearable technology to deliver rehabilitation could increase the availability and accessibility to treatment for patient populations [1]. Furthermore, the richness of information that can be acquired over an extended period of time could inform treatment for individualised and targeted interventions and, motivate patients using markers of performance. To comply with patients’ preferences of unobtrusiveness and discreetness, a flexible conductive sensor unit was developed that can be integrated into clothing to create a wearable system. The aim of this study was to assess the reliability of the wearable system in monitoring the knee range of motion and its ability to classify activities of daily living.
Exploring Correlates of Selfitis and Narcissism among Indian Adolescent

Selfie taking has become an everyday habit, especially among adolescents when became obsessive known as Selfitis. Taking selfie became more popular after being promoted by Indian prime-minister Mr Modi whereas we also need to look its dark side. American Psychological Association has defined it as follows "Selfitis is an obsessive-compulsive desire to take photos of oneself and post them on social media as a way to make up for the lack of self-esteem and to fill a gap in intimacy. Even if not being posted on social media, it occupies the larger amount of time and thought about the selfie. Selfitis has a significant correlation with self-obsession, seif centeredness and narcissistic personality traits. Thus We conducted a study to see the prevalence of selfie-taking behaviour among adolescents in Indian college-going students. The result shows the prevalence of Selfie takings that only 20.72% of students lie under the borderline range of selfitis, means they were clicking photos of one's self at least three times a day but not posting them on social media. 79.28% population lie under the selfitis range indicating clicking photos of one's self at least three times a day and posting each of the photos on social media". As well as `71.62% student lies in acute, and 7.66% lies in the chronic range of selfitis having uncontrollable urge to take photos of one's self round the clock and posting the photos on social media more than six times a day. Results show that youngsters have become more obsessed to take a selfie and post them in social sites. it is denoting the prevalence of selfie-taking behaviour among adolescents is high and also have a positive orientation towards selfie-taking.
Paternal shift-working and sleep disorders in children affected by primary nocturnal enuresis

LUCIA PARISI1, MARGHERITA SALERNO2, AGATA MALTESE1, GABRIELE TRIPI3,4, PALMIRA ROMANO5, ANNABELLA DI FOLCO1, TERESA DI FILIPPO1, MICHELE ROCCELLA1 1Department of Psychological, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, University of Palermo, Italy 2Sciences for Mother and Child Health Promotion, University of Palermo, Italy 3Department PROSAMI, University of Palermo, Italy 4Childhood Psychiatric Service for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, CH Chinon, France 5Clinic of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry; Department of Mental Health and Physical and Preventive Medicine, Università degli Studi della Campania-Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Evaluation of the Hearing in Children of Mild and Severe Pre-Eclamptic Mothers

Abstract Aim: This study is realized with the aim to investigate whether or not there is congenital and progressive hearing loss in the children aged between 1 and 4 whose mothers experienced mild or severe preeclampsia in their pregnancy. Material and Methods: Total 60 children participated in the study whose mothers had mild preeclampsia [20 children] and severe preeclampsia [20 children] and whose mothers were healthy [20 children] for the control group. After the Ear-Nose-Throat [ENT] examination, immitansmetric examination, otoacoustic emission test, Automatic Auditory Brainstem Response [A-ABR] measurement and Free Field [FF] audiometry were applied to the children. Result: As a result of audiological evaluation, Type C tympanogram was observed in the right ear of one child in the group with mild preeclampsia, and in the left ears of total four children in the group with severe preeclampsia [2 children] and in the healthy group [2 children]. No ipsilateral reflex was obtained in the right ears of total two children in the groups with mild [1 child] and severe [1 child] preeclampsia, and in the left ear of one child in the group with severe preeclampsia. One child in the group with mild preeclampsia did not pass from the OAE test. Normal immitansmetric findings and passed result from OAE test were obtained in the second audiological evaluation. All children passed the Automatic Auditory Brainstem Response [A-ABR] test. Hearing thresholds between 125-4000 Hz were obtained in the FF and at 30 dB. Conclusion: When comparison is made between the hearings of children whose mothers were healthy and have experienced preeclampsia; normal hearing findings were obtained for groups, and it is considered that preeclampsia did not cause any congenital and/or progressive hearing loss by it.
THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF PIPER LONGUM

