Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Muscle Size and Quality of the Gluteal Muscles and Tensor Fasciae Latae in Women with Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome

Greater trochanteric pain syndrome (GTPS) is prevalent in women and severely impacts quality of life. A key muscle group demonstrating reduced strength are the hip abductors. An understanding of specific muscles affected will help guide targeted rehabilitation. Objectives of this case–control study were to compare gluteal and tensor fasciae latae (TFL) muscle size and quality (fatty infiltration) in women with symptomatic GTPS to asymptomatic age‐matched female controls. Magnetic resonance imaging of 16 women with GTPS (mean age 55.75 years, range 23–69) and 15 asymptomatic controls (mean age 55.60 years, range 31–66) was undertaken. Muscle volumes of the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, gluteus minimus, and TFL were calculated. Fatty infiltration was rated using the Goutallier classification system for all muscles in their entirety, as well as anterior and posterior segments of gluteus medius and minimus. Muscle volumes and fatty infiltration were compared between groups. Significantly smaller muscle volumes were identified in the symptomatic group for the upper (P = 0.01) and lower (P = 0.04) portions of gluteus maximus, gluteus medius (P = 0.03), and gluteus minimus (P = 0.02). There was no difference in TFL (P = 0.18). Symptomatic participants displayed significantly greater fatty infiltration in gluteus maximus upper (P = 0.021) and lower (P = 0.049) when adjusted for BMI, and gluteus minimus (P = 0.018), particularly in the posterior portion (P = 0.04). Anterior gluteus minimus demonstrated high amounts of fatty infiltration in both groups. Gluteal muscle atrophy and fatty infiltration in women with GTPS suggests gluteus maximus and minimus may be an important target for rehabilitation. Clin. Anat. , 33:1082‐1090, 2020. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Engaging Students in Searching the Literature

Abstract In 2014, the library curriculum for the College of Pharmacy was revised, with the number of sessions increased from one per term for two terms to one per term for three terms, instruction was scaffolded, and the flipped classroom model was employed, with active learning and assessments used throughout. This article will describe how the active learning portion of one session was gamified: why a “serious game” was the correct tool to use to improve student learning, how the game was created, and what was the theory underlying this transformation.
Sistem Kendali PID untuk Pengendalian Kecepatan MotorPenggerak Unmanned Ground Vehicle untuk AplikasiIndustri Pertanian

Saat ini, penelitian terhadap penggunaan UGV dalam bidang industri pertanian dilakukan secara intensif. UGV dapat diaplikasikan dalam bidang industri pertanian dikarenakan operasinya yang fleksibel dan bentuknya yang sesuai dengan kondisi pada lahan pertanian. Salah satu faktor penting dalam pengoperasian UGV di lahan pertanian adalah pengendalian kecepatan geraknya. Kecepatan gerak UGV secara langsung ditentukan oleh kecepatan sudut dari motor DC yang digunakan sebagai tenaga penggerak pada roda-roda UGV. Artikel ini akan mendeskripsikan mengenai perancangan sistem kendali untuk mengendalikan kecepatan motor DC penggerak pada roda UGV. Pengendalian UGV ini dirancang menggunakan sistem kendali PID dimana berdasarkan metode trial dan eror dihasilkan nilai gain persamaan PID sebagai berikut KP = 0.03, KI = 0.0000001, dan KD = 0.005. Kecepatan UGV pada penelitian ini diuji dengan menggunakan dua input perintah kecepatan sudut dalam pemrogramannya. Berdasarkan pengujian sistem kendali menggunakan input 5500 RPM dan 4500 RPM diperoleh hasil bahwa UGV dapat bergerak pada jalur lurus dengan kecepatan yang konstan dengan nilai 0.528 m/s dan 0.431 m/s. Input perintah pada program berupa nilai RPM pada persamaan sistem kendali menghasilkan pengendalian motor DC yang tepat dibandingkan input program berupa nilai PWM secara langsung untuk menggoperasikan motor DC.
GABAergic plasticity in neuronal circuits of fear

