Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Population-Based Nursing: Concepts and Competencies for Advanced Practice

In less than 300 pages, this book nicely integrates epidemiological concepts, evidence-based practice in population health, and program development and evaluation.Authors describe epidemiological research designs, research synthesis, and evidence assessment--knowledge essential for advanced practice nurses working with populations or in the community. Another highlight in this book is the assessment of health program quality and population health outcomes. "--Journal of Community Health Nursing "Population-Based Nursing" is the first text designed specifically for the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) core competencies in epidemiology and population health. This unique guide addresses essential areas of content recommended by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) to ensure graduate students are adequately prepared to enter the nursing field. This groundbreaking textbook provides readers with the information they need to identify health care needs at the population level and to improve population outcomes, two important core competencies outlined by AACN for all DNP programs. Key Features: Content on acute, sub-acute, and long term care, and community population health Case studies with examples of successful strategies that nurses have used to improve population outcomes High-level application activities that aim to help readers achieve Healthy People 2020 health initiatives and improve population health Information on the identification of health care disparities and the strategies for eliminating or mitigating them
Psychometric properties of the Granada Burnout Questionnaire applied to nurses

de la Fuente, Emilia I. ; Garcia, Juan; Canadas, Guillermo A. ; San Luis, Concepcion; Canadas, Gustavo R. ; Aguayo, Raimundo; de la Fuente, Leticia; Vargas, Cristina Propiedades psicometricas y baremos del Cuestionario de Burnout Granada en profesionales de Enfermeria International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, vol. 15, num. 2, mayo-agosto, 2015, pp. 130-138 Asociacion Espanola de Psicologia Conductual Granada, Espana
Relationship between Thyroid Dysfunction and Serum Low-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels in Subjects Undergoing Annual Health Examination in Japan

Objective: A limited number of epidemiological studies have attempted to assess thyroid function and coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factors in the general population. We attempted to clarify relationships between underlying thyroid dysfunction and serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels in subjects undergoing annual health examination in Japan. Methods: Of 2 , 727 subjects who visited Tokai University Hachioji Hospital for annual health examination, 1 , 434 men and 1 , 065 women were included in this study. Subjects on medication for dyslipidemia, and those with a prior history of thyroid disease or CAD were excluded. We classifie d thyroid function based on serum thyrotropin (TSH) concentrations. Results: LDL-C levels in subjects with low TSH were lower than those in subjects with normal TSH. On the other hand, no difference in LDL-C levels was observed in subjects with high TSH. In females aged 55 and above, more than 40 % had high LDL-C levels, and more than 10 % had a high TSH concentration. Moreover, for this subject group, the percentage achievement of treatment goals gradually declined in pace with increasing TSH levels, going from low, through normal, to high. Specifi cally, more than half of the female subjects in this age group with high TSH did not achieve their treatment goals. Conclusion: Th e results of our study to assess whether high LDL-C is due to thyroid dysfunction suggest that female subjects aged 55 years and above with LDL-C ≥ 140 mg/dL should receive thyroid function tests. Keyword thyroid function, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, TSH
Tourism and the Semiotics of Nostalgia

In 1689 a Japanese poet travels to the deep north. Describing a tour of the island, he is nevertheless no tourist. His journey is in part a religious pilgrimage, in part the commemoration of localities celebrated by earlier poets, and in part an allegory of a passage into death. The religious dimension of his journey is clear. Basho speaks of being constrained to silence about certain things he has seen because of the rules he must obey as a pilgrim. Before their departure, his companion Sora changes his name, takes the tonsure, and puts on the black robes of an itinerant priest. And the shrines that Basho visits are at once poetic and religious sites, and often sites of natural beauty as well. Their auratic value, and their deep linkage to the past, is made up of one or more of three elements: a name (which may encapsulate a story, or a reference to a divinity); a legend (which endows it with a history); and poetic thematization. Places are sanctified, in a way that is neither simply religious nor simply aesthetic, by the poems that have been written about them, some of which are of such antiquity that they have taken on the anonymity of custom. Indeed, poetic theme and local tradition may have become inseparable, as at the shrine of Muro-no-yashima, where "it was the custom. for poets to sing of the rising smoke, and for ordinary people not to eat konoshiro, a speckled fish, which has a vile smell when burnt. "' The poems that Basho writes in response are a form of homage: to the past poet, and to the place in its local particularity. They are texts to be read, but also material objects (strips of silk) left hanging in dedication at the site. Time and distance are abolished in the continuity between this gift described in the narrative and the poem that we read on the page. Yet, in another sense, Basho's voyage is precisely a model of contemporary tourism-not in the sense of the banal anthropological analysis of tourism as
Les axes de recherche des états de stress post-traumatiques

