Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Under Consideration for Publication in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming Swi-prolog

SWI-Prolog is neither a commercial Prolog system nor a purely academic enterprise, but increasingly a community project. The core system has been shaped to its current form while being used as a tool for building research prototypes, primarily for knowledge-intensive and interactive systems. Community contributions have added several interfaces and the constraint (CLP) libraries. Commercial involvement has created the initial garbage collector, added several interfaces and two development tools: PlDoc (a literate programming documentation system) and PlUnit (a unit testing environment). In this article we present SWI-Prolog as an integrating tool, supporting a wide range of ideas developed in the Prolog community and acting as glue between foreign resources. This article itself is the glue between technical articles on SWI-Prolog, providing context and experience in applying them over a longer period.
Observed changes in the prevalence of uropathogens in Benin City, Nigeria

Objective: Against the background of reports of changes in the prevalence of uropathogens, this study aimed to determine the prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria among out-patients of a tertiary hospital, the most prevalent uropathogen, and the distribution of uropathogens among both genders. Methods: Clean–catch midstream urines were collected from 1,238 out–patients consisting of 1033 non–diabetic patients (451 males and 582 females) and 205 diabetic patients (93 male and 112 females). The diabetic patients consisted of 66 type 1 and 139 type 2 diabetes. Signifi cant bacterial isolates were identifi ed in the urine samples using standard techniques. Results: There was a signifi cant difference (p 0.05). Female non–diabetic patients had signifi cantly higher prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria ( p < 0.001). Staphylococcus aureus was the most common uropathogen (26.03%) as well as in both genders of diabetic and non–diabetic patients. Conclusions: An overall prevalence of 30.29% of asymptomatic bacteriuria was found and Staphylococcus aureus was the predominant uropathogen in both genders of out–patients.
Music Therapy as a Treatment for Patients with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

This paper summarizes literature to explore the ways in which music therapy is able to act as a treatment for patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In many countries, PTSD is treated with many different modalities. One of the most common forms of treatment currently includes the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. However, these medications are associated with adverse side effects and can create addictive habits for patients. Consequently, it is important to consider complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as a potential treatment for PTSD. With the use of music therapy, a form of CAM, each session and program can be tailored to the specific patient depending on how severe their cases of PTSD are. Music therapy could be used for such a variety of populations, including those living in countries with limited medical resources. Music can be made from various, readily available resources, such as stones, wood, and clapping motions. The act of drumming on nearby objects can promote emotional expression by certain patients. Limited evidence indicates that music therapy is potentially effective in improving PTSD symptoms. Through better language comprehension, music therapy allows the patient to express their emotions as it may relate to a past traumatic event.
Performance of channel selection used for Multi-class EEG signal classification of motor imagery

In this paper, a study of a non-invasive brain-machine interfaces for the classification of 4 imaginary are presented. Performance comparisons using time-frequency analysis between the Linear Discriminant Analysis motor activities (left hand, right hand, foot, tongue) with the BCI competition III dataset IIIa is (LDA), the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and the K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithms have been carried. The number and position of electrodes for each subject were investigated to provide an improvement for the classification accuracy of the algorithm. Results show that the electrode positions varied from subject to subject; moreover , using one subset of the channels enhanced the classification performances compared to literature data. an average accuracy of 86.06% was observed among all 3 subjects.
Efficient and effective emergency obstetric care in a rural Indian community where most deliveries are at home. Averting maternal death and disability.

