Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assessing the Efficacy of Needs Assessment in HIV/AIDS Campaigns in South Africa

ABSTRACT This paper aims to examine the efficacy of needs assessment and its relevance to HIV/AIDS communication by theatre in South Africa. Given the high prevalence levels of HIV/AIDS in the country and the failure to communicate HIV/AIDS messages, it has become necessary to redesign theatre’s campaign strategies in order to achieve greater success in changing high risk sexual behaviour among communities ravaged by the pandemic. Using a qualitative research methodology, as well as a non-participant observation strategy, this paper seeks to evaluate the efficacy of needs assessment by a comparative analysis of the results of two major theatre interventions by a theatre group in the Western Cape and another group in the Eastern Cape Province. The findings indicate that greater success was achieved by the theatre group in the Eastern Cape who utilized the needs assessment strategy in their campaign. Based on the findings, the researcher argues that theatre stands to achieve greater success in HIV/AIDS campaigns if more attention is paid to needs assessment.
Crosstalk between Oxidative Stress, Chronic Inflammation and Disease Progression in Essential Thrombocythemia

Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is a Philadelphia-negative chronic myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized by acquired somatic mutations: JAK2, CALR or MPL. It is associated with low-grade chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and antioxidant deficiency. In ET, chronic inflammation and oxidative stress contribute to the genomic instability, the clonal evolution to myelofibrosis and the leukemic transformation. We evaluated ROS levels and the total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in 62 ET patients and investigated the relationship between ROS, TAC, chronic inflammation, leukocytosis, JAK2V617F mutation, and disease progression to myelofibrosis or leukemic transformation. We observed increased levels of ROS and inflammation markers and a decreased TAC in ET patients vs. controls. The acute myeloid leukaemia transformation associated increased levels of oxidative stress and inflammation markers and increased leukocyte counts, while myelofibrosis progression associated an increase in ROS and serum ferritin.
Association rules with SIA in B-Learning Courses: A mapping review

According to scopus between the years 2012 and 2016 there are 3556 scientific documents about Blended Learning, these have been and are still an emerging learning methodology. With this document, we determine the association rules with statistical implicative analysis (SIA) in B-Learning courses in Science Faculty at the ESPOCH University. To this end, we use mapping review in the blended learning courses used in the last 5 years (2012 to 2016) in Institutional platform, milaulas.com, and google. We started with 3350 B-Learning courses and finally 13 had all quality criteria. This document also describe a Institutional experience about Association rules with SIA in B-Learning Courses in the last five years.
The Soft Power of a Small State: Discursive Constructions and Institutional Practices of Norway's Peace Engagement

Since the end of the Cold War, Norway has widely functioned as facilitator for conflict resolution in interstate conflicts and, thus, constructed Norwegian foreign policy as an international peace promoter. This article provides a critical understanding of the discursive construction and institutional practices of Norwegian peace engagement and the effectiveness of the Norwegian approach in conflict resolution experiences. By utilising valuable insights from international relations theories, this article critically analyses the construction of identity and interests in Norwegian foreign policy discourse, focusing particularly on the balancing act between realist and idealist internationalism in peace engagement.
Morphological identification, isolation, and culturing of cyanobacteria derived from hot spring of Cisolok and Galunggung Mountain based on enrichment method

