Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Management of Chronic Mental Illnesses and Substance Use Disorders

There is vast literature available about prevalence and pattern of substance use in patients with Chronic mental illness such as Schizophrenia. Many of these studies have also investigated the issues related to the impact of substance use on the course and prognosis of the mental illness and vice versa. The factors affecting the use and its impact on treatment have also been studied to some extent in the Western countries. Estimates of the prevalence of substance abuse in schizophrenia and major affective disorder vary as a function of settings (e.g., community, hospital-in-patient vs. out-patient), demographic characteristics of the sample and assessment methods, with most prevalence rates ranging between15% to 65%. Patients with Chronic Mental illnesses and Substance use disorders are difficult to treat and many models for their management have been proposed. This chapter will deal with some of these issues.
Adjustment and intervention needs in young carers of people with chronic illnesses or disability : a systematic review

The need for informal carers has significantly grown, and continues to grow, with young people under the age of 25 years taking on the carer role for people (usually family members) with chronic illnesses. On average young carers can provide up to 20 hours of various physically and emotionally demanding duties per week. This provision of care is often associated with psychological distress and an increased risk of having a chronic illness themselves. This reduces their capacity to manage their own needs and provide quality care to a chronically ill person. Young carers who are not adequately supported with appropriate psychosocial intervention represent an especially vulnerable population with developmental concerns particularly faced by adolescents. This systematic review identified and evaluated quantitative research, focusing on the outcome of psychosocial interventions on young carers of people with chronic illnesses. CINAHL via EBSCO, EMBASE via OVID, Medline via OVID, PsychINFO via OVID, PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science were the selected and searched databases. Unpublished/grey literature was noted in Scopus and the World Health Organisation database. The systematic search revealed that only 4 studies met the inclusion criteria to be included in this review. Assessment of scientific rigour and risk of bias revealed methodological limitations of the included studies and results indicate minimal intervention efficacy. This review emphasises the need for gaining further quantitative evidence on the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for young carers. Furthermore, there is a need to develop standardised protocols for age-appropriate interventions designed to promote psychosocial adjustment among young carers and assist in the development of governmental policies to better support these vulnerable individuals take better care of people with chronic illness.
Social media marketing in wine tourism: winery owners’ perceptions

ABSTRACT This paper examines winery owners’ attitudes and perceptions regarding the use of social media in marketing and promoting wine tourism online. Empirical evidence is provided by a sample of 20 winery owners in the North Italian region of Langhe, who have engaged to a greater or lesser extent in social media. The findings show that while the majority of winery owners recognise the social, economic and emotional benefits of social media, they are far from exploiting its full potential, partially due to barriers such as their agricultural mentality and the time-consuming nature of social media.
Analisis Dan Implementasi Perancangan Metode Rational Unified Process Pada Layanan Sdb Dan Metode Pengujian Product Metric Pada Bank Mandiri Cabang Palu Sam Ratulangi

Bank merupakan salah satu perusahaan yang memiliki aktivitas di dalamnya, tanpa adanya sebuah sistem yang memadai untuk menjalankan proses bisnis, tentunya akan mengurangi efektifitasnya. SDB (save deposit box) merupakan salah satu layanan yang di dalamnya terdapat beberapa proses bisnis, disamping itu SDB merupakan layanan tambahan yang diberikan kepada nasabah prioritas di bank. Salah satu bank yang menyadiakan layanan SDB adalah Bank Mandiri, namun sayangnya layanan SDB ini masih dikerjakan secara manual. Oleh karena itu diperlukannya sebuah sistem yang terkomputerisasi yang dapat membantu proses bisnis. Dengan menggunakan metode RUP (rational unified process) dan metode pengujian product metric akan menghasilkan sebuah sistem yang berkualitas baik dan sesuai dengan kebutuhan konsumen. Dengan adanya sistem ini dapat meningkatkan efektifitas dari proses bisnis yang berjalan. Kata kunci : SDB (save deposit box), RUP (rational unified process), product metric, metric
Application of laser diodes and diffractive imaging in arts

