Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Paracoccidioidomicosis sistémica con implicación de la cavidad bucal: Reporte de un caso en paciente venezolano

espanolLa Paracoccidioidomicosis o Blastomicosis Suramericana es una micosis sistemica, progresiva e infrecuente con un desenlace potencialmente fatal si no es tratada a tiempo. Esta restringida casi exclusivamente a personas que viven o viajan hacia Latinoamerica. A continuacion se presenta un caso de Paracoccidioidomicosis en cavidad oral, orofaringe, esofago, estomago y piel de la planta de los pies de un paciente venezolano con habitos parafuncionales inusuales como sostener hojillas entre los labios e introducirse trozos de vidrio en la cavidad bucal. Este paciente requirio hospitalizacion y tratamiento sistemico, ya que se encontraban involucrados tambien los pulmones, vias digestivas, y el tiempo de evolucion de la enfermedad era prolongado. La evolucion y curacion de la enfermedad fue favorable, sin recidivas. EnglishParacoccidioidomycosis or South-american Blastomycosis, is a systemic, progressive and uncommon mycotic disease with a fatal outcome if it is not treated rapidly. It is restrained almost exclusively to people who live or travel to Latin-American countries. A clinical case of oral paracoccidioidomycosis is described. The disease included oral cavity, oropharynx, esophagus, stomach and feet of a Venezuelan male patient who had the habit of hold blades between lips and introduce pieces of glass in his mouth. The patient needed hospitalization and systemic treatment with Anphotericin-B and Itraconazole because of the involvement of digestive tract and lungs. The evolution and healing of the disease were favorable, without recurrence in the following year.
USO DE LA HERBOLARIA EN EL CUIDADO DE LA SALUD

En la actualidad el estudio de las plantas medicinales como uno de los recursos mas importantes de la medicina tradicional, entra en una etapa de mucho interes en el medio medico y cientifico nacional. El empleo de las plantas con fines medicinales, es probablemente tan antiguo como el hombre mismo. Actualmente hay manifestaciones alentadoras en el campo de la aceptacion de la herbolaria como medicina complementaria por el equipo de salud. Hoy dia los botanicos, medicos y farmacologos estan trabajando juntos en el campo de la herbolaria, es posible que la transformen en un recurso valioso para millones de personas que no cuentan con otros medios para la curacion de sus enfermedades. Abstract At present the study of medicinal plants as one of the most important traditional medicine is entering a stage of great interest in the medical and scientific country. The use of plants for medicinal purposes is probably as old as man himself. Currently there are demonstrations in the field encouraging the acceptance of herbal medicine as complementary medicine for the health care team. Today, botanists, doctors and pharmacologists are working together in the field of herbal medicine, you may transform it into a valuable resource for millions of people who have no other means to cure their diseases. Palabras Clave: herbolaria, salud, medicina.
The Potential Dangers of Using Rapid Weight Loss Techniques

ABSTRACT PERSONAL TRAINING CLIENTS OFTEN HAVE BODY COMPOSITION GOALS THAT REQUIRE THEM TO LOSE LARGE, OR EXTREME, AMOUNTS OF WEIGHT OVER A SHORT PERIOD. CONSEQUENTLY, THIS MAY LEAD TO THE USE OF A WIDE VARIETY OF RAPID WEIGHT LOSS TECHNIQUES THAT CAN BE HARMFUL TO THEIR HEALTH AND LONG-TERM SUCCESS.
I flipped my tutorials: a case study of implementing active learning strategies in engineering

A variety of active learning strategies have been applied to engineering classrooms, including flipping classrooms by recording lectures and having students watch them outside of class time. In this study, a similar approach was used for long-answer problems presented in one-hour tutorial sessions. Problem solutions were recorded and made available online. Instead of solving long-answer problems, tutorials began with a review of relevant material. The review was then followed by independent working time where students were free to interact with the teaching assistant and discuss concepts with one another while working on an online quiz. Students generally responded very positively to the changes and appreciated the ability to go through problem solutions at their own pace with the recordings. In tutorials, the quizzes were successful at encouraging discussion of course content amongst students. The techniques also provided a repository of online videos and quizzes to be used in future course iterations.
The Review of the Studies on the Fall Prevention Exercise Programs for Elderly Persons

