Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Knowledge of the Relatives of Thalassemia Patients with Special Regards to Splenectomy as a Treatment Modality: A
Cross-Sectional Survey

Background: Thalassemia is a hereditary autosomal recessive haemoglobinopathy that remains a major health problem throughout the world. Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate knowledge of the relatives of Thalassemia patients regarding different aspects of Thalassemia with special emphasis on the role of splenectomy. Material and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted at a Government Tertiary Thalassemia day care centre. Initially, 131 relatives of Thalassemia patients were interviewed. Excluding 10 relatives, 87 (66.4 %) relatives having knowledge of splenectomy were further interviewed regarding various aspects of splenectomy. Result: In our survey, 67.2 % relatives had knowledge about the congenital origin of the disease. The knowledge about premarriage counselling, risk of consanguineous marriage, antenatal screening and medical termination of pregnancy was 55%, 29.8%, 70.2% and 64.1% respectively. Although all (100%) relatives knew about regular blood transfusion and iron chelation, only 74% and 63.4% of the relatives had the knowledge about splenectomy and bone marrow transplant as a treatment modality, respectively. In 87 relatives interviewed further, 37.9 % came to know about splenectomy from other relatives. The indications of splenectomy known were: splenomegaly (98.8%), increased blood transfusion (68.9%), low platelet count (20.6%) and low TLC (4.6%). Only 47.1% were aware about the optimal age of splenectomy. Awareness about serious complication of OPSI, its prevention by preoperative vaccinations and postoperative chemoprophylaxis was only 48.3%, 62% and 46% respectively. Around 59% knew about role of blood transfusion and 74.7% were aware about the need of regular follow up after splenectomy. Conclusion: This survey revealed that there is still a lot of lacuna existing in the knowledge of various aspects of Thalassemia and about splenectomy as a treatment modality among relative of Thalassemia patients. Relatives of thalassemia patient having knowledge about splenectomy can be good educators for other relatives and they should be actively recruited as health educators.
Assessment of the efficacy of posterior extra-short implant support for an interforaminal implant-supported fixed full-arch mandibular prosthesis

Aim The purpose of the present study was to determine whether it is useful to support a fixed full-arch prosthesis supported by interforaminal implants, with extra-short implants (4 mm) in the posterior region in order to eliminate the cantilever extensions, in posterior atrophic mandible cases. Methods Six different models including three or four interforaminal implants with or without support of posterior extra-short implants were formed. Straumann tissue-level implants (4.1x12mm and 4.1x4mm) were modeled for this study. Spherical loadings from canine and molar regions were applied to evaluate tension, compression, and von Mises stresses by implementing finite element analysis. Results In most conditions, four interforaminal implant supports provide balanced stress distributions, on the other hand, only three interforaminal implants were found to be insufficient biomechanically. The support of interforaminal implants with extra-short implants in the posterior region did not show the expected contribution, especially against the forces in the canine region. Also, the placement of four posterior extra-short implants does not make significant difference compared to the placement of two extra-short implants. Conclusions Implant-supported fixed prosthetic rehabilitation with cantilever extension of an edentulous mandible supported by four implants in the interforaminal region reached the best biomechanical results of the present study.
A Review on Taste Masking Techniques for Bitter Drugs

Taste is mainly a function of taste buds in the mouth. In the formulation for pediatric & geriatric, bedridden & noncooperative patients the main challenge to the compounding pharmacist is to mask the taste of obnoxious and bitter drugs, the result is patient not receiving the optimal therapeutic value of their medication. Taste masking is the main factor in the development of the dosage form. It opens the doors for new inventions and patents. Many techniques have been developed which not only improve the taste of a molecule but also the formulation and performance of the molecule. The main objective of the present review is to explore different methods, technologies, and evaluations to mask the obnoxious taste of drugs so that patients can use these drugs without hesitation of taste. GOVINDA REDDY Y A*, SATEESHA S B,
NUTRITIONAL, PHYTOCHEMICAL, ANTIOXIDANT AND ANTIMICROBIAL POTENTIAL OF ARTEMISIA HERBA-ALBA (ASSO.)