In arts, as well as in entertainment, visual effects are often used to gain the attention of people. A striking effect can be the main reason for the success of an artist's or an entertainment product. Modern optical technologies are very interesting for some artists to highlight their art objects by some nice optical effect. In our paper, we report about an unusual but attractive project between the Berlin Institut of Optics and the German artist Leonore Zimmermann. The idea of the project was to combine a laser-optical effect with an art print. In this context we have designed a diode laser effect illuminator which can be used to display an image of a lion associated with an art print of Leonore Zimmermann. The optical key component of this illuminator is a diffractive element the transmission function of which has been computed to obtain the desired object image by exploitation of the diffraction effect. The diode laser effect illuminator is a simple device which can be used to display almost arbitrary images or short image sequences. In combination with printing arts, we hope, it will surprise and fascinate people by its nice effects.
MBONE: Interactive Multimedia on the Internet

From the Publisher: Appealing to PC, Macintosh and UNIX users on the Internet, this book addresses the required and optimal equipment necessary for administering a site for multimedia applications. The text discusses in detail Internet and MBone resources as well as how to produce and distribute Internet MPEG, QuickTime and AVI videos.
Patient-Derived Xenografts as Pre-clinical Models of Response to Chemotherapy

Ovarian high-grade serous cancer (HGSC) is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy and wellcharacterized models may improve patient outcomes. Patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) recapitulate disease heterogeneity; however, to be useful in predicting response to novel chemotherapeutics, they must reflect the response of the donor tissue to standard chemotherapy. The objectives of this study were: first, to evaluate the response of PDXs’ to platinum therapy and compare this response to that of the donor; and second, to determine whether treatment with chemotherapy enriches for tumourigenic cells. Eighteen samples formed tumours in the mammary fat pads of NOD-Scid-IL2Rγ mice and were treated with Carboplatin. There was a 100% concordance between sample status and PDXs response to chemotherapy. HGS histology was confirmed for all cases. A conclusion regarding post-chemotherapy tumourigenicity could not be made due to inadequate statistical power. PDXs represent useful tools for evaluation of novel therapies and identification of patients who are platinum-resistant/sensitive.
Mutual Information of Unitary IsotropicallyDistributed Inputs in the Non-coherent MAC

We study the sum-rate of the non-coherent, block Rayleigh fading MAC, with K single-antenna users and a receiver which employs N>=K antennas. We derive the mutual information I (x_1, . , x_K; Y) with independent unitary isotropically distributed (i. d.) input signals, a setup motivated by the capacity analysis of point-to-point MIMO channels. The results are derived in a semi-analytical form and are valid in the whole SNR region (not only the high-SNR regime).
Rosuvastatin kao dio strategije primarne prevencije kardiovaskularnih bolesti.

Cardiologia CROATICA K ardiovaskularne bolesti (KVB) predstavljaju najveÊu epidemiju ËovjeËanstva. To je najvaæniji uzrok smrti muπkaraca i æena, usprkos Ëinjenici da se primjenom modernih lijekova moæe sprijeËiti ili barem odgoditi. Smatra se da je ukupni troπak KVB za europsku ekonomiju gotovo 196 milijarda eura godiπnje. Ovi troπkovi predstavljaju zbroj C ardiovascular disease (CVD) is the greatest epidemic of mankind. It is the single most important cause of death for both men and women, despite the fact that with the use of modern medicine it can often be prevented or at least postponed. Overall, CVD is estimated to cost the EU economy almost 196 billion euros a year. These costs SPONZORIRANI »LANAK / SPONSOR’S ARTICLE StruËni rad / Professional article
Vision Enhancement of Night Surveillance Robot using Re-Configurable Computing

