Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Caffeine, Nicotine and MDMA Effects on Retina suggestive of Potential Functional Consequences

The implications of the use of psychoactive substances, that are usually abused on the retina are yet to be adequately explored. The retina is neural in nature. Most investigations on psychoactive agents have only studied their effects on the brain and behaviour. The mechanisms employed by these agents in producing their effects on the brain suggest that the retina, being neural, might also be significantly affected by the use of the substances. This research investigated the effects of the prolonged use of caffeine, nicotine and 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine [MDMA] on the retina. Juvenile male experimental Wistar were grouped and administered the lower and higher dose of each agent while a reference group remained as the Group A. Groups B and C received the lower [30mg/kg body weight]and the higher [50mg/kg body weight]doses of caffeine respectively; Groups D and E received the lower [10mg/kg body weight] and higher [20mg/kg body weight] doses of nicotine respectively while Groups F and G received the lower [20 mg/kg body weight] and the higher [40 mg/kg body weight] doses of MDMA respectively. The substances had effects on the thickness of the retina with higher doses in each instance causing reductions in retina thickness; the patterns of GFAP expression were also aberrant with the MDMA treated groups being most aberrant. There was no sign of extensive loss of any type of retinal cells. Rhodopsin expression generally demonstrated active rods and provided insight into relatively heathy cones. There is evidence that these agents altered retina thickness and GFAP expression but without extensive disruptions to serve as pathological hallmarks of retina degeneration. The consequences of these might be further investigated.
The Effect of Mental Health Status on the Quality of Life of Faculty of Medicine Students during the Pandemic Coronavirus Disease 2019 Period

BACKGROUND: The spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease which has not been balanced with effective protocols can create mental health problems which could affect the quality of life; as of today, there is not any research that examines the influence of both factors. AIM: This study purpose was to analyze the mental health status on the quality of life amongst medicine students during COVID-19 period. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional survey on 361 students from Faculty of Medicine Tanjungpura University. This study was conducted from June 2019 to November 2020 by spreading Depression Anxiety Stress Scale questionnaire and a WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire through online. The data analysis was administered using Kruskal–Wallis statistics. RESULT: The students’ mental health status was dominantly on the normal category with depression domain by 323 students (89.5%), anxiety domain by 311 students (86.1%), and stress domain by 343 students (95%). The quality of life measurement was in category medium in all domains which are physical health (88.6%), psychological health (92.5%), social relationships (50.7%), and environment (78.7%). There was significant effect of mental health status of depression and anxiety toward the aspect of physical health, psychological health, and social relationships (p < 0.05). Stress significantly influenced all domains of quality of life, and there was no significant effect of mental health status domain depression (p = 0.051) and anxiety (p = 0.881) toward the environment aspect. CONCLUSION: Students’ mental health status in this research belongs to the category normal with moderate level in quality of life. To compare, there was a significant effect of mental health status toward the quality of life domains. The good application of self-coping mechanisms and the social encouragement from the environment is suitable intervention strategies during the pandemic COVID-19 period.
Bacteriological Profile and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern of Isolates from Patients 2 with Septicaemia in Butembo , Democratic Republic of the Congo 3 4 5

6 Background: Emergence of antimicrobial resistance has limited treatment options against 7 bloodstream infections. This study aimed to determine bacterial isolates from blood culture at 8 patients with bloodstream infection and their sensitivity to antimicrobials at patients attending 9 the Central Laboratory of Research of the “Université Catholique du Graben” (UCG) in 10 Butembo. 11 Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study adopting a descriptive approach, conducted 12 from January, 2015 to December, 2016. Blood was collected from a peripheral vein using an 13 aseptic technique. The culture and the antimicrobial susceptibility testing were done by using 14 standard methods according to the Clinical Laboratory Standard Institute guidelines. 15 Results: The most isolated bacteria from blood culture of patient with bloodstream infections 16 were Staphylococcus aureus (39.8%), Listeria spp. (17.4%), Moraxella spp. (14.3%), Bacillus 17 spp. (13.4%) and Klebsiella rhinoscleromatis (4.1%). All bacterial isolates tested for 18 sensitivity were resistant to the group of β-lactamine antibiotics except S. aureus which was 19 sensitive only to vancomycin. It was also observed that all the bacterial species have a 20 Multiple Antibiotic Resistance Index greater than 0.2. 21
Mapping Muslim Behaviors Through Attitudes And Intentions In Choosing Cash Waqf For Economic Independence

