Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Henoch-Schönlein Purpura induced by Low-Dose Methotrexate

Metotreksat (MTX), cesitli malignite ve kronik inflamatuvar hastaliklarin tedavisinde kullanilan antiproliferatif bir folik asit antagonistidir. Dusuk doz, haftalik MTX tedavisi alan hastalarda sik gorulen yan etkiler bulanti ve stomatittir. Henoch-Schonlein purpurasi (HSP) genellikle, infeksiyon ajanlari, soguk, bocek isirmasi, besinler veya ilaclara bagli olarak tetiklenir. Bu yazida juvenil idiyopatik artrite yonelik dusuk doz metotrexate baslanan 14 yasindaki erkek hastada tedavinin 3. haftasinda ortaya cikan HSP literatur esliginde sunulmustur.
Mixed structured physical exercise program for obese workers: combating sedentary and metabolic risk factors related to metabolism workplace syndrome

To develop a program of high volume physical exercises, of moderate to high intensity, adapted to the working context of Kinshasa. In a trial study of structured, spontaneous and mixed physical exercise programs associated with nutrition education, lasting 3 months, from November 7 to January 7, 2014. 30 obese sedentary workers 44 ± 8 44 ± 8.6 on average, year-olds were randomly selected from 157 obese individuals out of a general population of 400 employees in the personal list of the selected company. These workers were divided into three groups of physical exercises, of which the first group consisted of 10 workers in a three-day, moderate to high intensity structured exercise program, including: jogging, aerobics, basketball, volleyball, swimming, abdominals and walking of 10,000 steps a day. The second group was also composed of 10 workers undergoing a spontaneous exercise program of the same duration, intensity and frequency including: walk, up and down the stairs and finally the third group composed and then the third group of 10 workers submitted to a mixed exercise program (the mixture of the two programs). Quantitative variables were expressed as mean ± standard deviation. The ANOVA test was used to compare the variables of two groups. A value of p-value ≤ 0.05 was considered a threshold of statistical significance. Decreased weight, waist circumference and body mass index were observed intra group before and after exercise programs. After the intervention, the group subjected to the mixed exercises improved more significantly (p = 0.0001) the morphological parameters of the obese than the group subjected to the structured and spontaneous exercises with diet. A moderate to high intensity, high volume mixed exercise program significantly improves the morphology of obese sedentary workers compared to the structured and spontaneous exercise program. It can be considered as an effective non-pharmacological strategy to combat the nutritional and epidemiological transition in the workplace, where obesity is the main cornerstone.
[Oral and periodontal hygiene in orthodontic patients].

INTRODUCTION Orthodontic appliances promote dental plaque retention and make tooth-brushing less easy. They result in both quantitative and qualitative changes in dental plaque, exposing orthodontic patients to dental caries and periodontal diseases. MATERIALS AND METHODS The authors explain the effects of orthodontic treatments on dental plaque and the occurrence of dental and periodontal problems; they emphasize the role of pathogenic bacteria and highlight the need for efficient (both individual and professional) control of dental plaque. DISCUSSION Therefore, orthodontists have to educate their patients on oral and periodontal hygiene in order to control this bacterial factor and to avoid the occurrence of dental and/or periodontal complications.
A novel hierarchical network-layer mobility management scheme based on domain-discovery for future mobile Internet

This paper presents the architecture and junction model of IP-based network-layer mobility management for the convergence of heterogeneous wireless network and next generation mobile Internet, and provides a framework of hierarchical network-layer mobility management based on domain-discovery scheme Also it gives a handoff strength measurement algorithm and a domain reorganizing scheme, regarding the asymmetry characteristics of the network services. The simulation result shows that flexible domain reorganizing scheme can obviously reduce the signaling cost and improve the traffic quality of the mobile terminal.
Healthcare Policy Changes in Osteoporosis Can Improve Outcomes and Reduce Costs in the United States

In the United States, osteoporosis affects over 10 million adults, has high societal costs ($22 billion in 2008), and is currently being underdiagnosed and undertreated. Given an aging population, this burden is expected to rise. We projected the fracture burden in US women by modeling the expected demographic shift as well as potential policy changes. With the anticipated population aging and growth, annual fractures are projected to increase from 1.9 million to 3.2 million (68%), from 2018 to 2040, with related costs rising from $57 billion to over $95 billion. Policy‐driven expansion of case finding and treatment of at‐risk women could lower this burden, preventing 6.1 million fractures over the next 22 years while reducing payer costs by $29 billion and societal costs by $55 billion. Increasing use of osteoporosis‐related interventions can reduce fractures and result in substantial cost‐savings, a rare and fortunate combination given the current landscape in healthcare policy. © 2019 The Authors. JBMR Plus published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
Transforming Python into KDM to Support Cloud Conformance Checking