This paper outlines, an efficient FPGA based hardware design for night vision enhancement in image and video processing. The approach used is reconfigurable computing technique which works very effectively for images and videos captured under any kind of environment. To meet the speed and area constraints, it is important to quantify the reduction in processing speed as well as FPGA resources that can be achieved if a component of the image/video processing system is embedded onto a hardware based platform like an FPGA. A flexible field programmable gate array device lets develop the image processing application so that the same logic substrate is reconfigured and reused by several custom accelerators during the different illumination levels by means of the sequential computational chain. The results obtained with this technology reveal that a reconfigurable FPGA faces both real-time and parallel compute-intensive demands of the vision enhancement
Performance Analysis of Noisy Message-Passing Decoding of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes

A noisy message-passing decoding scheme isconsidered for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes overadditive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. The internaldecoder noise is motivated by the quantization noise in digitalimplementations or the intrinsic noise of analog LDPC decoders.We modelled the decoder noise as AWGN on the exchangedmessages in the iterative LDPC decoder. This is shown to renderthe message densities in the noisy LDPC decoder inconsistent.We then invoke Gaussian approximation and formulate a twodimensionaldensity evolution analysis for the noisy LDPCdecoder. This allows for not only tracking the mean, but also thevariance of the message densities, and hence, quantifying thethreshold of the LDPC code. According to the results, a decodernoise of unit variance, increases the threshold for a regular (3,6) code by 1.672dB.
Entheseal changes: the role of Portuguese research Alterações das enteses: o papel das investigações portuguesas

In this paper, we present a review of research in Portugal on entheseal changes (EC), widely used to record activity-patterns. This is explored chronologically and thematically, from the beginning of the research on EC addressing the development of research methods tested through their use in identified collections, which sought to infer if the physical activity leads to EC, to a workshop in 2009, dedicated to EC, through to the recently published outputs of the working groups set up at that meeting. We will also discuss the role of individuals and the world class identified skeletal collections. Key trends include the systematic development of recording methods, their testing and Resumo No presente trabalho, apresenta-se uma revisão da investigação desenvolvida em Portugal no que concerne ao tema das alterações das enteses (AE), que têm sido amplamente utilizadas para registar padrões de atividade em populações do passado. O tema é explorado cronológica e tematicamente, desde o início da investigação em AE centrado no desenvolvimento de métodos testados em coleções osteológicas identificadas, que procuraram inferir se a atividade física seria responsável pela presença de AE, até às recentes publicações dos vários grupos de trabalho que tiveram origem no workshop de 2009. Será também discutida a importância dos investigadores
Digit-serial systolic power-sum array in GF(2/sup m/)

This paper presents a novel digit-serial-in-serial-out systolic array for performing the power-sum operation C+AB/sup 2/ in finite fields GF(2/sup m/) with the standard basis representation. If the appropriate digit-size is selected, the proposed method can meet the throughput requirement of a specific application with minimum hardware. With the digit size of the regular square form, the latency of the array can be reduced by 20% as before in GF(2/sup 160/). The new digit-serial systolic array with unidirectional data flow is highly regular, nearest-neighbor connected, and thus is well suited for VLSI implementation.
Análisis, decodificación y clasificación de la señal EEG en entornos tridimensionales

