Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Distribución de merluza (Merluccius hubbsi Marini, 1933) en el Mar Argentino (41°- 48°S) en relación con parámetros oceanográficos durante el invierno (1996-2003)

Se analizaron las variables de temperatura y salinidad en el invierno durante el periodo 1996-2003 en el area de distribucion del efectivo patagonico de la merluza argentina Merluccius hubbsi; estas variables oceanograficas se relacionaron con las variaciones en la abundancia de la especie, a traves de un modelo lineal general. Se determinaron los campos medios de fondo y las anomalias de temperatura y salinidad para ese periodo. El ano 1998 presento la temperatura promedio mas alta y el 2002 la mas baja, indicando las anomalias mas destacadas. La salinidad promedio mas alta se registro en 1999 y en terminos de anomalias, el 2003 fue, en toda el area, de menor salinidad. Las mayores concentraciones de juveniles se observaron en aguas con temperaturas de fondo entre 7°C y 10°C y salinidades entre 33,3 y 33,8 distribuidas en el interior y norte del Golfo San Jorge y en la plataforma media, entre la isobata de 50 y 100 m, hasta la zona sur de la Peninsula Valdes. La distribucion de adultos se concentro en el centro de la plataforma, disminuyendo hacia el sector costero, aproximadamente entre 6o y 9oC y entre 33,4 y 33,9 de salinidad. Los coeficientes de regresion indicaron que las mayores abundancias de juveniles se hallaron en areas con menor salinidad y menor profundidad, mientras que las mayores abundancias de los adultos se encontraron en regiones de menor temperatura y mayor salinidad respecto de los juveniles. No se observaron corrimientos espaciales en la distribucion de la especie cuando las anomalias de temperatura o salinidad fueron muy marcadas
Effects of the Anticoccidial Drug Amprolium on Broiler Breeder Performance and Enteric Health Following Coccidiosis Vaccination

Effects of the Anticoccidial Drug Amprolium on Broiler Breeder Performance and Enteric Health Following Coccidiosis Vaccination. (December 2010) Samantha Kaye Pohl, B.S., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. David J. Caldwell Two experiments were performed to evaluate effects of amprolium administration at specific times and concentrations in replacement broiler breeders of three genetic lines vaccinated against coccidiosis. Effects on performance parameters including body weight and flock uniformity, and post-vaccination oocyst cycling patterns were evaluated in addition to development of immunity following clinical Eimeria challenge according to gross and microscopic lesion scoring, post-challenge body weight gain (BWG), and total oocyst output. Experiment one was conducted on fresh pine shavings while experiment two was conducted on used litter remaining in treatment pens from the first trial. No significant differences were seen among treatment groups with regard to body weight in either trial. Increased magnitude of oocyst shedding was observed in trial one, Line A with the group receiving amprolium on day 10. Trends in the data indicated increased uniformity in Line A related to amprolium administration following day 21. The group in Line A receiving amprolium at day 10 showed a significantly lower degree of total oocyst output following challenge than the other medicated groups. The group
Evaluación de las resecciones hepáticas en pacientes con lesiones benignas y malignas

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate hepatic resections in patient with benign and malignant lesions during the years 1997 to 2002 at the Autonomous University Hospital Service of Maracaibo, Venezuela. MATERIALS: We carried out 18 hepatic resections for benign and/or malignant lesions; traumatic and infectious lesions were excluded. RESULTS: The female sex prevailed with 77.7% and age ranged between third and fourth decade. Three asymptomatic patients (16.6%) and 83.3% symptomatic; pain in upper hemiabdomen 80%. Ultrasonography was employed in 94.4% of cases, CT 83.3%, FNAB 27.7%, arteriography 22.2%, Echo-Doppler 16.6%, laparoscopy 11.1%, hepatic scintigraphy and ERCP, 5.5%. Minor resections represented 61.1%. Major hepatic resections represented 38.8%, with prevalence of left hepatectomy (33.3%). Blood loss was greatest in major hepatic resections with average of 1,242.9 +/- 827.8 ml. Pringles maneuver was carried out in 90% with duration average of 8.5 min; morbidity was 16.6%. Benign tumours prevailed with 66.6%. CONCLUSION: The technique of resection with intraparenchymatous identification of pedicles makes it the most successful technique for hepatic resections.
Loosening the grip