Neuronal circuits of fear and anxiety have been studied extensively not only to understand basic principles underlying anxiety disorders but also to investigate mechanisms of learning and memory. Fear conditioning is a powerful model system of associative learning, where the animal learns that an initially neutral stimulus predicts a fearful event. A key brain structure in this experimental paradigm is the amygdala, located in the temporal lobe. Synaptic plasticity of amygdala principle neurons gained a lot of attention and it has been shown how converging inputs trigger strengthening of synaptic transmission, which molecular changes are involved and which glutamatergic cell types and output pathways are important for high fear and low fear states. However, network mechanisms balancing the activity of these pyramidal neurons remain poorly understood. It is conceivable that amongst other contributors, local GABAergic interneurons might be involved and undergo plastic changes with fear conditioning and extinction. In my thesis I focused on how GABAergic transmission onto pyramidal cells is organized in fear circuits. First, in a broad approach and in collaboration with Yu Kasugai and Franceso Ferraguti from the Medical University Innsbruck, we show that fear conditioning induces functional and ultrastructural changes at inhibitory synapses. Following fear learning, GABAergic transmission is enhanced, which is correlated with an enlargement of synapses and a change in receptor subunit composition. Second, in target specific experiments, I studied the dynamic regulation of inhibition from CCK expressing interneurons onto two functionally distinct classes of projections neurons. Data indicate that characteristics at these synapses facilitate asymmetric activity of particular pyramidal cell populations via retrograde endocannabinoid signaling and that inhibitory control is organized in a cell type specific manner.
The Current Status of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Prevalence in the MENA Region: A Systematic Review

Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a highly prevalent herpesvirus worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), CMV infects people of all ages, and by the age of five, approximately one-third of children in the United States are infected. Although the infection is generally asymptomatic, it can cause severe disease in immunocompromised patients, transplant and transfusion recipients, as well as newborn neonates. The objective of this study is to systematically review published literature on CMV in the MENA region to estimate its incidence in the region and describe its epidemiological and clinical significance. The literature was searched through four scientific databases: PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, and Web of Science. A total of 72 studies from 11 countries satisfied the inclusion criteria, covering a period from 1988–2019. The CMV IgG seroprevalence ranged from 8.7–99.2% (SD = 38.95%). CMV incidence in these countries ranged between 1.22% and 77% in transplant and transfusion recipients, with an increase in incidence with advanced age. However, the incidence rate was unclear for congenital CMV due to the variability of the reporting. This review highlights the need for more robust and well-designed studies to better estimate CMV incidence in the MENA region, standardize diagnostic criteria, and consider prophylactic and pre-emptive treatments to limit the morbidity and mortality of the disease.
Recruitment Practices and Performance of Unionised Organisations in the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Industry in Lagos State, Nigeria

organisations in the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Industry in Lagos State. Recruiting people who are wrong for the organisation can produce long-term negative effects like high training costs, recruitment costs, loss of goodwill or reputation, increased labour turnover and loss of profitability. The adopted research design is the survey method. The proportional stratified sampling was used to select equal sample of thirty (30) from each of the organisations surveyed. A total of four hundred and twenty (420) research subjects were drawn from fourteen respondent companies. However, 284 copies of questionnaire were properly completed and used for data analysis. This represents 68 per cent response rate. The research instrument was subjected to validity and reliability testing. The domain of validity also called intrinsic validity was used for the validity estimate. Validity estimate is 0.93 while the Cronbach‟s Alpha is 0.86 being the reliability coefficient of the instrument. The hypothesis for the study was tested using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation, Regression Model and Chisquare test of goodness-of–fit at 5 per cent level of significance. It was hypothesised that recruitment practices do not affect performance of unionised organisations. The result of hypothesis test shows that recruitment practices exhibited significant relationship between public image, staff morale and rate of sales. Although, there exists significant negative relationship between sales and recruitment practices (r = - 0.121; p< 0.05). However, recruitment practices have positive and significant relationship with public image (r = 0.120; p< 0.05) and staff morale (r = 0.140; p< 0.05). The Chi-square test of goodness-of-fit also confirms that recruitment practices affect performance of unionised organisations (x 2 =127.13, df=2, p< 0.01). Similarly, the result of the regression analysis shows that recruitment practices affect performance of unionised organisations in the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Industry in Lagos State. From the foregoing, it is recommended that for organisations to achieve quantum leap in their performance indices, they should put in place policies to guide the conduct of recruitment in order to achieve optimal performance. Recruitment methods and sources contribute to performance of organisations. Therefore, managers should give adequate consideration to these before embarking on recruitment effort. Government policies on preferential quota system and Federal Character Principle with respect to recruitment in the public sector need to be re-examined with a view to improving performance of public sector organisations in Nigeria.
Bank Loans, Ownership Structure and Efficiency of Listed Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria

