Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Comparative Study of Serum Sodium, Potassium, & Calcium Levels in Primary Essential Hypertensive Cases and Healthy Controls In Mahatma Gandhi Hospital, Jaipur

Introduction-Hypertension is one of the most common diseasesworldwide afflicting humans;and is also one of the leadingcauses of death and disability among adults. In addition, it remains the major risk factor for coronary,cerebral and peripheral vascular disease. Primaryhypertension comprises more than 90% of all cases of hypertension.Differences have been noted between normotensive and hypertensive individuals as regards salt intake,serum electrolytes and the renal excretion of sodium and water.Disturbed calcium metabolism has alsobeen postulated to play an important role in the pathophysiology of essential hypertension. Aim &objectives:-The aim of this study was to assess the serum levels of sodium,potassiumandcalcium, in patients with essential hypertension, and compare them with their levels in normotensive patients attending the OPD/IPD of Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur. Methods: This study was a hospital based comparative analysis&included a total of 100 patients of primary essential hypertension as cases,and 100 healthy controlsfrom the Department of Medicine of the hospital. Results:100 hypertensive patients and 100 healthy controls of age above 20 years were included in this study. Mean Sodium levelin cases,(145.67 ± 4.60 mmol/L),was significantly higher (p value <0.001) than in controls(135.73 ± 4.11/ mmol). Mean Potassium level in cases was 3.62 ± 0.39 mmol/L which was significantly lower than the mean level incontrols (4.60 ± 0.63 mmol/L)(p value <0.001). Similar results were also found for calcium levels.Mean calcium level for Hypertensive patients was 8.63 ± 0.96 mg/dL; and that in controls was 9.45 ± 0.98 mg/dLa significant difference (p value <0.001). Conclusion: Increased sodium levels and decreased potassium and calcium levels may be associated withthe risk of hypertension. So dietary restriction of sodium and supplementation of potassium and calcium may decreasethe risk of developing essential hypertension. The intervention may also be expected to improve diseaseoutcomes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 05-07-2019 Date of acceptance: 20-07-2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Managing IoT data using relational schema and JSON fields, a comparative study

: Data transmitted from sensors and actuators as part of the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure are stored either in database tables following relational schema and normalization forms or in schema less collections using JSON string or binary formulation. As data content in such repositories radically increases, the selection and use of the appropriate storage types are essential in terms of performance and robustness. Furthermore, taking into account the amount of database capacity and processing needed, as well as the exponential increase and use of IoT devices, storage and retrieval of sensory data are the main bottlenecks and set the boundary requirements for IoT services functionalities. This paper tries to identify the performance characteristics that derive from data operations over IoT big datasets that are stored as records in relational schema tables or documents in tables containing JSON fields. Trying to pose an answer to the question which one performs better than the other the PostgreSQL open source relational database has been selected and examined for insert, select/find and aggregation function queries. The comparative study results are presented and thoroughly discussed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
farming: evidence from Kenya

15 The promotion of agroforestry as a mitigation practice requires an understanding of the economic 16 benefits and its acceptability to farmers. This work examines the agro-ecological and socio17 economic factors that condition profitability and acceptance of agroforestry by smallholder farmers 18 in Western Kenya. We differentiate the use of trees according to the permanence of carbon 19 sequestration, introducing a distinction between practices with “high mitigation benefits” (timber) 20 and practices with “low mitigation benefits” (fuelwood). This study goes beyond the analysis of 21 incentives to plant trees to identify incentives to plant trees that lead to high mitigation outcomes. 22 We show that environmental factors shaping the production system largely drive the choice for 23 planting trees with high mitigation benefits. Most trees in the area are used for fuelwood, and the 24
Robust linear least squares regression

We consider the problem of robustly predicting as well as the best linear combination of d given functions in least squares regression, and variants of this problem including constraints on the parameters of the linear combination. For the ridge estimator and the ordinary least squares estimator, and their variants, we provide new risk bounds of order d/n without logarithmic factor unlike some standard results, where n is the size of the training data. We also provide a new estimator with better deviations in presence of heavy-tailed noise. It is based on truncating differences of losses in a min-max framework and satisfies a d/n risk bound both in expectation and in deviations. The key common surprising factor of these results is the absence of exponential moment condition on the output distribution while achieving exponential deviations. All risk bounds are obtained through a PAC-Bayesian analysis on truncated differences of losses. Experimental results strongly back up our truncated min-max estimator.
Sexual Differentiation in Ligustrum micranthum (Oleaceae), Endemic to the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands

Ligustrum micranthum Zucc. (Oleaceae), a small tree endemic to the Bonin Islands, was examined in the field to clarify its sexual system. In the local populations examined on Chichi-jima, all individuals appeared to be hermaphroditic, having a pistil with an ovary and two stamens. They were divided into two morphological groups, however, one having anthers with pollen (staminate fertile) and the other having anthers without pollen (staminate sterile). Staminate sterile individuals set fruit under open pollination. However, staminate fertile individuals showed various fruit production under open pollination. Five plants of the 19 staminate fertile individuals examined did not set fruit for the two years of our observations. This is the first report of sexual polymorphism in Ligustrum. Such a sexual system in L. micranthum might have evolved within the Bonin Islands.
Smooth adaptive fitting of 3D models using hierarchical triangular splines

The recent ability to measure quickly and inexpensively dense sets of points on physical objects has deeply influenced the way engineers represent shapes in CAD systems, animation software or in the game industry. Many researchers advocated to completely bypass smooth surface representations, and to stick to a dense mesh model throughout the design process. Yet smooth analytic representations are still required in standard CAD systems and animation software, for reasons of compactness, control, appearance and manufacturability. In this paper we present a new method for fitting a smooth adoptively refinable triangular spline surface of arbitrary topology to an arbitrary dense triangular mesh. The key ingredient in our solution is that adaptive fitting is achieved by 4-splitting triangular surface patches locally therefore no particular attention has to be paid the validity of an underlying subdivided mesh. Furthermore, the final surface is composed of low-degree polynomial patches that always join with Gl-continuity. The ability to adoptively refine the model allows to achieve a given approximation error with a minimal number of patches.
Cognitive Impairment in Renal Transplant Recipient: A Prospective Study

Introduction: Kidney transplant recipients, like patients on dialysis, have several risk factors for developing cognitive impairment such as comorbid illness, depression, and lower level of physical activity. Materials and Methods: A total of 25 patients were included to analyze the cognitive status in chronic kidney disease patient before and after renal transplant (RT) (6–9 months after renal transplant). Demographic and clinical variables associated with cognitive impairment were also examined. Results: The mean hemoglobin (Hb) before RT was 8.44 g, significant increase after RT 11.56 mgs. The mean blood urea decreased from 115.60 mgs to 31.60 mgs after RT. Serum creatinine significantly decreased after RT from 8.10 mgs to 1.30 mgs. Blood pressure (BP) after RT decreased to 123.6/80.40 mmHg. Statistically significant changes in attention, anterograde memory, verbal fluency, and word recognition after renal transplant, but there is no statistically significant in language domain. Conclusion: There is a statistically significant increase in Hb level, decrease in serum creatinine and blood urea, and BP control after the renal transplant. Statistically significant changes in attention, anterograde memory, verbal fluency, and word recognition after renal transplant, but there is no statistically significant in language domain.
Fibrous Dysplasia of the Proximal Femur with Hip Osteoarthritis Treated with Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Case Report and Literature Review

The Fibrous dysplasia (FD) is an uncommon benign skeletal lesion of bone that may involve one bone (monostotic) or multiple bones (polyostotic). It most commonly occurred inthe long bone, ribs, and craniofacial bones. But the condition of fibrous dysplasia of the proximal femur accompanying hip osteoarthritis treated with total hip arthroplasty is rare.We describe a case of fibrous dysplasia of the proximal femur with hip osteoarthritis treated with total hip arthroplasty. Key Word: fibrous dysplasia, Osteoarthritis, total hip arthroplasty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 02-03-2020 Date of Acceptance: 17-03-2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A study of factors influencing the price of apartments: Evidence from Vietnam

Article history: Received: February 2, 2020 Received in revised format: March 7 2020 Accepted: March 7, 2020 Available online: March 7, 2020 The study investigates determinants important factors influencing apartment prices in Ho Chi Minh city, the biggest economic center of Vietnam. More especially, the study is conducted by collecting survey data of 124 apartments successfully traded during the first six months of 2019. Regression analysis results indicate that apartment prices were positively influenced by size of apartment, presence of balcony, presence of swimming pool, presence of shopping malls and periodic rental income or value. Moreover, proximity to the city center exerts a negative impact on apartment prices. The findings provide some empirical evidence employing survey data on apartment prices in Vietnam. The results are essential for not only Ho Chi Minh city but also other provinces in Vietnam. © 2020 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, Canada
Timed Sequences: A Framework for Computer-Aided Composition with Temporal Structures