When cautious, evidence informed writers such as Christiane Muth and Paul Glasziou describe a research paper as “pioneering work,” it is sensible to pay attention (doi:10.1136/bmj.h5145). The world’s health systems are besieged by ageing populations and multimorbidity. We struggle to find effective and affordable solutions. Research evidence, in its artificial bubble, may be limited by the age range of the study population and generally focuses on single therapies. The reality of medical care is different: older patients with complex chronic diseases, taking many drugs. Our evidence base and guidelines, the tools of best practice, tend not to cater for the messiness of clinical problems. …
Optimization of Microwave Coupled Hot Air Drying for Chinese Yam Using Response Surface Methodology

The effect of microwave coupled hot air drying on rehydration ratio (RR) and total sugar content (TSC) of Chinese yam was investigated. Single factor test and response surface methodology were used for process parameter optimization with hot air temperature, hot air velocity, slice thickness, and microwave power density as variables and RR and TSC of dried products as responses. The effect of variables on RR followed the order: slice thickness > hot air temperature > microwave power density > hot air velocity. The effect of variables on TSC followed the order: slice thickness > microwave power density > hot air velocity > hot air temperature. The optimized process parameters were hot air velocity of 2.5 m/s, hot air temperature of 61.7 °C, slice thickness of 8.5 mm, and microwave power density of 5.9 W/g. Under the optimal conditions, the predicted values of RR and TSC were 1.90 g/g and 5.74 g/100 g, respectively, which is very close to corresponding actual values (1.83 g/g and 5.72 g/100 g). The desirability of 0.913 further validated the effectiveness of the model. The findings from this work may apply to other agricultural products.
D 2 . 2 1 st iKaaS Semantic Data Model , Knowledge Acquisition and Service Provision Toolbox

1 report on the specification, implementation and validation of the Universal Data model and mechanisms for knowledge acquisition and service provision. INTELLIGENT KNOWLEDGE-AS-A-SERVICE This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, call: EU-Japan Research and Development Cooperation in Net Futures programme, under grant agreement number: 643262 1st iKaaS Semantic Data Model, Knowledge Acquisition and Service Provision Toolbox 2 ikaas.com
A high density of tumor infiltrating CD3 and CD8 cells to predict recurrence free survival in patient with hepatocellular carcinoma.

280 Background: The ability to define risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence after resection could improve the clinical management of patients. The pathological factors currently indicative of tumor invasiveness, such as vascular invasion, elevated AFP and advanced pTNM stage, are the established risk factors for recurrence. It has been suggested that immune cells that infiltrate a tumor are a prognostic factor in predicting patient outcome. In this study, the prognostic significance of tumor immune infiltration, as defined by the Immunoscore methodology, was assessed in patients with HCC. Methods: The influence of immune infiltration on clinical outcome was evaluated in patients who had undergone resection of HCC. The density of intratumoral immune infiltrates were measured in the center of the tumor (CT) and in the invasive margin (IM) of 45 stage I to IV HCC tissue specimens from a single cohort. The density of total (CD3+) and cytotoxic (CD8+) T lymphocytes in the CT and IM were obtained by.
Deaf people’s knowledge and information sources regarding health and disease

The aim of this study was to comprehend deaf people’s knowledge of health and disease and their information sources. It was a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, conducted in a public referral institution for caring for people with disabilities in the state of Paraiba. Interviews were conducted individually, in sign language, with 11 deaf people who were chosen using the speech content saturation method. The data were analyzed using content analysis. From the discourse, the following categories emerged: health-disease process and health information sources. The deaf people interviewed in this study presented limited knowledge of the health-disease process. The subjects placed value on doctors as indispensable to the health-disease process. Some deaf people displayed lack of knowledge about health because of poor and inefficient sources that provide primary information without depth of content, and therefore demanded greater opportunities.
Long-term survival and cardiovascular complications in patients with acromegaly and pituitary gigantism.

