Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Prevalence of peripheral neuropathy in diabetes mellitus and its association with therapy, ethnicity and duration of diabetes mellitus

Background: Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a most common micro vascular complication of diabetes posing significant morbidity and mortality with early and insidious onset. Studies has variably pointed that older age, gender, duration of diabetes, dyslipidemia, are linked with development of DPN. Aims and Objectives: To determine the prevalence of neuropathy in diabetic patients and see its link with age, gender, duration of diabetes, therapy and ethnicity. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study involving 110 clinically diagnosed diabetic patients, meeting the inclusion criteria. Basic demographic data were taken during clinical examination. Presence of degree of neuropathy was screened by measuring vibration perception threshold using Biothesiometer. Data was entered on SPSS and were categorized, necessary non parametric statistical tests were applied to these categorical variables as needed. The level of significance was set at p value less than 0.05. Results: Presence of neuropathy was measured in 110 diabetic patients. The overall prevalence of DPN was 45.45%. Frequency of neuropathy was higher with increase in age with 72.7% in more than 60 years of age and 23.5% in less than or equal to 40 years of age group (p=0.007). Similarly, the increasing trend of DPN with increase in duration of DM was evident in this study with DPN present in more than 55% of patients with more than 5 years of diabetes(p=0.004). Conclusion: The prevalence rate of DPN in diabetes was observed to be higher (45.45%). Our result suggested that DPN is associated with old age and the duration of diabetes mellitus. Asian Journal of Medical Sciences Vol.10(1) 2019 72-76
Carotid Magnetic Resonance Imaging Depicted Intraplaque Hemorrhage and a High-Risk Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Phenotype

Intraplaque hemorrhage is an independent marker of cardiovascular outcomes including stroke and myocardial infarction. Magnetic resonance imaging allows for the direct visualization of intraplaque hemorrhage in the vessel wall of the carotid arteries. This thesis reports data from an institutional magnetic resonance depicted intraplaque hemorrhage experience and clinical trials. The work herein addresses areas particularly sparse on the relationship of intraplaque hemorrhage with cardiovascular risk factors and its potential role in stroke, specifically reporting on i) age-specific sex differences in low-grade stenosis, ii) the role in ipsilateral embolic stroke of undetermined source, and iii) the relationship with a high-risk cardiovascular phenotype. The results in this thesis support our hypotheses that i) males have greater age-specific odds of magnetic resonance imaging depicted carotid intraplaque hemorrhage compared to females, and that with increasing age, the odds of carotid intraplaque hemorrhage in females becomes closer to that of males, ii) patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source have carotid intraplaque hemorrhage ipsilateral to the affected brain, and iii) patients with carotid intraplaque hemorrhage are of a high-cardiovascular risk. The culmination of projects supports the notion that intraplaque hemorrhage is related to a high-risk cardiovascular phenotype and a need for the quantification
Smartphone addiction and associated consequences: role of loneliness and self-regulation

ABSTRACT The ‘smartphone addiction’ is a popular theme in media. It has number of clear behavioural changes in addicts’ life and some of these aspects are yet to get due research attention. The present study identifies antecedents of smartphone addiction and its associated conflicts. The findings are based on data collected from adolescents, who are major targets for smartphone advertising and also vulnerable to addictions. The findings established ‘loneliness’ and ‘self-regulation’ as the main antecedents for smartphone addiction along with family, personal conflicts and poor academic performance as the significant negative consequences of its excessive use. The study findings would help to create awareness and offer insights for developing effective interventions for addressing smartphone addiction amongst adolescents. The planners, regulatory and administrative authorities will use the study findings to formulate measures that would promote positive coping mechanism to prevent smartphone addiction among adolescents.
Extended abstract: Type oriented programming for task based parallelism

Writing parallel codes is difficult and exhibits a fundamental trade-off between abstraction and performance. The high level language abstractions designed to simplify the complexities of parallelism make certain assumptions that impacts performance and scalability. On the other hand lower level languages, providing many opportunities for optimisation, require in-depth knowledge and the programmer to consider tricky details of parallelism. An approach is required which can bridge the gap and provide both the ease of programming and opportunities for control and optimisation. By optionally decorating their codes with additional type information, programmers can either direct the compiler to make certain decisions or rely on sensible default choices.
ANALISIS TRUE CUSTOMER NEEDS PRODUK GREEN TEA CHOCOLATE BERDASARKAN INTEGRASI PRODUCT QUALITY DAN MODEL KANO PADA UKM ARAFA TEA