Este trabajo se estructura en 5 capitulos que desarrollan los objetivos anterior­ mente expuestos. En el segundo capitulo se describen las principales caracteristicas ele un sistema BCI en funcion del contexto en el que se desarrolla el experimento. En este apartado tambien se aborda la evolucion historica del DCI asi corno otros aspectos sobre la composicion y tratamiento de la senal EEG. Ademas, se describen los fundamentos biologicos y neurologicos responsables de la generacion de la senal cerebral asociada a procesos motores o cognitivos. En el tercer capitulo se describe el estado del arte de los principales algoritmos utilizados en los experimentos BCI para decodificar, analizar y clasificar la senal EEG. Se analizan y describen las principales caracteristicas de cada uno ele ellos, dependiendo del tipo ele datos analizado. Este capitulo se centra en una de la. partes clave ele cualquier sistema BCI, ya que los algoritmos utilizados condicionaran, en gran medida, los resultados del experimento en terminos de precision en la clasifica­ cion, agilidad del proceso ele decodificacion, coste computacional, etc. En el cuarto capitulo, se muestran los resultados ele decodificacion de senal obte­ nidos en un experimento BCI mediante tecnicas no invasivas, en un entorno tridimen­ sional. En este apartado se describe detalladamente el modelo BCI completo desde la adquisicion ele la senal EEG, durante la realizacion ele una determinada tarea por parte de los sujetos, pasando por el procesado y clasificacion ele dicha senal, junto con el analisis de los resultados de todo el proceso. La comparacion de los resultados obtenidos permitira extraer conclusiones sobre el avance que ha supuesto este estu­ dio en relacion con otros experimentos realizados con tecnicas invasivas. Ademas, se discuten los resultados obtenidos tras aplicar algoritmos geneticos a los analisis de la seiial EEG permitiendo seleccionar aquellos canales que mas informacion trans­ portan, reduciendo asi la::; dimensione::; de la informacion a tratar y, en consecuencia, aumentando la velocidad de ejecucion del proceso completo. E En el quinto capitulo se describen los principales avances y conclusiones derivadas del trabajo descrito en los capitulos anteriores. n este capitulo, tambien se desarrolla un nuevo modelo de BCI portatil concebido en el marco de la presente tesis doctoral. Este nuevo modelo de BCI esta integrado por dispositivos de ultima generacion que aiiaden robu::;tez y nueva::; funcionallidadcs al modelo desarrollado. Con ese punto de partida, ::;e de::;criben alguna::; lineas futura::; en el marco del BCI y su interaccion con la robotica en linea con los avances aqui expuestos. Estos retos podran ser desarrollados e implementados tomando como base el trabajo realizado en esta tesis doctoral.
Defining Baconian Probability for Use in Assurance Argumentation

The use of assurance cases (e.g., safety cases) in certification raises questions about confidence in assurance argument claims. Some researchers propose to assess confidence in assurance cases using Baconian induction. That is, a writer or analyst (1) identifies defeaters that might rebut or undermine each proposition in the assurance argument and (2) determines whether each defeater can be dismissed or ignored and why. Some researchers also propose denoting confidence using the counts of defeaters identified and eliminated—which they call Baconian probability—and performing arithmetic on these measures. But Baconian probabilities were first defined as ordinal rankings which cannot be manipulated arithmetically. In this paper, we recount noteworthy definitions of Baconian induction, review proposals to assess confidence in assurance claims using Baconian probability, analyze how these comport with or diverge from the original definition, and make recommendations for future practice.
Constraints and autonomy for creativity in extracurricular gamejams and curricular assessment

The engagement observed by the players of the games that they play is a desirable quality that has not gone unnoticed in the field of education, leading to concepts such as gamification of education, game-based learning and serious games for training. Game designer Sid Meier is often cited as defining games as being ‘a series of interesting decisions’. The concept of choice implies an autonomous selection from a constrained set of options. This article reflects on the impact of autonomy and constraints, and extrinsic and intrinsic motivators on students’ software development work during both curricular and extracurricular activities. Finally, a model for the design of games for game-based learning is proposed in terms of autonomy and constraints with respect to learning outcomes. Keywords: learning; gamejam; extrinsic motivators; intrinsic motivators This paper is part of the Special Collection: Playful Learning Conference, edited by Fiona Smart and Mark Langan. More papers from this collection can be found here . Published : 9 May 2018 Citation : Research in Learning Technology 2018, 26 : 2023 - http://dx.doi. org/10.25304/rlt.v26. 2023
Does a biological link exist between periodontitis and rheumatoid arthritis