Most life threatening obstetric complications require hospital treatment to avert maternal mortality. Some assume that in developing countries hospital service for the poor must be in government hospitals and that a large proportion of deliveries needs to be in these hospitals to provide timely access to emergency care. This presents a major problem in countries like India where almost all rural deliveries are at home and accessible government hospitals generally do not provide surgical treatment for obstetric emergencies. The studys objectives was to determine obstetric outcomes patterns and costs of obstetric care in a part of rural Maharashtra India where obstetric outcomes appear relatively good even though most deliveries are at home and government hospitals do not provide emergency obstetric care (EmOC). 2905 pregnancies were identified and followed to term to learn the number and types of complications where these complications were treated how many women received EmOC and how these services affected outcome. 85% of 2861 deliveries after 24 weeks were at home. A total of 14.4% of deliveries after 24 weeks had identified complications. Of these complicated deliveries 78.9% were in a hospital. 48% of hospital deliveries were in a private hospital 35% in our project hospital and 18% in a government hospital. Hospitalized patients with obstetric complications constituted 11.4% of all deliveries. The cesarean section rate for all deliveries was 2.0%. 22 of the cesareans were in private hospitals 32 in the authors hospital and four in a government hospital. Hospital case fatality (deaths of mothers with identified complications) was 0.3%. Overall case fatality was 0.5%. However there were only two maternal deaths from obstetric causes (70/100000 live births) making these rates less than robust. The perinatal mortality rate was 36/1000 live and still births. These outcome and process indicators are better than those reported in most of India but both maternal deaths could have been prevented by early referral to hospital and 64% of perinatal deaths were to infants delivered at home. A network of private clinics with a voluntary low cost hospital is providing effective EmOC in a remote rural area at very low per capita cost in the absence of easily accessible government service and with only 15% of deliveries in hospitals. Charges are low but low per capita cost is primarily due to intelligent self- selection of patients who need hospital care. Even though overall cost is low cost is still an important barrier for many poor families. Improving the purchasing power of poor families through insurance or subsidy could be a more effective way to improve EmOC than trying to improve inadequate government facilities. (authors)
Scalable network-layer defense against internet bandwidth-flooding attacks

In a bandwidth-flooding attack, compromised sources send high-volume traffic to the target with the purpose of causing congestion in its tail circuit and disrupting its legitimate communications. In this paper, we present Active Internet Traffic Filtering (AITF), a network-layer defense mechanism against such attacks. AITF enables a receiver to contact misbehaving sources and ask them to stop sending it traffic; each source that has been asked to stop is policed by its own Internet service provider (ISP), which ensures its compliance. An ISP that hosts misbehaving sources either supports AITF (and accepts to police its misbehaving clients), or risks losing all access to the complaining receiver--this is a strong incentive to cooperate, especially when the receiver is a popular public-access site. We show that AITF preserves a significant fraction of a receiver's bandwidth in the face of bandwidth flooding, and does so at a per-client cost that is already affordable for today's ISPs; this per-client cost is not expected to increase, as long as botnet-size growth does not outpace Moore's law. We also show that even the first two networks that deploy AITF can maintain their connectivity to each other in the face of bandwidth flooding. We conclude that the network-layer of the Internet can provide an effective, scalable, and incrementally deployable solution against bandwidth-flooding attacks.
Common benign skin lesions

Every year, approximately one-in-four patient consultations with a GP are to seek advice about a skin-related problem. Many of these problems are benign and require no treatment. Ninety percent can be managed in the primary care setting. There is a wide range of benign skin conditions and GPs have a critical role in their diagnosis and treatment. If a GP is unable to identify benign lesions, an inappropriate priority may be given to referrals of benign lesions at the expense of more serious disorders. The aim of this article is to provide the reader with an overview of the benign skin lesions that are commonly seen in primary care, and how to recognise features that warrant referral for more specialist management. This article also provides an outline on how benign skin lesions can be treated in primary care.
Cardiac Remodeling and Physical Exercise: A Brief Review about Concepts and Adaptations

