Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Estado nutricional e desempenho motor de idosos de São Paulo

OBJETIVO: Verificar a associacao do estado nutricional (EN) com testes de desempenho motor em idosos do municipio de Sao Paulo, Brasil. METODOS: Delineamento: Estudo epidemiologico transversal, de base populacional e domiciliar, parte de estudo multicentrico (Pesquisa SABE), coordenado pela Organizacao Pan-Americana de Saude. Casuistica: A Pesquisa SABE abrangeu 2143 idosos (=60 anos), de ambos os sexos, no periodo de janeiro de 2000 a marco de 2001, selecionados por amostragem probabilistica; sendo que 1894 (88,4%) participaram deste estudo. Os idosos foram estratificados segundo sexo e grupo etario (60-69, 70-79 e =80 anos) e o EN foi avaliado de acordo com o Indice de Massa Corporal (IMC): baixo peso (IMC = 23kg/m2) e obesidade (IMC = 28 kg/m2). Foram utilizados tres testes: "sentar e levantar" (SL), "agachar e pegar o lapis" (APL), avaliados por tempo, e teste de equilibrio (EQ), composto por quatro medidas estaticas. As associacoes foram verificadas por analise de sobrevida, segundo Cox (SL e APL) e por Qui-quadrado (EQ). RESULTADOS: Observou-se associacoes estatisticamente significativas entre APL e EQ e mulheres obesas. Quando analisadas por grupo etario, houve associacoes estatisticamente significativas para: 60-69 anos (IMC e teste "agachar e pegar o lapis"); 60-69 e 70-79 anos (IMC e equilibrio). CONCLUSAO: Os resultados mostraram associacao entre EN e capacidade funcional para as mulheres, sendo a obesidade a condicao nutricional limitante ao bom desempenho nos testes. Sexo e grupo etario devem ser considerados na associacao entre estado nutricional e o desempenho motor.
Functional recovery after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer

With the enthusiasm regarding robotic application in radical prostatectomy in accordance with the widespread use of serum prostate-specific antigen as a screening test, the number of surgeries performed for complete removal of the gland is increasing continuously. However, owing to the adjacent anatomical location of the prostate to the nerve and urethral sphincter complex, functional recovery, namely improvement from post-prostatectomy incontinence (PPI) and post-prostatectomy erectile dysfunction, still remains a main problem for patients who are reluctant to undergo surgery and tend to choose alternative ways instead. Since the late 1980s, the introduction of radical prostatectomy by open surgical modalities, the depth of the anatomical understanding of the structure surrounding the prostate is getting tremendous, which leads to the development of new surgical modalities and techniques that are consequently aimed at reducing the incidences of PPI and erectile dysfunction. Briefly, recent data from robotic radical prostatectomy, particularly on PPI, are quite acceptable, but by contrast, the reported potency regain rate still remains <20%, which indicates the need for advanced surgical modification to overcome it. In this review, the authors summarized the recent findings on the anatomy and surgical techniques reported up to now.
Studies of the mechanisms of sacral nerve stimulation for faecal incontinence : investigations of anorectal and pelvic floor physiology and function