Research on isolating and culturing of cyanobacteria from hot springs of Cisolok and Galunggung Mountain in West Java Indonesia had been done. This research was a study to find a fast and accurate method to identify, isolate and culture the cyanobacteria originating from extreme region, especially from the hot springs. Identification based on morphological characters performed in line with the process of isolation of the founded cyanobacteria strains. In the process of isolation, enrichment methods carried out in stages to determine the viability of each strain to be easily cultured (culturable). Four (4) types of media used in this study, i.e. BBM, BG-11, CT and MA. Pipette method was used to create a single culture. At the initial observations of the fresh samples, 3 types of cyanobacteria thallus were found, i.e. the form of thread/filament (unbranched filament), branched filament, and rounded shapes (coccoid). Furthermore, from all the enrichment samples (stage-1 and stage-2), 12 genera of cyanobacteria were found, i.e. Leptolyngbya, Gloeocapsa, Chroococcus, Oscillatoria, Synechococcus, Fischerella, Scytonema, Hapalosiphon, Microcystis, Nostoc, Gloeotrichia, and Stanieria. In the first stage of enrichment culture samples of Cisolok, eight (8) genera were found, i.e. Leptolyngbya, Chroococcus, Oscillatoria, Synechococcus, Scytonema, Hapalosiphon, Nostoc, and Gloeotrichia, while in the hot spring of Galunggung mountain, only four (4) genera were found (Leptolyngbya, Oscillatoria, Hapalosiphon, and Nostoc). There were several filaments and coccoid cyanobacteria that could not be identified by morphological characters. Meanwhile, in the second stage of enrichment culture samples of Cisolok, nine (9) genera were found, i.e. six (6) genera similar to those found in the first stage of enrichment (Leptolyngbya, Chroococcus, Oscillatoria, Synechococcus, Scytonema, Hapalosiphon), and added with the genus of Gloeocapsa, Microcystis, and Stanieria. From the hot spring of Mt Galunggung, nine (9) genera were found, i.e. four (4) genera similar to those found in the first stage of enrichment (Leptolyngbya, Oscillatoria, Hapalosiphon, and Nostoc), and added with the genus of Chroococcus, Gloeocapsa, Microcystis, Synechococcus, and Fischerella. Both from Cisolok and from Galunggung, the three genera (Leptolyngbya, Oscillatoria, Hapalosiphon) could be found in fresh samples and enrichment samples (stage-1 and stage-2). The research concluded that the enrichment process in stages (first and second) can be used for the isolation of strains of cyanobacteria to be adaptable, and therefore easy to be cultured (culturable). The genus Scytonema and Gloeotrichia are genera that known to be difficult to be cultured, and in this study, they grow only in stage-1, while the genus Stanieria appears in stage-2. Isolates obtained consist of 31 strains from Cisolok hot spring, and 13 strains from Galunggung mountain hot spring, then would be identified (re-identification) using molecular characters (16S rDNA).
Tomato fruit maturity estimation from RGB images

We introduce an approach to estimate tomato fruit maturity from RGB images based on color and size of the tomato fruit. We show that estimating the fruit maturity from the color alone is inaccurate during the first half of the tomato maturing period. We have trained a neural network to estimate the fruit maturity level based on a set of more than one thousand tomato images annotated with position, color and size labels. We use an unsupervised instance segmentation approach which detects individual tomatoes.
“Somos de marca”. Turismo y marca UNESCO en el Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial

The UNESCO brand represents an added value in cultural heritage and recently in intangible heritage. With this distinction you get a remarkable visibility and prerogatives in tourist destination offers that are not always developed in the same way, hence the need for its analysis. The present work addresses the theme of the UNESCO brand in Intangible Heritage and its relationship with tourism from a case study: the revitalization of traditional knowledge of artisanal lime in Moron de la Frontera (Seville, Andalusia), recognized program as an example of good safeguard practice, registered in the Register of Good Practices of UNESCO in 2011. Although exhibiting a heritage asset as a UNESCO brand ("we are brand") is a recognition of prestige, we consider to what extent and in what way that recognition satisfies the tourist expectations that the local society may have.
Study and results of reconstruction plating in fracture posterior column and posterior wall of acetabulum