La conference de consensus de Cape Town a fait le point sur les avancees theoriques, cliniques et therapeutiques apres 15 ans de travaux intenses et touffus sur les etats de stress post-traumatiques. Le tableau qu’elle dresse nous impose une reevaluation de notre pratique quotidienne au regard de l’etat de la science.
Visualisierung molekularer Zielstrukturen bei Entzündungen und Infektionen

Zusammenfassung Exo- und endogene Reize führen zu Abwehrreaktionen des hämatopoetisch-immunologischen Zellsystems, die von der Emigration entzündungsrelevanter Zellen bis hin zu lytischen Prozessen reichen. Mittlerweile wurden Radiopharmaka für die Visualisierung einer Großzahl von Einzelaspekten inflammatorischer Prozesse entwickelt und sowohl in vitro als auch in vivo untersucht. Ein klarer Schwerpunkt liegt dabei unverändert auf granulozytären Prozessen, wobei von den Granulozyten, über deren Adhäsion und Emigration, ihren gesteigerten Energiebedarf und ihre erhöhte Rezeptorexpression bereits eine Vielzahl von Aspekten adressiert und visualisiert werden können. Die Visualisierung des adaptiven Immunsystems – speziell der Lymphozyten – kann mittlerweile mittels Antikörpern und Peptiden erfolgen. Für die Bildgebung bei Infektionen wurden bakterienspezifische Substanzen, wie z. B. markierte Antibiotika und antimikrobielle Peptide, entwickelt sowie Besonderheiten des bakteriellen Stoffwechsels adressiert. Auffällig ist generell, dass in den vergangenen Jahren viele der lange bekannten Einzelphotonen-emittierenden Radiopharmaka für die Positronen-emittierende nuklearmedizinische Diagnostik variiert und evaluiert wurden. Da viele der theoretisch spezifischen Radiopharmaka unspezifisch in Entzündungen exsudiert werden, könnte die unterschiedliche Kinetik von spezifischen und unspezifischen Anreicherungen ein Beitrag zu einer erhöhten Spezifität der nuklearmedizinischen Entzündungsdiagnostik sein.
A Study on Hierarchical Distributed Intrusion Detection for Secure Home Networks Service

In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical distributed intrusion detection system, named HNHDIDS(Home Network Hierarchical Distributed Intrusion Detection System), which is not only based on the structure of distributed intrusion detection system, but also fully consider the environment of secure home networks service. The proposed system is hierarchically composed of the one-class support vector machine(support vector data description) and local agents, in which it is designed for optimizing for the environment of secure home networks service. We support our findings with computer experiments and analysis.
An X-Ku Band Distributed GaN LNA MMIC with High Gain

A high-gain wideband low noise amplifier (LNA) using 0.25-㎛ Gallium-Nitride (GaN) MMIC technology is presented. The LNA shows 8 ㎓ to 15 ㎓ operation by a distributed amplifier architecture and high gain with an additional common source amplifier as a mid-stage. The measurement results show a flat gain of 25.1±0.8 ㏈ and input and output matching of -12 ㏈ for all targeted frequencies. The measured minimum noise figure is 2.8 ㏈ at 12.6 ㎓ and below 3.6 ㏈ across all frequencies. It consumes 98 ㎃ with a 10-V supply. By adjusting the gate voltage of the mid-stage common source amplifier, the overall gain is controlled stably from 13 ㏈ to 24 ㏈ with no significant variations of the input and output matching.
Comparative breeding success of wild and reared pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) in southern England