Periodontitis or Periodontal disease (PD) and Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are two the most common chronic inflammatory diseases. Periodontitis is a biofilm associ ated destructive inflammatory dise ase of the periodontium caused by specific microorganisms. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune condition and is identified by elevated serum autoantibody titre directed against citrullinated peptides or rheumatoid factor. Periodontitis may involve some elements of autoimmunity. Recent studies have established that PD and RA show a common pathway and could be closely associated through a common dysregulation and dysfunction in inflamma tory mechanism. The enzyme peptidyl arginine deiminase (PAD), expressed by Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. gingivalis ) is responsible for the enzymatic deimination of arginine residuals to citrulline resulting in protein citrullination and its increased accumulation in RA. Citrullination by PAD may act as a putative biologic link between PD and RA. Association of Human leukocytic antigen-DR4 antigen has been established both with RA and PD. Several interleukins and inflammatory me diators (ILs) and Nuclear factor kappa beta ligand are linked to these common chronic inflammatory diseases. Antibodies directed against heat shock protein (hsp 70 ab) of P. gingivalis , P. melanogenicus and P. intermedia are raised in PD as well as RA. Both the conditions share many pathological and immunological similarities. Bacterial infection, genetic susceptibility, altered immune reaction and inflammatory mediators considered responsible for RA are also associated with PD. So it is plausible that a biological link may exist between PD and RA. Therapies aimed at modifying the expression and effect of inflammatory mediators and effector mol ecules such as matrix metalloproteinases, proinflamma tory cytokines and autoantibodies of structural proteins may probably reduce the severity of both RA and PD.
Migration und Frauengesundheit – komplexe Zusammenhänge erschließen

Zusammenfassung: Die Frauengesundheitsforschung hat maßgeblich dazu beigetragen, eine geschlechtersensiblere Forschungs- und Versorgungspraxis zu etablieren. Schwerfälliger und komplizierter ist es beim Erkenntnisgewinn und dem Wissenschaft-Praxis-Transfer zum Thema Migration und Gesundheit. Die Kategorie „Migrationshintergrund“ ist weder geeignet, die Heterogenität der Immigrantinnen und ethnischen Minderheiten noch die Interaktion von gesundheitsrelevanten Migrationsfaktoren, Rassismus und sozioökonomischen Aspekten in ihrer Wechselwirkung mit Geschlecht und Ethnizität zu erschließen.
A Eficácia do Hidróxido de Cálcio no Tratamento Endodôntico de Decíduos: Seis Anos de Avaliação Efficacy of Calcium Hydroxide in the Endodontic Treatment of Primary Teeth: Six Years of Follow-up

Objetivo: avaliar os resultados clinicos e radiograficos da utilizacao do hidroxido de calcio no tratamento endodontico em deciduos (com necrose pulpar, associada ou nao a lesao periapical ou interradicular). Metodo: o grupo teste foi composto por 33 dentes deciduos, sendo 17 dentes anteriores e 16 posteriores de 31 criancas, com idade variando de um a 11 anos. O grupo-controle foi o de dentes homologos aqueles tratados endodonticamente e seus sucessores permanentes. O atendimento clinico foi realizado por dois profissionais experientes e previamente calibrados. Os dentes foram abertos e durante o preparo mecânico-quimico fez-se uma irrigacao copiosa com hipoclorito de sodio a 1%. Nos casos de dentes tratados em duas sessoes (casos de necrose pulpar associada a lesao periapical e/ou interradicular), utilizou-se uma medicacao intracanal (pasta de base de hidroxido de calcio p.a e soro fisiologico) por 30 dias. Apos esse periodo, os dentes foram obturados utilizando-se a pasta L&C, tambem a base de hidroxido de calcio. Em seguida, realizaram-se controles periodicos, por ate 72 meses, ate a esfoliacao do deciduo e a erupcao do dente permanente sucessor. Resultados: os resultados foram satisfatorios em 32 dos 33 dentes avaliados no grupo teste, ou seja, 97% dos dentes tratados apresentaram-se sem sinais clinicos e radiograficos de lesoes periapicais e interradiculares. Observaram-se resultados similares quanto ao grau e ao padrao de rizolise dos deciduos, bem como de desenvolvimento e irrompimento do sucessor permanente ao se comparar os dois grupos (teste e controle). Esses resultados permitiram considerar como sucesso a terapia endodontica instituida, demonstrando a efetividade do protocolo utilizado. Conclusoes: o hidroxido de calcio e efetivo no tratamento endodontico de dentes deciduos, nao necessitando que seja associado a outros agentes antimicrobianos.