Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of UVB-induced damage on corneal tissues in surgical menopause female rats by bilaterally ovariectomy

Background aims: Menopause is associated with increased production of inflammatory cytokines, such as TNF-α and TGF-β. The elevated cytokine levels likely contribute to the increased incidence of inflammatory diseases after menopause, such as osteoporosis, and neurodegenerative cardiovascular diseases and visual disease. To determine the role of 17β-estradiol and involvement of its receptors in the prevention of light-induced corneal disorders, we performed oxidative UVB-induced corneal injury model following surgically ovariectomized (OVX) female rats. Effects of UVB-induced damage on corneal tissues in OVX were compared to that in no OVX female animals. Methods: Fifteen female Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into three groups. Corneal oxidative injury was induced by exposure to UVB irradiation at 560 μW/cm for five days, followed surgical menopause induced by bilaterally OVX. The experimental animals without surgically OVX were used as surgical treatment controls and animals without UVB irradiation as blank controls. Leukocyte accumulation and central corneal epithelial thickness after injury were examined by histopathology analysis, respectively. Results: UVB irradiation caused substantial damage to the corneas, including thinning of corneal epithelial layer, induction of neovasculazation. After surgical menopause by bilaterally ovariectomy, corneal disorders were significantly enhanced compared with UVB and blank control groups. Studies showed that increased central corneal epithelial disorders and corneal neovasculazation after ovariectomy in vivo in terms of change in corneal epithelial thickness and vessel length (P<0.05). Conclusions: The studies demonstrated that surgical menopause intensity effects on UVB radiation-induced corneal oxidative disorders in female rats, including decreased central corneal epithelial thickness and increased corneal neovasculazation. [Shiu-Jau Chen, Ching-Ju Lee, Yang-Cheng Wen, Tzer-Bin Lin, Hsien-Yu Peng, Hsiang-Jui Liu, Cheng-Yu Tsai, Hung-Yu Li, Kuang-Wen Tseng. Effects of UVB-induced damage on corneal tissues in surgical menopause female rats by bilaterally ovariectomy [Life Sci J. 2014;11(5):428-433] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com. 60
Zaburzenia lipidowe i zaburzenia funkcji enzymów naprawczych u chorych z cukrzycą typu 2 i otyłością

Zaburzenia lipidowe, będące częścią zespołu metabolicznego, są istotnym czynnikiem ryzyka choroby niedokrwiennej serca (ChNS) oraz jej powikłań. u chorych z cukrzycą występują szczególnie często. Insulinooporność i bezwzględny niedobór insuliny hamuje lipogenezę i nasila lipolizę, prowadząc do wzrostu stężenia wolnych kwasów tłuszczowych i trójglicerydów (TG) w osoczu [2]. w tych warunkach, w obrębie cząsteczek LDL i HDL, dochodzi do wymiany estrów cholesterolu na TG za pośrednictwem białka transportującego. wzbogacone w trójglicerydy cząsteczki LDL, dzięki wzmożonej aktywności lipazy wątrobowej, szybko się ich pozbywając, zmniejszają swój rozmiar i zwiększają gęstość. w licznych badaniach wykazano dodatni związek między obecnością w osoczu małych cząstek LDL i ryzykiem wystąpienia ChNS [2]. Małe gęste LDL wykazują mniejsze powinowactwo do receptora LDL oraz ze względu na niewielkie rozmiary – ułatwione przenikanie pod śródbłonek. Podlegają także procesowi oksydacyjnej modyfikacji. rozStreszczenie Wstęp. Dla cukrzycy typu 2 charakterystycznym zaburzeniem lipidowym jest dyslipidemia aterogenna. Jedną z nieprawidłowości jest obecność małych gęstych LDL. Materiał i metody. Zbadano 77 pacjentów, których podzielono na dwie grupy. wszystkim pacjentom oznaczono w surowicy pełny lipidogram oraz stężenie metaloproteinazy 9 (MMP-9) i metaloproteinazy 2 (MMP-2) za pomocą zymografii z użyciem żelatyny jako substratu. Wyniki. w grupie pacjentów chorych na cukrzycę typu 2 stężenie LDL i TG jest istotnie wyższe niż w grupie kontrolnej. w obu grupach zaobserwowano ujemną korelację między stężeniem HDL a MMP-2 oraz dodatnią między stężeniem TG a MMP-9. Wnioski. Zaburzenia gospodarki węglowodanowej występujące w cukrzycy typu 2 mają wpływ na powszechne w tej chorobie zaburzenia gospodarki lipidowej. Dyslipidemia koreluje ze zmianami aktywności enzymów naprawczych. Słowa kluczowe: cukrzyca typu 2, dyslipidemia aterogenna, enzymy naprawcze.
Personal Values of Luxury Services Consumption: A Confucian Culture Perspective