Training variable control, is relateed to frequency, duration, and intensity, that respond to the promoting changes in physical fitness. However, adaptations related to different exercise intensities are still controversial, both in regards to cardiovascular disorder prevention and rehabilitation. There are few studies dealing with cardiac adaptations under different exercise intensities, and that a better understanding physiological cardiac remodeling may inspire the design of a strategy to improve ventricular function in cardiac approach. Thus the objective of this review was to assess the influence of chronic aerobic exercise on cardiac adaptations, with a focus on different exercise intensities, as well as presenting a conceptual approach on cardiac remodeling process. Also was included the specific characteristics of cardiac remodeling in each cardiac adequacy step during training. New research trends were also outlined in order to guide studies into developing new therapy strategies for controlling cardiovascular diseases.
Long-term Effectiveness of Recommanded Boosted PI-Based Antiretroviral Therapy in Europe

Objective: To evaluate the long-term response to antiretroviral treatment (ART) based on atazanavir/ritonavir (ATZ/r)-, darunavir/ritonavir (DRV/r)-, and lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r)-containing regimens. Methods: Data were analyzed from 5,678 EuroSIDA-enrolled patients starting a DRV/r-, ATZ/r-, and LPV/rcontaining regimens between 1 January 2000 and 30 June 2013. Separate analyses were performed for the following subgroups of patients: (a) ART-naïve subjects (8%) at ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor (PI/r) initiation; (b) ART-experienced individuals (44%) initiating the new PI/r with viral load (VL) ≤500 copies/mL; and (c) ART-experienced patients (48%) initiating the new PI/r with VL >500 copies/mL. Virological failure (VF) was defined as two consecutive VL measurements >200 copies/mL after ≥24 weeks of PI/r initiation. Kaplan-Meier and multivariable Cox models were used to compare the risk of failure by PI/r-based regimens. The main analysis was performed by intention-to-treat (ITT) ignoring treatment switches. Results: The time to VF favored DRV/r over ATZ/r, and both were superior to LPV/r (log-rank test, P <0.02) in all analyses. Nevertheless, the risk of VF in ART-naïve patients was similar regardless of the PI/r initiated after controlling for potential confounders. The risk of VF in both treatment-experienced groups was lower in DRV/r than in ATZ/r, which, in turn, was lower than in LPV/r-based ART. Conclusions: Although confounding by indication and calendar year cannot be completely ruled out, in ART-experienced subjects the long-term effectiveness of DRV/r-containing regimens appears to be greater than that of ATZ/r and LPV/r.
Three-Dimensional Tumor Cell Cultures and the Role of Tissue Biorepositories in Personalized Medicine

Tissue biorepositories have long been critically important for medical research by providing human tissues for scholarly investigations. In addition to this traditional research role, tissue banks are rapidly assuming new roles in the clinical side of medicine. In the modern era of personalized medicine, tissue biorepositories are increasingly expected to establish close collaborations with clinical and laboratory units and provide banked tissues for a variety of tests that in turn will guide clinical decision making tailored to the patient [1-4]. This new role of biorepositories requires the development of novel complex standard operating procedures (SOPs) for tissue collection, processing and storage that can provide tissues ideal for a variety of novel molecular and other tests [1,3,4].
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL ESCOLA DE EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIAS DO MOVIMENTO HUMANO MESTRADO EM CIÊNCIAS DO MOVIMENTO HUMANO

The platform that allow the ankle inversion can be to make use in studies that aim simulate similar motion that ocure during the ankle sprains. The purpouse of this study was detail a eletric inversion plataform construction. Was constructed for the study a wood plataform with two rectangular planks that permites to be tilted 30°. An electrical circuit was instalated on the plataform to generate a eletric sing that indicate the start of the motion the ankle invertion. The movable plataform tilted was mensured through a eletrogoniometric and the inclination angular speed was mensured with differents loads on the plataform. We concluded that the tilted was 30° and the inclination angular speed don’t suffer influence with a differents loads. Key-words : inversion platform, ankle, spray event. Introdução Uma plataforma ou prancha que permita a inversão do pé (no plano frontal ou coronal) pode ser utilizada em pesquisas que objetivam simular um movimento semelhante ao que ocorre durante uma entorse de tornozelo. Uma entorse de tornozelo depende da angulação de inversão sofrida por esta articulação concomitantemente com a velocidade do evento. Alguns estudos que utilizaram esse equipamento em suas metodologias, avaliaram o tempo de resposta eletromiográfica dos músculos eversores do pé, após uma entorse da articulação do tornozelo, e os resultados desses estudos variaram de acordo com o ângulo de inversão da plataforma para o tornozelo [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,12]. Embora muitas pesquisas utilizem a plataforma de inversão para simulação de uma entorse de tornozelo, nenhum estudo realmente exemplificou sua forma de confecção. O presente estudo tem por objetivo detalhar a construção de uma plataforma eletrônica de inversão, medidas utilizadas, circuito eletrônico, avaliação da angulação e velocidade angular de queda da plataforma móvel com diferentes massa corporals, para que esta possa ser reproduzida facilmente por pesquisas futuras que necessitem deste recurso como forma de avaliação.
Run-DMA

