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TELEREHABILITATION AS MEANS TO IMPROVE ELDERLYS ́ INDEPENDENCE WHILE LIVING AT HOME-Literature review

Living independently at home promotes the well-being of elderly people aged 65 years and above, but there are challenges that they may face such as physical impairment and psycho-social problems. These problems may lead into depression, loneliness and early institutionalization. Therefore some of the elderly people receive or need to receive regular home care and rehabilitation. Aim: The aim of this study is to improve clients ́ physical and social-wellbeing while living at home and also to address the new model of providing rehabilitation to clients who are unable to travel long distance for health advice or care or may take long time to see health personnel. The research questions used were as follows. 1. What are the significant of telerehabilitation to elderly living at home. 2. What are the challenges of using telerehabilitation. Method: Systematic literature review with content analysis was chosen for analysis. Articles were extracted from Google scholar, Ebsco and Sage which were published from year 2003 to 2012.The theoretical framework used was Empowerment theory. Limitation of this study is that some of useful articles were not in English and also not freely accessible. Result: The significant of telerehabilitation was of physical, social, economical, as multidisciplinary improvement and psychological improvement. Challenges are lack of enough staff to conduct the program, personal factors, equipment being hard to use for very elderly people and severity of disabilities. Conclusion: Telerehabilitation has shown to improve elderly quality of life and could be an alternative to face to face therapy without neglecting clients need. Further study should be done to solve the challenges rose from this study.
International cooperation for counter-terrorism: a strategic perspective

ABSTRACT The three evil forces of terrorism, separatism and extremism have proliferated around the world, creating pandemonium and causing panic. While terrorists appear to have a symbiotic relationship among themselves, such synergy is patently missing among the governments of nations. This paper advocates that there exists a strategic rationale for international cooperation for counter-terrorism, both in ancient Chinese wisdom and in contemporary game theory. By revealing clear strategic advantages, this paper aims to influence policy-makers of various countries to prioritise mutual cooperation for mutual benefit.
Decisão estratégica em equipe de direção: aprendizagem aliada ao conflito

O estudo apresentado objetivou gerar conhecimentos sobre o processo de decisao estrategica realizado por uma equipe de direcao em pequenas empresas (PE), focando principalmente os processos de aprendizagem em circuito duplo e de conflito cognitivo. A abordagem metodologica e de estudo de caso qualitativo. A coleta dos dados baseou-se em entrevistas em profundidade com membros da equipe e, as analises de dados, na consideracao detalhada de parcelas de conteudo com o software de analise Atlas-ti. Os resultados da pesquisa mostram que o conflito cognitivo desviou as tomadas de decisao da intuicao e da improvisacao, pois provocou discussoes, analises e reflexoes coletivas. A aprendizagem em circuito duplo ocorrida por influencia do conflito cognitivo incluiu o questionamento das possibilidades, rico e propicio a melhoria da tomada de decisao.
Pentoses Used in Cultures of Synechococcus nidulans and Spirulina paracas: Evaluation of Effects in Growth and in Content of Proteins and Carbohydrates

The biological assimilation of the sugars present in lignocellulosic residues has gained prominence since these residues are the most abundant and economic residues in nature. Thus, the objective of this work was to determine whether the use of D-xylose and L-arabinose as sources of carbon in Synechococcus nidulans and Spirulina paracas cultures affects the growth and production of proteins and carbohydrates. Kinetic growth parameters, pentose consumption, protein content and carbohydrates were evaluated. HIGHLIGHTS • Pentose promotes Synechococcus and Spirulina growth. • For the first time pentoses were related with protein accumulation in cyanobacteria. • Xylose and arabinose can be used as carbon sources for Synechococcus and Spirulina. 2 Freitas 1, B.C.B. ; et al. Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology. Vol.62: e19180728, 2019 www.scielo. br/babt Synechococcus nidulans and Spirulina paracas consumed all concentrations of pentose used. The highest cellular concentration (1.37 g.L) and the highest protein productivity (54 mg.L.d) were obtained for Spirulina paracas, which was submitted to the addition of 38.33 mg.L D-xylose and 1.79 mg.L L-arabinose. The use of pentose promoted the accumulation of proteins for the studied microalgae. This is one of the first works to report protein bioaccumulation as a result of pentose addition.
Time Kill Kinetics Study of Commonly Used Disinfectants against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia-Nigeria