Waqf is an Islamic economic instrument that bases its function on the elements of virtue (birr), kindness (ihsan) and fraternity (ukhuwah). This research aims to analyze the factors of Wakif’s motive in choosing cash waqf in Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta. This study was conducted quantitatively and used Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior. Subjective Norms, Government Support, and Self Efficacy on the attitude and intention of the choice to pay cash waqf were the variables in this research. The objects of this study are those who pay the waqf that involves 98 respondents incorporated in Bazwa. The respondents were divided into four districts consist of 35 respondents from Banguntapan, 23 respondents from Bantul City, 11 respondents from Dlingo, and 29 respondents from Kasihan. Data were collected in two types of primary and secondary data. This study used a validity test, reliability test, and path analysis as the data analysis method. The results of this study indicate the factors that influence wakif’s motive in choosing cash waqf are subjective norms, Government Support, and Self Efficacy. Subjective norms had a significant positive effect on the motive through attitude. Self-efficacy is significant for attitude and insignificant for the motive. In contrast, Government support is not significant for attitude and motive, while attitude is significant for the motive
Review on Parasites of Fish and their Public Health Importance

Parasitic diseases of fish are of particular importance in the tropics. Parasites usually exist in equilibrium with their host as a survival strategy. However, in instances where hosts are overcrowded such as in aquaria or in fish farms, parasitic diseases can spread very rapidly causing high mortality. Although, this is usually not the case in the wild natural aquatic environments, it occurs when the environment is disturbed by human activity and interference especially with populations which alter the natural distribution of their parasite communities (Imam and Dewu, 2010).
Use of alternative therapy with Psilocybin in oncologic patients with depression and/or anxiety disorders - integrative review

Cancer is not limited to the physical dimension, but it also affects the entire biopsychosocial context in which the patient is inserted, making him more susceptible to psychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety. These often require pharmacological intervention, and the use of psilocybin, a substance found in mushroom species, is one of the alternatives considered today. The present study aims to carry out an integrative review regarding the use of alternative therapies, in this case Psilocybin, in cancer patients suffering from anxiety and / or depression disorders. The type of study carried out was an integrative literature review, which was based on a bibliographic survey of texts published between 2010 and 2021 on the PubMed platform. This survey took place between December 2020 and February 2021, with a review of three articles in total. Studies show a potential new line of alternative treatment for anxiety and depression in cancer patients, the use of psilocybin. The treatment is done quickly, sustained and lasting, in conjunction with psychotherapy there is improvement in a single dose. All the studies analyzed so far have been shown to be effective for the treatment of anxiety and depression in cancer patients. With this, psilocybin can be an alternative therapy for those patients in psychological distress due to cancer, especially for those who did not obtain a satisfactory response with the use of conventional treatment, allowing that in the future the substance may become a definitive therapeutic modality for patients in psychological distress due to cancer.
Effect of A Designing Nursing Infection Control Protocol on Operating Room Nurses Performance, A Comparative Study

Background: The nurses are the most important member of the medical team responsible for protecting patients from infection inside the operating room. Therefore, nurses must have great knowledge and strict adherence to infection control measures. Aims: To assess the effect of a designing nursing infection control protocol on operating room nurses performance. Design: Pre and post-test quasiexperimental design utilize in this study. Setting: The study conducted in the operating room at three hospitals: main university hospital (general surgery operation), Urology and Woman Health University Hospital. Subject all nurses (60) working in the operating room at the selected setting in the three university hospitals with at list one year of experience. Results: There was a significant improvement in the mean and standard deviation among nurses' knowledge in the three university hospitals after the application of the designed nursing protocol with (p=0.001). Conclusion: The study findings revealed that level of nurses' knowledge regarding infection control measures improved after the application of the design nursing protocol. Recommendations: Nurses should have continuous education through programs, workshops, seminars and/or training courses to maintain high quality care.
Novel Composite Adsorbent Consisting of Dissolved Cellulose Fiber/Microfibrillated Cellulose for Dye Removal from Aqueous Solution