Une population de faisans, Phasianus colchicus, composee d'oiseaux sauvages et d'oiseaux d'elevage, a ete suivie intensivement entre 1988 et 1994 sur un territoire de polyculture-elevage de 400 ha situe dans le Nord-Est du Dorset, en Angleterre. Apres avoir ete captures, les oiseaux ont ete equipes d'emetteurs-radio (142 poules) ou de colliers de type poncho permettant une reconnaissance individuelle (127 poules et 327 coqs) puis relâches. L'objectif de cette etude a ete de mesurer les effets de l'origine des oiseaux (sauvage ou d'elevage) et de l'âge des oiseaux d'elevage (juveniles, c'est-a-dire dans leur premiere saison de reproduction, ou adultes, c'est-a-dire dans leur deuxieme saison de reproduction ou suivantes) sur la territorialite, la taille du harem et la reussite de la reproduction. Il n'y a pas eu de difference entre coqs adultes d'elevage et coqs sauvages en ce qui concerne la probabilite pour qu'ils deviennent territoriaux, mais ces deux groupes ont mieux reussi a etablir un territoire (80 %, n = 54, et 93 %, n = 27) que les coqs juveniles d'elevage (45 %, n = 144). Toutefois, les coqs adultes d'elevage ont attire un plus grand nombre de poules dans leur harem (3,4 poules par coq, n = 25) que les coqs sauvages (1,5 poule par coq, n = 44) et que les coqs juveniles d'elevage (1,6 poule par coq, n = 70). Les poules adultes d'elevage ont essaye de nidifier plus souvent [1,11 ± 0,25 (ecart type) tentatives par poule, n = 9] que les poules juveniles d'elevage (0,53 ± 0,10, n = 64) et que les poules sauvages (0,57 ± 0,11, n = 49). Les poules sauvages et les poules adultes d'elevage ont reussi a faire eclore un plus grand nombre de poussins (1,5-1,9 poussins par poule) que les poules juveniles d'elevage (0,7 poussins par poule), malgre le peu de differences entre groupes dans la taille des pontes (8,3-10,1 œufs). En general, la reussite de la reproduction des faisans d'elevage dans leur premiere annee a ete plus faible que celui des faisans sauvages, mais les faisans d'elevage qui avaient survecu jusqu'a l'âge de deux ans ont eu une reussite de la reproduction identique a celle des faisans sauvages. Plusieurs facteurs, comme une parade precoce et un comportement de dominance chez les coqs, une bonne condition physique avant incubation et le choix d'un bon site de nidification chez les poules, pourraient etre a l'origine de cette augmentation avec l'âge de la performance reproductrice des faisans d'elevage.
The Damocles Syndrome: Psychosocial Consequences of Surviving Childhood Cancer

In the foreword to this excellent book, Dr Leon Eisenberg indicates that the psychological dilemma in childhood cancer has changed from one of adaptation to the imminence of death to a position of needing to cope with uncertain survival. This uncertainty for the child and family is likened to the sword of Damocles from the story told by Cicero. In this clearly written book, Drs Koocher and O'Malley relate the results of a study begun in 1975. The study was designed to assess the nature and incidence of psychosocial consequences among childhood cancer survivors and their families. As a consequence of this study they hoped to make recommendations for the care of patients to reduce long-term psychological problems apparent from their study. The subjects chosen for this study had survived for more than five years malignancies that had been diagnosed before the age of 18 years. These survivors had been
Corneal confocal microscopy image quality analysis and validity assessment

Corneal Confocal Microscopy (CCM) image analysis is a new non-invasive and iterative surrogate endpoint to detect, monitor and quantify Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN). This paper presents an automated system that analyses CCM images and assesses their quality for further analysis and quantification. The method is based on a dual-model nerve-fibre detection technique followed by an SVM linear classifier, which uses the area distribution of the response image. A Monte-Carlo analysis has shown a correct recognition rate of 92% on a database of images captured randomly from the cornea at different confocal depths.
A Review Paper based on Built in Self Test

In the era of submicron technology memories may develop failure during the operation within their expected lifetime. The circuit needs to put on test mode and validates that whether it is free of fault or not, with the assumption that they would not damage within the expected life span, as the technology is shrinking assumption does not hold for the modern day. In the virtue of submicron technology to conquer such problem redundant circuitry kept on chips which replace the faulty part. It tests circuit every time before they start up. Module sensitizes the fault and propagates the effect to the output of CUT the main emphasis of the circuit design is to have low area and high speed, and low power. It generates many patterns for 0 to 2^n if there are n flip-flops. The BIST a redundant circuit kept on the chip which replaces the erroneous circuit with the error-free part. This paper concluded basic test problems and some reliable methods of solution are discussed. The basic concept of BIST is that it provides a path by which system could test it. KeywordsBuilt -in Self-Test, Boundary-Scan, Test Pattern Generation, Response Analysis, Scan Path.
The occurrence and pathology of chlamydiosis in domestic and laboratory animals: a review.

