Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TRADITIONAL DYSPHAGIA THERAPY VS THERMAL-TACTILE STIMULATION IN THE RESTORATION OF FUNCTIONAL SWALLOW AND QOL IN SUBJECTS WITH ACUTE CEREBRAL STROKE DURING HOSPITAL STAY -

SUMMARY The present study done was to find out the effectiveness of TDT in dysphagia subjects in stroke for this 30 sub acute stroke subjects were selected and was divided into two groups. Experimental group subjects received TDT were as control group received only TTS. All the patients were assessed initially and after 2 weeks of intervention. The outcome measures are FOIS and MDADI. On comparing the mean differences in both the groups, the group that received TDT showed better improvement than the group received only TTS alone. Hence, the present study concludes that TDT is the better way of approach for swallowing problems.
Dimensions of user participation in non-profit mobile crowdsourcing initiatives

Mobile devices have seemingly become a necessity in people’s daily life. They have significantly changed the way people communicate and perform their day-to-day activities. In line with this scenario, there is a practice nowadays that is gaining more and more attention from mobile application developers called crowdsourcing. The combination of the two innovations, i.e. mobile devices and crowdsourcing, promises great potential for the advancement of business and society. Despite the popularity of mobile crowdsourcing applications, special attention needs to be given to user participation, since user participation is one of the main factors that determine the success of a mobile crowdsourcing application. This study, therefore, aims at identifying the factors that influence user participation in mobile crowdsourcing application. The interview method involving 13 mobile crowdsourcing application users was used to collect the required information. The constant comparison method comprising open coding, axial coding and selective coding techniques was used to analyse the results. Findings from the analysis showed that user participation in mobile crowdsourcing applications is mainly influenced by the personal benefits that the applications can bring to the user rather than the benefit it can bring to others. These benefits cover five dimensions: financial impact, useful information provided, interaction with other users, rewards offered and features of the applications.
Influence of varying levels of dietary energy and protein on the utilization of metabolizable energy in broilers.

The Conversion of ME as protein and fat was higher (P<0.01) in broilers receiving 3200 Kcal ME/kg diet containing 20 per cent CP in starter and grower and 19 per cent CP in finisher rations. The ME utilization for protein synthesis was higher in broilers receiving 2800 Kcal ME/kg diet with 23, 22 and 16 per cent CP in starter, grower and finisher rations respectively while for fat synthesis it was significantly (P<0.05) higher in broilers receiving 3200 Kcal ME/kg diet with 25 and 19 persent CP in starter and finisher and 3000 Kcal ME/kgdiet with 22 per cent CP in grower rations. The ME required/unit growth was maximum in broilers receiving 3200 Kcal ME/kg diet with 20 per cent CP in starter and grower and 3000 Kcal ME/kg diet with 19 per cent CP in finisher rations. The ME used for maintenance was maximum in broilers receiving 3000 Kcal ME/kg diet with 22 and 16 per cent CP in starter and finisher and 3200 Kcal ME/kg diet with 18 per cent CP in grower rations.
Comparative Study of Titrated Oral Misoprostol Solution and Oxytocin to Induce Labor Conducted at Kannur Medical College

Introduction: Various methods are used for inducing labor. Out of these, two common methods are oral misoprostol and oxytocin intravenous drip. A comparative study of titrated oral misoprostol solution and intravenous oxytocin in the effectiveness of induction of labor was conducted at Kannur Medical College during a period of 3-year from 2010 to 2013.
Assessment of Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Among Rural Population in Tamilnadu by Using Indian Diabetic Risk Score

A cross sectional study was done in rural area of sripuram by using the Indian Diabetes Risk Score. The objectives were to assess the risk of type 2 diabetes among the rural population by using IDRS score and to create awareness among the risky population. Background: Indian Diabetes Risk Score (IDRS) developed by Dr.Mohan and his colleagues (Mohan, 2005) is a simplified risk score for identifying undiagnosed diabetic subjects using four simple parameters (age, waist circumference, family history of diabetes and physical activity) in which the minimum score is 0 and maximum is 100 & score 60 and above is indicative of diabetes risk. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out in the rural area (sripuram). Residents >20 yrs, were selected through house to house survey by simple random technique. Data collection was done by household survey by direct interview using a pre- tested and structured questionnaire. Results: Out of 505 people, 12.1% (61) individuals had high risk of diabetes and 74.7% (377) had moderate risk of diabetes and 13.3% (67) individuals had no risk of diabetes. Life style modification and diet advice was given to individuals in the low and medium risk group. High risk group were referred to hospital for further diagnosis and treatment.
Essays on Monetary Policy and Bitcoin Financial Economics