Studies of Sacral Nerve Stimulation (SNS) have demonstrated significant symptom improvement in Faecal Incontinence (FI); however, mechanisms of action remain poorly understood. Various authors have examined anorectal physiological parameters with SNS; and apart from an observed increase in squeeze pressures, findings were mostly inconsistent. It is currently believed that effects are mediated through neuromodulation. Identification of the involved neuronal pathways and the associated changes at the level of the target organ can further inform the process of patient selection for this costly treatment. The aim of this thesis was to examine potential SNS mechanisms by studying its effects on the sphincteric and suprasphincteric properties utilising physiological and structural tests. A total of 30 patients (29 female, median age 49 years) with intractable FI undergoing temporary SNS were recruited into four different studies designed to examine associated physiological and structural changes. The study of rectal properties revealed no change in rectal compliance following stimulation. However, rectal pressures associated with urge perception and maximally tolerated distension were significantly increased; predominantly in clinical responders. Anal squeeze pressures were significantly increased after stimulation in both responders and nonresponders. However, an increase in resting pressure was only noted in responders. Furthermore, Recto-Anal Inhibitory Reflex (RAIR) recovery time was significantly shorter after stimulation. An acute ON/OFF alteration of stimulation did not result in an acute change in anal pressures or RAIR parameters. Magnetic Resonance Proctography revealed a trend of reduced duration of rectal emptying after stimulation. Furthermore; it has suggested that more efficient contrast evacuation occurs after SNS. Mechanisms of SNS are most probably complex and multi-factorial. The observed changes in rectal sensory thresholds, RAIR recovery time and rectal evacuation in this study suggest that SNS influences the anorectal autonomic function and that it has an afferent-mediated mechanism.
Building a disaster rescue platform with utilizing device-to-device communication between smart devices*

Recently, the world is facing more risk of natural disasters as a result of ongoing climate changes. One of the most critical obstacles in disaster mitigation (especially rescue operation) is lack of communication and localization of survivors in disaster sites. This article develops a disaster rescue platform for quick and accurate rescue operation with utilizing direct communication on smart hand-held devices such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Specifically, we attempt to design an application-layer ad hoc network over smart devices without relying on centralized cellular networks or wireless access points. This study also incorporates a mobile localization algorithm to effectively perform disaster rescue objectives. Specifically, it aims (1) to accurately locate survivors, (2) to help rescuers to find victims quickly, and (3) to minimize calculation overheads for power saving on smart devices. This article verifies the proposed approach with presenting simulation and implementation results compared to other studies.
The Lived Experience of Teaching and Learning From Nursing Situations: A Phenomenological Study

This study offers insight into an innovative approach to teaching and learning nursing through the use of nursing situations. A Heideggerian, hermeneutic phenomenological study of the lived experience of teaching and learning from nursing situations was conducted with 10 participants, all of whom had taught in a caring-based curriculum and had experience teaching from nursing situations. The data revealed 3 relational themes: Focusing on the Discipline of Nursing, Moving Away From the Way We Were Taught, and Trusting the Process. A constitutive pattern emerged, Learning to Dance, expressing the alternating rhythms of teacher and student.
Enhancing Authenticity in Composing Informative and Promotional Texts by Analysing Key Words in a Genre-based Writing Course

This study aims to examine the lexis used in the texts of tourism English. 78 Printed authentic tourist attraction brochures together with 24 ESP learners’ productions. A computerised package was used to generate the wordlists of the used lexis as well as the keywords. Besides, non-Chinese readers’ evaluation of the students’ writings was treated as the qualitative data. The analysis show that the students’ choices of the lexis differed to some extent from the authentic ones. The possible reasons stem from contextualised differences, students’ fossilisation of English learning, and their unilateral lexical knowledge. The results of this study pedagogically imply that key words need to be prioritized. It also argues that “the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter” (Twain, 2011). ESP teachers are advised to draw learners’ attention onto lexis choices and constraints to enhance the authenticity and trust of the information. Key words: genre-based writing instruction; tourist attraction brochures; key words analysis
ANALISIS KANDUNGAN INFORMASI LAPORAN ARUS KAS TERHADAP RETURN SAHAM (Studi Empiris Pada Perusahaan Manufaktur di Bursa Efek Jakarta)