Acromegaly results from the chronic hypersecretion of growth hormone (GH) by a pituitary adenoma. It is an uncommon disease and is associated with decreased life expectancy. To determine the major factors contributing to the prognosis of acromegaly, we analysed the long-term survival and cardiovascular complications in acromegalic patients who had registered in two nationwide Japanese surveys of hypothalamo-pituitary diseases in 1988 and 1993. In the 1988 survey, 979 cases of acromegaly and 34 of pituitary gigantism were registered, together with 84 deaths associated with acromegaly (mean age 59.0 years, a decade shorter than that of the general population). The major causes of death were malignancy (30%), cerebrovascular disease (24%), cardiac disease (21%) and respiratory infection (13%). The overall long-term survival rate of acromegaly cases 20 years after diagnosis was calculated to be 65%. The 1993 survey registered 815 cases of acromegaly and 28 of pituitary gigantism. In the 5 years since the previous survey, 15 patients had died. Major complications associated with acromegaly were diabetes mellitus (33%), hypertension (26%), hyperlipidaemia (5.8%), cerebrovascular disease (3.9%) and cardiovascular disease (3.1%). We conclude that chronic GH excess is associated with increased mortality and morbidity due to cardiac and vascular diseases.
Language empowerment and intellectualisation through multilingual higher education in South Africa

South African society is characterised by particular challenges relating to practically all types of multilingualism: territorial, institutional, societal and individual. In facing these challenges, South Africa is similar to other African postcolonies where, as a result of their political histories, a de jure language policy hegemonically imposes an official language which is foreign to the majority of the population. This makes the linguistic situation in the postcolonies quite distinct from that in the former colonial motherlands, such as the UK and other European countries, where the official language is the mother tongue (MT) of the vast majority of the population (albeit as the result of historical processes of equally hegemonic imposition, even if only to impose a ‘standard’ variety on a multitude of dialects). This European policy model of hegemonic monolingualism has been uncritically adopted by many post-independent African countries despite the completely different sociocultural and sociolinguistic ecology in which language policies in Africa must function, including in the higher education (HE) terrain. Following the overthrow of apartheid and guided by the country’s new Constitution, South Africa has broken with the European colonialist tradition and has opted for a remarkable, multilingual official language policy which is unique in allowing for 11 official languages: nine indigenous African languages (of ‘Bantu’ linguistic stock) plus the two former hegemonic languages of European provenance, English and Afrikaans. Multilingualism in South African society in general, and in HE in particular, is understood to be the accepted parallel use of several languages either by individual speakers with different language backgrounds and linguistic biographies, or by whole communities of speakers who have settled for patterns of communicative behaviour which are characterised by using more than one language functionally in different domains and for different purposes. Parallel use of more than one language may take different forms and instantiations, involving respective mono-, biand trilingual discourse patterns, including practices like code-meshing or code-switching and nonce-borrowings, now referred to as ‘translanguaging’. Such multilingual communication practices, albeit common in day-to-day verbal interaction among multilingual individuals, were regarded
Amputees have Better Quality of Life than who had Limb Salvaged in Grade Iii B and Grade Iii C Crush Injury

Background: Trauma to the extremities represents one of the most common injury patterns seen in emergency medical and surgical practice. As extremity injuries are evaluated, each of four functional components (nerves, vessels, bones, and soft tissues) must be considered individually and together. If three of these four elements are injured, the patient has a “mangled extremity”. In this article we are going to assess the quality of life of patients who had crush injury to the leg. Methods: Both retrospective and prospective study of 60 patients who had Grade III b and Grade IIIc open fractures of the lower limb. Study was done in Sri Ramachandra Medical College between Jan 2012 and Jan 2015. Patients who had crush injury to their lower limbs with Mangled Extremity Severity Score of seven and above were included. We followed Gustillo and Anderson classification system for fractures classification. Mangled Extremity Severity Score for all the patients were calculated. SF12 quality of life questionnaire was used to assess the patients during follow-ups. Results: The Mean PCS (physical component summary) score in SF 12 quality of life questionnaire for Amputation group and Limb Salvage group were 39.05 and 29.91. The Mean MCS (mental composite summary) score for Amputation group and Limb Salvage group were 43.10 and 36.05. Conclusion: The quality of life of patients who underwent amputations was statistically significant when compared to patients who had their limb salvaged.
Beginning Level Interior Design Students’ Perceptions and Use of Research in Design Process