Bank loans through bank-firm relationship is expected to enhance the performance of firms owing to the possession of private information on the firms that is not readily available to other outside investors. This special relationship is deemed to be very important than equity financing in performing monitoring function on the management especially in the period of economic crisis. This study collected data for 76 non-financial firms from the Nigerian Stock Exchange between 1997 and 2007 and analyzed it with OLS, FE and GMM models to verify the impact of bank loans and ownership structure on firm productivity. The results show that bank loans and director ownership had negative impact on the efficiency of firms; however, while it was significant for the director ownership, it was insignificantÂ for the bank loans. Hence, the result confirms the entrenchment hypothesis of the managerial ownership for the Nigerian corporate governance.
The co-occurrence of spouse and physical child abuse: A review and appraisal

For more than 20 years, there have been periodic reports in the research literature about the co-occurrence of spouse abuse and physical child abuse. This review compiles and evaluates those reports. Forty-two studies were found that provided some data concerning co-occurrence; 31 of the studies included sufficient detail to be used in this review. The different types of studies are classified and methodological issues are discussed. The base rate of co-occurrence found in representative community samples was about 6%. In clinical samples of either battered women or physically abused children, the percentage of overlap ranged from 20% to 100%. When a conservative definition of child abuse was used, a median co-occurrence rate of 40% was found. Five models depicting the directionality of abuse in violent families are proposed and discussed in relation to the data and theories of violence. Recommendations for methodological improvements and theory-driven studies are presented. As early as 1975, reports appeared indicating that children whose parents engaged in physical violence were also likely to be victims of physical maltreatment. Moore (1975) was one of the first to sound the alarm. She discovered that 13% of the children from 23 maritally violent families had been physically hurt or were threatened with violence. That same year, Levine (1975) also commented on the problem of co-occurring violence but found only a 2% rate of overlap between marital violence and physical child abuse. Since that time there have been periodic reports of the overlap between marital violence and physical child abuse--with overlap rates that typically are much higher than either of the rates first reported. However, to
Hot European Summers and the Role of Soil Moisture in the Propagation of Mediterranean Drought

Abstract Drought in spring and early summer has been shown to precede anomalous hot summer temperature. In particular, drought in the Mediterranean region has been recently shown to precede and to contribute to the development of extreme heat in continental Europe. In this paper, this mechanism is investigated by performing integrations of a regional mesoscale model at the scale of the European continent in order to reproduce hot summer inception, starting with different initial values of soil moisture south of 46°N. The mesoscale model is driven by the large-scale atmospheric conditions corresponding to the 10 hottest summers on record from the European Climate Assessment dataset. A northward progression of heat and drought from late spring to summer is observed from the Mediterranean regions, which leads to a further increase of temperature during summer in temperate continental Europe. Dry air formed over dry soils in the Mediterranean region induces less convection and diminished cloudiness, which get.
Morphometric analysis of indigenous, exotic and crossbred chickens ( gallus domesticus L.) In Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Context: The quantification of morphometric variations has been regarded as peripheral to the mechanistic study of development of a species. This is now changing because the rapidly advancing knowledge of development in post-genomic biology is creating a need for more refined measurements of the morphometric changes produced by genetic perturbations or treatments. Objective: To estimate the age at marketable size and body morphometric parameters of indigenous, exotic and crossbred chicken to use such parameters as discriminate variables and to investigate the relationships among the variables of the chicken breeds under study. Materials and Methods: Six chicken breeds namely an indigenous (non descriptive, Deshi ), four exotics as Broiler, Cockerel, Fayoumi and RIR, and a crossbred called Sonali (RIR? × Fayoumi? ), were used for the study. Results : Age and nine morphometric parameters viz . , gross weight (GW), blood weight (BW), feather weight (FW), skin weight (SW), body weight after skinning (BWS), visceral weight (VW), offal weight (OW), net edible weight (NEW) and edible ratio (ER), were determined from a total of 30 adult chickens (6 breeds _ 5 replicates each). All the parameters except FW showed significant differences among the breeds (P<0.01). RIR showed the highest values for all parameters except ER, which was the highest in Cockerel (1.77±0.23) and the lowest in RIR (1.47±0.01). Association between GW and NEW was statistically significant in Indigenous (P<0.001), Sonali (P<0.01) and all exotics except Broiler (P<0.001). Conclusion : Present results indicate that Cockerel, Fayoumi, Indigenous and Sonali chickens are advantageous genotypes as they had higher ER values compared to Broiler and RIR breeds . Keywords : Gallus domesticus; body morphometric traits; net edible weight; edible ratio DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.3329/jbs.v18i0. 8782 JBS 2010; 18(0): 94-98
Cognitive functions and neurotropic factors associated with aging: A review

