bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Symptomatic differences and symptoms stability in unipolar and bipolar depression. Medical charts review in 99 inpatients
Authors: Gosek Paweł , Heitzman Janusz , Stefanowski Bogdan , Antosik-Wójcińska Anna , Parnowski Tadeusz 
Published: July 2019

Cel pracyPóźna rozpoznawalność choroby afektywnej dwubiegunowej (CHAD) może skutkować m. in. prowadzeniem nie w pełni adekwatnego leczenia, zwiększeniem cierpienia związanego z chorobą oraz ryzyka zachowań suicydalnych, a także wzrostem kosztów prowadzonej terapii. Brak sprawdzonych w warunkach klinicznych biomarkerów dwubiegunowości kieruje uwagę klinicystów na analizę przebiegu choroby i symptomatologii depresji w przebiegu CHAD. Celem niniejszej pracy była retrospektywna analiza różnic występowania i powtarzalności objawów depresyjnych u pacjentów z chorobą afektywną jednobiegunową (CHAJ) i chorobą afektywną dwubiegunową (CHAD) w trakcie trzech kolejnych epizodów depresji w warunkach szpitalnych.MetodaRetrospektywna analiza dokumentacji leczenia 99 pacjentów z CHAJ i CHAD w trakcie trzech kolejnych epizodów depresji. W analizie występowania objawów zastosowano test Chi-kwadrat oraz regresję logistyczną, do analizy powtarzalności występowania objawów współczynnik powtarzalności kappa Cohena.WynikiRóżnice istotne statystycznie obserwowano dla 7 spośród 22 objawów depresyjnych. Częściej u pacjentów z CHAJ obserwowano objawy somatyzacyjne (bólowe i nie-bólowe), pobudzenie psychomotoryczne i patologiczne poczucie winy. Częściej u pacjentów z CHAD obserwowano anhedonię, zaburzenia koncentracji uwagi i myśli suicydalne. W grupie CHAJ relatywnie najwyższą powtarzalnością cechowało się występowanie objawów somatyzacji, zaburzeń II fazy snu, wczesnego porannego wybudzania, zaburzeń koncentracji uwagi. W grupie CHAD natomiast występowanie urojeń, objawy somatyzacyjne, zaburzenia I i II fazy snu, zaburzenia pamięci, spowolnienie psychomotoryczne oraz patologiczne poczucie winy.WnioskiObserwowane różnice symptomatologiczne mogą być dodatkowym klinicznym czynnikiem różnicującym pacjentów z CHAJ i CHAD. Niższa w grupie badanej niż uprzednio donoszono w literaturze powtarzalność występowania objawów depresji, wskazuje na konieczność analizowania profilu objawów w oparciu o więcej niż jeden epizod depresji.
Electroconvulsive therapy and autobiographical memory in patients with treatment-resistant depression
Authors: Napierała Maria , Bodnar Anna , Chlopocka-Wozniak Maria , Permoda-Osip Agnieszka , Rybakowski Janusz 
Published: July 2019

Cel pracyTerapia elektrowstrząsowa (EW) jest najskuteczniejszą metodą leczenia depresji lekoopornej. W większości badań wykazano, że funkcje poznawcze, w tym pamięć operacyjna i semantyczna, ulegają jedynie przejściowemu upośledzeniu po EW. Jednakże deficyty pamięci epizodycznej (autobiograficznej) okazały się długotrwałe.MetodaBadaliśmy pamięć autobiograficzną u 20 chorych (8 mężczyzn, 12 kobiet), w wieku 21-64 lat, z depresją lekooporną, leczonych EW, stosując polską adaptację Autobiographical Memory Interview-Short Form (AMI-SF). Ocenę przeprowadzono przed, bezpośrednio po 10-12 sesjach EW, a następnie po 3 miesiącach.WynikiPrzed EW średnie nasilenie depresji wynosiła 30±6 punktów w 17-itemowej skali oceny depresji Hamiltona, a leczenie spowodowało znaczną poprawę kliniczną u wszystkich pacjentów. Wskaźniki pamięci autobiograficznej ocenione przy pomocy AMI-SF były znacznie obniżone od razu po EW i po upływie 3 miesięcy. Deficyt pamięci autobiograficznej nie wykazywał korelacji z poprawą kliniczną i innymi wskaźnikami klinicznymi.WnioskiWyniki uzyskane u pacjentów z depresją lekooporną potwierdzają, że leczenie EW powoduje istotne upośledzenie pamięci autobiograficznej, utrzymujące się również po trzech miesiącach od zabiegów, co wskazuje, że może być to najważniejsze poznawcze działanie niepożądane terapii EW.
Determining optimal locations for urgent care centres in Cornwall using computer modelling
Authors: Chalk Daniel 
Published: July 2019

