Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Anesthetic Considerations for Deep Brain Stimulation

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) was used to treat refractory Parkinson’s disease (PD) for the first time in 1987 by Professor Benabid’s group by placing stimulating electrodes into targeted brain structures. DBS is a widely accepted neurosurgical treatment for Parkinson’s disease (PD), benign tremor, dystonia, epilepsy, and other neuropsychiat‐ ric disorders with no significant changes in anatomical brain structures. Prior to the introduction of DBS, traditional treatment for PD involved surgical removal of parts of the brain known as thalamotomy, pallidotomy, and cingulotomy. Intraoperative identification of the affected areas of brain is possible through a couple of mecha‐ nisms involving electrical stimulation and monitoring of the brain function, known as “functional neurosurgery”. Implantation of electrodes in the targeted area and the insertion of a programmable pulse generator under the clavicle or in the abdomen are the main steps in DBS surgery. Anesthetic management for DBS remains controver‐ sial and might vary between institutions and physicians. Although no guidelines have been developed, there are some common anesthetic considerations for DBS surgery, including difficult airway management, facilitation of neuromonitoring, and anesthet‐ ic drugs interference with microelectrode recordings (MERs). Local anesthesia, general anesthesia, and monitored anesthesia care (MAC) have been used worldwide in patients undergoing DBS.
Enabling responsive hospital housekeeping with workflow IT

Workflow oriented use of IT in hospitals can increase resource utilization, patient satisfaction and patient throughput, by integrating and aligning work processes. However, the role of hospital support staff, such as porters and housekeepers in interdepartmental workflow coordination has received scant attention. With digitally integrated workflows, the influence of support services on patient flow becomes visible and open to scrutiny and explication. Empirically, we follow efforts to leverage IT to improve workflow coordination at Kalnes general hospital in Norway. Specifically, we employ the Theory of Swift and Even Flow to examine the influence workflow oriented use of IT has on housekeeping responsiveness to patient flow variability and temporary patient flow bottlenecks. We find that efforts to improve workflow coordination introduces novel ramifications for hospital housekeeping and that IT serves both as a real time coordinative tool and as a source for post hoc data analysis and process streamlining. In particular, we identify and discuss three maturity levels of IT mediated workflow coordination, which we refer to as workflow transparency, synchronization and responsiveness. We find that workflow oriented use of IT can raise the responsiveness of hospital support services through a combination of interdepartmental transparency and improved synchronization. Importantly, workflow integration can reveal interdependencies that impinge on the productivity of support staff but are beyond their immediate influence. Consequently, it is important to involve often-overlooked hospital support services directly in the planning and evaluation of workflow-oriented use of IT.
MOPAS 2011

—Measuring security is a complex task and requires a great deal of knowledge. Managing this knowledge and presenting it in a universal way is challenging. This paper describes the Information Security Measuring Ontology (ISMO) for measuring information security. The ontology combines existing measuring and security ontologies and instantiates it through example measures. The ontology provides a solid way to present security measures for software designers and adaptable applications. The software designer can utilise the ontology to provide an application with security measuring capability. Moreover, the adaptable application searches for measures from the ontology, in order to measure a security level in the current run-time situation. The case example illustrates the design and run-time usage of the ontology. The experiment proved that the ontology facilitates the software designer’s work, when implementing security measures for applications that are able to retrieve measures from the ontology at run-time.
Biochemical and pathological studies on Trypanosomiasis among catfish “Clarias gariepenus”

The present study was designed to investigate trypanosomiasis among one of native freshwater fish breed in Egypt namely catfish (Clarias gariepenus). Fifty fish were collected during summer season from the river Nile at Giza markets. The fish were examined for the presence of trypanosoma in the blood. Trypanosoma were detected in 10 (20%) of the collected fish. The main clinical signs of infected fish with trypanosoma were emaciation, dullness, respiratory distress, loss of escape reflex, mild ascitis and paleness of the gills. Post-mortem examination of infected fish revealed paleness of the internal organs (liver and kidneys) and slight congestion of spleen. Haematological examination of infected fish revealed significant decrease in erythrocytic count, haemoglobin and packed cell volume but significant increase in total leucocytic count accompanied with neutrophilia and eosinophilia. Serum biochemical analysis demonstrated a significant decrease in urea, total protein and albumin while a significant increase in AST, ALT, ALP, creatinine, glucose and γglobulin were recorded. Microscopic examination of organ histopathological sections revealed cloudy swelling of hepatocytes with activation of kupffer cells, depletion of lymphocytes with thickening of tile trabeculae in spleen. While in kidney, necrobiotic changes of epithelial lining of renal tubules with vacuolation of glomeruli as well as hemorrhages were recorded.
Study the prevalence of pre eclampsia in vitamin D supplemented non supplemented primigravida women