Python is a well-suited language for developing web applications. This is demonstrated by the success of social networking websites like Pinterest, Reddit, Instagram, or Disqus, whose application servers mostly run Python code. But as software ages, it often needs to go through large changes in its architecture. Doing them by hand is usually tedious and error-prone. Model-driven software development is a promising approach to this problem, as it provides automation for doing software changes. One step of this is often reverse-engineering, where a model is extracted from the existing system. The Knowledge Discovery Meta-Model (KDM) is a meta-model which can be applied here. KDM, specified by the OMG (Object Management Group), describes a software system on different levels of abstraction in a language-independent way. It is designed as a standard for exchanging information between model-driven software modernization tools from different vendors. KDM is used by the CloudMIG approach to support semi-automatic model-driven migration of software systems to the cloud. CloudMIG supports cloud conformance checking, which analyzes a model for violations of a set of constraints that describe the cloud environment. CloudMIG Xpress is an implementation of the CloudMIG approach. There are already plugins to extract KDM models from Java and C# software systems. In this thesis, we present the transformation of Python software systems to KDM instances, towards the goal of supporting Python in CloudMIG Xpress. A tool for extracting a KDM model from Python is developed. As a prerequisite, a mapping between Python and KDM is defined and a multi-phase approach for transforming Python to KDM is shown. Finally, the feasibility and performance of the approach is analyzed using three Python code bases.
ESD protection for CMOS ASIC in noisy environments with high-current low-voltage triggering SCR devices

A practical solution has been proposed to safely apply the LVTSCR (low-voltage-trigger SCR) device for output ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection in the advanced submicron CMOS ASIC's without being accidentally triggered on in the noisy operating environments. By increasing the trigger current of the LVTSCR device up to 200 mA, a noise margin greater than VDD+12V (VSS-12V) against the accidental triggering due to the overshooting (undershooting) noise pulses has been practically confirmed by the experimental results. Due to remaining a lower trigger voltage, this solution can still provide effective ESD protection for output transistors but only occupies a small layout area.
Die Bedeutung der Hämolyse in Anästhesie und Intensivmedizin

Zusammenfassung Die intravasale Hämolyse mit erhöhten Plasmakonzentrationen von zellfreiem Hämoglobin tritt nicht nur bei hämolytischen Erkrankungen auf – sie ist auch bei der Transfusion von Blutkonserven sowie bei Patienten mit ARDS, Sepsis oder kardiopulmonalem Bypass für den Krankheitsverlauf von Bedeutung. Dieser Beitrag möchte den klinisch tätigen Anästhesisten für die Relevanz der Hämolyse sowie deren Prävention und Früherkennung sensibilisieren.
Impaired fasting glucose and risk of cardiovascular disease in Korean men and women: The Korean Heart Study

RESULTSdIncidence rates of CVD (per 100,000 person-years) were 2,203 for diabetes. Ageadjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for CVDwere 1.17 (95%CI 1.13–1.20) for grade 1 IFG, 1.30 (1.24– 1.35) for grade 2 IFG, and 1.81 (1.75–1.86) for diabetes. The increased risk for women was similar to that of men. Age-adjusted HRs for IHD and ischemic stroke were also significantly increased for men and women with IFG and diabetes. After multivariate adjustment of conventional risk factors (hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking, obesity, and family history of CVD), the overall risk of CVD was greatly attenuated in all categories. However, the HRs for IHD and ischemic stroke remained significantly increased in men for grade 2 IFG but not in women.
Gesture recognition using syntactical hand-sign parsing

Gesture recognition is needed for a variety of applications and is now gaining in importance as one method of enabling natural and intuitive human machine communication. The crucial point in recognizing gestures is that it requires great computational power and complicated structural analysis of the hand image, which current systems cannot yet handle at practical speeds. In this paper, a new method using syntactical hand-sign parsing is introduced to provide a simple and compact recognition algorithm. The method translates a sequence of hand-sign images into a canonical symbolic representation. As a result of this translation, the gesture-sequence becomes applicable for processing by conventional parsing algorithms. In order to verify the proposed method, we developed and evaluated an experimental gesture-recognition system for communicating command-messages to an intelligent mobile robot.
A vertex merging algorithm for extracting a variable-resolution isosurface from volume data

This paper proposes a new surface modeling approach, called the vertex merging algorithm, which extracts an isosurface from volume data such as medical images. The marching cubes algorithm (MC), one of the most famous surface extraction methods, generates several million triangles for some medical images. The enormous number of triangles is not suitable for interactive manipulation in terms of both space and time. Hence, reducing the numbers of triangles while minimizing the loss of object details is important for achieving interactive manipulation and saving the space of storage. In order to reduce the number of triangles, the authors introduce a merging scheme which merges the vertices of triangles generated by the MC at a surface generation step. For merging, the angle between two vertex normals of triangles is used for checking whether they should be merged or not. If the angle is less than the angle threshold (AT), two vertices are merged. Using this method, a variable resolution isosurface generation is available if the authors specify a various value of the AT. The experimental result shows that the authors' algorithm reduces the number of triangles by 52-68% compared with that of MC for some medical images. In spite of this reduction, the quality of the resulting images is comparable with those of the MC.
Beyond L1-L2 Equivalents: Where do Users of English as a Foreign Language Turn for Help?

