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Midicine: Using MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) in Medicine for Treating Patients who experienced a Stroke - Review article
Authors: János Kollár 
Published: November 2017

Theoretical background
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a connectivity standard that musicians use to hook together musical instruments (such as keyboards and synthesizers) and computer equipment. By applying MIDI-technology the experience induced by different types of software can create an inner motivation for stroke patients to go on the successful healing process.

Aim of the review
The aim of writing the review is to determine the relevance and importance of applying MIDI applications in treatment of stroke patients. The research questions were: 1. What kind of interventions can be accomplished by using MIDI applications in treatment of strokes patients? 2. What are the outcome and result of applying MIDI instruments during the treatment of stroke patients? 3. What type of MIDI applications proved to be effective in the treatment of stroke patients?

Material and Methods
Three databases (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science) were systematically searched for relevant data. The papers were selected by focusing on key words: midi, musical instrument digital interface, stroke, cerebral accident, seizure.

Results
Finally ten articles were selected and represented by focusing mainly on the type of intervention, treatment duration, outcomes and instruments used with a total of N = 219 treatment and N = 147 control patients.

Conclusions
The conclusion is that the range of possible improvements provided by proper application of MIDI instruments is rather wide: from hand rehabilitation through limb and gait movement optimization till improving overall quality of life of patients. MIDI technology can be suggested because of two main reasons: 1. adjustability and flexibility of instruments, 2. it can improve the motivation of patients by gamifying the treatments. Further research is needed to discover more possibilities by applying the opportunities offered by the wide range of MIDI applications. The suggested name for such intervention is Midicine.
Метод експериментального дослідження повітряних конденсаторів малих холодильних машин і теплових насосів
Authors: Морозюк Л. І. , Соколовська В. В. , Гайдук С. В. , Мошкатюк А. В. 
Published: November 2017

Джерелом зниження ефективності теплообмінного апарату в процесі експлуатації є відклади. Проблеми відкладів на поверхнях теплообмінних апаратів віднесено до “невирішених”. В роботі наведено спосіб експериментального дослідження повітряного конденсатора з реальними відкладами та модельованими решітками-імітаторами на зовнішній поверхні Доведено, що головним критерієм для аналізу відкладів є його структура.
Forecasting winter wheat yields using MODIS NDVI data for the Central Free State region
Authors: Mashaba Zinhle , Chirima George , Botai Joel O. , Combrinck Ludwig , Munghemezulu Cilence , Dube Ernest 
Published: November 2017

Consumption of wheat is widespread and increasing in South Africa. However, global wheat production is projected to decline. Wheat yield forecasting is therefore crucial for ensuring food security for the country. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the anthesis wheat growth stage is suitable for forecasting dryland wheat yields in the Central Free State region using satellite imagery and linear predictive modelling. A period of 10 years of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index data smoothed with a Savitzky–Golay filter and 10 years of wheat yield data were used for model calibration. Diagnostic plots and statistical procedures were used for model validation and assessment of model adequacy. The period 30 days before harvest during the anthesis stage was established to be the best period during which to use the linear regression model. The calibrated model had a coefficient of determination of 0.73, a p-value of 0.00161 and a root mean squared error of 0.41 tons/ha. Residual plots confirmed that a linear model had a good fit for the data. The quantile-quantile plot provided evidence that the residuals were normally distributed, which means that assumptions of linear regression were fulfilled and the model can be used as a forecasting tool. Model validation showed high levels of accuracy. The evidence indicates that use of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer data during the anthesis growth stage is a reliable, cost-effective and potentially time-saving alternative to ground-based surveys when forecasting dryland wheat yields in the Central Free State.

Significance:

Developing a cost-effective technique based on satellite imagery for wheat yield forecasting is vital for food security planning in South Africa.
Retraction: Evaluation of Carcinogenic Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (Emf)
Authors: Mehic Bakir 
Published: November 2017

This retracts the article "EVALUATION OF CARCINOGENIC EFFECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS (EMF)" on page 245. The Editor-in-chief of the Bosnian Journal ofBasic Medical Sciences has decided to retract the article from Bayazit V et al. [1] entitled as: “Evaluation of carcinogenic effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF)” published in Bosn J Basic Med Sci. 2010 Aug;10(3):245-50.After the editorial office was alerted of possible plagiarism in the article, it conducted thorough investigation and concluded that the article apparently represents plagiarized material from two World Health Organization reports, one European Commission report and other sources. Since this is considered scientific plagiarism and scientific misconduct, Editor-in-chief has decided to withdraw the article. The authors have agreed with the editorial office decision.
Correlation between Cancer Research Trends and the Importance of Cancers based on Mortality and Diagnosis Rates: An Analysis of Altmetric Data
Authors: Chou Peter , Hong Kevin , Lei Chandler , Zhang Haolin 
Published: November 2017