Introduction: Vitamin D is an essential factor in the regulation of calcium and phosphorus balance. It is synthesized in the skin but is also present in the diet. Objective: To study the prevalence of pre eclampsia in vitamin D supplemented non supplemented primigravida women. Materials and Methods: Group I included 100 pregnant women who received vitamin D supplementation in the form of oral cholecalciferol sachet 60,000IU weekly till 10 weeks along with routine iron, folic acid and calcium supplementation. Group II comprised of 100 pregnant women who received only routine iron, folic acid and calcium supplementation. Results: Out of 200 patients, 22(11%) patients developed pre-eclampsia out of which 19 patients were not supplemented with vitamin D. The p-value was 0.0004 making this correlation statistically significant. Out of 200 patients, 19(9.50%) patients were managed with oral medication and 3(1.5%) required intravenous labetalol. The p-value was 0.001 making this correlation statistically significant. Conclusion: there is significant role of vitamin D supplementation in pregnant women in prevention of pre eclampsia. Keywords: Pre eclampsia, Eclampsia, Vitamin D supplementation, Pregnant women, Primigravida.
Parametric Interval Markov Chains: Synthesis Revisited

Markov Chains (MC) are widely used to model stochastic systems, like randomised protocols, failure and risk analysis, and modelling phenomena in molecular biology. Here we focus on discrete time MCs, where transitions between states are governed by a state probability distribution, denoted by μ : S × S → [0, 1]. Practical applications are often hindered by the fact that the probabilities μ(s, t), to go from state s to t are unknown. Several solutions have been proposed, for instance Parametric Markov Chains (PMC) [3] and Interval Markov Chains (IMC) [7], in which unknown probabilities are replaced by parameters or intervals, respectively; see the diagram (a), (b). Following [4], we study their common generalization, Parametric Interval Markov Chains (PIMC), which allow intervals with parametric bounds. PIMCs allow to study the boundaries of admissible probability intervals, which is useful in the design exploration phase. This leads to the study of parameter synthesis for PIMCs, started in [6]. IMCs can be viewed as specifications of MCs. An IMC is consistent if there exists some MC that implements it. The main requirements of this relation are: (1) all behaviour of the MC can be simulated by the IMC; (2) the transition probabilities out of each state sum up to 1. The consistency synthesis problem for PIMCs computes all parameter values leading to a consistent IMC. E.g., PIMC (c) is consistent when q = 0, p = 1, or p + q = 1, r = 1. The implementation MC (d) corresponds to r = 1, p = 1 4 , q = 3 4 . Our contribution is a simplification of the theory in [6], together with a formal verification in PVS. In particular, we provide a simple co-inductive definition of consistency, and prove that it coincides with the inductive notion of n-consistency in [6]. Finally, based on these definitions, we provide algorithms for the consistency check of IMCs and the consistency parameter synthesis of PIMCs. We implemented the latter as a Constraint Logic Program over the reals, in SWI-prolog with clp(R).
Prospects of Engineering Virus Resistance in Rice: Achievements and Opportunities

Rice tungro disease is a major biotic stress affecting rice in South and Southeast Asia. Two viruses, Rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTBV), a DNA virus and Rice tungro spherical virus (RTSV), an RNA virus are found to be associated in tungro infected leaves. In the absence of well-defined genetic sources of resistance against RTBV and RTSV, a transgenic approach, based on RNA-interference (RNAi), using RTBV and RTSV genes, is attempted to obtain resistance in rice. RNAi is an inherent defense mechanism in plants, which is activated by the presence of RNA having strong secondary structures, such as hairpin or as double-stranded, and which brings about sequencespecific degradation of homologous mRNA, resulting in silencing of the gene expression. Viruses are targets of RNAi response in plants, which can generally overcome the defense response by viral suppressor proteins, resulting in disease. Constitutive expression of viral RNAi-inducing DNA constructs strengthens the anti-viral RNAi response and results in viral resistance, as demonstrated in many cases. The same principle was applied to develop resistance against RTBV and RTSV in rice. DNA fragments representing approximately 300 bp of RTBV DNA and RTSV cDNA were used to make constructs capable of giving rise to hairpin viral RNA (representing fused RTBV and RTSV genes) under strong constitutive promoters in a binary vector. These vectors contained the hygromycin phosphortransferase gene, capable of imparting resistance to plant tissue against 50 mg/L hygromycin, which can act as the selection marker during transformation of rice tissue; the marker genes having flanking loxP sites, capable of being excised to remove the gene upon crossing with a rice line carrying the cre gene. This incorporates the well-known Cre-Lox system of marker gene removal for obtaining marker-free rice lines. Transgenic rice lines were generated using two different combinations of RTBV and RTSV genes carried in the above constructs, utilizing Agrobacteriummediated transformation. Transgenic plants, selected for resistance to hygromycin were obtained and grown till maturity. The seeds were sown to obtain T1 lines were analyzed for the expression of the viral genes. Resistance to RTBV and RTSV is under evaluation.
Correlation of Mothers with History of Diabetes Mellitus and Infants with Anti-GAD65