This study estimated the various components of the aerial parts of Artemisia herba-alba belonging to family Asteraceae. The components extracted from the plant were elucidated by GC/MS spectroscopic analysis. The data revealed that the extract contains 2-methyl-pentane (0.09%), borneol (0.10%), Camphor (97.61%), caryophyllene oxide (0.10%), t-cadinol (0.09%), preg-4-en-3-one, 12,17-dihydroxy-17-cyano(0.12%), androstane-3,17-dione (1.74%), cholest-22-ene-21-ol, 3,5-dehydro-6methoxy pivalate (0.02%) and geranyl isovalerate (0.01%). The nutritional value, phytochemicals, antioxidant and antimicrobial activity were studied using several assays following standard procedures. The nutritional results indicated that aerial parts of A. herba-alba are furious source of dietary fiber, carbohydrates, proteins and lipids. The results indicated that the prepared water and methanol extracts expressed high antioxidant scavenging activity. The extracts expressed antimicrobial activity against several pathogenic bacterial strains in addition to one fungal strain. Conclusively, the dried aerial parts of A. herba-alba are a good source of healthy constituents that could be used therapeutically and nutritionally.
A Distributed Intrusion Detection System for Computer Networks using Hybrid Model on Apache Spark Framework

Intrusion detection system (IDS) is the major aspect of security solutions for every organization relying on internet services as well as for, internet providers who oﬀers internet services. IDSs aids proactive monitoring of the network in order to detect potential threats and protect organizations from possible data and ﬁnan-cial loss. Due to its high importance in real world, it has been a major interest for research studies. IDSs adopts data mining techniques to analyze historical network-connection information to detect attacks. The eﬃciency of IDSs are measured in terms of the accuracy of prediction and its error rate. It is also important that models perform in near real-time to detect threat before the control of network resources is compromised. This creates a requirement for IDS to be built on high computing environment. This paper experiments on well-performing classiﬁcation algorithms namely: support vector machine (SVM), decision tree, random forest, gradient boosting and an ensemble of all these four algorithms. Correlation-based feature engineering techniques namely ARM (Association Rule Mining) and Variable importance are applied to enhance the performance. The performance of these models are measured and compared in terms of accuracy and error rate. Additionally, this paper conducts experiments on both centralized and distributed (Apache Hadoop and Spark) environments to compare the time taken to train the data mining models for IDS. The experimental results shows that tree-based algorithms are better classiﬁers for IDSs and models are trained mush faster in distributed (Hadoop and Spark framework) environments in comparison to centralized.
The Distribution of Congenital Malformations in Adolescent Pregnancies: A Single Tertiary Center Experience in Turkey

Objective: Adolescent pregnancies are more severe and dangerous for both mother and baby than adult pregnancies. Low birth weight, infections, intrauterine growth restriction, sudden infant death syndrome, and death risk are higher in neonates of adolescent pregnant women. Besides, anomalies of central nervous, gastrointestinal, and musculoskeletal systems are also seen frequently. The purpose of this study is to investigate congenital malformations of infants born from adolescent mothers. Material and methods: In this retrospective study, 166 pregnant women aged 18 and under who had fetal anomaly were included in the study and their charts reviewed. Descriptive information about the adolescents and information about the fetuses and anomalies were recorded. Maternal and neonatal characteristics were calculated as frequency and percentage. Malformations were grouped according to the systems. Results: The most common anomalies were the central nervous (40.5%), cardiovascular (15.8%), and urinary (10.8%) system. The anomalies related to the skin and phalanges, including the face, accounted for 8.1% of the cases. Ventricular dilatation (10,4%), neural tube defect (7,2%), and hydrocephalus (7,2%) were the most common abnormalities of the central nervous system. Ventricular septal defect (5,9%), pulmonary artery anomaly (2,7%), and tricuspid valve anomaly (2,3%) were the most common cardiovascular system anomalies. Intrauterine growth restriction (3,6%), pleural effusion/hydrothorax (3,2%), pes equinovarus (2,7%), diaphragmatic hernia (2,3%), cystic hygroma (2,3%), oligohydramnios (2,3%), polyhydramnios (2,3%), and cleft palate/lip (2,3%) were the most common anomalies among the other system and organ anomalies. Conclusion: Adolescent pregnancy was partially associated with an increased risk of severe neonatal anomalies especially in the central nervous, cardiovascular, and urinary systems. Pediatric health care providers should have a low threshold for suspecting pregnancy in adolescents.
Polypyrrole: a conducting polymer; its synthesis, properties and applications