A novel composite absorbent was developed based on dissolved cellulose fibers (as matrix) reinforced with microfibrillated cellulose (MFC). Both cellulose fibers and microfibrillated cellulose were functionally modified using an organic solvent-free approach to introduce carboxyl groups onto cellulose and the surface of MFC. To further enhance the adsorption capacity, nanosized CaCO3 was added as a pore forming agent during the formation of dissolved cellulose/MFC (CMFC) composites and removed in acidic conditions afterward. The structure and morphology of as-synthesized adsorbents were identified using a scanning electron microscope, Fourier transform infrared spectroscope, thermogravimetric analyzer, and Brunauer–Emmet–Teller instrument. An orthogonal experimental design and software SPSS were utilized to reveal the impact of influencing factors (pH, temperature, and the concentration of pore forming agent) on dye removal. The results were imitated by kinetic models and adsorption isotherms, which revea.
Are Non-Human Primates Gricean? Intentional Communication in Language Evolution

The field of language evolution has recently made Gricean pragmatics central to its task, particularly within comparative studies between human and non-human primate communication. The standard model of Gricean communication requires a set of complex cognitive abilities, such as belief attribution and understanding nested higher-order mental states. On this model, non-human primate communication is then of a radically different kind to ours. Moreover, the cognitive demands in the standard view are also too high for human infants, who nevertheless do engage in communication. In this paper I critically assess the standard view and contrast it with an alternative, minimal model of Gricean communication recently advanced by Richard Moore. I then raise two objections to the minimal model. The upshot is that this model is conceptually unstable and fails to constitute a suitable alternative as a middle ground between full-fledged human communication and simpler forms of non-human animal communication. 1 Author Correspondence: Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen. l.battich@student.ru. nl © The Author, 2018. Are Non-Human Primates Gricean?
Self-supervised Point Cloud Prediction Using 3D Spatio-temporal Convolutional Networks

Exploiting past 3D LiDAR scans to predict future point clouds is a promising method for autonomous mobile systems to realize foresighted state estimation, collision avoidance, and planning. In this paper, we address the problem of predicting future 3D LiDAR point clouds given a sequence of past LiDAR scans. Estimating the future scene on the sensor level does not require any preceding steps as in localization or tracking systems and can be trained self-supervised. We propose an end-to-end approach that exploits a 2D range image representation of each 3D LiDAR scan and concatenates a sequence of range images to obtain a 3D tensor. Based on such tensors, we develop an encoder-decoder architecture using 3D convolutions to jointly aggregate spatial and temporal information of the scene and to predict the future 3D point clouds. We evaluate our method on multiple datasets and the experimental results suggest that our method outperforms existing point cloud prediction architectures and generalizes well to new, unseen environments without additional fine-tuning. Our method operates online and is faster than the common LiDAR frame rate of 10 Hz.
Modeling Visual Containment for Web Page Layout Optimization

Web pages have become fundamental in conveying information for companies and individuals, yet designing web page layouts remains a challenging task for inexperienced individuals despite web builders and templates. Visual containment, in which elements are grouped together and placed inside container elements, is an efficient design strategy for organizing elements in a limited display, and is widely implemented in most web page designs. Yet, visual containment has not been explicitly addressed in the research on generating layouts from scratch, which may be due to the lack of hierarchical structure. In this work, we represent such visual containment as a layout tree, and formulate the layout design task as a hierarchical optimization problem. We first estimate the layout tree from a given a set of elements, which is then used to compute tree‐aware energies corresponding to various desirable design properties such as alignment or spacing. Using an optimization approach also allows our method to naturally incorporate user intentions and create an interactive web design application. We obtain a dataset of diverse and popular real‐world web designs to optimize and evaluate various aspects of our method. Experimental results show that our method generates better quality layouts compared to the baseline method.
Analysis of Accommodation Gain of Presbyopia Eye After Laser Ablation (or Shrinkage) of Sclera Via Lens Reshaping and Lens Anterior Shift