The software framework we present implements a simple and generic representation of the temporal dimension of musical structures used in computer-aided composition software. These structures are modeled as ordered sets of abstract " timed items " whose actual dates can be set and determined following different strategies. The timed items can be linked to an underlying action scheduling and rendering system, and can also be used as temporal handles to perform time stretching and hierarchical synchronization operations. A graphical user interface associated with this model can be embedded as a component within musical editors. We give several examples of musical objects implemented in this framework, as well as examples of time-domain operations and user interactions.
Multi-touch gestures for discrete and continuous control

Touchscreen interaction currently relies on a limited set of multi-touch gestures and a wide range of graphical widgets that are often difficult to manipulate and consume much screen real-estate. Many tasks remain tedious to perform on touchscreens: selecting text over multiple views, manipulating different degrees of freedom of a graphical object, invoking a command and setting its parameter values in a row. We propose a design space of simple multi-touch gestures that designers of user interfaces can systematically explore to propose more gestures to users. We further consider a set of 32 gestures for tablet-sized devices, by proposing an incremental recognition engine that works with current hardware technology, and empirically testing the usability of those gestures. In our experiment, individual gestures are recognized with an average accuracy of ~90%, and users successfully achieve some of the transitions between gestures without the use of explicit delimiters. The goal of our contribution is to assist designers in optimizing the use of the rich multi-touch input channel for the activation of discrete and continuous controls, and enable fluid transitions between controls.
Histomorphological Study of Kidney Lesions in Autopsy –An Original Eight Year Study

Background: Postmortem examination of the body is an essential procedure in medicine, because, by correlating the gross and microscopic features of the organs with the clinical features and laboratory findings, the exact cause of death can be known. Many a time, a patient is admitted, various investigations done on him and many diagnoses put forward, but, the final and accurate diagnosis is given only after postmortem examination. Postmortem examination helps in the learning process, the eyes actually see as to what from the patient was suffering. It also makes us alert so that further preventable deaths can be prevented. Thus autopsy becomes an indispensable part of medicine.It was Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771) who demonstrated the importance of morbid anatomy. He correlated anatomy and pathology on one hand, and, clinical medicine on the other.CarlRokitansky(1804-1878), had performed more than 30,000 autopsies and correlated the postmortem findings with the clinical features. Finally, the name Richard Bright (1789-1858) has to be included, because it was he who had studied many kidney lesions correlating the clinical features and morbid anatomy. Material and Method: Autopsies with renal pathology were selected from eight year period . from 1980-1986 in Govt.Medical College Hospital.Aurangabad (MS). India.Affected kidneys were evaluated both ongross and microscopy. Result:69 autopsies out of 491 showed renal lesions. Renal pathology was the cause of death in 20 cases, whereas in remaining 49 cases cause of death was different and renal pathology was an associated finding.Out of 491 cases,317 were males and 174 were females, M : F ratio being 1.8 :1. Renal pathology wasseen in 69 cases (14. 05%) Conclusion: Autopsy kidneys show clinical as well as medical lesions. We come to the exact cause of death by clinicopathological correlation including the clinical features , the investigation reports and postmortem gross and microscopic findings. [1,2,3]Certain renal pathologies might not affect the renal function thereby not causing clinical manifestations.Thus they remain as renal medical disease which is diagnosed on autopsy study.Thus autopsy kidneys help in further preventing mortality due to renal disease or for that matter any disease. [2,3]In our study Chronic Pyelonephritis was found to be the most common lesion. Non-glomerular lesionswere more common than glomerular lesions. A complete and thorough autopsy study provides an important information in identifying risk factors and disease trends . It helps in discovering a new disease and also in quality control in health and patient management and thus resultant improved patient care. [3]This study was conducted way back in 1988 and its reliability is being compared to recent studies , though a bold step. It has come to be noticed that in recent times due to lifestyle diseases renal pathology is more prevalent and predominantly seen in autopsy kidneys [1,2].
A Top Down Construction Scheme for Irregular Pyramids

Hierarchical data structures such as irregular pyramids are used by many applications related to image processing and segmentation. The construction scheme of such pyramids is bottom-up. Such a scheme forbids the definition of a level according to more global information defined at upper levels in the hierarchy. Moreover, the base of the pyramid has to encode any single pixel of the initial image in order to allow the definition of regions of any shape at higher levels. This last constraint raises major issues of memory usage and processing costs when irregular pyramids are applied to large images. The objective of this paper is to define a top-down construction scheme for irregular pyramids. Each level of such a pyramid is encoded by a combinatorial map associated to an explicit encoding of the geometry and the inclusion relationships of the corresponding partition. The resulting structure is a stack of finer and finer partitions obtained by successive splitting operations and is called a top-down pyramid.
Significance of minimal residual disease detection by flow cytometry in Paediatric B cell ALL treatment in tertiary care centre in Eastern India