Background: Noncritical surfaces in hospital environment can serve as reservoirs of pathogenic bacteria. Among these pathogens, biofilms forming an opportunistic and biofilm forming pathogen, is the cause of a wide range of hospital acquired infections and can survive for several days on inanimate objects and surfaces in clinical settings. These survival properties most likely play a significant role in its infection dissemination and antibiotic resistance in the hospital environment where hospital cleaners frequently use disinfectants to clean without recourse to concentration or frequency of the cleaning. Aim of study: To determine the antibacterial activities of commonly used disinfectants-Izal (Phenolic Compound), Savlon (Chlorhexidine cetrimide), and bleach (Hypochlorite) involving Time kill kinetics studies in Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia on biofilm forming Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Study volunteers and methods: Four hundred and fifty positive (450) samples from noncritical surfaces of six selected wards of the hospital from 1314 samples. Bacterial analysis was performed by using conventional microbiological techniques, biochemical tests and the Microbact 24E assay. The time- kill kinetics antibacterial study of antiseptics was done according to standard guide for assessment of antimicrobial activity using time-kill kinetics procedure of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Method and Microbial population at the initiation and completion was determined by spectrometric and plate count methods at interval of 2h for 24h. Result: Pseudomonas aeruginosa resisted the disinfectants after 4 h of initiation time/application. The 2mg/ml concentration of Izal achieved total lethality after 12h; Savlon, bacteriostatic effect was 8h (i.e. from 3.0x10 6 +5.774 to 3.02x10 6 +5.773b and 4.2x10 6 +5.774a to 3.21x10 6 +5.773e respectively) but 2mg/ml of Savlon showed total lethality (bactericidal effect) after 10h from initiation time (i.e. 4.5x106+5.774a to 2.2x105+5.773d). At concentration of 2mg/ml, Bleach showed outright lethality after 4h of initiation time (i.e. from 4.2x10 6 +5.774a to 3.90x10 5 +5.775) after which there remained no organism i.e. total eradication throughout the 24h of incubation period. Conclusion: 2mg/ml is the best concentration for Pseudomonas aeruginosa lethality to be achieved using Izal, Savlon and Bleach as disinfectants in FMC Umuahia. Bleach is the most efficacious disinfectant in use in Federal Medical Center Umuahia having demonstrated maximum lethality (maximum bactericidal effect) at a shorter time of 4h than Savlon, 8h and Izal, 12h though there was steady sustenance of bactericidal and bacteriostatic activity by Izal for a very long period compared to others.
A rare presentation of headache and runny nose: A case of pneumocephalus

A 67-year-old female was presented with severe headache and runny nose. She was referred to the acute medical unit as her blood pressure was 213/94 mmHg and a computed tomography scan of her head was booked to rule out subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). She was found to have a rare condition which necessitated referral to the neurosurgical unit for further investigations and treatment. She was found to have a rare disease called pneumocephalus which was extensive on her CT scan of head images. She was not as symptomatic as it was expected and patient had no history of head injury, ear or meningeal infections. She was treated for meningeal leak and was put on meningitis prophylaxis. She improved after two weeks of treatment and was kept under neurosurgical team. (This page in not part of the published article.) International Journal of Case Reports and Images, Vol. 7 No. 11, November 2016. ISSN – [0976-3198] Int J Case Rep Images 2016;7(11):745–748. www.ijcasereportsandimages. com Hooper et al. 745 CASE REPORT OPEN ACCESS A rare presentation of headache and runny nose: A case of pneumocephalus James Hooper, Elizabeth Moss, Nihal Abosaif
STUDY OF PHARMACOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY

Dilated Cardiomyopathy represents a significant health problem as it can lead to progressive refractory heart failure and represents the majority of indications for heart transplantations. In dilated cardiomyopathy, the heart is enlarged, all the chambers are severely dilated and the heart muscle is pale and flabby. A descriptive crosssectional hospital based study was carried out in the patients admitted with dilated cardiomyopathy at Shahid Gangalal National Heart Centre. The study was carried out for three months from July to October 2014. Structured questionnaire was used as a tool for the collection of information through interview with the patient or caretaker during the hospital stay. The primary data collection included demographic pattern, risk factors, symptoms, diagnostic criteria, blood tests, medication pattern. Among the 100 patients, there were 51 male and 49 female. In the study group, 40% of the patients were smokers and 30% of the patients were drinkers, 43% of the patients were associated with either of the disease hypertension, diabetes mellitus and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Among 49 women, 5 women were associated with peripartum and postpartum dilated cardiomyopathy. All patients were presented with dilation of left ventricle. All patients were treated with loop diuretics and were also treated with Aldosterone antagonist, ACE inhibitors, Beta blockers, inotropic agents, Antiplatelet
Novel Discoveries by microRNA and mRNA Expression Profiles Analysis in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is one of the most serious causes of cancer-related deaths all over the world, with more than 220,000 new diagnoses and nearly 158,000 deaths expected to occur in 2016 in the United States [1]. NSCLC (non-small-cell lung cancer) is the cause of 80% of all lung cancer deaths in the United States and it is composed primarily of adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Actually, most lung cancers are diagnosed at advanced stages with an overall five-year survival rate of 18% [1]. Consequently, there is an urgent assignment to investigate the potential molecular mechanisms of lung tumorigenesis and identify novel therapeutic targets which can enhance the survival probability of patients with lung cancer. In our study, a total of 211 differentially expressed miRNAs were found by high-throughput sequencing of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tissues and adjacent normal tissues, 171 of them were up-regulated, while 30 among them were down-regulated. In addition, we predicted 157 novel miRNAs, and identified 918 significant miRNA– mRNA pairs [2].
Adsorption and Desorption of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, and Soil Buffering Capacity Following Application of Chicken Litter Biochar to an Acid Soil

Adsorption and desorption of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) soils are controlled by pH, pH buffering capacity, organic matter, and cation exchange capacity (CEC). These factors optimized to improve timely availability of N, P, and K crop use using organic amendments such as chicken litter biochar (CLB). The objective of this study was to determine the effects of CLB on N, P, K sorption and pH buffering capacity of an acid soil. Different rates of CLB were mixed with an acid soil for N, P, and K sorption and pH buffering capacity determination. The CLB increased soil pH and pH buffering capacity, but unlike P and K adsorption, the different rates of CLB significantly increased N adsorption, suggesting that this soil amendment has high affinity for N than P and K. Also, because CLB reduced N, P, and K desorption, it suggests that N in particular will be slowly released with time. The reduced N desorption but higher N adsorption further indicates that N can be temporary fixed by CLB. This work has revealed CLB is more effective controlling soil N availability for timely crop use to avoid losses.
An Approach to Addressing the Usability and Local Relevance of Generic Enterprise Software

Designing for usability and locally relevant features for end-users in generic ‘product’ or ‘packaged’ enterprise software projects is challenging. On the generic level, designers must aim at supporting variety, which is contradictory to the specificity needed to make user interfaces usable, and functionality relevant to end-users within specific organizational contexts. Also, addressing these concerns during the implementation of generic software is difficult due to limitations in the design flexibility of the software, time and resource constraints, possible maintenance issues following customization, and a lack of design methods appropriate for the context of software implementation. Reporting from an on-going Action Design Research project following a global generic health software, this paper concep-tualizes a Generic Software Design Lab that aims to equip design on the level of software implementation with flexibility, tools, and methods to efficiently localize generic software. By conceptualizing the approach and discussing how it works to strengthen implementation-level designers’ ability to address usability and local relevance, the paper contributes with learnings to research and practice related to design, development, and implementation of generic software.
Spatial Radiative Feedbacks from Internal Variability Using Multiple Regression