Aims: Phytochemical screening, total phenolic quantification, antioxidant and anthelmintic activity of hot water extract extract of Piper longum L. Methods: Preliminary phytochemical analysis and total phenol quantification of hot water extract of Piper longum was done by standard procedures. The antioxidant activity was evaluated by DPPH radical scavenging activity. Anthelmintic activity was checked against Indian earthworm Pheretima posthuma. Results and Discussion: In the present study, phytochemistry of hot water extract of Piper longum, revealed the presence of phytochemicals like carbohydrate, amino acid, protein, alkaloid, steroids, phenols and tannins. The extract also showed DPPH radical scavenging activity. In anthelmintic studies, in 100 mg/ml of Piper longum, earthworms get paralyzed after 2 min and died after 14 min. The standard drug used was Albendazole. The antioxidant and anthelmintic effect of Piper longum may be due to presence of secondary metabolite like alkaloids or tannins. Conclusion: The result of the present study clearly indicates that the hot water extract of Piper longum can produce antioxidant and anthelmintic activity. However, much scope for additional exploration of Piper longum is necessary for assessing its potential in the treatment of various diseases.
Mandarin dou: The common core of distributivity, maximality, and EVEN

The paper presents a unified analysis of Mandarin dou as an alternative sensitive (sentential) operator whose semantics equals to Karttunen and Peters (1979)’s EVEN. Different ‘uses’ of dou are analyzed by associating dou with different types of alternative sets: even-dou involves non-entailment-based alternative sets, while distributive-dou entailment-based ones.
Identification of potential subtilisin-like serine proteases from the microbial community of the Red Sea Atlantis-II brine pool using a metagenomic approach

I would like to thank Professor Dr Hamza El Dorry (My advisor), Dr Mohammed Ghazy who co-advised and helped me out throughout the lab work. I would also like to thank Dr Ari Ferreira, Mr Hazem Sharaf and Mr Amged Ouf, for being a friendly helping hand whenever needed. I would also like to thank Professor Dr Rania Siam for her guidance and aid during the whole period I spent at AUC for completing my MSc. I extend my gratitude to everybody who provided me with the opportunity to work at KAUST during Summer 2010: Professor Dr Vladimir Bajic (for helping and advising me during the internship at KAUST) Dr Adam Dawe, Dr Intikhab Allam, Mr Allan Kamau and everybody at the computational Biology Research Center (CBRC). I would also like to thank KAUST for providing us with the funds to finish this Project. I would like to send my extreme love and appreciation to thank my family who has helped me out throughout my entire life to reach my goals: my father, mother, sister, and husband. Would also like to dedicate this work to my beloved Son baby Hamza who has witnessed lots of the hard work since he was still in my womb. And finally I would like to thank all people who have helped me finish this work in its best form, all my professors at AUC and Ain Shams University, colleagues and family.
The Effect of Health Coaching on Behavior Changed to Prevent Hypertension among Adolescents in High School of Wangiapu City, East Sumba

Adolescents play an important role as a determinant of the future of a nation, because of that, adolescents have to attention about their health. The phenomenon showed many adolescents were at risk in early hypertension. The study aimed to examine the effect of health coaching on behavior changes to prevent hypertension among adolescents in Senior High School Waingapu City, East Sumba. A quasi-experimental study design, pre and post-test, with an equivalent control group was applied in this study. We select samples using a simple random sampling for 29 experimental groups and 29 samples in the control group. The results of the study will be analyzed using the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test with P <0.05. The results showed a positive effect of health coaching on behavior change based on the theory of Health Promotion Model, such us in perceived benefit of action (p=0.000), perceived barrier to action (p=0.004), perceived self-efficacy (p=0.003), activity-related effect (p=0.002), commitment (p=0.000) and behavior change in adolescents to prevent hypertension (p=0.096). Health coaching can be applied in changing adolescent behavior to prevent hypertension. Coaching and training needed to change not just knowledge occur, but also attitudes, actions, and commitments from adolescents
SYNTHESIS, GROWTH AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BISTHIOUREA GLYCINE SODIUM NITRATE CRYSTALS