The synthesis, properties and applications of polypyrrole (PPy), a representative of conducting polymers, are reviewed. Chemical and electrochemical methods for the preparation of PPy and PPy films and the effect of the reaction conditions on the properties of the polymer produced are discussed. The mechanisms of electrochemical polymerisation of pyrrole are compared. The physicomechanical properties of the polymer, its morphology and structure are discussed. The mechanism of charge transfer in PPy is considered within the framework of the model of quasi-equilibrium concentrations of polarons and bipolarons. The methods for modification of the electrochemical performance of PPy are reviewed, in particular, synthesis of PPy from pyrrole derivatives with the appropriate electroactive groups and introduction in the PPy of electroactive dopant anions and the effect of those on the electrochemical performance of PPy films are considered. Examples of the use of PPy are given and the prospects for its application in various areas are discussed. The bibliography includes 254 references.
VERIFIKASI DOKUMEN CETAK MENGGUNAKAN METODE EDGE DETECTION-GLCM DAN K-MEAN CLUSTERING

Dokumen cetak merupakan data digital yang tervisualisasi di kertas. Dokumen cetak mudah dibuat sekaligus dipalsukan. Cara mengetahui keasliannya dengan verifikasi ciri. Setiap dokumen cetak terdapat ciri unik berasal dari printer yang digunakan. Mengembangkan metode untuk menentukan keaslian dokumen cetak dari printer jenis dan tipe sama menjadi tantangan untuk diselesaikan pada penelitian ini. Proses verifikasi menggunakan tahapan akuisisi, ekstraksi, pengenalan pola dan hasil verifikasi. Data uji menggunakan 6 printer jenis dan tipe sama, masing-masing menggunakan 3 lembar sampel, untuk karakter dipilih 8. Hasilnya pengujian menunjukkan nilai EER (equal error rate) sebesar 0,18 dari nilai tersebut digunakan menentukan nilai ambang verifikasi yaitu 80% dari nilai kedekatan. Verifikasi dengan kedekatan diatas 80% berarti dokumen cetak dinyatakan asli (accepted) sedangkan kedekatan dibawah 80% berarti dokumen cetak dinyatakan palsu (rejected). Pengujian menggunakan 20 varian dokumen cetak diperoleh nilai kedekatan tertinggi 97,7% dan terendah 84,1%. Berdasarkan pengujian diperoleh suatu kesimpulan bahwa meskipun pemalsuan menggunakan printer dengan jenis dan tipe yang sama, model mampu memilah dan menentukan suatu dokumen cetak asli ataupun palsu.
Istraživanja učinaka upravljanja odnosa s kupcima i upravljanja odnosa s dobavljačima na razvoj novog proizvoda

Original scientific paper Most organizations today are increasingly influenced by competition and global markets due to advancements in information technology and economic globalization. Developments in information technology and increasing competitiveness are led to shorter product life cycles, increase rate of product obsolescence, growth of high-quality products and introduction of new products into the market. These factors have stimulated organizations to follow NPD goals such as reducing product development time, lower product cost with higher quality, shorter time-to-market, and improving delivery performance to achieve profitability and keep their market position. Customer and supplier involvement during the NPD processes has attracted widespread attention in the literature. SRM and CRM can improve the performance of New Product Development (NPD) as well as facilitate the role of customers and suppliers in NPD in the path towards a high-performance organization; therefore, it is necessary for organizations to gain a correct understanding of the roles of CRM and SRM in NPD processes and to draw on such a knowledge to enhance the performance of the new product. Given the advantages of applying CRM and SRM within organizations, this paper tries to explore the different roles of CRM and SRM which play in NPD process.
Application of Cow Manure and Trichoderma sp. on Ex-mining Land to Improve Soil Chemical Properties and Fragrant Lemongrass (Cymbopogon nardus L.) Growth