Abstract The primary purpose of this paper is to draw on existing literature on personal values and luxury consumption to explore the domain of the service personal values construct in a Confucian culture. The study utilizes qualitative research based on three focus group discussions with 23 participants who are luxury hospitality services customers in Vietnam, a Confucian culture. The findings suggest a comprehensive conceptual framework that expands the three existing dimensions and adds two new dimensions to the service personal values construct. This study provides a better understanding of the personal values that customers seek when using luxury services from a Confucian culture perspective.
Control study of multi-machine power systems under variations of mechanical input power and communication delay

The paper studies the robust control for multi-machine power systems under parametric uncertainties, perturbed mechanical input power and unknown variable communication time-delay. Only relative speed of each electrical generator is available for measurement. The theoretical investigations show that the proposed algorithm synchronizes the multi-machine power system with the required accuracy in the normal mode and under symmetrical 3-phase short circuit faults which occur on transmission lines. Numerical investigations illustrate the efficiency of the proposed scheme for the three machines and the New England Power system benchmark.
The melody to inspiration: The effects of awe-eliciting music on approach motivation and positive well-being

ABSTRACT Rooted in the rich soil of positive psychology, scholarship on the uses and effects of self-transcendent media content that elicits other-oriented emotions has flourished in the past few years, covering a full range of media content such as movies, online videos, social media posts, and news stories. The current research aimed to gain a better understanding of the positive consequences of consuming self-transcendent media with a particular focus on music – a medium that is frequently identified as inspiring. Specifically, two studies were conducted to examine the degree to which self-transcendent music (manifested as awe-eliciting music) can boost listeners’ activated positive affect and prosociality relative both to the natural baseline condition (Study 1) and to amusing/hedonic condition (Study 2). Results show that while awe-eliciting music did not directly contribute to increases of well-being variables compared to amusing music, inspiration was a crucial mediator through which awe-eliciting music exerted influences on participants’ perceptions of meaning in life and universality. Results are reflected in the broader context of positive media psychology, and implications for music’s potential to inspire are discussed in detail.
Giardiasis and Cryptosporidiosis - Recent Literature with a Focus on Nitazoxanide

Nitazoxanide is a Food and Drug Administration approved Thiazolide to treat parasitic infections such as giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis. Since nitazoxanide is available as a liquid suspension, this medication is uniquely suited for the treatment of children. However, there has been a paucity of published studies since its approval. We completed a systematic literature search using a variety of sources including PubMed to identify studies reporting the impact of nitazoxanide in treating parasitic infections in children ages 1 to 11 years. A similar search was conducted on other available treatment for parasitic infection. In total, 28 publications were found to meet the criteria above for nitazoxanide. A similar number of papers were identified to address other therapy commonly used regardless of product information on approved use. Despite the ease of administration and superiority of nitazoxanide to other Non FDA approved therapies for the treatment of Giardia or Cryptosporidium among children, this medication continues to be underutilized. These data indicated the need for additional clinical studies to raise awareness.
Health-related quality of life in elderly: a review of the EQ-5D use

in Portuguese and in English All manuscripts should have an abstract in Portuguese and one in English. Manuscripts that are written in Spanish should also have abstracts in Portuguese and in English, besides the one in Spanish. The content of these abstracts should be identical and they should not exceed 250 words each. Abstracts of original articles should have the following structure: Objective, Methods, Results and Conclusions. Case reports, review and update articles should not have structured abstracts. Abbreviations should be avoided in the abstract, and it should have no references. Three to six keywords chosen from those available in the Health Science Descriptors (http://decs.bvs.br) should be presented after the abstracts in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
The South Polar Region of Mars: A Review