Abstract: Single crystals of Bisthiourea Glycine Sodium Nitrate (BTGSN) have been synthesized by using slow evaporation method. The title compound has been grown using water as a solvent. Good quality single crystals were harvested in a period of 25 days. The grown crystals were characterized by employing different techniques such as Single crystal XRD, FTIR, UV-Vis-NIR spectrum, Photoluminescence, TGA/DTA analysis and SHG studies. Single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis reveals that the crystal lattice of BTGSN crystal belongs to monoclinic system. FTIR spectral analysis is used to predict the various functional groups present in the crystal. UV-Vis-NIR spectrum and Photoluminescence studies were carried out to investigate the optical features of the grown crystal. TGA/DTA studies were used to explore the thermal behaviour of the crystal. Kurtz-Perry technique was used to find out the NLO behaviour of the crystal which yielded positive results.
Evaluation of progesterone levels during the luteal phase in athletes and sedentary individuals

ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of regular exercise on progesterone levels during the luteal phase among basketball players and sedentary women. The study included a total of 34 individuals. Venous blood samples (4 cc) were collected from subjects on days 20 and 21 of the menstrual cycle. Based on the test results, a statistically significant difference was observed between active basketball players and sedentary individuals (p<0.05). The average progesterone levels of the players and sedentary women were 3.84 ng/ml and 7.88 ng/ml, respectively. In accordance with the Pearson’s correlation analysis that was applied to determine the relationship between progesterone levels and age, height, and weight of the subjects, a slight positive correlation was observed between the age and progesterone levels of the subjects (p=0.015). Despite significant differences between the groups with respect to progesterone levels, these values in both groups were within normal limits.
Continued Evolution in a Global Curriculum in Medical Oncology-what next?

The 2016 update to the Global Medical Oncology Curriculum (GC 2016) is a major achievement. However, curriculum renewal is a continuous process and there are currently major changes happening in medical education with moves to a competency based curriculum across multiple stages of life-long learning in medicine. We have reviewed the GC 2016, in comparison to other relevant curricula, with the aim of identifying potential issues that need consideration for the next iteration of the curriculum. We identified the following issues in the curriculum: defining the underlying values, role, scope and external relationships of the global curriculum; expanding the stakeholders involved in its design; further integration of various aspects of professionalism; defining strategic metacompetencies; and finally, defining and aligning core competencies, activities and assessment for medical oncology training. Ongoing curriculum development is required in order to ensure that the global medical oncology curriculum remains relevant in a changing medical and educational environment. Moving to a fully competency based oncology curriculum is a key step in the process of changing the educational focus to outcomes that deliver better quality care.
Albumin Microspheres: New Approach for Sustained Drug Delivery

Article history: Received on 10 October 2013 Modified on 19 November 2103 Accepted on 25 November 2013 Sustained drug delivery systems are designed to deliver drug, at predetermined rates for predefined periods of time, and have been used to overcome the shortcoming of conventional drug formulations. And in the recent approach for the sustained drug delivery has been the development of microspheres using albumin as a polymer to sustain the release of the drug. This review deals with the methods used and the results obtained by the use of albumin (bovine serum albumin and egg albumin) as a polymer in the formulation in various research works. The invitro studies in various research works give a very promising statement that albumin can be used as a polymer in the formulation at a large scale without much of the complications. © KESS All rights reserved