Received: May 25, 2020 Accepted: June 22, 2020 Available online: June 30, 2020 Ex-mining land has low productivity due to poor soil quality. One way to improve the quality of the soil is by providing organic materials, soil microbes, and plants that are known to be adaptive, such as fragrant lemongrass. The study aimed to determine the effect of the use of manure and Trichoderma sp. in improving soil chemical properties on ex-mining land. This research was conducted in Nagari Pala Luar, Koto Tujuh District, Sijunjung, and the Soil Laboratory, Agriculture Faculty, Universitas Andalas. The design used was Randomized Block Design (RBD) with 5 treatments (A = control / without cow manure and Trichoderma, B = 144 g cow manure + 14.4 gr Trichoderma sp. / planting hole, C = 288 g cow manure + 28, 8 gr Trichoderma sp. / planting hole, D = 432 g cow manure + 43.2 gr Trichoderma sp. / planting hole, E = 576 g cow manure + 57.6 g Trichoderma sp. / planting hole) and 3 replications. The results showed the use of cow manure and Trichoderma sp. able to increase nutrient content and of fragrant lemongrass growth in ex-mining land by giving 432 g cow manure + 43.2 gr Trichoderma sp. / planting hole.
Real-Time Emotion Classification using Facial Expression Recognition: A Survey

- For a long time, expressions have been something that human beings are proud of. That is an essential difference between us and machines. Facial Expressions can be classified using various technical factors and we’ve studied various such factors in our surveys as well. In this paper we have surveyed various machine learning techniques for facial expression recognition and have proposed a method to tackle both of the mentioned issues. This model can be used for prediction of expressions of both still images and real time video.
ON DOUBLE-LAYER WIDEBAND TRANSMITARRAY ANTENNA Ms

Antennas are important electronic devices that are used for long distance communications such as wireless communications, remote sensing, broadcasting, and space exploration applications which also reduce the cost of hardware and space for setup. Transmitarray antenna is becoming a very popular and exciting concept due to its small size, light weight, beamsteering and high performance features. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of different structures, new methodologies and designs adopted and experimented with transmitarray antenna. Keywords— transmitarray, unit cell element, antenna
INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SMEs: BETWEEN GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS AND E-COMMERCE

Throughout the lines of this article, we tend to expose the different theoretical approaches to the internationalization of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). In particular, this paper aims to present the main approaches proposed not only in the literature but also in the shadow of the new international behaviors of SMEs, to question their scope. Moreover, this contribution seeks to draw attention to new types of internationalization among SMEs, in this case, participation in Global Value Chains (GVCs) and electronic commerce (e-commerce).
Wisdom Of the Krowd – Architecture and engineering of a crowdsourcing applications

This Project describes the development of Wisdom Of the Krowd, an application that supplies its users with tasks to answer. The responses are processed and the best response is returned. This application is made possible through the IST-Scope project, aiming to incorporate interdisciplinary collaboration across different engineer specialties to solve problems set by companies. It is complemented by the Capstone module, a new project approach that serves as a baseline for the creation of a thesis, culminating in academic and individual experience for the students. The Project goes into detail on the application’s features, focusing on the Back-End. The application consists of three services: The Facebook Handler, able to communicate with the Facebook users and send those tasks; The Client-Side Handler, able to supply the clients with a platform for managing its tasks; The Main Server, able to manage those tasks and responses. The application is hosted on Heroku and uses mongoDB databases to store each services data. It is programed in Python and uses a Flask-RESTful API and Requests module to communicate with the other the service.
A Generalized Hybrid Orbital (GHO) Method for the Treatment of Boundary Atoms in Combined QM/MM Calculations