This dissertation includes three chapters. The first chapter investigates the impact of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet normalization using a Bayesian vector autoregression (BVAR) framework. I use counterfactual conditional forecasts to find that a reduction in asset holdings down to a level where the federal funds market is active again will reducereal GDP growth by an average of 0.18 percent per year and core inflation by a non-significant average of 0.07 percent per year under Quantitative Tightening, relative to a scenario where the Federal Reserve maintains a constant dollar amount of assets until 2024. The second chapter models monetary policy using Taylor’s rule for the nominal interestrate target and examines the difference between the actual Federal Funds Rate and the Taylor Rule model of behavior for distinct structural changes. Both a simple factor ANOVA and regime switching methods find that there were “tight” or “loose” regimes in U.S. monetary policy over the period 1965 to 2008. However, after accounting for the change in inflation measurement from CPI to PCE and then core PCE after 2004, Alan Greenspan’s tenure from 2003 to 2006 is consistent with his earlier symmetric deviations from the Taylor Rule. The final chapter examines the volatility of Bitcoin exchange rates which have gained a great deal of attention since the creation of the currency. Standard measures of volatility reflect the dramatic change in the Bitcoin/US dollar exchange rate, from about $0.05 USD in 2010 to the neighborhood of $20,000 USD at the end of 2017, and down to around
A Fire Detection Algorithm Based on Visual Features Contrast and 2-D Entropy

An online fire detection algorithm based on visual features contrast and 2-D entropy under the open environment is proposed.Firstly,motion vectors are calculated by using optical flow method,then the motion magnitudes are used to generate saliency map of motion contrast,which is combined with saliency map of color contrast to obtain an integrated saliency map to extract region of interests(ROIs). Then 2-D entropy of motion vectors of ROIs is calculated.At last the judgment is done according to spatiotemporal coherency of 2-D entropy to determine whether it is real fire.The proposed method significantly decreases the computational complexity of traditional visual attention model based gauss pyramid.The experimental results show that this method is applicable to real-time flame detection in the open environment.
ETHNOBOTANICAL STUDIES ON SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS: A REVIEW

Plants have been used for thousands of years to treat health disorders and to prevent diseases including epidemics. The knowledge of their healing properties has been transmitted over the centuries within and among human communities. Through observation and experimentation, hum an beings have learned that plants promote health and well-being. The role of these herbal remedies is not only cost efficient, but also safe and virtually free from dangerous side effects. More or less of the medicinal herbs are thought to cure practically every human disease from head to tail. Natural drugs are better safe than synthetic western medicines; therefore peoples are coming back to the field of traditional medicinal plants. The village elders, farmers and tribal have tremendous knowledge about for health reasons started thousands of years ago and are still part of medical practice by folks of several parts of the Indian sub-continents as well as several other nations of the globe. This review article shade a small beam of light on some medicinal plants and it can be used for various human ailments. The documented medicinal plants can serve as a ground for further and future phytochemical and pharmacological fields.
Community-Based Educational Approach to Reduce Health Disparity

Health disparities refer to differences between groups of people. These differences can affect how frequently a disease affects a group, how many people get sick, or how often the disease cause death. Racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care recently have received considerable attention. Racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive poorer quality care compared with non-minorities. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines disparities as “racial or ethnic differences in the quality of health care that are not due to access-related factors or clinical needs, preferences, and appropriateness of intervention [1]. While the World Health Organization (WHO), have adopted a different view of what constitutes a disparity, major stakeholders agree that such disparities are unjust and need to be addressed [2]. In order to decrease this differential, it is critical to understand the particular barriers to health and health care that underserved minorities face. The barriers have been identified as: inadequate access to and availability of health care services, lack of knowledge of disease prevention and screening recommendations, low literacy, mistrust of the health care system, fear, fatalism regarding cure, genetic and environmental risk factors.
Implementation of identity-based and certificateless identification on android platform

An identification scheme provides an access control mechanism where a prover authenticates himself to a verifier without providing the verifier with any information about his private key. Recently, pairing-based identification schemes have gained interest, particularly identification schemes without certificates. However there have been little results of implementation of these schemes on handheld mobile devices. In this paper, we provide implementation results for identification schemes without certificates that utilize pairings, on the Android platform.
Spinal cord injury and family caregivers: A description of care and perception of service need