Background/Aims Urgent care centres provide a broad range of services in comparison to minor injury units. In order to establish new urgent care centres, the Sustainability and Transformation Partnership in Cornwall aimed to identify the optimal number and location for these centres, which could then help to reduce the volume of patients attending emergency departments. Methods A computer model that calculated average and maximum travel times, along with number of attendances, for over 4000 potential urgent care centre geographic configurations, was developed. The model predicted that establishing five urgent care centres would significantly minimise travel times for patients across the county. The model also predicted the locations for these centres that would minimise average travel times. Results The results from the model were used to directly inform a decision made by the Sustainability and Transformation Partnership. Conclusion The first urgent care centres in Cornwall, at Treliske, Bodmin Community Hospital and West Cornwall Hospital, were established in 2018. The urgent care centre in West Cornwall is now accepting patients; the two other sites are still under construction.
Siblings Diagnosed With Primary Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Left Hepatic Duct
Authors: Dayan Aviel , Ricci Claudio , Campana Davide , Santini Donatella , Fughelli Patrizia , Minni Francesco , Nardo Bruno 
Published: July 2019

ABSTRACT
Primary left hepatic duct neuroendocrine tumors are extremely rare. We describe 2 cases of siblings, a 51-year-old brother and a 48-year-old sister, who were both diagnosed with primary left hepatic duct neuroendocrine tumor. Both patients underwent successful left hepatectomy and are both alive with no recurrence. For this rare malignancy, while definitive diagnosis is made only by histopathology, a margin-free surgical resection remains the only curative treatment modality to date.
Chemotherapy-Induced Sclerosing Cholangitis Caused by Systemic Chemotherapy
Authors: Kusakabe Akira , Ohkawa Kazuyoshi , Fukutake Nobuyasu , Sakakibara Mitsuru , Imai Toshihiro , Abe Yutaro , Takada Ryoji , Ikezawa Kenji , Nawa Takatoshi , Ashida Reiko , Kimura Toshihiro , Nagata Shigenori , Katayama Kazuhiro 
Published: July 2019

ABSTRACT
A 61-year-old woman diagnosed with cervical cancer received systemic chemotherapy using paclitaxel and bevacizumab. Marked elevation of liver enzyme levels was observed. Ultrasonography and computed tomography showed wall thickening of the extrahepatic and intrahepatic bile ducts accompanied by stricture and dilatation. According to these, she was diagnosed as chemotherapy-induced sclerosing cholangitis (CISC), a form of secondary sclerosing cholangitis. Although CISC triggered by systemic chemotherapy is rare, CISC should be considered as a clinically important adverse event of chemotherapy because it causes rapid deterioration of liver function and necessitates interruption of chemotherapy.
High-Performance Finned Tubes for Production Facility Heating Systems
Authors: A. Usenkov Roman , . . 
Published: July 2019

The values of the optimal height of the ribs and their optimal placement step on the surface of the heating device are determined. It was possible to determine that the installation of rectangular rods with a step of 8.2 mm on the surface at an angle of 90 degrees to the horizon, leads to an increase in the local coefficient of convective heat transfer to 200% compared to the surface on which there are no rods. It was found that the simplex acts as a separate parameter that affects the local coefficient of convective heat transfer on a surface with rectangular bars.
Teaching Reading And Counting In Salah: Experiences Of Muslim Caregivers Of Down Syndrome Children In Selangor
Authors: Binti Abdul Rahman Amira , Suraya Mohamad Fitri 
Published: July 2019