Current research shows that learners use dictionaries mainly to look up meanings, and generally prefer bilingual over monolingual look-ups. Despite the remarkable advances that have taken place in pedagogical lexicography over the past decades, many features of learners’ dictionaries remain underexploited. Based on the premise that these dictionaries tend to be underused primarily because learners are insufficiently aware of their reference needs, this exploratory study examines what resources a group of 211 non-native speakers of English would choose to use when confronted with the demand to look up other types of linguistic information, beyond L1-L2 equivalents. The results suggest that reference preferences can change dramatically under these circumstances (the bilingual dictionary no longer being a favourite), and that learners do not know where to look up much of the information they need.
The Effect of Foot Reflexology on Physiological Indicators and Mechanical Ventilation Weaning Time among Open-Heart Surgery Patients

Shortening the length of mechanical ventilation (MV) and lowering dose of sedatives among critically ill patients can decrease complications, intensive care length of stay and mortality rate. Therefore, introducing non-pharmacologic interventions such as reflexology became an issue of concern for critical care nurses. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of foot reflexology on physiological indicators and mechanical ventilation weaning time in open-heart surgery (OHS) patients. Methods: Quasi-experimental study with a convenience sampling technique was used to recruit 80 patients who underwent open heart operation and admitted to cardiothoracic intensive care unit (ICU) of Mansoura University Hospital. Random assignment was allocated to the intervention group (foot reflexology) and the control group (routine care). Data were collected using participants' physiological indicators and MV weaning time assessment tool. Results: There were statistical significant differences between the foot reflexology group and the control group concerning all physiological indicators (p p Conclusion: Foot reflexology is an effective method for stabilizing physiological indicators and decreasing ventilator dependence among patients undergoing OHS. Therefore, it can be introduced as an adjunct to daily care of OHS patients in ICU.
Early Detection of Postoperative Evisceration by Measuring Intra-Abdominal Pressure: Case Report

Dehiscenţa plăgii abdominal este o complicaţie postoperatorie severă cu o rată de mortalitate de până la 45%, care se poate transforma rapid într-o evisceraţie, necesitând tratament imediat [3]. Incidenţa dehiscenţei plăgii abdominal descrisă în literatură variază între 0.4-3.5% [4]. Aceasta poate fi completă când sunt afectate toate straturile peretelui abdominal inclusive pielea, sau incompletă când pielea ramane intactă. O bună cunoaştere a factorilor de risc este esenţială pentru profilaxie, pacienţii cu risc putând beneficia de o intervenţie precoce.
DEM – A virtual laboratory for studying complex particulate flow problems

Abstract This paper presents research into the development of a computational system for modelling of complex particulate flow problems using the discrete element method (DEM). Important features of the system are: 1) particle generation with user-specified particle angularity and distribution in two and three dimensions; 2) a range of adhesion laws to enable clumping of particles and subsequent fracture/floculation based on a user-defined tensile force; 3) specification of interparticle and particle/wall friction and cohesion; 4) general prescription of drag kinematics; 6) solution efficiency; 7) post processing involving user defined cutting planes and animation. With increasing computational power DEM is becoming a tool which can be used to explore complex modelling processes in three dimensions on a desktop computer. Results are given for two and three dimensional modelling of industrial flows: dragline bucket filling; flow from bottom dump rail wagons and silo flow.
Process fault detection and diagnosis in CSTR system using on-line approximator

This paper investigates the process fault detection and diagnosis in a continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) using artificial neural networks as an on-line approximator. The results of the simulation show that in the case of the full state is measurable, the process faults can be detected and diagnosed during the transient period. However, in the case that one state is not measurable, the unmeasurable state should be first estimated before process faults can be detected and diagnosed. In this latter case the final result can only accomplished after a certain period of time, required for the settling time, has elapsed.
Looking East for Mindfulness: A Glimpse of Practices and Research on Shaolin Martial Arts and Related Practices to Advance Sport Psychology