As survival ratesand life expectancies ofindividuals experiencing acquired disabilities such as spinal cord injury improve, greater demands are placed on health, rehabilitation and longterm care services. Further,family caregivers are assuming much ofthe caring responsibilities. Thispaper examinesfamily caregiuing in relation to individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) in an Australian context. The paper is based on a descriptive survey conducted with 206 individuals with SCI, referred to a specialist SCI outreach service in Queensland, and 179 family caregivers. The survey collected social and demographic information and details oftbe type ofcare provided byfamily caregivers. It also exploredfamily caregivers' perceptions ofthe types ofservices they require to assist them in tbeir caring roles. Family caregiuing typically involvedphysical, practical, and emotional support, and in many cases this occupied in excess of three hours a day, with no additional source of caregiVing provided. The most frequently reported service types required by family caregivers included respite, personal support, information services, and bealtb professional services. Mapping caregiver needs in this area establishes a critical basisfor service planning and more importantly prouides a guide for the development ofa range ofservicesdedicated to maintaining the health and well-being offamily caregivers ofindividuals with SCI
Infant feeding style in Urban Kenya

The concept of infant feeding style is developed as a self‐consistent way of making choices about infant feeding and applied to a study of infant feeding practices of low income women in Nairobi, Kenya. Personal and shared styles, interaction style and eating style are examined using both cross sectional survey data and results of ethnographic fieldwork. The dynamics of status and change are discussed using the concept of feeding “in style. ” Mothers' different interpretations of breastfeeding, cow's milk and infant formula are reflected in the statistical analysis of their feeding patterns. The emphasis on breastfeeding as a process, cow's milk as a food, and infant formula as a superfood, explains the infant feeding patterns observed and points to the importance of the concept of infant feeding style for developing culturally appropriate infant feeding policy.
Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm: Report of a case with extracutaneous presentation and extensive bone marrow involvement

Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is a rare aggressive hematopoietic malignancy. The diagnosis of BPDCN is challenging owing to the lack of lineage-specific markers and confusing historic misnomers. A correct and timely diagnosis of BPDCN, however, has significant clinical impact because induction chemotherapy used for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) followed by stem cell transplant seems to improve the disease outcomes. Here, we report a case of BPDCN with unusual extracutaneous presentation and extensive bone marrow involvement. The patient was a 68-year-old woman found to have pancytopenia and diffuse lymphadenopathy. Peripheral blood smears showed rare large blastic cells. A bone marrow biopsy demonstrated a markedly hypercellular bone marrow virtually entirely replaced by blastic cells. Flow cytometric immunophenotyping revealed a large population of cells in the ‘‘blast region’’ thatwere dimCD45, dimCD117, CD34, CD33, CD7, and TdT. These cells lacked expression of lineage-specific markers for T, B, myeloid, or monocytic cells. The findings raised the possibility of an AML with minimal differentiation. However, the diffuse lymphadenopathy was unusual for AML. A concurrent lymph node biopsy showed diffuse proliferation of large cells with morphologic and immunophenotypic features similar to those present in the bone marrow. Additional flow cytometric and immunohistochemical studies revealed that the neoplastic cells were strongly positive for CD123 and CD56. The morphologic findings and the unique immunophenotype of the neoplastic cells were consistent with BPDCN. The patient was treated with chemotherapy using AML protocols followed by hematopoietic stem cell transplant, and she has been in remission for 4 months. We use this case to illustrate and review the diagnostic features of BPDCN.
An Analytical Model for GTS Service Delay of IEEE 802.15.4 with Two Priority Queues

ABSTRACT IEEE 802.15. 4 reserves transmission time to support real-time transport by sending GTS request packets to the PAN coordinator in advance. This paper introduces GTS-FAT technique to reduce the reservation time by giving a higher sending priority to GTS request packets than data packets. Differently from the conventional scheme where these two kinds of packets share a single transmission queue, GTS-FAT scheme allocates two queues with two different contention window sizes like IEEE 802.11e. This paper also proposes an analytical GTS delay model by combining the two legacy models for 802.15. 4 and 802.11e to accurately predict the GTS-FAT delay over a given network topology. Our analysis shows that GTS-FAT reduces GTS service delay by up to 50% at the expense of the data delay by only up to 6.1% when GTS request packets four times outnumber data packets.Keywords:GTS-FAT, 802.15. 4, real-time applications, priority, GTS request, delay 1. 서 론 1) 저속의 무선 근거리 개인 네트워크(LR-WPANs: Low Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks)를 지원하기 위해 국제전기전자학회(IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)에서는 802.15. 4 표준[1]을 정의하였다. 802.15. 4 표준은 802.11[2] 랜과는 달리 전원을 교체하기 어려운 저전력
A qualitative study of adolescent perceived school and home connectedness and eating behaviors in relation to BMI