Purpose: To derive and provide analytic formulas for an accommodative gain of presbyopia eyes. via sclera ablation and/or thermal shrinkage such that the lens is reshaped and/or its position is shifted. New mechanisms are also proposed. Study Design: To increase the accommodation of presbyopia. Place and Duration of Study: New Taipei City, Taiwan, between June 2021 and July 2021. Methodology: Accommodation gain is calculated by a 4-component theory, in which the rate functions are derived by an effective eye model for the change of anterior curvature of the lens and its anterior shift. The measured data of accommodative response of the lens versus the lens curvature change and anterior shift are analyzed. The measured net change of the posterior vitreal zonules (PVZ) length and the space between the ciliary body and lens (CLS) during the accommodation are also analyzed. Results: The accommodative gain (AG) is mainly due to the change of lens anterior curvature and its anterior shift. The AG per diopter change of the reshaped lens is 0.62 to 0.68 by our formulas, comparing to the measured average value M'=0.69. The efficacy of LASA (or AG) is proportional to the amount of scleral tissue removed (or shrinkaged), such that more space is produced for the change of PVZ and CLS from a UCS to AS for accommodation. Conclusion: The AG is proportional to the amount of scleral tissue removed (or shrinkaged), such that more space is produced for the change of PVZ and CLS from a UCS to AS for accommodation.
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The Eastern enlargement of the EU is likely to increase regional disparities within the EU. At the same time regional cohesion is a primary objective of EU economic policies. This raises the question of whether and when the regions of the accession countries will reach the average level of economic development of the EU. East German regions are considered as an instructive example of a transition country for the integration process of the new Central and Eastern European member states. The objective of this study is to analyse whether some East German regions have already achieved the same economic capability as the regions in West Germany, so that they are on a competitive basis with the West German regions and are able to reach the same economic level in the long run. If this is not the case, it is important to know more about the reasons for the economic weakness of the East German regions twelve years after unification. The study is based on a cluster analysis. Criteria for the cluster formation are several economic indicators, which provide information about the economic capability and their determinants. The choice of the indicators is based on a review of results of the theoretical and empirical literature on the new growth theory and new economic geography. The results show that most of the East German regions have not yet reached the economic capability and competitiveness of their West German counterparts so that they from the viewpoint of the new growth theory and the new economic geography are not in the position to reach the same economic level. According to these theories economic disadvantages are most notably the consequences of less technical progress, a lack of entrepreneurship and fewer business concentration. Under these points it is especially noteworthy that young well educated people leave these East German regions so that human capital might will turn into a bottle-neck in the near future. Only a few regions in East Germany those with important agglomerations are comparable to West German regions that are characterised by average capability and competitiveness, but not to those with above average economic capability and competitiveness. Even those more advanced East German regions suffer from economic disadvantages such as slower technical progress and low business concentration. There are important policy implications based on these results: regional policy in East Germany was not able to assist raising all regions to a sufficient level of competitiveness. It may be more effective to concentrate the regional policy efforts on a selection of important agglomerations. This has also strong implications for the EU regional policy assuming that the accession countries will have similar problems in catching up to the economic level of the EU as have the East German regions.
Research Progress of Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Treating Constipation After Stroke

Constipation is one of the common gastrointestinal complications of stroke, which not only affects the quality of life of patients, but also easily induces and aggravates the primary disease and delays the recovery of the disease. At present, most of the treatments for constipation after stroke are oral medicine and enema, but the curative effect is poor and unstable. Acupuncture has the advantages of simple operation, remarkable effect, high patient acceptance and a little toxic effect. It is one of the non-drug treatment ways to prevent and treat constipation after stroke, as well as widely used in the treatment of constipation after stroke. Therefore, the clinical research on acupuncture treatment of constipation after stroke in recent years is summarized to provide reference for the subsequent clinical treatment of constipation after stroke.
Detection of Disease and Pest of Kenaf Plant Based on Image Recognition with VGGNet19

One of the advantages of Kenaf fiber as an environmental management product that is currently in the center of attention is the use of Kenaf fiber for luxury car interiors with environmentally friendly plastic materials. The opportunity to export Kenaf fiber raw material will provide significant benefits, especially in the agricultural sector in Indonesia. However, there are problems in several areas of Kenaf's garden, namely plants that are attacked by diseases and pests, which cause reduced yields and even death. This problem is caused by the lack of expertise and working hours of extension workers as well as farmers' knowledge about Kenaf plants which have a terrible effect on Kenaf plants. The development of information technology can be overcome by imparting knowledge into machines known as artificial intelligence. In this study, the Convolutional Neural Network method was applied, which aims to identify symptoms and provide information about disease symptoms in Kenaf plants based on images so that early control of plant diseases can be carried out. Data processing trained directly from kenaf plantations obtained an accuracy of 57.56% for the first two classes of introduction to the VGGNet19 architecture and 25.37% for the four classes of the second introduction to the VGGNet19 architecture. The 5×5 block matrix input feature has been added in training to get maximum results.