Copying data from devices into main memory is a computationally-trivial, yet time-intensive, task. In order to free the CPU to perform more interesting work, computers use direct memory access (DMA) engines -- a special-purpose piece of hardware -- to transfer data into and out of main memory. We show that the ability to chain together such memory transfers, as provided by commodity hardware, is sufficient to perform arbitrary computation. Further, when hardware peripherals can be accessed via memory-mapped I/O, they are accessible to "DMA programs. " To demonstrate malicious behavior, we build a proof-of-concept DMA rootkit that modifies kernel objects in memory to perform privilege escalation for target processes.
The relation between Trichomonas vaginalis and contraceptive measures.

The relationship between the incidence of trichomonas vaginalis and the use of oral contraceptive (OC) pills was observed in 100 females from the outpatient clinic of Cairo University Hospital. 50 patients took the OC Anovlar and 50 used a size 3 Lippes Loop. 2 sample discharges were analyzed before contraceptive use i.e. 1 wet smear on a clean slide and the other cultured on Trichosol trypticase serum medium (STS) composed of Trypticase 20 gm cysteine Hcl 1 1/2 gm maltose 1 gm agar 1 gm methylene blue . 003 gm chloamphenicol . 1 gm and distilled water 950 ml. These 2 analyses were repeated at 1 3 and 6 months after OC use. The findings indicate the presence of trichomonas vaginalis in 36% of OC users at 3 months and 58% at 6 months at a significant level of <. 05 and <. 01. Before use it was 2%. The Lippes Loop users has 0% before use and 6% at 3 and 6 months at <. 05 level of significance. The results coincide with other reported results.
Kurze Verweildauer im Krankenhaus - die Rolle der Pflegenden

Short stay in hospitals - the role of nurses Economically oriented changes in the health care system are currently accompanied by a broad discussion about changes in health professional’s work structures. This article focuses on hospital care. An important part of public discussion suggests the further delegation of physician’s tasks to nurses. Main proposition of this article is that the central part of patient care should be an „intensified support of patient’s discharge ability“. Questions of restructuring the tasks of health care professionals in hospitals may only be discussed upon this basis. Demands for the roles of nurses in enforcing patient’s discharge ability are presented. Some empirical results characterize the current deficit situation and perspectives are shown.
Fighting HIV / AIDS on all fronts: Cambodias multisectoral approach.

The first HIV positive was detected in 1991 at the National Blood Bank in Phnom Penh and the first AIDS case was diagnosed at Calmette Hospital in 1993. The HIV epidemic quickly spread countrywide. The peak of the epidemic was in 1998 with about 179000 people living HIV/AIDS. By 1998 however as people progressed to advanced and symptomatic HIV disease it also became clear that prevalence rates were starting to fall. The increased number of people dying partly explains the reduction in the overall prevalence of HIV in the country as people already infected started to disappear. However the number of new HIV infections each year has also dropped particularly among young people as prevention strategies take effect. Using the HIV Sentinel Surveillance and Behavioral Sentinel Surveillance data combined the estimated HIV prevalence among adults (15-49) has been declining consecutively from 3.3 percent in 1998 to 2.8 percent in 2000 and 2.6 percent in 2007. But projections suggest that in 2007 164000 people in Cambodia were infected with HIV. (excerpt)
A Colour Atlas of Stroke