Children born with Down Syndrome face difficulty in reciting daily prayers as they are born with cognitive disabilities which affect the process of acquiring reading and counting skills. Although in Islam, these children are not required to perform Salah, the strong cultural family norms among Malay Muslims in Malaysia create an expectation of them to participate in Salah as part of their daily routines. This study examines the experiences in teaching Down Syndrome children how to read and count in Salah among Muslim family caregivers in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. The study also investigates best practices to facilitate a Down Syndrome child to perform daily religious prayers that involves the skills of reading and counting. Case study method is deployed to examine responses from three informants who voluntarily participated in this study. The study uses non-probability sampling to acquire accurate and realistic conceptions from caregivers who are actively working with their respective Down Syndrome children. Findings from the study revealed a high tendency among caregivers to use repetition in the learning process, and to create an environment where the Down Syndrome children can imitate the actions done and words spoken when performing the Salah. The use of rewards is also found to be useful and effective to motivate and encourage Down Syndrome children to learn to cognitive tasks for Salah.
Interactive Natural Image Segmentation and Foreground Extraction
Authors: David Solomon Raju Y , Krishna Reddy D 
Published: July 2019

Interactive image segmentation is very practical and important problem in computer vision. In this paper a regressive based Green’s function is employed to formulate the problem of segmentation. The method is incorporated with different clustering approaches intended to extract the foreground regions from the natural images. The method performance is improved with proper labeling of foreground and background regions, and with more number of cluster regions. The method is evaluated with two standard benchmark datasets and found that the experimental results were promising.
Wireless Sensor Based Monitoring System for Forest Tree Poaching and Fire Using Iot
Authors: Arulstephen C , K. Raghulsharma R , Ebenezer Abishek B , Satish Kumar P 
Published: July 2019

Forest tree poaching is a serious threat to forest resource and has an impact on the environment hence preservation of trees is a must for mankind .This paper mainly aims at monitoring the trees using Micro –Electro mechanical system(MEMS) technology and employing vibration sensor , sound sensor, fire sensor. The vibration produced while cutting of trees using MEMS accelerometer is sent through Zigbee to the main server and the location is detected using GPS likewise if fire is detected the information is sent through IoT and it can be viewed by forest ranger hence alert message is sent to detect and avoid poaching of trees and fire in forest.
Sybil Attack Detection Based on Authentication Process Using Digital Security Certificate Procedure for Data Transmission in MANET
Authors: Muthusamy P , Sheela T 
Published: July 2019

Mobile devices are becoming very popular due to the wide range of networking competence for the mobile device users. The security issues in MANET become the control towards the management of the multiple numbers of nodes in the MANET is distributed. To strategy for overcome the Sybil attack in MANET and improve the efficiency of the Sybil attack detection by enhancing the data confidentiality and reliability. The primary objective of this research work is to develop a scheme to detect and prevent the Sybil attack in the MANET and to provide a highly reliable data transmission approach. The proposed system ensures the availability, confidentiality, authenticity and reliability of the information using digital certificate chains and secret sharing schemes. To detect the sybil node during the route discovery process, the nodes authenticate each other by providing the digital security certificate (DSC). The digital security certificate proves the nodes and allows only authorized node to participate in the route to transmit the data packets from the source to destination. It will not ensure the confidential data transmission when the legitimate node exhibits the malicious behavior in certain circumstances. When any intermediate nodes learn about the data packet that is being transmitted, then the security in data transmission becomes a critical factor. The safety of the network can be enhanced by preventing the sybil attack in MANET by increasing the data confidentiality and reliability. Only certified and authenticated nodes can participate in the route to transfer the data packets between the nodes. To prevent the sybil attack, it is necessary to secure the data that is transmitted over the insecure communication routes.
Implementation of a Novel Control Technique in Landsman Converter Using Bumble Bee Optimization
Authors: A. Rahiman Riyaz , C. John Wiselin M 
Published: July 2019