This study aimed to provide basic information for the prevention program for lumbar pain and falls of elderly people by comprehensively exploring the studies on the diverse exercise programs for fall prevention of elderly people. For the health management of elderly people, whether to keep physical strength through exercise is important, but it is true that common aerobic exercise and muscular exercise are not helpful for it. Therefore, this study analyzed and explored the researches for activity programs for fall prevention of elderly people and particularly it was found that the whole-body vibration and constant isokinetic exercise are effective for the fall prevention of elderly people from the results of the analysis of activity program for fall prevention through whole-body vibration and isokinetic exercise, which is not they are not traditional exercise program though. In conclusion, those results of researches are expected to be fairly helpful for the structure and operation of fall prevention program for elderly people in the future.
Onvoorspelbare loopbanen: verantwoordelijkheid van werknemers én werkgevers

Door economische, technologische en maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen hebben de loopbaanpaden van werknemers aan voorspelbaarheid ingeboet. Hetzelfde geldt voor de inhoud van het meeste werk en dus voor de kennis en vaardigheden die werknemers aan de dag moet leggen om goed te kunnen blijven functioneren. In dit artikel wordt beschreven hoe de dynamiek van werk en loopbanen het denken over loopbanen bij loopbaanwetenschappers, werknemers en werkgevers heeft veranderd. Dynamische loopbanen leggen een grotere verantwoordelijkheid bij werknemers om inzetbaar te blijven voor de toekomstige arbeidsmarkt. Die verantwoordelijkheid dient echter te worden ondersteund of gestimuleerd door werkgevers, zo wordt betoogd. Zowel werknemers als werkgevers kunnen echter baat hebben bij de ondersteuning van loopbaancoaches die hen begeleiden bij het maken van complexe keuzes.
Características linguopalatales de la nasal palatalizada en español

La nasales en posicion implosiva se adaptan muy facilmente al punto de articulacion del segmento siguiente. Las diferencias de punto de articulacion que mantienen entre si las diferentes variantes no siempre son constatables acusticamente, pero si articulatoriamente. Este estudio pretende poner de manifiesto la diferencia entre la nasal alveolar, la nasal palatalizada y la nasal alveolopalatal en espanol a traves de datos obtenidos de dos hablantes mediante un electropalatografo, una de las herramientas mas eficaces en el analisis instrumental articulatorio. Los datos nos permiten interpretar la nasal palatalizada como un elemento a medio camino entre la alveolar y la alveolopalatal mas que como un elemento identificado claramente con la alveolopalatal.
Atomic Force Spectroscopy on Ionic Liquids

Ionic liquids have become of significant relevance in chemistry, as they can serve as environmentally-friendly solvents, electrolytes, and lubricants with bespoke properties. In particular for electrochemical applications, an understanding of the interface structure between the ionic liquid and an electrified interface is needed to model and optimize the reactions taking place on the solid surface. As with ionic liquids, the interplay between electrostatic forces and steric effects leads to an intrinsic heterogeneity, as the structure of the ionic liquid above an electrified interface cannot be described by the classical electrical double layer model. Instead, a layered solvation layer is present with a structure that depends on the material combination of the ionic liquid and substrate. In order to experimentally monitor this structure, atomic force spectroscopy (AFS) has become the method of choice. By measuring the force acting on a sharp microfabricated tip while approaching the surface in an ionic liquid, it has become possible to map the solvation layers with sub-nanometer resolution. In this review, we provide an overview of the AFS studies on ionic liquids published in recent years that illustrate how the interface is formed and how it can be modified by applying electrical potential or by adding impurities and solvents.
Bisimulations for concurrency