ters are organized on the basis of standard sagittal, coronal, and horizontal sections. The illustrations are composed of India ink drawings from photographs of disaected specimens. This method of presentation allows for emphasis and clarity of the dissected specimens. The MRI pictures similarly are drawings to emphasize pertinent points. This method of presentation, however, does not permit an appreciation of the true signal intensities of the various structures depicted. Furthermore, different pulse sequences, and their effects on defining anatomic structures, are not illustrated or discussed. The combination of sagittal, axial, and coronal sketches on 1 page provides an excellent opportunity for 3-dimensional orientation. The 2nd portion of the book diecusees anatomic aspects of complicated operations in the depths of the brain. This section stresses only special or difficult dissections. Instructions are given for those who wish to pursue their own dissections, but the illustrations are clear enough to stand alone and provide help with preoperative orientation. The topics include the anterior midline approach, the middle basal area of the brain, transylvian d i m t i o n of the hippocampus area, the basal ganglia, the 3rd ventricle, and the lower brainstem. Since this section does not include “standard” operations, the text is not suitable for an introductory or encyclopedic atlas of neurosurgical procedures. Overall the book is a good reference source for gaining a 3-dimensional understanding of operative anatomy.
Mesotherapy for Skin Rejuvenation

Mesotherapy is a technique that delivers vitamins, herbal extracts, and other ingredients to the mesodermal layer of the skin. Mesotherapy using multivitamin injections as an anti-aging skin treatment has been touted and used by many medical and nonmedical practitioners, despite the existence of only anecdotal reports of its effectiveness. In a prospective study, 10 patients underwent four sessions of facial mesotherapy using …
Silver Staining for Spirochetes in Tissues: Rationale, Difficulties, and Troubleshooting

the Coulter method is inefficient in these situations. We compared the RE on peripheral blood smears with the Coulter count, as well as the manual new methylene blue stain. The highest agreement was between the new methylene blue and the RE results at 83% of the cases. The least agreement was with the Coulter count at only 51%. The advantage of the estimate is simplicity. The RE provides an alternative for doing reticulocyte counts by flow cytometry, Coulter, or the laborintensive new methylene blue technique in certain situations. Emergency situations where the RE might be helpful include discerning between a hyperproliferative anemia versus a hypoproliferative state. Reticulocytes can be accurately estimated on a routine peripheral blood smear without the need of expensive automated equipment. This estimate is an excellent indicator of erythropoiesis for emergency room doctors. The advantages of this method are that it is simple, fast, economical, and easily learned. A patient with anemia can be quickly categorized as hypoproliferative or hyperproliferative.
A Systematic Review of Advance Directives and Advance Care Planning in Chinese People From Eastern and Western Cultures

There is increasing interest in the role of advance care planning (ACP) and advance directives (ADs) in eliciting patient preferences for future medical care. Whereas Americans from many cultures embrace the concept of autonomy and AD, elements of the Chinese culture may lead to disagreement with ACP. Filial piety, an important concept in Chinese culture, may hinder truth-telling, discussion of poor prognosis, and ACP. The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the empirical evidence about ACP and AD in Chinese people from Eastern and Western cultures. Databases searched were PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsychInfo, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Fifteen publications met the inclusion criteria. Narrative analysis was used and five major themes were extracted: (a) factors predicting preferences for ACP/AD, (b) Chinese-specific considerations related to ACP, (c) decision making in ACP, (d) ACP and AD knowledge, and (e) Chinese cultural aspects of ACP. There was little difference in results from Eastern versus Western countries. Culturally sensitive ACP must be approached with compassion and respect and provide a sense of dignity. A family decision-making model may be more appropriate for discussions with Chinese people about ACP and AD.