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present article was to make a narrative review about the relation of cognitive functions and neurotrophic factors with aging. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The research problem concerns the issue of aging and the changes in cognitive and biochemical functioning that may occur in this process. The article uses the method of critical analyzes as well as the analyzes of the reference literature. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The first section of the article discusses population aging, the second addresses changes related to cognitive functions during aging. The third part show biochemical aspects that can directly influence the cognitive functions already mentioned, and on aging in general. RESEARCH RESULTS: The result of this review points out that the world population is aging in an accelerated way and during this process of aging there are several changes in the organism of the elderly, among which stand out the cognitive and biochemical, one being directly related to the other. In this case, there is a relation of the neurotrophic factors, which may be responsible for the changes in cognitive functions, specifically spatial memory alterations. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: It is necessary that more studies be carried out with this population, which may trace the elderly with cognitive impairment that may be suggestive or conclusive of a neurodegenerative disease. In addition, biochemical data may contribute to the search for new therapeutic models or early identification for Alzheimer’s disease or other associated dementias.
Age of Information-Aware Multi-tenant Resource Orchestration in Network Slicing

To satisfy diverse services from mobile users (MUs) over a common network infrastructure, network slicing is envisioned as a promising technology. This paper considers radio access network (RAN)-only slicing, where the physical RAN is judiciously tailored to accommodate computation and communication functionalities. Multiple service providers (SPs, a.k.a., tenants) compete for a limited number of channels across the discrete scheduling slots in order to serve their respective subscribed MUs. From a MU perspective, the age of information of data packets from traditional mobile services and the energy consumption at mobile device are of practical importance. We characterize the interactions among the SPs via a stochastic game, in which a SP selfishly maximizes its own expected long-term payoff. To approximate the Nash equilibrium solutions, we build an abstract stochastic game exploring the local information of SPs. Furthermore, the decision-making process at a SP can be much simplified by linearly decomposing the per-SP Markov decision process, for which we derive a deep reinforcement learning based scheme to find the optimal abstract control policies. TensorFlow-based experiments validate our studies and show that the proposed scheme outperforms the three baselines and yields the best performance in average utility.
eHealth and mHealth interventions in pediatric cancer: A systematic review of interventions across the cancer continuum

The primary objectives were to (a) identify current published research in electronic health (eHealth) and mobile health (mHealth) interventions for youth undergoing cancer treatment and child, adolescent, and young adult survivors of childhood cancer and (b) critically appraise the current scientific evidence on their effectiveness and efficacy. As an exploratory aim, we identified pediatric cancer patients' and survivors' perceptions, attitudes, and concerns related to eHealth and mHealth interventions.
A New Roust Blind Beamformer Against Array Errors Under Intensive Interferences

It is known that the performance of standard Capon beamformer (SCB) can be degraded tremendously when there exists an unknown mismatch between the presumed signal steering vector and the practical one. The mismatch might be caused by the array imperfections such as mutual coupling, gain and phase uncertainties, sensor position perturbation. In this paper, a new blind beamforming algorithm under intensive interferences for arrays having arbitrary uncertainties is proposed. By utilizing the fact that in the presence of intensive interferences the steering vector of the signal of interest (SOI) can be well approximated by an eigenvector of the array covariance matrix, one can obtain an estimate interference-plus-noise covariance (INC) matrix. Thus, a blind beamformer can be achieved by substituting the reconstructed INC and steering vector of SOI back into the SCB. Unlike most of the existing approaches, the proposed method does not need to know the direction of the SOI or the information of the uncertainties. Simulation results indicate that the proposed method is able to provide superior performance compared with existing approaches.
Effects of Aging and Diet on Cardioprotection and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers.

The prevalence of several diseases increases by age, including cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Aging, as a complex process characterized by graduated senescence, triggers various pathways such as oxidative stress, systemic inflammation, metabolism dysfunction, but also telomere shortening, mitochondrial dysfunction and deregulated autophagy. A better understanding of the senescence underlying mechanisms may lead to the development of new therapeutic targets and strategies for the age-related pathologies and extend the healthy lifespan. Modulating lifestyle risk factors and adopting healthy dietary patterns remain powerful tools which may delay the aging process, decrease age-associated co-morbidities and mortality, increase life expectancy, and, consequently, prevent the development of the cardiovascular disease. Furthermore, such a strategy represents the most cost-effective approach, and the subjects' quality of life may be significantly improved. An integrated, personalized approach targeting at cardiometabolic aging and frailty is suggested in daily clinical practice. However, it should be started from an early age, while there is a need for further well designed and controlled studies in order to elucidate a link between the time of feeding, longevity and cardiovascular prevention. In the future, it is expecting that the pharmacological treatment in cardioprotective management will be necessary accompanied by equally important lifestyle interventions and adjunctive exercise.