We study three notions of bisimulation equivalence for concurrent processes. Bisimulation equivalences are based on an operational interpretation of processes as labelled transition systems, and constitute the strongest notion of equivalence one may adopt for such systems: two systems are equivalent if and only if they have the same step—by—step behaviour. We focus first on Milner's notion of weak bisimulation (also known as observational equivalence) and propose an alternative formulation for it. More specifically, we show that Milner's notion may be redefined as one of reducibility to a same system via a reduction function called abstraction homorriorphism. We use our characterisation to derive a complete set of reduction rules for observational equivalence on finite processes. We also show how abstraction homomorphisms may be extended to labelled event structures: however we do not consider the possibility of unobservable events here. We look then for notions of bisimulation which account for the concurrent aspects of processes. Traditional transition systems evolving via successive elementary actions only provide an interleaving semantics for concurrency. We suggest two generalisations of the notion of transition system: distributed transition systems, obtained by generalising the residual of a transition, and pornset transition systems, obtained by extending the notion of action labelling a transition (an action being now a partially ordered multiset). For the latter we find a corresponding notion of bisimulation on labelled event structures. Based on these new kinds of transitions, we obtain two bisimulation equivalences one stronger than the other which are both more discriminating than Milner's equivalence. For both of them we present an algebraic characterisation by means of a complete set of axioms.
Klinische Ergebnisse der Behandlung der koronaren Herzkrankheit mit Wachstumsfaktoren

Zusammenfassung Die aktuellen Behandlungsmethoden der koronaren Herzkrankheit zielen auf Minimierung des Infarktrisikos und Reduktion der Symptome durch Senkung des myokardialen Sauerstoffbedarfs, durch Verbesserung der myokardialen Perfusion sowohl medikamentös als auch mechanisch durch PTCA oder Bypasschirurgie und durch Prävention einer weiteren Progression der Erkrankung. Trotz des hohen technischen Standards der interventionellen oder operativen Verfahren der myokardialen Revaskularisation sind diese bei Patienten mit diffuser Arteriosklerose und peripherem Gefäßbefall nicht anwendbar. Die Induktion der Angiogenese durch humane angiogenetische Wachstumsfaktoren entwickelt sich speziell bei dieser Patientengruppe zu einer neuen Therapiemodalität und stellt neben medikamentöser Therapie, PTCA und Bypasschirurgie ein viertes, neuartiges Behandlungsprinzip der koronaren Herzkrankheit dar. »Polypeptide Fibroblast Growth Factor« (FGF) und »Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor« (VEGF) scheinen einen besonders starken Effekt im Hinblick auf die Induktion der Angiogenese im hypoxischen Gewebe auszuüben.
Trauma Written in Plywood and Flesh: Hurricane Graffiti, Post-Katrina Tattoos, and the Value of Narratives to Hazards Research

Dr. Alderman explained that narratives are an important way to understand how people were impacted by a hurricane. Graffiti and tattoos are visually evocative narratives written on plywood and flesh as opposed to paper. Hurricane graffiti can serve as a practical tool or as an indicator of tensions and needs. Post-hurricane tattoos serve as memoirs vehicles for retelling hurricane stories and as a way to express trauma. A visual content analysis was used to identify specific themes evident in hurricane graffiti inscriptions. Some of the major themes included history defiance desperation territoriality humor politics and prayer. An example of graffiti as history is a piece of graffiti outside of a store that said "1) Charles 2) Frances 3) Ivan 4) For sale. " An example of graffiti as defiance is "Take a hike Ike. " An example of graffiti as desperation is "We need power! " An example of graffiti as territoriality is "Looters will be killed. " An example of graffiti as humor is "Santaâ€™s naughty list: Charles Frances Ivan. " In the tattoo study tattoo artists were interviewed. One artist Tom decided to get a tattoo of an X on his leg after Hurricane Katrina which references the rescue symbol. This tattoo like many tattoos elicits stories from others allows him to retell his story and serves to provide a collective memory. Narratives are significant because they are personal and social and provide tremendous insight. For this reason these types of narratives are important to natural hazards research.
Use of MapReduce in Distributed Systems