Introduction Obesity is a major public health concern for youth in the United States. Eating behaviors, such as meal skipping and eating family dinner, are associated with obesity. School connectedness and family connectedness assess the degree to which an individual feels that he or she belongs in an environment, and strong feelings of school connectedness are associated with decreased BMI. This study qualitatively evaluates the relationships between feelings of home and school connectedness and specific eating behaviors associated with obesity in an adolescent population.
Allopurinol and arterial stiffness-what do we know so far?

Allopurinol is a familiar drug that has received more attention after its antioxidant property was demonstrated across different patient’s populations. This property was shown via its ability to reduce the concentration of oxidative stress markers: the frequently reported malondialdehyde, and oxidized LDL. Its ability to improve endothelial function was the subject of many small clinical trials. The promising results were expected because of the well-understood interaction between oxidative stress and endothelial dysfunction.
Women with and without intellectual disabilities and psychiatric disorders: A comparison of the literature

This chapter is based upon an oral paper presented at the IASSID World Congress in South Africa in 2008 and has also been published (for a more comprehensive review of this topic see Taggart et al., 2008). This literature review compares and contrasts three key areas in women with and without intellectual disability focusing on: mental health conditions, the psych-social contextual background of how these conditions develop and the clinical presentation of these conditions. The World Health Organisation (2000) has reported that mental ill health will double by the year 2020 and this will have important ramifications for women particularly, as they are more likely to develop mental health problems compared to men. Moreover, there is a strong body of evidence to show that people with intellectual disabilities are more likely to develop mental health problems compared to the non-intellectual disability population (Bouras & Holt, 2007). However, little is known about the mental health of women with intellectual disability.
Experiments with and implementation of a context sensitive text summarizer

EXPERIMENTS WITH AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CONTEXT SENSITIVE TEXT SUMMARIZER by Charles J. Bocage Automatic text summarization is the ability to obtain key ideas from a text passage using as few words as possible. With the increase in data on the web, manual summarization of web pages has become unfeasible, and the need for automatic text summarization has become ever greater. This project explored and implemented various parts of the automatic text summarization process for an open source search engine, Yioop. These parts included stemming, text segmentation, term frequency weighting, automatic sentence compression, and content management system detection. In addition, experiments were conducted on different pre-existing Yioop summarizers. These results served as a baseline for comparison with results obtained from two new ways to generate summaries which we implemented: A graph based approach and an average sentence approach. Summaries were evaluated using Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation (ROUGE). Analyzing the ROUGE results of each summarizer showed that the new summarizers did not produce better summaries than Yioop’s pre-existing summarizers. During the course of conducting these experiments, it was noted that the location of useful information on a web page could often be obtained if one could determine the content management system that created the web page. An extensible detector for the content management system was written for the Yioop search engine. ROUGE results using this system were recomputed for the various summarizers. Using the content management system detector resulted in a ten to twenty percent increase in ROUGE scores across various page experiments.
Transfer of Learning and Teaching: A Review of Transfer Theories and Effective Instructional Practices

One of the primary goals of education is to ensure that learners can apply their acquired knowledge in various ways and under different circumstances. However, this expected “transfer” does not always occur and, therefore, the acquired knowledge cannot be flexibly employed in different contexts. One way to minimize this problem is to understand how transfer occurs and what learning conditions can improve this process. This review paper provides major theoretical perspectives and pedagogical practices to explore the most effective ways to optimize knowledge acquisition and transfer. The results of the comparison of the selected theories indicated that transfer was a multi-dimensional process that could occur at any stage of learning and could be enhanced through coaching, scaffolding, interacting, assessing and reflecting in situated learning environments.
Matlab Modelling and Simulation of Single Stage Grid Tie Inverter

We have abundant solar energy as it is supplied by nature and it is thus free. For smart energy networks solar energy is appropriate with distributed power generation. Solar panels are currently on a fast reducing track. Residential solar panels are easy to install on rooftops or on the ground. As a PV array gives DC voltage as output and it should be converted to AC to feed micro grid. So an inversion is needed in between these two ends. Here we propose a single stage inverter with advantage of less switching loss. A MATLAB/Simulink model is developed and is used to study the characteristics of inverter for different load conditions. Keywords— Photovoltaic cells, PWM inverters, MATLAB/ Simulink, PV arrays