Tujuan laporan keuangan adalah untuk memberikan informasi tentang posisi keuangan, kinerja dan arus kas perusahaan yang bermanfaat bagi para pemakai laporan keuangan dalam rangka membuat keputusan-keputusan ekonomi. Berdasrkan PSAK laporan keuangan yang lengkap terdiri dari neraca, laporan laba rugi, laporan perubahan posisi keuangan, laporan arus kas dan catatan-catatan atas laporan keuangan. Di Indonesia pengungkapan laporan arus kas baru diwajibkan setelah dikeluarkannya SAK tanggal 7 September 1994 oleh IAI dan berlaku mulai 1 Januari 1995. Laporan arus kas dikatakan mempunyai kandungan informasi apabila disertaknnya laporan arus kas dalam laporan keuangan, akan menyebabkan para investor bereaksi untuk melakukan penjualan atau pembelian saham. Selanjutnya reaksi tersebut akan tercermin dalam perubahan return saham diseputar tanggal publikasi laporan keuangan sesuai dengan kategori good news atau bad news. Kategori good news yaitu apabila terjadi perubahan positif dari laporan arus kas sedangakan bad news yaitu apabila terjadi perubahan negatif dari laporan arus kas. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kandungan informasi laporan arus kas. Penelitian ini menggunakan event study, dimana dilakukan pengamatan terhadap return saham 5 hari sebelum dan 5 hari sesudah tanggal publikasi laporan keuangan. Data yang digunakan adalah data sekunder yang diperoleh dari Bursa Efek Jakarta. Sample keseluruhan yang diambil adalah 161 perusahaan dari tahun 2002-2004. Dengan kriteria untuk kategori good news sebanyak 85 perusahaan sedangkan kategori bad news sebanyak 76 perusahaan. Model yang digunakan dalam menentukan return estimasi adalah market model. Dari hasil analisis data didapatkan nilai p-value > 0,05 yaitu 0,964 untuk arus kas kategori good news dan p-value > 0,05 yaitu 0,877 untuk arus kas kategori bad news. Sehingga hasil penelitian ini mengindikasikan bahwa publikasi laporan arus kas tidak signifikan berpengaruh terhadap return saham baik laporan arus kas tersebut dalam kondisi good news maupun bad news. Ini berarti bahwa laporan arus kas tidak memeiliki kandungan informasi.
HMO: Ordering RFID Tags with Static Devices in Mobile Environments

Passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags have been widely applied in many applications, such as logistics, retailing, and warehousing. In many situations, the order of objects is more important than their absolute locations. However, state-of-art ordering methods need a continuing movement of tags and readers, which limit the application domain and scalability. In this paper, we propose a 2-dimension ordering approach for passive tags that requires no device movement. Instead, our method utilizes signal changes caused by arbitrary movement of human beings around tags, who carry no device for horizontal dimension ordering. Hence, our method is called Human Movement based Ordering (HMO). The basic idea of HMO is that when people pass between the reader antenna and tags, the received signal strength will change. By observing the time-series RSS changes of tags, HMO can obtain the order of tags along with a specific horizontal direction. For vertical dimension, we employ a linear programming method that is tolerant of tiny errors in practice. We implement HMO with commodity off-the-shelf RFID devices. The experimental results show that HMO can achieve up to 88.71 and 90.86 percent average accuracies in the signal- and multi-person cases, respectively.
Adaptive resynchronisation marker positioning method for error resilient video transmission

For reliable video transmission over error-prone mobile channels, an adaptive resynchronisation marker positioning (RMP) method is proposed for rapidly resynchronising the VLC decoding synchronisation which is often lost due to channel errors. The simulation results show that the proposed adaptive RMP method gives a remarkable improvement over the fixed RMP method.
Low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma: A report of five cases

Endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS) is a very rare uterine tumor, composed of cells resembling endometrial stromal cells. As these tumors have indistinct clinical and radiological features, they are very rarely diagnosed preoperatively. We are reporting a series of five cases clinically mistaken as benign masses. The age range of these patients was 38–65 years, with a mean age of 49 years. The patients presented with vaginal bleeding, lower abdominal pain, and abdominal mass. All the cases were clinically diagnosed on ultrasound as leiomyoma and underwent total abdominal hysterectomy. Microscopically, all the cases showed a densely cellular tumor composed of small oval cells bearing a close resemblance to normal endometrial stromal cells and were diagnosed as low-grade ESS. This is an aggressive tumor but has a better prognosis in early stage.
The role of psychosocial determinants in predicting adherence to treatment in patient with hypertension