Background: Posterior acetabulum fractures are the most common type of acetabular fractures. Acetabular fracture was an enormous orthopaedic problem in which the treatment was grossly inadequate and many patients were left with incapacitating pain. These fractures were often feared because of the poor outcome in many patients treated nonoperatively. There are few published studies with a prolonged follow up. Thus this study was to review the displaced posterior acetabular fractures treated operatively in our hospital during last 3 years with regards to clinical, radiological results, the rate of surgical complication and the rate of successful fracture reduction. Methods: The patients with posterior acetabulum fractures were diagnosed on basis of clinical suspicion and confirmed on x-rays and CT scans. Displaced fractures were treated surgically in lateral position through KocherLangenbeck approach and fractures were fixed with reconstruction plates and cancellous screws and results studied. Results: Clinical grading was based on Merle d’Aubigne and Postel scoring which has been modified by Matta, According to this scale excellent to good results seen in 76.66% and fair results seen in 23.33% of cases. Radiological assessment grading according to the criteria developed by Matta, According to this criteria excellent to good radiological results are seen in 79.66% and poor results in 6.66% of cases. Conclusions: Displaced posterior acetabular fractures treated by open reduction and internal fixation with anatomical reduction allow early mobilisation and weight bearing and gives excellent results.
A Modular Crawling Robot Driven by A Single-layer Conical Dielectric Elastomer

The crawling robots driven by soft actuators attracted a growing interest in past decade due to their lightweight, inherent compliance and robustness to unstructured environment. In this work, we present a crawling robot driven by a single cone dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) with a biasing element of deadweight. Due to the fast response, inherent elasticity and large bandwidth of silicone-based DEA, the crawling robot can achieve a peak velocity of 110mm/s which is 1.89 times of body length at its resonance. Thanks to its simple structure, some modular combinations can be easily launched to enhance load capacity and herein we present a case of two module in parallel to achieve steering with an average angular velocity of 25. 75º/s. Finally, a primary demo to show a ‘S’ shape path is demonstrated.
Reconstructing Dispersive Scatterers With Minimal Frequency Data

Reconstructing the permittivity of dispersive scatterers from the measurements of scattered electromagnetic fields is a challenging problem due to the nonlinearity of the associated optimization problem. Traditionally, this has been addressed by collecting scattered field data at multiple frequencies and using lower frequency reconstructions as a priori information for higher frequency reconstructions. By modeling the object dispersion as a Debye medium, we propose an inversion technique that recovers the object permittivity with a minimum number of frequencies. We compare the performance of this method with our recently developed deep learning based technique (Sanghvi. et al., IEEE Trans. Comp. Imag., 2019) and show that given a properly trained neural network, single frequency reconstructions can be very competitive with multifrequency techniques that do not use neural networks. We quantify this performance via extensive numerical examples and comment on the hardware implications of both approaches.
Effectiveness of photobiomodulation therapy and aerobic exercise training on articular cartilage in an experimental model of osteoarthritis in rats

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common disease of the knee joints in adults throughout the world. Photobiomodulation (PBM) and physical exercise have been studied for clinical treatment of OA, even though the effects and action mechanisms have not yet been clarified. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of PBM and aerobic exercise (associated or not) on degenerative modifications and inflammatory mediators in articular cartilage using an experimental model of knee OA. Forty male Wistar rats were randomly divided into 4 groups: OA animals without treatment (OAC); OA plus aerobic exercise training (OAT); OA animals plus PBM treatment (OAP); OA plus aerobic exercise training and PBM treatment (OATP). The exercise training (treadmill; 16m/min; 50 min/day) and the PBM treatment started 4 weeks after the surgery, 3 days/week for 8 weeks. The results showed that all treated groups showed a lower degenerative process measured by OARSI system and higher thickness values. Moreover, aerobic exercise and PBM (associated or not) decreased iNOS expression and increased IL-10 expression in OAT and OATL compared to OAC. Furthermore, a lower TGF-β expression was observed in associated therapies. These results suggest that PBM and aerobic exercise training were effective in modulating inflammatory process and preventing cartilage degeneration in knees in OA rats.
Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease and After Kidney Allotransplantation (Systematic Review)

Anemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD) has been recognized as a separate independent risk factor of cardiovascular (CV) events. The aim of the review is to provide a literature summary concerning early diagnosis and treatment of anemia in CKD that may be useful for clinicians and contribute to decrease CV mortality. Literature searches were made in such major databases as: PubMed, Medline, Embase, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Wiley Online Library, Scopus, Web of Science, e-library, and website of WHO. This search encompassed original articles, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses relevant to CKD and anemia over recent 15 years. A total of 54 references from 562 reviewed articles were selected as they met to the search criteria (anemia and CKD, including diabetes mel- litus, systemic diseases and post-transplant anemia). The publications included 27 randomized controlled trials, 20 experimental studies representing new data on the links of CKD anemia and cardiovascular risk markers (cytokines, Klotho, fibroblast growth factor (FGF-23), hyperglycemia, hypoalbuminemia and some others), 4 systematic reviews and 3 clinical practice guidelines. The main attention was devoted to the analysis of the stud ies provided an early diagnosis of anemia, an ability to minimize the factors contributing to its severity that have allowed to improve CV and total outcomes and to reduce costs of hospital treatment of CKD patients with anemia.
The Golgi apparatus in neurorestoration

The central role of the Golgi apparatus in critical cellular processes such as the transport, processing, and sorting of proteins and lipids has placed it at the forefront of cell science. Golgi apparatus dysfunction caused by primary defects within the Golgi or pharmacological and oxidative stress has been implicated in a wide range of neurodegenerative diseases. In addition to participating in disease progression, the Golgi apparatus plays pivotal roles in angiogenesis, neurogenesis, and synaptogenesis, thereby promoting neurological recovery. In this review, we focus on the functions of the Golgi apparatus and its mediated events during neurorestoration.
Augmented reality in STEM education: a systematic review

ABSTRACT This study aimed to systematically investigate the studies in which augmented reality (AR) was used to support Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematic (STEM) education. In this framework, the general status of AR in STEM education was presented and its advantages and challenges were identified. The study investigated 42 articles published in journals indexed in SSCI database and deemed suitable for the purposes of this research. The obtained data were analyzed by two researchers using content analysis method. It was found that the studies in this field have become more significant and intensive in recent years and that these studies were generally carried out at schools (class, laboratory etc.) using marker-based AR applications. It was concluded that mostly K-12 students were used as samples and quantitative methods were selected. The advantages of AR-STEM studies were summarized and examined in detail in 4 sub-categories such as “contribution to learner, educational outcomes, interaction and other advantages”. On the other hand, some challenges were identified such as teacher resistance and technical problems.
A Survey on Filtering Methods Used to Remove Noise in Speech and Music Signal

The most reliable way people around the world communicate, relax and enjoy is through speech and music signals. So, it is important to get these signals in their pure form. But in our living environment, getting a clear signal is challenging. Along with our required signal, sounds from other sources called noises are also mixed and degrade the original. Different filtering methods are used to remove noises from a signal. Filtering methods include different filters and autoencoders. Filters are designed in such a way that they will remove a particular type of noise. Denoising autoencoders are another option for noise removal. Autoencoders are a type of artificial neural network that encodes and decodes data in an unsupervised learning method and filters the noise. This paper examines noises in speech and music signals and different filtering methods to remove these noises. The filtering methods include filters and autoencoders. Different methods are investigated and suggested that the extended forms of filters or combination of filters or combining filters with autoencoder results in better noise removal than they are used individually.
ASH1L REGULATES THE STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF NEURONAL CIRCUITRY BY MODULATING BDNF/TrkB SIGNALING IN HUMAN NEURONS