The sensitivity of the climate to CO2 forcing depends on spatially varying radiative feedbacks that act both locally and nonlocally. We assess whether a method employing multiple regression can be used to estimate local and nonlocal radiative feedbacks from internal variability. We test this method on millennial-length simulations performed with six coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs). Given the spatial pattern of warming, the method does quite well at recreating the top-of-atmosphere flux response for most regions of Earth, except over the Southern Ocean where it consistently overestimates the change, leading to an overestimate of the sensitivity. For five of the six models, the method finds that local feedbacks are positive due to cloud processes, balanced by negative nonlocal shortwave cloud feedbacks associated with regions of tropical convection. For four of these models, the magnitudes of both are comparable to the Planck feedback, so that changes in the ratio between them could lead to large changes in climate sensitivity. The positive local feedback explains why observational studies that estimate spatial feedbacks using only local regressions predict an unstable climate. The method implies that sensitivity in these AOGCMs increases over time due to a reduction in the share of warming occurring in tropical convecting regions and the resulting weakening of associated shortwave cloud and longwave clear-sky feedbacks. Our results provide a step toward an observational estimate of time-varying climate sensitivity by demonstrating that many aspects of spatial feedbacks appear to be the same between internal variability and the forced response.
Performance on a Natural User Interface Task is Correlated with Higher Gesture Production

The study examined whether the individual differences of gesture production and attitudes toward gesturing were related to performance on a gesture-based natural user interface. Participants completed a lesson using gesture interactions and were measured on how long it took to complete the lesson, their reported mental effort, and how much they learned during the lesson. The Brief Assessment of Gestures survey was used to determine different dimensions of a participant’s predisposition to gesture, with four subscales: Perception, Production, Social Production, and Social Perception. Only an individual’s propensity to produce gestures was related to higher learning outcomes from the computer-based lesson.
Interspinous Ligament as a Pain Generator

Introduction: Interspinous ligament is an uncommon but potential pain generator in the spinal column that can give rise to chronic low backache. Interspinous ligament sprain is difficult to diagnose with radiologic imaging, such as X-ray, and magnetic resonance imaging. Only meticulous history and diagnostic block help in making a proper diagnosis. This case report describes a case of interspinous ligament sprain in a young male patient who presented with a history of chronic low back pain. His imaging studies revealed no abnormalities and the diagnostic local anesthetic infiltration confirmed the diagnosis.
Data-Driven Cash Replenishment Planning of Recycling ATMs with Out-of-Cash and Full-of-Cash Risks

When banks replenish the cash held in automated teller machines (ATMs) it is crucial for them to reduce operational costs while maintaining service level. This article studies the replenishment planning for recycling ATMs, which allow cash deposits to be made as well as withdrawals. The problem is formulated as a special (s, S) inventory model with two safety stocks corresponding to out-of-stock and full-of-stock risks, based on which the ATMs to be replenished each day and the replenishment amount are determined. Experiments with real data show that the model can significantly reduce costs and improve the overall service level.
Leites fermentados – uma revisão

Na ultima decada, os produtos lacteos vem exercendo um papel significativo no segmento do mercado de alimentos funcionais, destacando-se as bebidas lacteas fermentadas. Consumidos em diversas partes do mundo pela sua atratividade promotora de saude, os leites fermentados possuem aspectos comuns de fabricacao, diferindo-se pela microbiota envolvida na fermentacao, podendo alguns destes micro-organismos serem probioticos. A adicao de vitaminas, minerais, prebioticos, acidos graxos, fitoquimicos, enzimas, antioxidantes, etc., promovem o aumento do consumo de leites fermentados pelos consumidores que buscam um estilo de vida aliado a saudabilidade e prevencao de doencas, alem disso, o consumo de outros tipos de leite nao bovino, como o leite de jumenta e camela, e a inclusao de proteinas vegetais e animais, expressam novas tendencias de fontes alternativas e de enriquecimento aos leites fermentados.
A Review on Stochastic Approach for PHEV Integration Control in a Distribution System with an Optimized Battery Power Demand Model

