Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
POST - OPERATIVE NEUROLOGICAL RECOVERY PATTERN IN DEGENERATIVE CERVICAL MYELOPATHY AND RADICULOPATHY

OBJECTIVE: To study the neurological recovery pattern and clinical recovery after surgical intervention in patients of degenerative cervical myelopathy and radiculopathy to know the surgical outcome, at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra. METHOD: We carried out prospective and retrospective observational study of 30 patients with functional disability secondary to cervical degenerative myelopathy and radiculopathy who underwent surgery for decompression of the cervical spinal cord with or without spinal stabilization. March 2012 to March 2013 were studied and followed for more than 1year. All patients were operated by a single surgeon and reviewed independently. All the patients had received appropriate conservative management before undergoing surgical intervention. Data was analysed by using appropriate software. RESULTS: The study group comprised of 27 males and 3 females aged between 36 and 75 years with a mean age of 56 years that presented with functional disability secondary to cervical myelopathy and radiculopathy. Pain and neurological examination were used as criteria at sequential follow–ups. Functional outcome was assessed using Japanese Orthopaedic Association score, Oswestry Disability Index and Visual Analogue Scale. It was found that neurological recovery for myelopathy by mJOA score at intervals between 15 days to 3 months was significant after which recovery was occurring but was not significant. Anterior cervical discectomy with fusion for 1-2 levels has given good results than posterior laminectomy for 3 or more levels. Cervical radiculopathy alone has good recovery results after decompression surgery than myelopathy or myelopathy with radiculopathy. CONCLUSION: Based on this study, we found that the results of surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy and radiculopathy are excellent. The best neurological and functional recovery is seen in patients with mild to moderate functional disability at the time of surgery. Duration of symptoms preoperatively, age at presentation, number of levels involved affects the recovery. They are negatively correlated with recovery.
On Review of the Riemanns’ Iterated Integrals

This paper reviews the Riemanns’ approach of multiple integrals by considering its basic definitions, results and the various successive integral evaluations, in doing this, the continuity condition of R was considered with respect to X as the necessary condition guaranteeing the existence of the integrals using the analytical Riemanns’ approach. This involves the use of partitions, to generate continued results to the nth iterated integral after the nth iteration.
Association between Endothelial Dysfunction, Biomarkers of Renal Function, and Disease Severity in Sickle Cell Disease.

Background Endothelial dysfunction (ED), as ascertained by brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD), is a known feature of sickle cell disease (SCD), which is present both in crisis and in steady state. The assessment of FMD was introduced to examine the vasodilator function. Our objective was to establish the relationship between ED determined by FMD, biomarkers of renal dysfunction, and biomarkers of disease severity in SCD subjects asymptomatic of renal disease. Methods We enrolled 44 patients with homozygous SCD in steady state and 33 age- and sex-matched controls between 2013 and 2014 in a tropical tertiary hospital. Ultrasonographic FMD of the right brachial artery, renal arterial Doppler, complete blood count, creatinine, fetal hemoglobin, soluble P-selectin, and cystatin C (Cys-C) levels were determined. Using the median FMD value of the control group, the SCD subjects were further classified into two groups for comparison. Results The median FMD in SCD subjects of 3.44 (IQR, 0.00-7.08) was significantly lower than that of controls, which was 5.35 (IQR, 3.60-6.78; P=0.04). There was negative correlation between FMD and Cys-C levels (r=-0.372; P=0.01) along with renal artery resistivity index (RARI; r=-0.307; P=0.04) in SCD subjects. Additionally, Cys-C level was significantly higher in SCD subjects with FMD<5.35. Conclusions Brachial artery FMD was significantly lower in SCD subjects compared with a control group. Cys-C and RARI show a negative correlation with FMD, indicating that renal function is related to ED in SCD.
An Integrative Review of School-Based Mental Health Interventions for Elementary Students: Implications for Occupational Therapy

ABSTRACT Occupational therapy for children and youth experiencing mental health conditions is often overlooked in current school-based services, as the traditional role within the system is often limited to physical health issues. The purpose of this integrative review is to investigate current psychosocial interventions within school settings to understand the effects of services provided and to determine potential roles for school-based occupational therapists. The findings of this review support occupational therapists in facilitating interventions that target mental health in school settings. Psychotherapy presented the strongest evidence for reducing psychosocial symptoms in school settings.
OS DIREITOS DA PERSONALIDADE FRENTE À SOCIEDADE DE VIGILÂNCIA: PRIVACIDADE, PROTEÇÃO DE DADOS PESSOAIS E CONSENTIMENTO NAS REDES SOCIAIS