: The literature on the various disease syndromes caused by chlamydia in domestic and laboratory animals is summarized. A review of the pathological lesions which characterize these diseases is presented and the pathogenesis of chlamydiosis is briefly discussed. Some aspects of unpublished findings on the occurrence of intestinal, kidney and genital lesions in natural and experimental cases of chlamydiosis in cattle and sheep, abortions and conjunctivitis in horses in South Africa are recorded.
12.2 - A case study in creating flexible FTI configuration software

This paper presents a case study in designing flexible, future-proofed FTI configuration software. It starts by outlining the challenges posed to software in supporting the combined FTI and related product lines of two historically disjoint customer bases that differ in their software user experience but still have the same high expectation levels when it comes to customer support. The paper then describes how Aerospace Instrumentation (AI) used this opportunity to reconfigure two software products to not only support historically separate product lines, but also to create greater choice for their customers in addition to providing greater flexibility and options for the future.
DHA May Have a Profoundly Protective Impact on the Lungs of Smokers

Evidence has accumulated over the last twenty years that smokers who frequently ingest fish are at lower risk for both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer. Plasma phospholipid levels of DHA, but not EPA, have been reported to correlate inversely with risk for COPD in smokers, suggesting that DHA may be primarily responsible for the apparent protection afforded to lungs of smokers by fish consumption. Meanwhile, evidence is emerging that certain metabolites of DHA - including 4 - hydroxy hexenal (4-HHE), 17 - oxo - DHA, and resolvin D1 - can activate Nrf2 - mediated transcription of heme oxygenase - 1 and other antioxidant / cytoprotective enzymes. Since the oxidant stress imposed by cigarette smoke exposure could be expected to promote peroxidation of membrane DHA and hence boost production of 4 - HHE, DHA in lung membranes may in effect up-regulate the protective feedback mechanism whereby oxidative stress provokes Nrf2 - mediated induction of cytoprotective enzymes. DHA can also give rise to the autacoid resolvin D1, which, via activation of a receptor, suppresses NF - kappaB activation and the consequent production of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Resolvin D1 can also inhibit macrophage NADPH oxidase and promote an anti-inflammatory M2 phenotype in lung macrophages. Not surprisingly, inhalation of resolvin D1 has a marked anti-inflammatory impact on the lungs of mice exposed to tobacco smoke. These considerations help to rationalize the epidemiology linking fish consumption to lung health, and suggest that smokers who can’t or won’t quit their habit would be well advised to consume fish or DHA supplements regularly. Higher intakes of fruits and vegetables - likely in part because many of these contain Nrf2 - activating phytochemicals - likewise are associated with lower risk for COPD, and can be recommended for smokers.
Control of RNA function by conformational design

RNAs (Ribonukleinsauren) spielen eine tragende Rolle im Lebenszyklus jeder Zelle. Sie bilden das Bindeglied zwischen dem genetischen Bauplan (DNA) und den daraus erzeugten Proteinen und ubernehmen eine Vielzahl von regulatorischen Aufgaben. Diese Aufgaben werden grosteils von der Molekulstruktur bestimmt, welche wiederum auf Grund experimenteller Daten und der daraus abgeleiteten physikalischen Regeln vorhergesagt werden kann. Im Rahmen dieser Dissertation werde ich vier Projekte vorstellen, die sich mit RNA Design und der Faltungskinetik interagierender RNAs beschaftigen. Zwei der Projekte sind bereits in offentlichen Journalen erschienen, fur die beiden anderen werden vorlaufige Resultate prasentiert die als Basis fur eine separate Publikationen dienen. Die erste Publikation beschaftigt sich mit dem Design von RNAs mit katalytischer Funktion, sogenannten Ribozymen. Das Augenmerk liegt dabei auf Sequenzen die sich selbst prozessieren konnen, sodass mehrere Kopien des selben Molekuls aneinandergehangt werden. Die Resultate zeigen das Potential von RNAs im Ursprung des Lebens, namlich dass prabiologische RNA-Genome aus kurzeren Sequenzen gebaut werden konnten. In der zweiten Publikation wurden RNAs designed, die die Moglichkeit haben Kopien von sich selbst von einer aktiven Struktur in eine andere umzufalten. Solche Mechanismen sind bisher nur fur Proteine beschrieben worden. Die sogenannten Prionen sind Ausloser neurologischer Erkrankungen, z.B. von Creutzfeldt-Jakob. Biotechnologish, konnen diese RNAs als molekulare Sensoren eingesetzt werden, aber sie konnen auch dabei helfen die molekularen Mechanismen von Prionen-Krankheitserregern besser zu verstehen. Eine zentrale Herausforderung der oben genannten Publikationen bestand darin RNA-RNA Interaktionen zu modellieren. Die Konzentrationsabhangikeit der beteiligten Molekule macht eine genaue Vorhersage der kinetischen Prozesse komplizierter als fur intramolekulare Faltung. Die Entwicklung eines Programs zur Modelierung von intermolekluarer Faltunskinetik, ermoglicht detailierte Simulationen von kurzen interagierenden RNAs. Das letzte Kapitel betrifft die Synthese von RNA in der Zelle, i. e. co-transkriptionelle Faltung. Anhand eines Beispiels wird beschrieben, wie man den Einfluss kleiner Metaboliten in die Simulation von co-transcriptioneller Faltung einbeziehen kann. Das Beispiel wurde im Kontext eines Buchkapitels zur Modellierung von Riboswitches verwendet. Zusatzlich wird hier ein neues Programm prasentiert, DrTransformer , um cotranscriptionelle Faltung auch fur langere RNAs mit hoherer Genauigkeit vorherzusagen, als es bisher moglich war.
THE TWO-WAY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OBESITY AND PERIODONTITIS Obezite ve Periodontitis Arasindaki Karşilikli İlişki