A generalized hybrid orbital (GHO) method has been developed at the semiempirical level in combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical (QM/MM) calculations. In this method, a set of hybrid orbitals is placed on the boundary atom between the QM and MM fragments, and one of the hybrid orbitals participates in the SCF calculation for the atoms in the QM region. The GHO method provides a well-defined potential energy surface for a hybrid QM/MM system and is a significant improvement over the “link-atom” approach by saturating the QM valencies with hydrogen atoms. The method has been tested on small molecules and yields reasonable structural, energetic, and electronic results in comparison with the results of the corresponding QM and MM approximations. The GHO method will greatly increase the applicability of combined QM/MM methods to systems comprising large molecules, such as proteins.
COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN -BLOCKERS AND COMBINATION OF -BLOCKERS AND PHOSPHODIESTRASE 5- INHIBITORS IN TREATMENT OF BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA

Background: Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is one of the most common conditions affecting middle-aged men. This condition can be symptomatic or asymptomatic. Up to 15-25% of men aged 50-65 years have lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Aim of the Work: To compare between the effect of alpha blocker (Tamsulosin 0.4 mg once at night) and a combination of alpha blockers (Tamsulosin 0.4 mg once at morning) and PDE5 inhibitors (Sildenafil 25 mg at night) in treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia patients through evaluation of IPSS and post-voiding residual urine and uroflometry before and after treatment. Patients and Methods: This was a prospective study done on 30 patients fulfilling inclusion criteria at Eldemerdash hospital between 1-9-2017 till 1-9-2018 and this study has two phases: Phase (1): included 30 patients complaining of LUTS 2ry to BPH assessed by uroflowmetry and IPSS and post voiding residual urine.Before taking any drugs and after treatment by alpha blocker (tamsulosin 0.4mg capsule once daily at night) for 3 months. Phase (2): included the same 30 patients after treatment by phase (2) of alpha blocker (Tamsulosin 0.4 capsule once daily in the morning) and PDEI (sildenafil 25mg once daily in the night) for 3 months. These patient also assessed by IPSS, uroflowmetry and PVR urine. Results: The results of this study showed that there was a significant improvement after phase 1 treatment in IPSS, also there was a significant improvement after phase 2 more than phase 1. The PVRU and Q max was significantly improve after phase 1 but the change after phase 2 was insignificant. Conclusion: Sildenafil citrate in combination with tamsulosin improved LUTS more than tamsulosin monotherapy with the merit of a comparable safety profile in patients with LUTS/BPH.
Cloud Point Extraction: A Novel Approach for Extraction of Bioactive Compounds from Fruit and Vegetable Waste

Fruits and vegetables play an important role in our diet, and as a result of the increasing world population and evolving preferences, demand for these essential food resources has increased significantly. Increased food production, and lack of adequate methods of handling and facilities have resulted in huge losses and waste of these food resources and their bioactive components. Losses and waste of horticultural commodities are the highest among all types of foods, reaching up to 60% [1]. Cloud point extraction (CPE) is a novel technique for extraction of thermally-sensitive bioactive components from food and waste in an energy efficient manner. Using surfactants, CPE can be used to remove wide variety of organic and inorganic components. It is a technique involving the clustering of non-ionic surfactant monomers to form a hydrophobic center (micelle) that then traps the bioactive hydrophobic compounds within it [2]. Until recently, extracting phenolic compounds from wastes was not only difficult and costly but also not environmentally friendly, as it requires large quantities of toxic and flammable organic solvents. Other extraction methods such as liquid-solid phase extraction, solid-phase extraction, supercritical fluid extraction, ultrasonically assisted solvent extraction, and accelerated pressurized and microwave-assisted extraction techniques are not satisfactory for analytical purposes in dietary applications because they results in lower phenolic recovery and require expensive equipment or high energy demand [3]. CPE has several advantages over conventional extraction techniques which include elimination of purification, concentration, and cleaning steps commonly required in conventional extraction. It use of a non-toxic surfactant along with smaller amount of chemicals. It can simultaneously extract multiple compounds with mild extraction conditions. It also has lower probability of emulsion formation while extraction and compatibility with wide range of food matrices [4].