The future adoption of electric vehicles (EV) as the main means of commuting will put an additional stress on the distribution grid; the level where EVs are mainly expected to be charged. Estimation of the EV charging influence on the distribution grid is a critical task for distribution system operators (DSO) in order to plan for grid reinforcement and to avoid service failure. Due to the unpredictable nature of daily human activities, stochastic modeling for daily EVs’ owner behavior and residential power consumption is needed. In our study a new estimation model for the EV power demand during the charging process is developed to accurately estimate the charging demand, which is combined with daily household power consumption loads based on real life measurements to estimate the total demand in the system. This demand can be applied to the standard IEEE 69 distribution system and can quantify the influence of different penetration levels under an uncontrolled (dumb) charging case, also under a proposed controlled charging algorithm for both summer and winter seasons.
Fuzzy logic-based maximum power point tracking solar battery charge controller with backup stand-by AC generator

This paper presents a Fuzzy-based Maximum Power Point Tracking Solar Battery Charge Controller with backup stand-by AC generator. This study is developed to provide a maximum power point tracking battery charge controller using fuzzy logic algorithm for isolated areas that uses solar panels and AC generators. Fuzzy Logic Toolbox in MATLAB and Arduino IDE were used in implementing fuzzy logic algorithm. Fuzzy logic is a mathematical system where something can be represented in continuous values between 0 and 1. It basically represents systems based on human reasoning. The hardware comprises of four components – the switched mode power supply, the source switching circuit, buck-boost converter and the diversion load controller. The pre-testing conducted based on the methodology indicates that the proposed charge controller is efficient in maximizing the input power that enters the charge controller under different conditions. The current efficiency rate of the charge controller is 96.02%. The average battery charging time for a fully-discharged 12V Lead-Acid Battery using AC source, DC source and both AC and DC sources are 2 hours and 30 minutes, 8 hours and 15 minutes and 5 hours and 30 minutes, respectively, while discharging took 3 hours and 40 minutes with two 30-watt floodlight load.
A Turn-on Fluorescent Sensor For Cadmium Ion Detection In Aqueous Solutions

Fluorescent sensors have attracted an important interest due to their advantages such as high selectivity, rapid response, easy to use etc. In this study, a rhodamine based fluorescent sensor, RhDP, was synthesized, and used for selective detection of Cd 2+ ions. The sensor responds to Cd 2+ via the coordination induced fluorescence activation (CIFA) mechanism. RhDP gives a very fast and reversible fluorescence response to Cd 2+ in the presence of the metal ions tested. The complex stoichiometry between RhDP and Cd 2+ was found to be 1:1 and the binding constant was calculated as 2.70 × 10 7 M -1 in ACN/HEPES buffer (10 mM, pH: 7.05, v/v 1:1). The fluorescent detection limit of RhDP for Cd 2+ was found to be 0.218 µ M, which gave a marked sensitivity towards Cd 2+ .
NITROSATIVE STATUS IN BENIGN EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CYSTIC TUMORS OF NONENDOMETRIOID ORIGIN

INTRODUCTION In the structure of cancer incidence special place are occupied benign tumors of the female genital organs. Ovarian tumors are in second place (6.8%) from of all the female genital tumors. Benign forms are found in 75–80% of true ovarian tumors [7, 9]. Despite the fairly detailed knowledge of ovarian tumors, causes of origin and benign tumors of ovarian cysts remain open. One of the most important areas of biomedical research in this field is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms that regulate cell proliferation and apoptosis. Violation of these processes leads to increased speed and reduced cell growth differentiation characteristic of tumor cells.