: MapReduce is a programming model or software framework which is associated with the implementation of generating large data sets and their processing to a broad variety of real world task. Programmers computes in terms of a map and a reduce function. There are various programs written in the style that automatically functions parallel and are executed on large clusters of commodity computers. MapReduce jobs are executed on commodity computers every day, processing a total in petabytes of data per day.
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Thalassemia Major. Report from the EBMT Hemoglobinopathy Registry

Abstract 905 Background. Hemopoietic allogeneic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) still remains the only available curative option for β-thalassaemia major. At today more than 3000 transplants have been performed worldwide and registered. We analyze transplant activity and outcome after 20 years of the European Hemoglobinopathy Bone Marrow Transplant (EBMT) Registry. Methods. Data have been analyzed from promise MED-A form. Survival data have been reported with the method of Kaplan-Meier in patients with complete survival data. Results. One hundred and 34 centres from 28 different countries reported their data to the registry. Three thousands and 821 (3821) consecutive first HSCT for patients affected by a hemoglobinopathy have been registered. There were only 364 (10.5%) patients aged 18 years or older. Further analyses were restricted to patients with thalassemia major and to transplants performed after January 1st, 2000. In this latter period 1493 transplants have been performed (median age 7.2 years, range 0.3–45.1) with 133 (9.8%) patients aged 18 years or older. During the last decade 70% of the transplants have been performed in Europe and 30% in Asia and Africa with a trend to an increase activity in these countries compared to previous decades. Of the 1493 transplants performed after January 2000, 1061 (71%) have been performed from an HLA identical sibling donors, 129 (8.6%) from a matched other relative, 57 (3.8%) from a mismatched relative, 210 (14%) from an unrelated donor and in 36 (2.4%) cases donor information were missing. Source of stem cells was bone marrow in 1011 patients (67.7%), peripheral blood in 303 patients (20.3%), cord blood in 60 patients (4%), mixed in 82 patients (5.5%). Source of stem cell was missing in 37 (2.5%). In matched sibling donor transplant recipients overall survival (OS) and thalassemia free survival (TFS) plotted at 91 ± 0.01% and 83 ± 0.01%, respectively. Significant differences have been reported in OS and TFS when related to different age groups as reported in Table 1 (P Conclusion. This analysis confirms allogeneic transplantation is a worldwide diffuse high success curative procedure for β-thalassaemia major. Bone marrow still remains the principal source of stem cells. The large majority of transplants have been performed from a matched sibling donor with a marginal role of other donors. In addition these data demonstrate the trend to not transplant adult patients. In the univariate analyses 14 years old appears as threshold age for best transplant strategy. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
Multivariate Statistical Methods in Quality Management

Chapter 1: Multivariate Statistical Methods and Quality Chapter 2: Graphical Multivariate Data Display and Data Stratification Chapter 3: Introduction to Multivariate Random Variables, Normal Distribution, and Sampling Properties Chapter 4: Multivariate Analysis of Variance Chapter 5: Principal Component Analysis and Factor Analysis Chapter 6: Discriminant Analysis Chapter 7: Cluster Analysis Chapter 8: Mahalanobis Distance and Taguchi Method Chapter 9: Path Analysis and the Structural Method Chapter 10: Multivariate Statistical Process Control APPENDIX: PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION TABLES REFERENCES INDEX
Measurement of the Internal Inductance of Impulse Voltage Generators and the Limits of LI Front Times