Although mindfulness is currently receiving attention within sport psychology, there is a lack of discussion on the Eastern origins of mindfulness in the extant sport psychology literature. Several mind‒body practices linked to Chinese Chan and Shaolin martial arts are presented in this paper to illustrate their possible relevance to sport psychology. One takeaway message discussed in relation to the flow experience is that mindful performance of Shaolin martial arts is said to be integral to the psychological transformations associated with realisation of Chan (or “suchness,” satori, Enlightenment), supposedly a goal more likely to be pursued by mindfulness practitioners in the Eastern culture than in the West. Research on Dejian mind‒body intervention, dantian breathing and Shaolin internal martial arts such as Baduanjin and Yijinjing are briefly reviewed to examine the potential psychological benefits of such mind‒body practices. Advancement in sport psychology, particularly in relation to mindfulness-related topics, could benefit from a closer examination of Chan and Shaolin martial arts practices.
The Psycho-pedagogic Value of Video Games and E-sports

The human race inherited its neurobiological endowment not as an exclusively human thing but rather from all the species from which we evolved. Let us take play as an example. The concept of play has always characterized the human sphere, accompanying the child in all his stages of development and promoting psycho-evolutionary growth. To play has been recognized as the primary source of memory stimulation, attention and concentration, favoring the development of the schemes of perception and the powers of comparison and communication in the individual. Recent research in 2013 highlighted the notion that video games give adolescents and young adults the opportunity to increase and perfect social, cognitive and emotional skills, contrarily to the risks and negative effects one hears so much about. They do this through the use of the video game as a true social “gym”, used in the same way as any other peer interaction, thus promoting mental health and well-being.
Safety of cardiac resynchronization device implantation — retrospective analysis from high-volume centre

Aims: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is a treatment dedicated to patients suffering from heart failure and asynchrony of systole typically due to left bundle branch block (LBBB). The aim of this study is to analyse the safety of CRT device implantation in a large single-centre group. Methods and results: The retrospective analysis of 198 patients hospitalized in the Department of Cardiology, dr A. Jurasz University Hospital no 1 in Bydgoszcz, who underwent CRT devices implantations in two consecutive years (2015–2016) has been performed. Out of 198 patients, 136 underwent implantation of CRT de novo and 62 exchange of the device. Studied procedures included implantations of 121 (89.0%) cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-D) and 15 (11.0%) cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers (CRT-P) de novo, as procedures of exchange were excluded from statistical analysis. Collected data included: reported complications, patients’ basic clinical characteristics, comorbidities and details of implantation procedures. Development of any complication was observed in 43 patients (31.6%), out of whom 29 (21.3%) experienced one, 10 (7.4%) two and 4 (2.9%) three complications. Most of them were minor complications. Serious complications which included pneumothorax, mediastinal hematoma and cardiac tamponade were observed in 6 (4.4%) cases, there were no perioperative deaths. The occurrence of complications was significantly more frequent in females (OR , 3.45, 95% CI 1.37–8.71, p 0.008), was associated with prolonged procedure time (OR 1.11, 95% CI 1.04–1.20, p 0.003) and prolonged hospitalization time (OR 1.16, 95% CI 1.06–1.27, p 0.001). Conclusion: Overall, implantations of CRT devices are burdened with a substantial risk of complications, although the majority of them are minor and do not require subsequent surgical intervention. The risk of developing serious complications is low, accounting for 4.4%.
Information preserved guided scan pixel difference coding for medical images

This paper analyzes the information content of medical images, with 3-D MRI images as an example, in terms of information entropy. The results of the analysis justify the use of pixel difference coding for preserving all information contained in the original pictures, lossless coding in other words. The experimental results also indicate that the compression ratio CR=2:1 can be achieved under the lossless constraints. A practical implementation of pixel difference coding which allows interactive retrieval of local ROI (region of interest), while maintaining the near low bound information entropy, is discussed.
Word Segmentation: Quick but not Dirty

Acknowledgments Portions of this work were presented at the 34th Northeaster Linguistic Society meeting, the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, University of Delaware, University of Southern California, University of Michigan, University of Illinois. We thank these audiences for useful comments. In addition, we are grateful to Steve Anderson, Noam Chomsky, Morris Halle, Bill Idsardi, Julie Legate, Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, Jenny Saffran and Brian Scholl for discussions on the materials presented here.
Nutritional Quality and Effect on Disease Prevention of Vegetables

Vegetables have remarkable nutritional and health benefits. There are good reasons to include vegetables in human diet since they are enriched in bioactive compounds and by this reason they may help reduce the risk of some diseases. In this paper it was analyzed the nutrition quality and effect on disease prevention of vegetables. Each vegetable family and each vegetable contain a unique combination of bioactive compounds. The health benefit of vegetables should not be linked to one type of vegetable. It is presented some experimental research evidences that vegetables exert anti-oxidative, anti-carcinogenic, anti-diabetic and cardiovascular disease lowering effects. The mechanism by which vegetable bioactive compounds decrease the risk of some of these diseases is complex and sometimes unknown.