This review summarizes mostly Earth-based observations of Mars’ south polar region (SPR) made since the late 17th century along with measurements of the 2003, 2005, and 2018 south polar cap (SPC). There are four conclusions. The first one is the SPC has not underwent radius changes exceeding 3 % and 10 % for Ls < 230° and Ls = 230°–270°, respectively, in at least the last 125 years. Secondly, t test results are consistent with the SPC being larger when on the morning terminator than on the afternoon terminator. Thirdly, the dark area Depressio Magna drawn by Antoniadi (1975) and the “cryptic terrain” described by Kieffer et al. (2000) are probably the same feature. Fourthly, isolated clouds, away from the disk edges and terminators, are scarce in the SPR during Ls = 180°–330°.
Damping estimation using enhanced virtual dynamic shaker: A web‐enabled framework

Damping estimation from laboratory, full‐scale, or computational simulation is critical in response prediction of structures under wind, waves, or earthquake effects. A virtual dynamic shaker (VDS)‐based scheme was recently developed for system identification (SI) of structures for processing (weakly) stationary responses, that is, frequency and damping features that offers, especially the added advantage of its basic simplicity over other schemes. While the VDS has shown performance, equivalent to other popular SI schemes, it is based on the assumption of the global flatness of the load spectrum (i.e., white noise assumption) like used in most other SI schemes, which may not always be appropriate in practical applications. In addition, it is restricted to data from a single‐degree‐of‐freedom (SDOF) response (or unimodal response) to obtain accurate modal characteristics. To address these potential shortcomings, this study revisits the VDS scheme and offers an enhancement by invoking local flatness assumption (EVDS) to possibly improve the damping estimation with the assumption that the load spectrum is flat only around the natural frequencies of the desired modes. A new formulation involving the effect of the ground motion induced vertical vibrations of a building is also introduced for both the VDS and the EVDS. Extensive examples through numerical simulation and full‐scale data, including a comparison with other popular SI schemes, demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed EVDS scheme. To facilitate expeditious and convenient utilization of the proposed EVDS as well as the VDS, this study has implemented a web‐enabled framework, named VDS‐Damping, for on‐demand and on‐the‐fly applications through user‐friendly input and result interfaces. A recently developed mode decomposition scheme, state space‐based mode decomposition (SSBMD), is implemented in the framework to assist in analyzing output from multiple modes and eliminates restriction of SDOF system. Accordingly, the SSBMD can also serve as a stand‐alone mode decomposition tool to separate response in each mode. This framework enables users to estimate damping on‐the‐fly by uploading with ease their data.
Recognizing and treating depression in somatic disease

Depression is a disorder that often concomitance with other diseases and can influence negative-ly the process of treatment. Diagnostic criteria for depression are: persistent sadness or low mood, loss of interest or pleasure, fatigue or low energy. It is very important to distinguish between real depression and adaptive and adequate to situation emotional reaction. Depression may be difficult to diagnose because of a presense of somatic symptoms and lack of sadness, and low mood. For screening in population of chronically ill we recom-mend special tests that show symptoms of depression (for example HADS-M). To help patient with depression diagnosed as affective disorder psychiatric treatment is recommended, connected with psychological interventions. To help patient with depression based on psychological ground psychological treatment is recommended. Farmacological treatment may be also help-ful in this group of patients. In both cases not only the patient but also his family my need help.
An Integrated approach for Path Planning for Mobile Robot Using Bi-RRT