Social Networks capture our personalities through the digital tracks we leave when using them. The Brazilian Law 13.709 / 2018 (LGPD) regulates the processing of personal data, aiming at the protection of people. Thus, the paper asks: how can the consent of the holders given to social networks fit the law? The goal is to understand how social networks affect our rights. The methodology consists of a literature review and legislative analysis. It is concluded that consent is a mechanism capable of conferring informative self-determination to users who need to be aware of how their personal information is treated.
Thermal Shock and Oxidation Stability Tests to Grade Plasma Sprayed Functionally Gradient Thermal Barrier Coatings

Functionally graded layers in thermal barrier coatings reduce the stress gradient between the overlaid ceramic coatings and the underlying metallic component. Introduced to alleviate early onset of spallation of the coating due to thermal expansion mismatch, this facilitates improvement in the life of the component. Conventional thermal barrier coatings typically comprise of duplex layers of plasma sprayed 8% yttria stabilized zirconia (ceramic) coatings on bond coated (NiCrAlY) components/substrates (Inconel 718 for example). This work highlights the superiority of plasma sprayed coatings synthesized from blends of the intermetallic bond coat and ceramic plasma spray powders on Inconel 718 substrates in three-layer configuration over the duplex layered configuration. Assessed through (a) thermal shock cyclic tests (at 1200oC and 1400oC) in laboratory scale basic burner rig test facility and (b) oxidation stability test in high temperature furnace (at 800oC and 1000oC) the functionally graded coatings of certain configurations exhibited more than double the life of the conventional 8% yttria stabilized zirconia duplex (double layer) coatings. Micro- and crystal structure analysis support the findings and results are detailed and discussed.
The Active Management of Postpartum Uterine Atony—A Checklist Based Approach

Uterine atony remains the major cause of postpartum hemorrhage, and of death from postpartum hemorrhage in the United States. While existing guidelines outlining a general approach to postpartum hemorrhage are useful, recent data suggest that greater specificity may be necessary to significantly impact mortality. We present a highly specific and methodical approach to the management of uterine atony, which addresses what we believe to be the most common cause of preventable maternal hemorrhagic death in the US—lack of an intensive, focused approach to atony and perseverance with therapies that are not working. This protocol should result in cessation of hemorrhage by medical or surgical means within 1 hour of diagnosis. We then apply this protocol to a number of illustrative cases of maternal death due to atony. An approach involving the active management of uterine atony may assist clinicians in avoiding severe morbidity and mortality from uterine atony.
Cyberbullying detection in social media text based on character‐level convolutional neural network with shortcuts

As people spend increasingly more time on social networks, cyberbullying has become a social problem that needs to be solved by machine learning methods. Our research focuses on textual cyberbullying detection because text is the most common form of social media. However, the content information in social media is short, noisy, and unstructured with incorrect spellings and symbols, and this impacts the performance of some traditional machine learning methods based on vocabulary knowledge. For this reason, we propose a Char‐CNNS (Character‐level Convolutional Neural Network with Shortcuts) model to identify whether the text in social media contains cyberbullying. We use characters as the smallest unit of learning, enabling the model to overcome spelling errors and intentional obfuscation in real‐world corpora. Shortcuts are utilized to stitch different levels of features to learn more granular bullying signals, and a focal loss function is adopted to overcome the class imbalance problem. We also provide a new Chinese Weibo comment dataset specifically for cyberbullying detection, and experiments are performed on both the Chinese Weibo dataset and the English Tweet dataset. The experimental results show that our approach is competitive with state‐of‐the‐art techniques on cyberbullying detection task.
Modeling the average population of La Crosse vectors in Knox County, Tennessee

ABSTRACT La Crosse Virus (LACV) is an arbovirus found in Eastern Appalachia and can cause pediatric encephalitis in prepubescent children. To assess the risk and transmission of this disease, it is particularly important to understand the average population of Aedes mosquitoes, which are the vectors of this virus. We use a deterministic compartmental model to study the effects of environmental factors on the population dynamics of Aedes mosquitoes in the Knox County area. We use locally-collected mosquito population data to adjust our model outputs and find that model transitions are heavily dependent on the fluctuations of both temperature and accumulated precipitation. These findings should be considered for mosquito management in Southern Appalachia, as well as in other regions with slight modifications to our model.
Steganalysis by Recombining Spatial Rich Model

Steganalysis is an important topic in the field of information security. Steganalysis is mainly based on the traditional machine learning method, represented by the spatial rich model, and has high detection performance. Aiming at the problems of high feature dimension, strong redundancy and long feature extraction time in the spatial rich model, this paper conducts a series of feature selection operations and explores four different model combination methods: single quantization factor combination method, single filter kernel type combination method, mixed selecting combination method, Pearson correlation coefficient combination method. In addition, a feature preprocessing means are added. The experiment proves that the combination of mixed selecting combination and Pearson correlation coefficient can be stable with the performance of steganalysis before dimension reduction, but the performance dimension ratio is higher.
The Right to Support: Severely Disabled Children & Their Mothers