This study was focused on beginning-level interior design undergraduate students’ perceptions, experience, and use of literary research. The data were collected through a questionnaire that was administered to 67 students. The findings indicated that the majority of the students searched for information in their classes, and the participants were aware of the importance of research. However, only 63% of them reported using credible sources in their literary research, and less than half of the respondents knew what a peer-reviewed journal article is. Based on the findings, it was suggested that students need to develop skills in conducting literary research using credible sources, and they need more exposure to research-inspired design and a wider range of topics that they could research in interior design. The findings could be used to develop new teaching strategies and to improve assignment handouts related to research-inspired design in interior design education.
Creative Management Tools in an ESP Class

As a response to the need of Project Management students for an adequate ESP course, the teachers of English and Project Management at the »B. A. Krčelić« College of Business and Management developed an integrated teaching model which enables students to learn English and develop their PM competences and prepare for IPMA certification at the same time. A coursebook was written which included standard vocabulary exercises (fill-in, synonyms, antonyms, word pairs, matching terms and definitions etc.). However, students expressed a need to include examples from PM practice, such as case-studies, interviews, business cases, and, especially, creative management tools. Such exercises have been very well accepted by the students because they create a relaxed atmosphere and allow students to practice their management skills in addition to learning a foreign lanuage (English in this case). This paper gives an overview of some creative management tools which can be used in an ESP classroom, such as brainstorming, brainwriting, six thinking hats, lateral thinking etc., while the workshop will give examples and show students' responses.
Parallel Optimization with Mutation Operator for The Quadratic Assignment Problem

Recombination operator crossover is a tool that is widely used to obtain near optimal solutions for larger problem instances of the Quadratic As-signment Problem ( QAP ), whereas, the mutation operator is the less preferred tool. However, due to its low disruptive nature the mutation operator does have a great potential to solve the QAP . In this study we compared the performance of the mutation operator with the well-known crossover operators that are designed for use with the QAP . The mutation operator works by swapping values iteratively and outperforms most of the well-known crossovers. We conclude that, as reported to date, the mutation operator can provide either the optimum or very close to the best available solution for problem instances in the QAP library.
SPHINCTER PRESSURE UNDER CONTRACTION SEEMS TO BE A WAY FOR OPTIMIZING THE SPHINCTER EVALUATION PRIOR TO MALE SLING SURGERY

Objective: To propose a new way to objectively evaluate the external sphincter function prior to male sling surgery. Materials and Methods: We evaluated the pre-operative sphincter function throughout sphincter pressure at rest (SPAR) and sphincter pressure under contraction (SPUC) obtained throughout urethral profilometry profile (UPP) of 10 consecutive patients (age range, 54-79 years) treated with the retrourethral transobturator sling (RTS) for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) because of prostate surgery. The primary endpoint for surgery success rate was post-operative pad weight test. This was correlated to preoperative pad test, RT, SPAR and SPUC. Post-operatively patients were classified as continent (no pad use) and those who still were incontinent. Results: Mean SPUC in the continent and incontinent group was respectively 188 + 8.8 (median 185.1, range 181 to 201) and 96.9 + 49.4 (median 109.9, range 35.6 to 163.6) (P = 0.008). Mean 24-hour pad test was 151 + 84.2gm (median 140, range 80 to 245) and 973 + 337.1gm (median 1940, range 550 to 1200) in post-operative continent and incontinent groups respectively (P = 0.008). The repositioning test (RT) was positive in all continent patients except one. The RT was also positive in three incontinence patients (false positive). In all post-operative continent patients SPUC was higher than 180cmH2O and pre-operative pad test was less than 245gm. Conclusions: SPUC seems to be a way for optimizing the sphincter evaluation as well to become a useful tool for patient selection prior to RTS surgery. ARTICLE INFO
MACHINE LEARNING FOR MECHANICAL ANALYSIS