In this paper, an integrated effort has been exploited for path planning along with path smoothness for a mobile robot. An extension of randomly exploring tree is used to plan the path for robot along with path length smoothness. Our proposed system influences the concept of Bi-directional Rapidly Exploring Random Trees (Bi-RRTs) for path planning together with path smoothness for minimizing the processing time to search for the path length. We compared our system with standard method in trials with the autonomous robotic platform. Produced results show that the presented approach as high robustness and use less computational effort.
Hybrid Schnorr, RSA, and AES Cryptosystem

For the past years, network security has been an important issue. Authentication and encryption have come up with the solutions which play an essential role in the system of information security. Schnorr, being one of the authentication algorithms available today lacks security for the message being passed from the sender to the receiver and vice versa. This paper integrates the Schnorr authentication algorithm with RSA and AES cryptosystems in order to encompass the level of security and reduce the effectiveness of the man-middle-attack on the system. In this method, the receiver uses the Schnorr algorithm to verify that the one sending him the message is the real sender. When the sender sends the message to the receiver and vice versa, the RSA algorithm will be used and the AES algorithm, specifically the S-box, will be used for the encryption of the password for the authentication process. This method reduces the risk of intrusion as the encrypted and decrypted messages are further mixed-up through the addition of other cryptosystems.
The Importance of Social Support on Glycemic Control in Low-income Latinos With Type 2 Diabetes

Background: The U.S. Latino population exhibits poorer glycemic control than the white population, leading to more frequent health complications and greater disease severity. Social support has been shown a significant factor in health and well-being. Purpose: To determine the association between glycemic control and social support in patients enrolled in the Emory Latino Diabetes Education Program (ELDEP). Methods: A descriptive study of the clinical and social support outcomes of 248 Latino patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes enrolled in a Spanish-language, culturally competent diabetes education program. Hemoglobin A1C, weight, height, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, and level of perceived social support were assessed at baseline and after 3 months of the intervention. Results: Patients with low levels of perceived social support at baseline had higher A1C (9.8%) than those who reported moderate–high levels of support (8.9%); however, both groups lowered their HbA1C during follow-up (9.8% to 7.5% and 8.9% to 7.7%, respectively; P < .001). Mean level of social support increased from 21 ± 9 at baseline to 29 ± 7 during follow-up (P < .001). Overall mean HbA1C decreased 9.1% to 7.7% (P < .001). Discussion: Participants in ELDEP have improved clinical indicators of care and increased levels of social support. Translation to Health Education Practice: Diabetes health education programs should consider incorporating social support strengthening to improve health outcomes.
A New Cascaded Framework for Lithium-Ion Battery State and Parameter Estimation

Lithium-ion battery on-line monitoring is challenging due to the unmeasurable characteristic of its internal states. Up to now, the most effective approach for battery monitoring is to apply advanced estimation algorithms based on equivalent circuit models. Besides, a usual method for estimating slowly varying unmeasurable parameters is to include them in the state vector with the zero-time derivative condition, which constitutes the so-called extended equivalent circuit model and has been widely used for the battery state and parameter estimation. Although various advanced estimation algorithms are applied to the joint estimation and dual estimation frameworks, the essence of these estimation frameworks has not been changed. Thus, the improvement of the battery monitoring result is limited. Therefore, a new battery monitoring structure is proposed in this paper. Firstly, thanks to the superposition principle, two sub-models are extracted. For the nonlinear one, an observability analysis is conducted. It shows that the necessary conditions for local observability depend on the battery current, the initial value of the battery capacity, and the square of the derivative of the open circuit voltage with respect to the state of charge. Then, the obtained observability analysis result becomes an important theoretical support to propose a new monitoring structure. Commonly used estimation algorithms, namely the Kalman filter, extended Kalman filter, and unscented Kalman filter, are selected and employed for it. Apart from providing a simultaneous estimation of battery open circuit voltage, more rapid and less fluctuating battery capacity estimation are the main advantages of the new proposed monitoring structure. Numerical studies using synthetic data have proven the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
Preparation and Characterization of Cellulose Nanofiber/Zinc Oxide Composite Films