The author examines how severely disabled children and their mothers, who are usually their primary caregivers, are treated by Canadian law and policy. She identifies and analyzes deficiencies in care and other supports the state makes available to them. She further provides an analysis of the role of the state as it increasingly privatizes responsibility for supports, including unpredictable and often complex forms of care, situating them in practice, with mothers. Caregiving mothers are required to provide what comprises maternally complex care, which may be medical, neurological or psychiatric in nature. Within complex care, visible and hidden costs have been off loaded onto caregiving mothers by government. Using conceptual frameworks from feminist standpoint theory and drawing on Paolo Freire’s theory of critical consciousness, the author analyzes legal cases, legislation and policies, as being founded upon a series of powerful myths. She assesses the paradigms that underlie current legal arrangements, in particular, the roles assigned to mothers of children with severe disabilities. Her analysis engages with administrative, tort and constitutional law, and includes a focus on the steps taken by the province of Ontario to end the voluntary care provision to mothers with disabled children through its child welfare jurisdiction. She shows where such practice may not comply with legal requirements in each of the areas of law she examines, building an argument that Ontario may not refuse such care to mothers. Legal reforms and other approaches that could enable severely disabled children and their mothers to achieve more just outcomes are presented as a series of recommendations.
Implant-Supported Prosthesis for Edentulous Patient Rehabilitation. From Temporary Prosthesis to Definitive with a New Protocol: A Single Case Report

This case study concerns a patient who had lost all of his teeth, needing a rehabilitation with total prosthesis, who went to the dentist looking for help to overcome psycho-physical trauma and to overcome functional and social problems related to being a prosthesis wearer. Tooth loss occurs most in old age, even if it is not a direct consequence of aging. The rehabilitation of oral functions allows the patient to speak, chew, smile and feel confident in his own aesthetics and therefore improve, even a lot, his well-being in social relations. It is very important in oral rehabilitations to evaluate their type and therapeutic timing. This study stems from the idealization of a new protocol to simplify the supported oral rehabilitations. In this manuscript, a patient was considered and shown according to a complete photographical documentation all the phases. Rehabilitation included the use of Osstem (Osstem, Seoul, Korea) and equator type abutments (Rhein83, Bologna, Italy). This manuscript claims to represent the first of a whole series of cases demonstrating the utility of this protocol.
High Homogeneity of Magnesium Doped LiNbO3 Crystals Grown by Bridgman Method

A series of LiNbO3 crystals doped with various MgO concentrations (0, 3%, and 5 mol%) was simultaneously grown in one furnace by the modified vertical Bridgman method. The wet chemistry method was used to prepare the polycrystalline powders, and the growth conditions were optimized. The full width at half maximum of high-resolution X-ray rocking curves for (001) reflection of 5 mol% Mg doped lithium niobate (LN) crystal was about 8″, which meant it possessed high crystalline quality. The OH− absorption spectra shifted to 3534.7 cm−1, and the UV absorption edge violet shift indicated that 5 mol% MgO successfully doped in LN and exceeded the threshold. The extraordinary refractive index gradient of 5 mol% Mg doped LN crystal was as small as 2.5 × 10−5/cm, which exhibited high optical homogeneity.
Extension of shelf-life of ready-to-cook (RTC) pangas fish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus) curry by modified atmosphere packaging at chilled storage

Ready-to-cook (RTC) fish products are getting popular due to busy lifestyle of the people. However, preservation is a big concern for these types of perishable food items. Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) is a widely used packaging technique used for displaying chilled fish and fishery products in developed countries. In light of this, the quality and shelf-life of RTC pangas fish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus) curry was evaluated by biochemical and microbiological analysis under not sealed pack (control), MAP-1 (50% CO2 & 50% N2) and MAP-2 (75% CO2 & 25%N2) pack at 4 days interval during 20 days of storage at 4°C. The pH value of pangas fish curry was in the range of 6.01 to 6.80 during the storage period. The total volatile base nitrogen (TVB-N) value in fish curry gradually increased with the storage time. However, there were no significant (p<0.05) differences in pH and TVBN values among all packaging conditions during storage. Thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) fluctuated between 0.03 to 0.56 mg malonaldehyde/kg during the storage period. The pH, TVB-N and TBARS values under all packaging conditions were within the acceptable limit during the storage period. The total viable count (TVC) gradually increased with time in all packaging conditions. However, significantly (p<0.05) lower TVC values were observed on the 12th and 16th day of storage in all samples compared to that of the control sample. Considering the bacterial counts, the shelf-life was determined at approximately 9 days for not sealed pack, 13 days for MAP-1, and 15 days for MAP-2 sample, based on the 7 logs CFU/g, which is considered as the upper acceptable limit for fresh and frozen fish. Therefore, the MAP-2 (75% CO2 & 25%N2) is the best packaging, which can be utilized by the superstores to display this kind of value-added products with extended shelf life.
Hardware Implementation of Bit-Parallel Finite Field Multipliers Based on Overlap-free Algorithm on FPGA