Introduction Non-adherence in patients with hypertension directly exacerbates clinical outcomes. The purpose of the present research is to study the recognition of the relationships between the perceived social support and self-efficacy and the satisfaction of health care agents and the interaction of the patient with therapeutic personnel and access to health care and the behaviors of adherence to treatment in the patients who suffer hypertension. Materials and methods This descriptive cross-sectional correlation study recruited 250 patients from a specialized hypertension clinic in Semnan, who completed the following questionnaires: Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, self-efficacy, adherence to treatment, access to and satisfaction with health care, and the patient’s interaction with treatment personnel. Results An overall statistical description of the sample consists of 89 (35.6%) men and 161 (64.4%) women (SD = 10.41, range = 51.98). Regression coefficient of previous variables (three steps) shows that self-efficacy share, consent form civil services, and job could demonstrate with 99% certainty in the changes of treatment conformity in a meaningful way. Conclusions High self-efficacy, satisfaction with health care, and a favorable job have a high direct effect on adherence to treatment in patients with hypertension and controlling hypertension. Social support and education do not have a significant impact on adherence to treatment.
Actinic Papillary Fibroelastoma of the Left Ventricle

We present the case of a 69-year-old woman with a history of endometrial carcinoma in 1996, who underwent a total hysterectomy and bilateral adnexectomy. The patient also received chemotherapy (doxorubicin and cisplatinum) and local radiotherapy (50 Gy) because of a single lung metastasis, with total remission during later follow-up . During follow-up, 10 years later following radiotherapy, a transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) revealed an image consistent with a primary cardiac tumor (papillary fibroelastoma) or metastatic cardiac tumor on the posteromedial papillary muscle . Cardiac magnetic reso- nance imaging (MRI) revealed a solid mass on the posteromedial papillary muscle with late enhancement, consistent with a primary cardiac tumor. During surgery, the tumor located in the posteromedial papillary muscle was resected. A pathological examination revealed the presence of a tumor mass with a core of dense connective tissue surrounded by a layer of hyperplastic endocardial cells characteristic of a papillary fibroelastoma. After 8 years of follow-up, the patient remains asymptomatic.
Musica Ficta: Theories of Accidental Inflections in Vocal Polyphony from Marchetto Da Padova to Gioseffo Zarlino

List of figures Preface Part I. The Content and Structure of Musica Ficta: 1. Within the hand 2. Beyond the hand Part II. The Functions and Uses of Musica Ficta: 3. Signatures 4. Horizontal relations 5. Vertical and cross relations 6. Contrapuntal progressions 7. Canon and imitation Part III. Written and Implied Accidental Inflections: 8. Classes of accidental inflections in early vocal polyphony Notes Bibliography Index.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Comorbidity in an Adolescent Diagnosed with L-2 Hydroxyglutaric Aciduria and Response to Atomoxetine Treatment: a Case Report

L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria (L-2 HGA) is a rare, neurodegenerative, slowly progressing and autosomal recessively inherited metabolic disorder. The disease progresses with mental retardation, behavioral disorder, ataxia, extrapyramidal signs and epileptic seizures. Diagnosis is made by detection of increased levels of L-2-hydroxyglutaric acid in urine, plasma or cerebrospinal fluid. In this report, we presented a 13 year old male patient diagnosed with L-2 HGA and had seizures, intellectual disability, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and failure in school performance. Here we discussed this rare disease with ADHD symptoms and the response to atomoxetine treatment.
Verfahren des maschinellen Lernens zur Entscheidungsunterstützung