UKM Arafa Tea merupakan salah satu UKM di Bandung yang bergerak dalam produksi produk olahan teh, dengan Green Tea Chocolate (GTC) sebagai salah satu produk unggulannya. Pendapatan GTC mampu memberikan kontribusi terbesar dan memiliki perputaran uang paling cepat dibandingkan dengan produk olahan lainnya. Melihat kesempatan tersebut, UKM Arafa Tea berniat untuk memperluas pasarnya dengan mengembangkan pasar sekaligus memposisikan GTC sebagai jajanan olahan teh khas Bandung. Untuk melakukan hal tersebut, dilakukan penelitian menggunakan integrasi Product Quality dan Model Kano guna mengetahui kebutuhan dan kepuasan pelanggan GTC Arafa Tea. Penelitian bertujuan untuk menghasilkan output berupa rekomendasi true customer needs yang perlu diperhatikan sebagai upaya perbaikan yang harus dilakukan oleh Arafa Tea. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan mengidentifikasi 21 atribut kebutuhan yang digunakan untuk mengukur kinerja eksisting Arafa Tea dan mengategorikannya berdasarkan dampak kepuasan yang diberikan. Berdasarkan hasil integrasi diperoleh bahwa terdapat sepuluh atribut kebutuhan GTC yang memiliki nilai kepuasan pelanggan yang lemah, yang terdiri dari dua atribut one-dimensional, tiga attractive dan lima atribut must-be. Seluruh atribut ini dianalisis dan disesuaikan dengan kapasitas yang dimiliki UKM guna memperoleh rekomendasi akhir true customer needs. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa terdapat delapan true customer needs, diantaranya adalah peningkatan intensitas rasa cocoa, kesesuaian kombinasi rasa, peningkatan intensitas rasa manis, warna hijau yang menarik, penurunan intensitas rasa green tea, kejelasan pencantuman periode tanggal kedaluwarsa, penurunan intensitas rasa pahit dan kejelasan pencatuman merek yang menarik pada kemasan.
Classification Algorithms of Maternal Risk Detection For Preeclampsia With Hypertension During Pregnancy Using Particle Swarm Optimization

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy abnormality that develops after 20 weeks of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and proteinuria. Â The purpose of this research was to predict the risk of preeclampsia level in pregnant women during pregnancy process using Neural Network and Deep Learning algorithm, and compare the result of both algorithm. There are 17 parameters that taken from 1077 patient data in Haji General Hospital Surabaya and two hospitals in Makassar start on December 12th 2017 until February 12th 2018. We use particle swarm optimization (PSO) as the feature selection algorithm. This experiment shows that PSO can reduce the number of attributes from 17 to 7 attributes. Using LOO validation on the original data show that the result of Deep Learning has the accuracy of 95.12% and it give faster execution time by using the reduced dataset (eight-speed quicker than the original data performance). Beside that the accuracy of Deep Learning increased 0.56% become 95.68%. Generally, PSO gave the excellent result in the significantly lowering sum attribute as long as keep and improve method and precision although lowering computational period. Deep Learning enables end-to-end framework, and only need input and output without require for tweaking the attributes or features and does not require a long time and complex systems and understanding of the deep data on computing.
Topic Models and Fusion Methods: a Union to Improve Text Clustering and Cluster Labeling

Topic modeling algorithms are statistical methods that aim to discover the topics running through the text documents. Using topic models in machine learning and text mining is popular due to its applicability in inferring the latent topic structure of a corpus. In this paper, we represent an enriching document approach, using state-ofthe-art topic models and data fusion methods, to enrich documents of a collection with the aim of improving the quality of text clustering and cluster labeling. We propose a bi-vector space model in which every document of the corpus is represented by two vectors: one is generated based on the fusion-based topic modeling approach, and one simply is the traditional vector model. Our experiments on various datasets show that using a combination of topic modeling and fusion methods to create documents’ vectors can significantly improve the quality of the results in clustering the documents.
KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN PHYSIOTHERAPY STUDENTS