This study aimed to determine the relationship between mothers with history of diabetes mellitus with Infants with Anti-GAD65. This study was an observational analytic study with a cohort study design. The case studied was the relationship between maternal history of diabetes mellitus and infants with Anti-GAD65. This study was conducted at Jemursari Hospital in Surabaya. Sample examination was performed with a GAD65 autoimmune rapid test. Then, a statistical test was performed to determine its relationship with other variables. There was no relationship between mothers with history of diabetes mellitus and infants with Anti-GAD65, but there was a significant relationship between Anti-GDA65 Mothers with Infants with Anti-GAD65. Thus, there was a possibility of transplacental antibody transfer and viral infections during pregnancy that cause damage to pancreatic beta cells. History of diabetes mellitus was not related to infants with Anti-GAD65, but there was a relationship between Anti-GAD65 Mothers with Anti-GAD65 BAyi so that there is a transfer of transplacenta antibodies and viral infections during pregnancy that can cause damage to beta pancreatic cells in infants.
Computer Competencies And Work Performance Among Non-Teaching Personnel In The Schools Division Office Of Rizal

: The study aimed to determine and evaluate computer competencies and work performance among non-teaching personnel in the Schools Division Office of Rizal for year 2015-2017.The subject of the study were the one hundred twenty three (123) non-teaching personnel in the schools division office of Rizal. The study utilized the descriptive method of research utilizing survey design with the aid of researcher-made questionnaire checklist. In addition, documentary analysis and questionnaires was used to gather data and to analyze the performance practiced and operating in the Division of Rizal.The findings revealed that all of the non-teaching personnel of the schools division office of the Division of Rizal have moderately competent technology operations and concepts, social and ethical skills, and professional skills.There is a significant relationship between the assessment of the clientele and the non-teaching personnel.Majority of the non-teaching personnel attained a very satisfactory performance for there is still a room for improvement need.Thehindrances met are generational / age differences of the employees within the organization while this is followed by outdated and inadequate tools, equipment, software and supplies. The output of the study is a proposed training program for non-teaching personnel.
Effect of dry period length on reproduction, health and milk production in the subsequent lactation of Holstein cows

A retrospective study was employed to investigate the effect of dry period length on reproduction, incidence of reproductive and metabolic disorders and milk production in Holstein cows belonging to a commercial dairy. Over a 5 year period (20002005), data about reproductive performance, postpartum and metabolic disorders were collected on 1914 multiparous Holstein cows. Out of the obtained data production performance were available only for 793 cows. According to the obtained data the dry period was categorized into 10 groups of different lengths. Reproductive performances including the interval to 1st service, service period, number of inseminations per conception, day's open, calving interval and percentage of pregnant cows within 100 days in milking (DIM) were recorded as a function of dry period length. The incidence of postpartum reproductive and metabolic disorders included retained fetal membranes (RFM), endometritis, cystic ovarian disease (COD), mastitis, milk fever (MF), ketosis and abomasal displacement were recorded as a function of dry period length. Milk production was also studied in relation to dry period length. Statistical analysis of the obtained data was performed. The most important notifiable results were: cows with dry period less than 28 days showed the best reproductive performance and the highest incidence of abomasal displacement among all groups. In general, the incidence of MF and RFM were higher in short dry period cows, while the incidence of ketosis was higher in cows with long dry period length. A highly significant difference was recorded between daily milk yield of cows with dry period less than 64 days (27.23 kg) and those of cows with dry period > 64 days (25.20 kg). Finally, it is recommended to keep the dry period of 40-60 day lengths to obtain optimum reproduction, health and production of Holstein cows.
The Relationship between Health Literacy and Self-care among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Residing in the City of Bastak

Introduction: Health literacy is the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and also the health care services required to make informed-care health related decisions. Low health literacy has a negative impact on care and treatment of chronic diseases such as diabetes, although this disease may require lifelong care. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between health literacy and self-care in patients in Bastak with type 2 diabetes. Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional study, conducted in 2015 on 265 patients with type 2 diabetes. Data collection was conducted using the Iranian adult Health Literacy (HELIA) questionnaire and the Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities (SDSCA). Results: The results of this study show that 51.7 percent of patients had low levels of health literacy. The average score of self-care one week before study was 53.78±15.67. In the present study, significant relationships were found for health literacy with self-care and two of its domains, including physical activity and diet. Conclusion: Diabetic patients need more knowledge and a proper attitude to control their disease successfully with appropriate self-care. More attention to the issue of health literacy in health promotion programs is highly recommended.
Does the Shale Gas Revolution Mean the End of Biofuels