Periodontitis ve obezite iki kronik enflamatuar hastaliktir. Obezite ve periodontitis sistemik enflamasyonla ilgili olduklarindan bu iki hastaligin ortak patofizyolojiye sahip oldugu soylenebilir. TNF-alfa ve IL-6 obezite ve periodontitisin patofizyolojisinde yer alan sitokinlerdir. Bu sitokinlerin seviyeleri obezite ve periodontitis ile birlikte artar. Resistin immun hucreler tarafindan uretilir ve bu yuzden de enflamatuar surecin aktivasyonunda yer alir. Resistinin pro-enflamatuar ozellikleri TNF-alfa ve IL-6 salinimi ve adiponektinin anti-enflamatuar etkilerinin bozulmasidir. Periodontitiste serumda resistin seviyesi artmaktadir. Ayni zamanda adipoz dokular da adiponektin gibi bazi anti-enflamatuar faktorleri salgilamaktadir. Obez bireylerde normal agirliktaki bireylere gore plazmada azalmis adiponektin seviyeleri gorulmektedir. Ayrica bilimsel kanitlar periodontitisli bireylerde serum adiponektin seviyesinin ve fonksiyonunun azaldigini gostermektedir. Sonuc olarak, periodontitis ve obezite cesitli sitokinler, proteinler, ve vitaminler araciligiyla birbirleri ile iliskili iki hastaliktir.
La contraception chez la femme diabétique

La contraception doit etre systematiquement abordee en consultation chez une femme diabetique pour permettre le choix d’une methode efficace et bien toleree. Cela permet la programmation des grossesses, necessaire a un bon deroulement de celles-ci. Les estroprogestatifs constituent la contraception hormonale la plus utilisee. Leurs effets metaboliques sont minimes, que ce soit sur la glycemie ou sur le metabolisme lipidique. Leurs effets vasculaires ont ete peu etudies specifiquement chez les diabetiques ; les quelques etudes retrouvent une augmentation du risque vasculaire mais tres peu d’evenement. Il ne semble pas y avoir d’impact sur l’apparition d’une microangiopathie. Le diabete n’est pas une contre-indication a l’utilisation d’un estroprogestatif, a condition qu’il n’y ait pas de complication microvasculaire ni de facteur de risque associe. Dans le diabete de type 2 ces conditions sont rarement reunies et il faut alors privilegier les contraceptions sans impact vasculaire : hormonales type microprogestatif, implants, non hormonales (comme un dispositif intra-uterin).
Proposal for a permanent magnet system with a constant gradient mechanically adjustable in direction and strength

A design for a permanent magnet system is proposed that generates spatially homogeneous, constant magnetic field gradients, thus creating conditions suitable for MRI without gradient coils and amplifiers. This is achieved by superimposing a weak Halbach quadrupole on a strong Halbach dipole. Rotation of either the quadrupole or the entire magnet assembly can be used to generate two-dimensional images via filtered backprojection. Additionally, the mutual rotation of two quadrupoles can be used to scale the resulting gradient. If both gradients have identical strength the gradient can even be made to vanish. The concept is demonstrated by analytical considerations and FEM simulations. However, a demonstration on a working prototype is still pending. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Concepts Magn Reson Part B (Magn Reson Engineering), 2016