The recent push to higher testing voltages for research and production tests on UHV system components rated above 800kV class has led to difficulties in achieving the standard waveshapes as required by IEC60060 Parts 1 and 2 and other existing IEC, IEEE/ANSI and other standards. One of the limiting components in achieving the maximum capacitive loading on an impulse generator for standard lightning impulse front times is the inductance of the circuit. The total inductance of the circuit is comprised of the internal inductance of the impulse generator and the inductance of the loop to connect to the load. The higher the voltage class of test objects, the larger the loop, yielding more inductance that in turn, reduces the test capacitance that can be connected and still remain inside the overshoot requirements of the standards. The internal inductance of the impulse generator is comprised of the wiring of the stages and the stage capacitor inductance and/or the inductance of the waveshaping resistors. This paper shows the results of methods to measure and calculate the internal inductance of several impulse generators and we review the formulas for calculating the maximum load of an impulse generator with a given internal inductance. We believe these methods give more realistic values than adding up nameplate inductance values from an impulse generator. The paper also reviews the pros and cons of higher stage capacitances in impulse generators to test larger loads that are ultimately limited by the circuit inductance value. The intent of this paper is to assist in the revision of future IEC and IEEE standards for impulse testing apparatus in the UHV range.
Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom: The Realities of Online Teaching

From the Publisher: Authors Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt have written a comprehensive reference for faculty to use to hone their skills as online instructors and for students to use to become more effective online learners. Filled with numerous examples from actual online courses and insights from teachers and students, Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom covers the entire online teaching process. This essential guide offers helpful suggestions for dealing with such critical issues as evaluating effective courseware, working with online classroom dynamics, addressing the needs of the online student, making the transition to online teaching, and promoting the development of the learning community.
Nutrient Removal by Waterhyacinth

Removal of nitrogen and phosphorus by waterhyacinth [Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms] in static and flowing water was investigated. Milligrams of phosphorus absorbed per plant per day in static water averaged 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, and 1.6 in 10, 25, and 50% Hoagland's solution and in sewage effluent, respectively, while in flowing water the values were 1.7, 2.5, and 3.3 for 10, 25, and 50% Hoagland's solution. Milligrams of nitrogen absorbed per plant per day from these same solutions averaged 5.3, 11.4, 19.8, and 6.6 from static water and 9.9, 18.4, and 20.8 from flowing water. Transpiration per plant per day averaged approximately 175 mi in static water and 225 ml in flowing water. One hectare of waterhyacinth plants under optimum conditions could absorb the average daily nitrogen and phosphorus waste production of over 800 people.
Detection of Falls from Non-Invasive Thermal Vision Sensors Using Convolutional Neural Networks

In this work, we detail a methodology based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to detect falls from non-invasive thermal vision sensors. First, we include an agile data collection to label images in order to create a dataset that describes several cases of single and multiple occupancy. These cases include standing inhabitants and target situations with a fallen inhabitant. Second, we provide data augmentation techniques to increase the learning capabilities of the classification and reduce the configuration time. Third, we have defined 3 types of CNN to evaluate the impact that the number of layers and kernel size have on the performance of the methodology. The results show an encouraging performance in single-occupancy contexts, with up to 92 % of accuracy, but a 10 % of reduction in accuracy in multiple-occupancy. The learning capabilities of CNNs have been highlighted due to the complex images obtained from the low-cost device. These images have strong noise as well as uncertain and blurred areas. The results highlight that the CNN based on 3-layers maintains a stable performance, as well as quick learning.
Laccase Induced Lignin Radical Formation Kinetics Evaluated by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Laccases (EC 1.10.3.2) catalyze oxidation of phenoxyl groups in lignin during reduction of O2, and the first product is a lignin radical. The determination of laccase kinetics on lignin requires cautious interpretation due to the radical reactions involved. In this study the radicals produced during laccase catalyzed oxidation of organosolv lignin were measured by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and used to assess the enzyme kinetics of three different fungal laccases on the lignin. The laccases originated from Trametes versicolor (T. versicolor), Ganoderma lucidum (G. lucidum), and Myceliophthora thermophila (M. thermophila), respectively. The enzymes had different affinities for the organosolv lignin substrate, and the kinetic parameters of the three laccases differed. The T. versicolor enzyme was the fastest relative to the activity of the three enzymes on the assay substrate syringaldazine, but the G. lucidum and the T. versicolor laccases had similar apparent catalytic efficiencies.