Physiotherapy, more than any other science, is strongly connected with physical well-being. Therefore, the objective of this research is to study the knowledge, attitude and physical activity in physiotherapy students. A cross-sectional survey was conducted using a self-designed questionnaire amongst 100 (convenient sampling) male and female nal year physiotherapy students in the age group of 20-22 years from SBB College of Physiotherapy, Ahmedabad. The data was analyzed using PSPP-V.0. 8.1. From the analysis of this sample it was found that the knowledge regarding physical tness was fairly low, the attitude towards being active was unfavourable and very few students practiced physical activity regularly. The study illustrates the sedentary lifestyle in students and necessitates the inclusion of physical activity, so as to create more integrity in physiotherapists, and to provide an enabling environment to promote physical activity so that it can be inculcated in patients too.
Seroprevalence of paratuberculosis among camels in Al-Ahsa and Riyadh regions, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Received: Revised: Accepted: August 18, 2014 March 28, 2015 April 21, 2015 Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection causes reduction in milk yield, premature culling and reduced slaughter value. In this paper a seroprevalence of Paratuberculosis among camel in Al-Ahsa and Riyadh regions of the KSA was done. For this purpose a total of 444 camel sera samples were collected from Riyadh (n=101), and in the Eastern region from a Veterinary Clinic (n=171) and from Al-Hasa slaughter house (n=172). The sera were tested by ELISA for the detection of antibodies to Mycobacterium avium sub spp. paratuberculosis. Positive sera were 32 (7.2%), with 10 (9.9%) positive sera in the Riyadh region, while 22 sera (6.41%) were tested positive in the Eastern region. Statistical analysis showed no significant difference in the prevalence in the two regions. Prevalence of antibodies to Mycobacterium avium sub spp. paratuberculosis were statistically non-significant association of the camel breeds. Twelve (13.33%) seropositive camels were less than two years old and 20 (5.64%) were older than two years. The difference in prevalence in the two tested age strata was statistically significant. Five (5.1%) male and 27 females (7.8%) had antibodies to MAP. The difference between genders was not statistically significant. It was concluded that infection of camels with MAP occur in the KSA but not yet known to which extent they cause clinical disease. Further studies are needed to determine the risk factors of infection that influences a further spread of the infection. The determination of these risk factors will help to plan program to control the disease. ©2015 PVJ. All rights reserved
Rheuma und Ernährung

Viele Patienten mit rheumatischen Erkrankungen fragen nach den Möglichkeiten, ihre Erkrankung über die Ernährung zu beeinflussen. In Erhebungen und epidemiologischen Studien werden immer wieder Ernährungsfaktoren beschrieben, die mit dem Auftreten rheumatischer Erkrankungen bzw. von Schüben verbunden sind, allerdings kann kein einheitliches Ernährungsmuster beschrieben werden. Wie allgemein im nichtpharmakologischen Therapiebereich stehen nur in begrenztem Umfang Daten aus randomisierten Studien zur Evidenzbewertung zur Verfügung. Für die rheumatoide Arthritis (RA) belegen zwei randomisierte Studien die Wirksamkeit der mediterranen Ernährung. Für die vegetarischen Kostformen weisen v. a. experimentelle Daten auf grundsätzlich deutliche antientzündliche Effekte und klinische Studien auf günstige klinische Wirkungen bei kardiovaskulären Erkrankungen hin. Die Wirksamkeit glutenfreier Diäten bei RA ist fraglich und glutenfreie Diäten sollten nur bei Zöliakie oder starken Hinweisen auf eine Nicht-Zöliakie Glutensensitivität (NCGS) empfohlen werden. Mehrere Studien und eine systematische Übersicht belegen die Wirksamkeit eines sieben- bis zehntätigen Fastens auf die Symptome und Funktion bei RA. Folgt auf das Fasten eine vegane und vegetarische Ernährung, sind nachhaltige Effekte von bis zu einem Jahr dokumentiert. Der mögliche Nutzen verschiedener spezifischer Nahrungsmittel und Nahrungsergänzungen wie grüner Tee, Granatapfel, Ingwer, Leinöl, Gelbwurz ist klinisch derzeit nicht ausreichend belegt, aber v. a. für Gelbwurz (Curcuma) vielversprechend. Neuere klinisch-experimentelle Daten belegen den Einfluss des Darm-Mikrobioms auf die Entstehung der Erkrankung. Allerdings sind bislang spezifische probiotische Therapieansätze nicht ausreichend durch Daten aus klinischen Studien gestützt.
Psychosocial Factors Associated with Hospital-to-Home Transitions of Older People: A Review