World effort to reduce climate changes drives demand for more environmentally friendly alternative fuels, since transport emits quarter of total greenhouse gas emissions. For many years biofuels were main mean for achieving more green transport. Nevertheless, there are rising concerns that some of biofuels have negative environmental and social impacts sometimes worse than fossil fuels. This work links European Union’s biofuels development with expansion of natural gas caused by exploitation from shale formations. We examine relationship between biodiesel, natural gas and relevant commodities by using the price transmission framework. Results indicate weak slowly increasing negative price relation between biodiesel and natural gas. Our work finds favourable legislation for future application of natural gas vehicles. Nonetheless, we conclude that the expansion will not be driven by exploitation of shale gas at European Union territory. JEL Classification Q16, Q41, Q42, C22, Q35
MIMO Antennas - A review

: The paper serves as a tutorial on the study and evaluation of antennas for multiple input multiple output communication systems.MIMO provides additional degrees of freedom by providing a number of antennas at both transmitter and receiver . The antennas along with smart signal processing provide spatial multiplexing or diversity combining,thus exploiting multipath propagation.The performance of MIMO is greatly dictated by the correlation among the multipath components.Low correlation ensures enhanced performance with increased capacity. The objective of the work is to review the recent research and development trends and highlight few novel approaches in the antenna design that calls for MIMO applications.
Volatiles induction in response to mechanical damage is reduced by domestication in murtilla

Volatiles compounds are involved in defensive induction against insects, playing an important role in insect-plant interaction being induced by response to mechanical damage. However, they could decrease according to the domestication degree in cultivated plants. Currently, it has been established that secondary metabolites are reduced due to the domestication process in murtilla. Hence, the follow question emerges: Are volatile organic compounds induced by mechanical damage reduced in cultivated murtilla plants in relation to wild plants? Two cultivated ecotypes and their respective wild counterparts were sampled. Volatiles compounds were obtained using Porapak-Q columns and analyzed by gas chromatography. Results showed that compounds as 2-hexanone, α-pinene, 2-thujene, 3-thujene and 1,8cineole were more abundant in wild plants exposed to a mechanical damage than cultivated plants. Hence, these compounds have been associated to induced defense, these results suggest that domestication reduced the induction of defensive volatiles in cultivated murtilla in response to mechanical damage.
International Journal of Social Science and Economic Research

Increase in average life expectancy of the population does not necessarily imply well being. Problems faced by elderly women are more critical in the backdrop of long years of widowhood and dependency. Profound changes in family structure have adversely influenced long term care, quality of life and well being of elderly. Following a cross sectional design, primary data was collected from rural Kerala to analyse major factors of elderly health, family care and subjective well being. Quantitative data collection was completed by interviewing 300 respondents using a structured interview schedule. Life course Perspective was the theoretical consideration. The study identified that subjective assessment of QOL and wellbeing of elderly women was poor. They were under the strong fear about periods of dependency and were more concerned in the sole manifestation to be “worthy” of living in the family until their last breath. Power relations within the family changed negatively for elderly widows. Traditional rules and customs of elderly care seemed vanishing from rural families due to modernisation and migration. Willingness of family members to extend quality care for their elderly gained an upper hand over their ability to provide such a care. Day to day activities, discussions, resource allocation and prioritizations reflected ‘Emotional Vacuum’.
Epidemio-clinical Profile of Stunting in School Children of an Urban Community in Cameroon

Background: Stunting in children results from a defective growth. Our objective was to describe the epidemiological and clinical profiles of stature growth delay in school children of an urban community in Cameroon. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study carried out on primary and secondary school children aged between 8 to 15 years, from January to June 2015 in Yaounde, Cameroon. The study involved 1442 children of which 79 presented stature delay. Results: The mean age was 12 years (IQR: 11-13ans). The prevalence of stunting was 5.47% (95% CI: 3.59 to 5.87) Among which 48 (60%) of affected children were in secondary school, 41 (51.89%) were of female sex, 54 (68.35%) were aged between 11 and 13years old, 49 (62%) came from families with average or limited socioeconomic level out of which 30 (62%) had limited or poor diet, 76 (96.2%) had normal BMI, 26 (33%) had bone size abnormalities, 10 (12.65%) had delayed puberty, and 4 (5%) had a chronic disease. Conclusion: Stunting occurs among school children in the urban communities of Yaounde in Cameroon, with considerable percentages of affected children diagnosed for the first time in secondary school, and coming from families with low socioeconomic level, having poor diet. Regular measurements of anthropometric parameters and holistic assessment may help for prevention.