Nowadays right decisions, being it strategic or operative, are important for every company, since these contribute directly to an overall success. This success can be measured based on quantitative metrics, for example, by the number of loyal customers or the number of incremental purchases. These decisions are typically made based on the historical data that relates to all functions of the company in general and to customers in particular. Thus, companies seek to store an enormous amount of data in databases and data cubes, analyze it and apply obtained knowlegde in decision making. Classification problems represent an example of such decisions. For instance, in credit scoring it is necessary to classify the customers into “bad” or “good” category, where the former represent customers who are not able to re-pay their credit lines, whereas the latter do. Another example is direct marketing where customers are classified for the purpose of marketing campaings. Classification problems are best solved, when techniques of classical statistics and these of machine learning are applied, since both of them are able to analyze huge amount of data, detect dependencies of the data patterns, and produce probability, which represents the basis for the decision making. Especially, the techniques of machine learning are quite popular, as they have high potential being completely automated and integrated into the existing systems of the company. In this study, I apply these techniques and examine their suitability based on correlative models for decision making in credit scoring and further extend the work by causal predictive models for direct marketing. In detail, I analyze the suitability of techniques of machine learning for credit scoring alongside multiple dimensions, I examine the ability to produce calibrated probabilities and apply techniques to improve the probability estimations, and seek for the best combination between the last two. I further develop and propose a synergy heuristic between the methods of classical statistics and techniques of machine learning to improve the prediction quality of the former, and finally apply conversion models to turn machine learning techqiques to account for causal relationship between Marketing Campaigns and customer behavior in direct marketing. The study has shown that the techniques of machine learning represent a suitable alternative to the methods of classical statistics for decision making and should be considered not only in research but also should find their practical application in real-world practices.
Validação e reprodutibilidade de sinais clínicos no diagnóstico de anemia em crianças Validity and reproductibility of the clinical signs for the diagnosis of anemia in children

This study aimed to assess the validity and reproducibility of clinical signs (palmar and conjunctival pallor) in the diagnosis of anemia in children 6-23 months of age in Northeast Brazil. This was a cross-sectional study with a sample of 421 children in the child care and pediatric outpatient wards at the Mother and Child Care Institute of Pernambuco. Two examiners evaluated clinical signs using the Kappa coefficient, and validation (sensitivity and specificity) was performed using hemoglobin as the standard. Clinical signs demonstrated low reproducibility (kappa 0.24-0.25). The highest sensitivity for diagnosing anemia (Hb < 11g/dl) and moderate/ severe anemia (Hb < 9g/dl), respectively, was provided by combining palmar and conjuntival pallor (39.7% and 53.5%), followed by palmar pallor alone (29.9% and 40.0%). The highest specificity was provided by palmar pallor in the child as compared to the mother (95.5% and 90.1%, Hb < 11g/dl and Hb < 9g/dl, respectively). Sensitivity of clinical signs was better in diagnosing moderate/severe anemia, especially when combining palmar and conjunctival pallor, suggesting that their utilization does not provide a good instrument for diagnosing mild anemia. Diagnosis; Anemia; Child Health; Reproducibility of Results
Współczesne metody skojarzonego leczenia raka trzustki Combined treatment of pancreatic cancer — current strategies

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer-related death. The prognosis, as indicated by nearly equal incidence and mortality rates, is very poor. Although the only chance for cure is currently pancreatic resection, the tumour can be removed only in about 20–30% of patients. Five-year survival rates reported in recent decades have demonstrated an increasing trend, but the 5-year survival is still only about 10–30% with the median survival of 15–20 months. A rising number of pancreatic resections along with centralisation of pancreatic cancer surgery in hospitals with adequately trained personnel resulted in reduced rates of morbidity and postoperative mortality. Previous clinical trials have emphasised the need for a combined treatment where chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy are inseparably associated with surgical interventions. Though many enthusiastic studies have been reported, the optimal regimen of the combined therapy has not been agreed. Moreover, the differences observed between individual studies suggest that further well-designed clinical trials involving large patient populations are