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are associated with defects in neuronal connectivity and are highly heritable. Genetic findings suggest that there is an overrepresentation of chromatin regulatory genes among the genes associated with ASD. ASH1 like histone lysine methyltransferase (ASH1L) was identified as a major risk factor for autism. ASH1L methylates Histone H3 on Lysine 36, which is proposed to result primarily in transcriptional activation. However, how mutations in ASH1L lead to deficits in neuronal connectivity associated with autism pathogenesis is not known. We report that ASH1L regulates neuronal morphogenesis by counteracting the catalytic activity of Polycomb Repressive complex 2 group (PRC2) in stem cell-derived human neurons. Depletion of ASH1L decreases neurite outgrowth and decreases expression of the gene encoding the neurotrophin receptor TrkB whose signaling pathway is linked to neuronal morphogenesis. This is overcome by inhibition of PRC2 activity, indicating a balance between the Trithorax group protein ASH1L and PRC2 activity determines neuronal morphology and connectivity. Thus, ASH1L epigenetically regulates neuronal connectivity by modulating the BDNF-TrkB signaling pathway, which likely contributes to the neurodevelopmental pathogenesis associated with ASD in patients with ASH1L mutations. eTOC BLURB Cheon et al. report a novel epigenetic mechanism that implicates the counteracting activities of the evolutionarily conserved Trithorax (ASH1L) and Polycomb (PRC2) chromatin regulators, in the modulation of human neuronal connectivity by regulating the developmentally important TrkB-BDNF signaling pathway. HIGHLIGHTS ASH1L regulates neuronal morphogenesis by modulating neurotrophin signaling Counteracting activities of Trithorax (ASH1L) and Polycomb (PRC2) affect neuronal arborization Loss of ASH1L modulates growth cone size in human neurons
Prediction of DOS Attacks using Machine Learning Algorithms

Unique-Intrusion identification framework assumes in fundamental job in recognizing both dynamic and inactive assaults and illicit system get to. There are such a significant number of calculations for recognizing system assaults utilizing information mining and Artificial Intelligence strategies. So, far the current systems were creating less precision and tedious. So, as to improve the precision and to decrease time taken, we are going to join both directed and unsupervised strategies. In this, we first use includes determination and the loads are connected in the proposed classifier, in which Naive Bayes classifier is utilized. The objective of any probabilistic classifier is, with highlights x_0 through x_n and classes c_0 through c_k, to decide the likelihood of the highlights happening in each class, and to restore the doubtlessly class. In this way, for each class, we need to have the capacity to figure P(c_i| x_0, … , x_n). The test results dependent on the KDD dataset demonstrate that the proposed technique not just performs well on recognizing DoS, Probe and R2L assaults, it likewise has noteworthy improvement for distinguishing U2R assaults.
Defining Dental Age for Chronological Age Determination

Dental age assessment is one of the most reliable methods of chronological age estimation used for criminal, forensic and anthropologic purposes. Visual, radiographic, chemical and histological techniques can be used for dental age estimation. Visual method is based on the sequence of eruption of the teeth and morphological changes that are caused due to function such as attrition, changes in color that are indicators of aging. Radiographs of the dentition can be used to determine the stage of dental development of the teeth from initial mineralization of a tooth, crown formation to root apex maturation. Histological methods require the preparation of the tissues for detailed microscopic examination. The chemical analysis of dental hard tissues determines alterations in ion levels with age, whereas the histological and chemical methods are invasive methods requiring extraction/sectioning of the tooth. In this chapter, the different techniques and considered studies were overviewed in conjunction with their advantages and disadvantages. It needs to be taken into consideration that rather than restricting on one age estimation technique, using the other available techniques additionally and performing repetitive measurements may be beneficial for accurate age estimation.
Acute thyromegaly in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis mimicking lymphoma

Abstract is not required for Clinical Images (This page in not part of the published article.) International Journal of Case Reports and Images, Vol. 8 No.5, May 2017. ISSN – [0976-3198] Int J Case Rep Images 2017;8(5):355–357. www.ijcasereportsandimages. com Adams D 355 CASE REPORT OPEN ACCESS Acute thyromegaly in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis mimicking lymphoma