Cryptography can be divided into two fundamentally different classes: symmetrickey and public-key. Compared with symmetric-key cryptography, where the complexity of the security system relies on a single key between receiver and sender, public-key cryptographic system using two separate but mathematically related keys. Finite field multiplication is a key operation used in all cryptographic systems relied on finite field arithmetic as it not only is computationally complex but also one of the most frequently used finite field operations. Karatsuba algorithm and its generalization are most often used to construct multiplication architectures with significantly improved in these decades. However, one of its optimized architecture called Overlap-free Karatsuba algorithm has been mention by fewer people and even its implementation on FPGA has not been mentioned by anyone. After completion of a detailed study of this specific algorithm, this thesis has proposed implementation of modified Overlap-free Karatsuba algorithm on Xilinx Spartan-605. Applied this algorithm and its specific architecture, reduced gates or shorten critical path will be achieved for the given value of n. Optimized multiplication architecture, generated from proposed modified Overlapfree Karatsuba algorithm and applied on FPGA board,over NIST recommended fields (n = 128), are presented and analysed in detail. Compared with existing works with sub-quadratic space and time complexities, the proposed modified algorithm is highly recommended module and have improved on both space and time complexities. At last, generalization of proposed modified algorithm is suitable for much larger size of finite fields, and improvements of FPGA itself have been discussed.
Relationship between Interleukin-6 Expression with the Progressive and Severity of Ulcerative

Background . Based on international statistics, the incidence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is about 2.2-14.3 cases per 100.000 people per year for Ulcerative Colitis (UC). In Indonesia, there is no epidemiological study of IBD. To assess the degree of severity associated with the ulcerative colitis disease can be used a variety of tools, including the Truelove Witts score which has sensitivity and specificity that high enough for UC in the phase of active disease. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that plays a very important role in the self-defense mechanism and acts as an acute-phase protein. Serum levels of IL-6 and increased expression in the colonic mucosa of active IBD patients indicate the level of IBD disease activity. Aims . The aim of the study was to determine the relationship between Interleukin-6 expression (IL-6) and the severity of UC disease using Truelove Witts classification. Methods. This study used a cross-sectional method that analyzed the relationship between IL-6 expression and UC weighing based on Truelove Witts classification using colon tissue biopsy results from UC patients who met inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results. Th ere were 26 subjects studied and performed an endoscopic analysis and anatomical pathology. Mean age of research subjects were 52.73 + 11.11 years with men's favored subjects (n = 15). Subjects were severe UC 16 (61.5%), moderate 7 (26.9%) and mild 3 (11.5%). More male subjects in mild UC, 12 vs. 3 and more female subjects in moderate-severe UC, 4 vs. 7 (p 0.032). Signifi cant diff erences in IL-6 expression in defecation were > 4 times/day, IL-6 300 (285-400) versus defecation < 4 times/day, IL-6 295 (212.1-340) p 0.039. Signifi cant diff erence in IL-6 expression between mild UC 295 (212.1-340) with moderate- severe UC 301.66 (235.57-400) with p value 0.032. Conclusion . IL-6 expression in moderate-severe UC subjects was higher than mild UC subjects based on Truelove Witts criteria. Keywords: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Truelove Witts classification, Interleukin-6.
Pain Management after Surgery

Shahverdi E1,2* and Khani MA3 1Blood transfusion Research Center, High Institute for research and Education in Transfusion Medicine, Tehran, Iran 2Student Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3Department of Medicine, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran *Corresponding author: Ehsan Shahverdi, Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization building, Hemmat express way Tehran, Iran, Tel: 982188601606; E-mail: shahverdi_ehsan@yahoo.com
From Bismarck to Woodcock: The "Irrational" Pursuit of National Health Insurance

AbstractAlmost a century ago Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, the principal creator and first chancellor of the new German nation-state, introduced compulsory national health insurance to the Western world. Since then, nation after nation has followed his lead until today almost every developed country has a full-blown national health insurance plan. Some significant benchmarks along the way are the Russian system (introduced by Lenin after the Bolshevik Revolution), the British National Health Service (Beveridge and Bevan, 1945), and the Canadian federal-provincial plans (hospital care in the late 1950s, physicians’ services in the late 1960s). In nearly all cases these plans built on previous systems of medical organization and finance that reflected particular national traditions, values, and circumstances.1…