Background: Hospital-to-home transitions are periods of vulnerability for older people and their caregivers. Furthermore, few studies have looked thoroughly into the psychosocial factors influencing these transitions. Nurses must understand those factors well in order to provide effective care during transitions. Objectives: To explore the psychosocial factors associated with the hospital-to-home transitions of older people, and to describe how they influence those transitions. Methods: We made a literature search of seven electronic databases for qualitative articles published from 2000-2017 and focusing on the psychosocial factors related to the hospital-to-home transitions of older people discharged from acute care hospitals. Data were synthesized using a thematic synthesis. Results: Eight articles met the review’s inclusion/exclusion criteria. Six significant psychosocial factors emerged from the thematic synthesis: Self-management of activities of daily living, informal support, and formal support, participation in discharge planning, living alone, and social participation. The factors emerged mainly after discharge and could either facilitate transitions via positive influences (e.g., patients’ feelings of safety, and independence in activities of daily living) or hinder them via negative influences (e.g., patient anxiety, poor adherence to medication, emotional burden on the caregiver, discontinuity in the activities of daily living and care, and risk of rehospitalization). Conclusion: The influences of psychosocial factors can be associated with patient health and continuity in the activities of daily living and care. Integrating the evaluations of both patients and caregivers to identify needs or problems related to medical and psychosocial factors in transitional care seems essential for facilitating those
Markalı Ürünleri Kullananları Kullanmayanlardan Ayıran Faktörler

Bu calismanin hedefi, markali urunleri tercih edenleri tercih etmeyenlerden ayirmak ve marka tercihinde onemli olan faktorleri belirleyip, deneklerin demografik vb. ozelliklerinin bu faktorlere olan etkilerini ortaya koymaktir. 500 ogrenci ile yapilan anket sonucunda, marka tercihine etki eden faktorler fiziksel ve duygusal faktorler olarak iki grupta toplanmislar, korelasyon analizi bunyesinde ise, anilan faktorlerle deneklerin ozellikleri arasinda iliski kurulmustur. Lojistik model analizi sonucunda ise markaya verilen onem, sadece fiziksel ozellikler bazinda etkin bir bicimde ortaya cikmaktadir.
Systematic training program design : maximizing effectiveness and minimizing liability

1. Development of Instructional Systems. 2. Procedure: Organizational Analysis. 3. Background: Knowledge and Expertise. 4. Procedures: Task and Trainee Analyses. 5. Background: Learning and Motivation. 6. Procedure: Writing System Specifications. 7. Background: Training Techniques. 8. Background: Computer-Assisted Instruction. 9. Procedure: Developing the Design Concept. 10. Background: Document and Computer Interface Design. 11. Procedure: Initial System Development. 12. Procedures: Prototyping and User Testing. 13. Procedures: Full Scale Development and Final User Testing. 14. Procedure: Program Evaluation. 15. Minimizing Future Litigation Problems.
Cluster Based Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks: An Overview

Energy consumption of nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a very critical issue, particularly in scenarios where the energy of nodes cannot be recharged. Optimal routing approaches play a key role in energy utilization, so there is great importance of energy efficient routing protocols in WSNs. Energy efficient routing protocols in WSNs are categorized into four schemes, namely (i) communication model, (ii) topology based model, (iii) reliable routing, and (iv) network structure. Network structure category is further divided into flat and cluster-based approaches. This work focuses on a subtype of “network structure” scheme known as clustered based routing protocols, which are mainly used in WSNs for reduction in energy consumption. This work reviews and provides an overview of prominent cluster based energy efficient routing protocols on the basiss of some primary performance metrics such as (i) energy efficiency, (ii) algorithm complexity, (iii) scalability, (iv) data delivery delay, and (v) clustering approach. Finally, this work discusses some latest research trends with respect to cluster based energy efficient routing protocols in WSNs.
FFR in Everyday Use: The Case of Left Ventricular Dysfunction