Zinc oxide (ZnO)/cellulose nanofiber (CNF) nanocomposite films were prepared using cellulose nanofibers and ZnO nanoparticles. First, suspensions of CNF and ZnO mixtures were blended with different CNF/ZnO ratios; then, the mixtures were stirred, homogenized, filtered, and hot pressed to form nanofilms with various ZnO weight ratios (0–50 wt%). Rheological tests showed that the CNF shear thinning behavior was not affected by the addition of ZnO. X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy studies proved the existence of ZnO nanoparticles in the nanocomposite films. Thermogravimetric results indicated that the presence of ZnO had almost no effect on the thermal properties of the composite. As the ZnO content increased, the tensile strength and strain-to-failure rate decreased. In comparison with neat CNF nanofilms, the nanocomposite films showed greater antimicrobial ability against Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus due to the presence of ZnO nanoparticles, allowing the CNF/ZnO films to be used in some targeted biomedical applications.
Hope for Autism

If the genetic risk factor for autism is present, a number of nongenetic, or “environmental,” factors are also having a role in increasing a child’s chance for becoming autistic. The risk factors for autism include what happened before and through birth, for example old parental age at time of pregnancy both mother and father, not just the mother; maternal diseases; and some complications during birth, especially fetus’ brain oxygen deprivation [3,4].
PARTITION-EQUIVALENT n-POINTS CONFIGURATIONS WITH TWO DISTANCES

In this paper we define an equivalence relation on the set of all possible geometrical models of M(n, k) containing n points in 3D Euclidean space having k distinct distances. We investigate the number of geometrical model for M(4,2), M(5,2) and M(6,2) up to the mentioned equivalence relation.
The Cost of Managing Glaucoma Increases with Worsening of Disease Stage

Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness worldwide and is the second most frequent cause of non-accidental blindness in industrialised countries.1–8,13,14 In glaucoma, the optic nerve is progressively damaged, causing defects in the visual field, usually asymptomatic until the central vision is affected.10 Primary open angle glaucoma (POAG), the most common form of glaucoma observed in developed western countries,9 is associated with intraocular pressure (IOP) increased to a level likely to interfere with the health of the optic nerve. In normal-pressure glaucoma (NPG), there is no increase of IOP. Ocular hypertension (OH) defines a group of patients in whom the optic nerve and visual field are still normal, but IOP is elevated to potentially dangerous levels. The visual field examination is the standard practice to assess vision in glaucoma for detection, follow-up and staging. With this type of testing, the eye’s ability to detect small points of light of varying brightness centrally and peripherally is measured. With the automatic static threshold technique, values from age-matched normal individuals are compared with those of the patient being examined.10 The goal of glaucoma management is to preserve the patient’s quality of life.10,11 The only treatment option that has been proved to prevent the loss of vision is lowering the IOP to a level deemed safe for the eye.12 The recommended steps for lowering IOP in POAG are topical medications first, followed by laser trabeculoplasty and, lastly, incisional surgery.10 The global prevalence of glaucoma was estimated at 67 million people in 2001. A projection of these data to European countries estimates 9.25 million glaucoma patients in Europe, of whom 4.6–6.9 million were undiagnosed and untreated.15
Sportpsychologische Beratung und Diagnostik zur Prävention und Rehabilitation von Sportverletzungen

Sportpsychologen stehen in der Regel nicht in der ersten Reihe. Oft erfährt man erst dann von ihnen, wenn es bei einem Athleten oder einer Mannschaft nicht mehr so gut läuft. Dabei sind sie ein wichtiger Teil des Betreuerteams und haben großen Anteil am Erfolg professioneller Sportler – auch und gerade im Zusammenhang mit Sportverletzungen.