Background: The good prognosis of paediatric B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (pALL) is considered as a great progress of medical science in the field of oncology and haematology. Minimal Residual disease (MRD) refers to the presence of disease in cases deemed to be in complete remission by conventional pathologic analysis. Prognostic importance of MRD in paediatric ALL is well accepted. This is the study where 8 colour flow cytometry (FCM) is used to detect MRD to asses treatment, diagnosis and prognosis of Bcell ALL. Method: Our Study has used 8 colour FCM which contains CD 19, CD 34, CD 10, CD58, CD 45, CD13, Anti TDT, CD33. 8 panels i.e1. CMPO-FITC/ cCD79a-PE/ cCd3ECD, 2. CD20-FITC/ cCD10-PE/ cCd19ECD, 3.CD34-FITC/ cCD117-PE/ cCd45 ECD/CD2 PC 5, 4. CD15 FITC/ CD33PE/ CD45ECD,5.CD14 FITC/ CD13 PE/CD45 ECD,6. HLADR FITC/CD7 PE/CD45 ECD,7. TdT FITC/CD45 ECD (IF CD 34 NEG), 8.CD58 FITC/CD 45 ECD (IF BOTH CD34 AND TdT NEG) are used to prepare the marker. Result: The study includes 52 patients. In the 52 patients 59.6% patients are alive with a p value of 0.031. MRD was checked at 15 th , 29 th day and post consolidation of the treatment where in day 15 (p=0.023), 53.4% positive and 46.5% negative. In day 29 (p=0.031), 22.5% positive and 77.5% negative, in post consolidation positive in 20% and Negative is 80%. MRD value below 0.01 is considered as negative. The overall survival is of 32.88±8.59 months with 6 to 36 months duration. Conclusion: It is a study of 52 patients of paediatric B cell ALL with a detection of MRD by FCM. According to this study day 29 and post consolidation results of MRD show a significant change with that of day 15. This significant early MRD negativity has any role in relapse and prognosis will be look into future study. Key Word: Paediatric ALL (pALL), MRD, Flowcytometry (FCM) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 22-03-2020 Date of Acceptance: 07-04-2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disinfectant Susceptibility of Bacterial Isolates from Door Handles in a Tertiary Institution in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State

Bacteriological assessments of randomly selected door handles of offices (n=12), classrooms (n=12), laboratories (n=12), hostels (n=12) and toilets (n=12) were determined using standard bacteriological techniques. The susceptibilities of the bacterial isolates to different concentrations of Savlon, Purit, Dettol and hydrogen peroxide were evaluated by disc diffusion method. The bacterial isolates obtained with varied percentages of occurrences were Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus spp, Streptococcus spp, Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus spp and Pseudomonas aureginosa. A total of 10 (16.7 %) swab samples from the surface of door handles had single bacterial growth, while 50 (83.3 %) had mixed bacterial flora. The results of the disinfectant susceptibility of the isolates showed Savlon as the most potent disinfectant compared to Dettol, Purit and hydrogen peroxide. Of the 10 Gram-positive bacteria used, the narrowest and widest inhibitory zones were observed in the plates containing E. faecalis EF-15 and S. aureus SA-09 with the corresponding value (mean ± SD) of 6.9 ± 0.3 mm and 15.1 ± 1.5 mm, respectively, while among the ten (10) Gram-negative bacteria, the widest and narrowest inhibitory zones were observed in the plates containing Proteus spp PS-16 and E. coli EC-21 with the corresponding value (mean ± SD) of 13.8 ± 1.2 mm and 6.8 ± 0.1 mm, respectively. The regression coefficient (r 2 ) values of disinfectants and inhibitory zones as exhibited by the bacterial isolates ranged between 0.75 and 0.999. The possibility of transmission of pathogenic bacteria among the staff and students may be high as the door handles are not routinely disinfected and Savlon could be first choice of disinfectant for the cleansing / disinfecting these door handles in the tertiary institutions environment.
Comparative Study on Encryption Techniques for H.264/AVC Videos

: H.264/AVC is one of the most popular video encoding standards that is widely used for many real time applications. Encryption process is the effective method used to protect videos from the illegal use. Encryption techniques in H.264/AVC videos depends on which stage through the coding process is applied. For instance, Encryption techniques can be applied before the compression process, through the compression process or after the compression process. Through the compression process, the encryption techniques can be applied through prediction process, preparation of motion vectors, transformation process, entropy coding process or etc. Each type of these encryption techniques has its advantages and disadvantages. Thus, this paper compares between the different types of encryption techniques for H.264/AVC that are applied into different stages of encoding process. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------