This paper focuses on a solar PV array based BLDC motor employing Landsman converter under partial shading condition (PSC). A converter acts as an interface between the SPV array under PSC and Voltage Source Inverter (VSI) feeding the Brushless DC (BLDC) motor. BLDC motor incorporating the merits of higher efficiency, high reliability, high ruggedness, easy-to-drive, capability to operate successfully at low voltage and excellent performance over a wide range of speed. The speed control of BLDC motor by variable DC-link voltage. This eliminates the additional phase current sensing, DC-link voltage sensing, additional control and associated circuitry. The proposed system includes simplicity control, compactness, and soft starting of the BLDC motor. The operation of Landsman converter in CCM results reduced stress on devices. To optimize the operating point of the SPV array in order to get maximum possible power output by means of the better maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique. The technique is Bumble Bee Mating Optimization (BBMO) based MPPT. The novel technique is compared to the conventional techniques. The simulated results are executed in MATLAB/SIMULINK.
Structuring, Design and Analysis of a Pentab and SIW Cavity Backed Antenna for Iot Applications
Authors: P. Cowsigan S , Saraswady D 
Published: July 2019

Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) cavity backed antenna technology is a new form of transmission line facilitating the realization of non-planar (waveguide based) circuits into planar form for easy integration with other planar (Microstrip) circuits and systems. They retain the low copper and dielectric loss property of traditional metallic waveguides and are widely used in integration of walls, floors and flame redundant wearable. SIW-CB antenna is a perfect candidate for IoT based wearable antenna with FR4 substrate. In this sense we structurizean efficient small size antenna for IoT applications to operate in the range of 5 – 15 GHz. FR4-epoxy substrate is chosen so that the losses are minimized hence improving the efficiency. The proposed antenna resonates at 5.4, 6.9,9.1,11.5 & 14.2 GHz hence forming the Pentaband with a maximum return loss of 38.6 db. The other antenna parameter values are Gain 28.5 db, efficiency 90% and VSWR 1.
Laboratory Scale Modelling and the Treatment of Biomedical Wastes Through Herbaceuticals for Manure Production
Authors: D. Viswanath E. , Balasundaram N. , Senthil Vadivel T. 
Published: July 2019

Biomedical waste disposal practices are becoming important in both the developing and developed countries and need to be properly followed by the human being. An effective utilization of waste helps to have potent products like biofertilizer, bio-manure and also mineral resources like Ca, Mg, Fe, Co etc. The present study involves the treatment of biomedical waste by applying primary treatment using seaweeds (Padina tetrastromatica and Amphiroa fragilissima) and herboceuticals (turmeric & neem extracts). The experiments were designed to find out the optimum concentration of the substrate, incubation period and time in the treatment process. The secondary treatment process consisted of alkaline hydrolysis process with various concentrations to treat biomedical wastes. The bacterial load and count were analysed in all the treatment processes. The final characterization of the treated waste was analysed for the potential of bio-manure production. The result revealed that the bacterial reduction efficacy and residual mass was found to be 15000 CFU/mL and 0.94 g at the end of the 4th day, whereas the efficiencies optimized by RSM for bacterial count and residual mass were 16481.6 CFU/mL and 0.5426 g respectively. It was observed that bacterial count steadily decreased from 20000 to 5 CFU/mL of sample, when the temperature range varied from 30 to 750 C. The results of bio-manure production showed that nitrogen and phosphorous contents were enriched after the treatment procedures and the moisture content was reduced to < 2 %.Â Â
Slope Stability Analysis for Proposed Footing Construction Seated on Sloppy Ground
Authors: Deepika Tirumala , . . 
Published: July 2019

Slope failures are one of the common phenomena in the Geotechnical failures. Thus it is needed to arrest the failure through proper mechanism. Considering this as a scope the present study is oriented to address the analysis of sloppy site where the proposed building foundation to be constructed with different slopes as a natural construction site. The stability is checked and the anchors are used to improve the stability aspect of slope. The study found that the homogeneous soil slope is improved its safety under the usage of anchors.
Optimal Pair DNA Sequence Alignment based on Matching Regions and Multi-Zone Genetic Algorithm
Authors: Q. Abedulridha Sara , S. Al-Shamery Eman 
Published: July 2019