It is not reliable to depend on a persons inference on dense data of high dimensionality on a daily basis. A person will grow tired or become distracted and make mistakes over time. Therefore it is desirable to study the feasibility of replacing a persons inference with that of Machine Learning in order to improve reliability. One-Class Support Vector Machines (SVM) with three different kernels (linear, Gaussian and polynomial) are implemented and tested for Anomaly Detection. Principal Component Analysis is used for dimensionality reduction and autoencoders are used with the intention to increase performance. Standard soft-margin SVMs were used for multi-class classification by utilizing the 1vsAll and 1vs1 approaches with the same kernels as for the one-class SVMs. The results for the one-class SVMs and the multi-class SVM methods are compared against each other within their respective applications but also against the performance of Back-Propagation Neural Networks of varying sizes. One-Class SVMs proved very effective in detecting anomalous samples once both Principal Component Analysis and autoencoders had been applied. Standard SVMs with Principal Component Analysis produced promising classification results. Twin SVMs were researched as an alternative to standard SVMs.
Rapport bénéfice/risque des endoprothèses coronaires pharmaco-actives. 2ème partie: analyse dans la population diabétique.

Les endoprotheses coronaires, appelees couramment stents, sont tres largement utilisees en cardiologie interventionnelle. Les stents enrobes de substances pharmacologiques (sirolimus, paclitaxel), capables de diminuer le risque de proliferation endotheliale, ont ete proposes pour remplacer les stents metalliques nus dans l'espoir de reduire le risque de restenose. L'analyse de la litterature confirme une reduction, importante et significative, du risque de restenose avec les deux types de stents enrobes par comparaison aux stents nus dans la population generale. Cet effet conduit a une diminution de la necessite de pratiquer de nouvelles procedures de revascularisation. Par contre, ces memes stents enrobes exposent le patient a un risque plus eleve de thrombose tres tardive, sans doute en raison d'un defaut d'endothelialisation, ce qui impose une anti-agregation plaquettaire efficace au long cours. Le bilan sur les evenements cliniques coronariens majeurs ne montre pas de difference significative en termes de mortalite entre les stents enrobes et les stents nus. Par contre, l'incidence d'infarctus pourrait etre, legerement mais significativement, reduite avec les stents au sirolimus. Dans un prochain article, la meme analyse sera effectuee specifiquement dans la population diabetique, connue pour etre particulierement a haut risque, mais aussi sensee pouvoir beneficier le plus de ces endoprotheses coronaires pharmaco-actives.
Journal of Biotechnology Research Center Vol.6 No.1

he present study was conducted to determine the adverse effects of high incubation temperature on growth, development and genome stability of broiler chick embryo in ovo). One hundred twenty broiler eggs from Cobb Company, USA were weighted and divided into two groups. The first group was incubated at 37 o C ± 0.5 o C, and the second group was incubated at 41 o C ± 0.5 o C from 0 to 18 th day. Starting on day 4 th and every other day; three eggs from each group were examined following performed measurements as weight of eggs post incubation, embryo, yolk, and egg shell for measuring growth index. Blood smear was also prepared for counting heterophiles, and lymphocytes to determine H/L ratio. Micronucleus formation and presence of binucleated red blood cells were investigated as genome stability parameters, in 2000 cells. Significant reduction (P<0.01) in growth indices was observed in embryos grown at 41 o C compared to those grown at 37 o C ± 0.5 o C. Reduction in H/L ratio was statistically significant (p≤0.01) in embryos of 2 nd group comparing to 1 st group embryos. Blood of embryo from heat stress group group (2) showed Red blood cells with micronuclei and binucleated cells while no such phenomenon could be seen in embryos from control group group (1). These results suggested that heat stress is influencing cell division at telophase and induces chromosomal damage. 88% of chicks from group (1) were hatched on day 21st; only 18% of chicks from group (2) were hatched lately on day 23 rd , while the others were found dead. These results indicate that heat stress not only adversely affects growth and development of embryo stem cells but also induces genome instability which intern resulted in poultry production losses.