CASE REPORT Open Access Volume 1 | Issue 1 ScholArena | www.scholarena. com Journal of Cardiac Disorders and Therapy Patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction frequently undergo coronary angiography to rule out coronary artery disease. Here we describe the case of a 58-year-old man without angina and any non-invasive proof of myocardial ischaemia who was sent for invasive coronary angiography. Apart from the subtotal, proximal occlusion of the dominant right coronary artery, a 70% diagonal stenosis was found. After RCA PCI, FFR-guided diagonal PCI was also carried out. Post-PCI FFR however revealed the hitherto unnoticed significant left main ostial stenosis and allowed complete functional revascularisation.
Multi-faceted exercise programs versus strength training to prevent sports injuries

Exercise and sports participation are important for children and adolescents development, quality of life, and prevention of metabolic diseases (1). Adverse effects, in form of sports injuries, render injury prevention a necessary and relevant subject for both researchers and lay persons (2,3). Treatment of sports injuries can be troublesome, time-consuming, and expensive. Indeed, effective prevention of injuries would potentially benefit the whole spectrum of individuals involved in any kind of sport or exercise. Efforts to prevent sports injuries, also in adolescents, have been pursued and several internal and external risk factors have been targeted for intervention (4). Within these, proper exercise training has been identified as a useful intervention to treat these risk factors.
Fault diagnosis in ncs under communication constraints: a quadrotor helicopter application

In this paper a method for fault diagnosis in quadrotor helicopter is presented. The proposed approach is composed of two stages. The first stage is the modelling of the system attitude dynamics taking into account the induced communication constraints. Then a robust fault detection and evaluation scheme is proposed using a post-filter designed under a particular design objective. This approach is compared with previous results based on the standard Kalman filter and gives better results for sensors fault diagnosis.
Omega-3 fatty acids and quality of life in psoriasis: an open, randomised controlled study

Psoriasis is a chronic, immune mediated inflammatory disease characterised by well defined red scaly plaques over the extensors of body and the scalp [1]. The disease is chronic and marked by remissions and exacerbations. The clinical disease occurs due to activation of the Th1 immune response with a complex interaction of various inflammatory cells like lymphocytes, neutrophils, macrophages and dendritic cells with epidermal keratinocytes, leading to the production of various signalling molecules [2]. Psoriasis adversely impacts psychosocial well being and quality of life and may lead to self consciousness, embarrassment, social isolation and stigmatisation, leading to depression and decreased work productivity [3]. The role of diet and nutrition in the pathogenesis and management of the disease is now well established [4]. The greatest evidence in this respect has come with the use of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation [5]. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are omega-3 fatty acids chiefly obtained from algae and marine fish. Omega-3 fatty acids lower the production of arachidonic acid derived pro inflammatory cytokines like LTB4, C4 etc. by metabolising through the same pathway as arachidonic acid and itself produces LTB5, a less potent keratinocyte stimulator and ten fold less strong chemotactic metabolite for neutrophils than LTB4 [6]. They also lead to an increased production of nitric oxide and decreased levels of Tumour necrosis factor alpha, IL-1 and other cytokines in the endothelium ABSTRACT
Optimisation de l'analyse en largeur pour une approche structurelle d'interprétation de croquis

Dans ce papier, nous presentons une approche optimisee d'analyse en largeur pour la reconnaissance interactive de documents structures. Les methodes d'analyse a base d'exploration en largeur permettent de confronter plusieurs hypotheses d'interpretation. Malheureusement, en pratique ces methodes sont peu utilisees car elles engendrent souvent une trop grande combinatoire, difficile a maitriser. Ce papier presente une strategie d'optimisation afin de limiter la combinatoire. L'objectif est de demontrer la pertinence de l'exploration en largeur dans les methodes d'analyse de documents notamment lorsqu'elles sont interactives, c'est a dire qu'elles integrent l'utilisateur dans la boucle d'analyse. Ces optimisations ont ete testees sur la reconnaissance d'images de plans d'architecture traces a main levee.