DNA sequence alignment is an important and challenging task in Bioinformatics, which is used for finding the optimal arrangement between two sequences. In this paper, two methods are proposed in two stages to solve the pairwise sequence alignment problem. The first method is Matching Regions(MR) concerns on splitting the DNA into regions with adaptive interleaving windows to isolate the DNA tape into matched and non-matched regions. Additionally, a Multi-Zone Genetic Algorithm (MZGA) is proposed as an improved method in the second stage. It consists of segmenting a large non-matched region into smaller search space. Then, the MZGA is implemented in parallel to save time. Genetic Algorithm can be applied as an optimization toolto produce multiple solutions. Furthermore, the improvement focuses on the enhancement of Simple GA operators. In the selection, the population is divided into three Zones according to the fitness score. A new crossover approach is proposed depending on cut-points and location of gaps. The proposed method guarantees that the value of fitness tends to improvement or convergence in each successive generation. Thus, the offspring of populations will have better fitness value. The system has been applied to the real-world dataset of DNA with variable lengths which are ranged from 66 bases up to 26037 bases. As a result, the proposed technique satisfied the best alignment score of the DNA sequences. Finally, it is worth mentioning that the proposed system proved to be generalizable.Â Â
Assessment of Water Quality of Shatt Al-Basrah Canal using Water Pollution Index
Authors: A. Hassan Ayman , S. Dawood Ammar , J. AL-Mansori Nassrin 
Published: July 2019

This study evaluates the water quality for the Canal of Shatt Al-Basrah, located in Basrah province, Iraq. The Shatt Al-Basrah Canal used to connect the waterway from Al-Hammar marshes in the north of Basrah province, to Khor Al-Zubair port in the south of the province. Nine physicochemical water quality parameters have been measured and analyzed for calculating the water pollution index (WPI) in the Canal. These parameters, which were used in developing the WPI, included: Potential of Hydrogen (pH), Nitrate (NO3-), Calcium (Ca2+), Total Alkalinity (TA.), Electrical Conductivity (EC), Sodium (Na+), Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Sulfate (SO42-), Phosphate (PO43-), Dissolved Oxygen (DO), Total Hardness (TH), Chloride (Cl-), Magnesium (Mg2+), and Potassium (K+). The aim of this paper is to analyze and assess the water pollution of the Shatt Al-Basrah Canal in the year 2014, making use of the WPI method.Â The annual WPI mean value during the study period was more than the safe value; therefore, the water quality of the Canal ranged from impure (type V) to the heavily impure (type VI) and hence definitely regarded as unsuitable for drinking uses. Consequently, there is a need that is immediate to take some measures to stop the pollution and enhance the water quality of the Canalas a component that is integral tothe environment in Basrah province. In Basrahprovince, the disposal of wastewater in the Shatt Al-Basrah Canal is big maintenance difficulty of the Canal water quality.Â Â
The Effect of Solar Chimney Dimensions on its Performance in Nasiriya City Weather Conditions
Authors: M. Hannun Rafid , Togun Hussein , H. Khalaf Mohammed , M. Abed Tariq 
Published: July 2019

In this study, a numerical study was carried out on the effect of the solar chimney dimensions on its performance. Five different models of solar chimney were studied in terms of the diameter of the solar collector, the height of the air intake entrance of the collector and the height of the solar chimney. The five models were compared with others according to the conditions surrounding the solar chimney. The study showed that the increase in the dimensions of the solar chimney increases the utilized energy and the external air velocity is inversely proportional to the performance of the solar chimney due to increasing the thermal losses from the collector. The results showed also that increasing the temperature of the ambient air and the solar radiation increases the performance and productivity of the solar chimney. The analytical results of this paper were compared with previous literature studies and showed a great convergence between them.Â Â
Greedy Modularity Graph Clustering for Community Detection of Large Co-Authorship Network
Authors: F. Al-Mukhtar Ahmed , S. Al-Shamery Eman 
Published: July 2019

Social networks as a domain of complex networks that can be represented as graphs according to the patterns of connections among their elements. Social Communities are a set of nodes with denser connections inside community structures than outside. The goal of graph clustering is to divide the large graph into many clusters depending on multiple similarity criteria. In this work an improved version of the Louvain method is proposed, the Greedy Modularity Graph Clustering for Community Detection of Large Co-AuthorshipNetwork (GMGC)which introduces a new concept of weighted edges to enhance the accuracy of the Community Discovery for the large networks. The method is compared with other states of art methods mainly, Vertices Similarity First and Community Mean (VSFCM), and Generalized Louvain method for community detection in large networks (FKCD). Extensive experimental results have been madeon different datasets. The experimental results showed that the proposed method outperforms the other states of arts comparative methods according to the modularity optimization and community partitions evaluations measures.Â Â Â