Aside from the infrequent news pertaining to medical breakthroughs or dangers to the public, medical research, especially in the field of cancer, is rarely discussed in depth. The public does not know the process in which specific fields of medical research receive funding, or how this funding is used to limit issues such as cancer. This study aims to provide clarity on cancer research trends. The amount of research papers pertaining to different types of cancers is compared against mortality and diagnosis rates to determine the amount of research attention given to a type of cancer, in relation to its effects on the general population. Computational tools, such as Python, R, and Microsoft Excel, were used to analyze a dataset of research papers. Python was used to parse through JSON files and extract the abstract and Altmetric score of cancer research papers. R was used to count the appearance of each type of cancer in the abstracts, and create histograms describing Altmetric scores and file frequency. Microsoft Excel was used to find correlations between Altmetrics’ data and Canadian Cancer Society data, linking the amount of research to the impacts of cancer based on deaths and new cases. The analysis from these tools revealed that breast cancer was the most researched cancer by a large margin, with nearly 1,700 papers, which is approximately four times the amount of the next leading type of cancer – prostate cancer. Although there were many research papers on the field of cancer, the Altmetric scores revealed that most of these papers did not gain significant online and media attention. Comparing these results to Canadian Cancer Society data showed that breast cancer was receiving more research attention than the mortality and diagnosis rates suggest it should. There were four times more breast cancer research papers than the secondmost researched cancer, prostate cancer. This was despite the fact that breast cancer was fourth in mortality and third in new cases among all types of cancer. Inversely, lung cancer was underrepresented, with only 401 research papers, despite being the deadliest cancer in Canada.
Comparison of diagnostic value of visual inspection with Lugol’s iodine to conventional Paps smear in detection of colposcopic biopsy proved CIN: a tertiary care experience
Authors: Bajaj Manisha , Ahmad Shamshad , Trivedi Shubha S. 
Published: November 2017

Background: An organized cytological screening (Pap smear) is the mainstay for cervical cancer prevention and control programme. Financial and logistic burden of operating such a program is considerable. This has prompted the evaluation of alternative feasible techniques. It appeared from the earlier studies that visual inspection with lugol’s iodine (VILI) could be a potential alternative to cervical cytology. VILI is a low cost, easy to apply and highly sensitive technique. It gives result immediately thus allows doctors to “see and treat” at first visit. Objective of present study was to evaluate the performance of visual inspection with lugol’s iodine and its comparison with cytology in cervical cancer screening. Methods: 400 non-pregnant reproductive age women were subjected to Paps and VILI in this prospective study done in a tertiary-care centre in Delhi. Reference standard used for all was colposcopy and colposcopic-directed biopsy (when required).Results: Of 400 Pap smears done 11.75% were normal, 77.5% inflammatory, 5.5% had ASCUS, 0.25% ASC-H, 0.5% AGUS, 2% LSIL, 1.5% HSIL and invasive cancer in 0.5%. With LSIL and above smears as significant, the sensitivity and specificity of Paps were 50% and 97.66% respectively. VILI was positive in 12.8% of cases. Sensitivity and specificity of VILI was 85.5% and 89.9% respectively. Overall accuracy of VILI in detecting pre-invasive lesion was 89.7% while with pap smear it was 96%.Conclusions: Accuracy of VILI and Pap smear in detecting pre-invasive cervical lesion was comparable. At tertiary-care centers VILI can be used effectively to screen the patients with significant lesions. Patients can be directly subjected to further treatment at the earliest thus reducing loss to follow-up.
Conquering mount diabetes: the highest peak in India
Authors: Panchagnula Neha Bharadwaj 
Published: November 2017

The term diabetes has come into colloquial usage over time. As the day passes by, we have more people being diagnosed and more people facing complications. How the silent killer is creeping its way into the world is a known thing. Are all our task forces ready to face the end result? Though we have enough research and supportive facilities, the provider-consumer distance in a developing country like India is a transparent issue. Bolstering the team dynamics and a well-structured team approach right from the primary care provider’s level, might offer us a solution for all that we are facing today.
Socio demographic determinants of health care seeking behaviour among tuberculosis patients admitted in the isolation ward of tertiary care hospital: a health belief model
Authors: Yamini K. , Rao B. T. , Valleswary K. 
Published: November 2017

Background: Health care seeking behavior explains that people differ in their willingness to seek help from health care services. It is difficult to identify which determinants are most influential in the decision to utilize health care. The health belief model proposes that a person's health-related behaviour depends on the person's perception in critical areas. The aims and objectives of the study was planned to determine the socio demographic factors of sputum positive tuberculosis patients and to assess the health care seeking behaviour of patients by health belief model.Methods: Cross sectional descriptive study was conducted on sputum positive tuberculosis patients above 15 years in Tuberculosis wards of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Ongole from April to September 2014. Results: Mean age group of the 100 participants was 48.89±5.93 years, 92% were males and 49.5% were labourers. Accessibility of the health care services was good in 95% of the cases, diagnostic tests and ATT treatment were accepting in good way by 71% of cases. In first contact, 36% of the cases contacted rural RMPs and 39% of the patients visited private practitioners. Symptoms of the tuberculosis were recognized by 20% of the patients and only 22% of them were perceived about the signs and symptoms. Significant association observed between the recognition of severity of symptoms and awareness on threat of tuberculosis among Tuberculosis patients (p<0.5). Conclusions: Heath education can be done by using the results of health belief model to increase awareness on perception, susceptibility, threat and understanding about the tuberculosis, there by patient’s intake of the drugs will be increased so that we can prevent chances of transmission of the disease.
Motivación en estudiantes de administración de empresas en la universidad autónoma de Aguascalientes.
Authors: Garcia Martí­nez Bogar , Coronado Guzmán Graciela , Dí­az Flores Manuel 
Published: November 2017

El objetivo del presente trabajo es medir las diferentes dimensiones y factores que influyen en la motivación en estudiantes adultos, por lo que se aplicó el cuestionario MAPE-3: Evaluación de la Motivación en Adultos a 215 estudiantes de la carrera de Administración de Empresas de la Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, evaluando las 7 dimensiones establecidas en dicho instrumento por Alonso y Huertas (2000): Miedo al Fracaso, Deseo de Éxito y Reconocimiento, Motivación por aprender, Motivación Externa, Disposición al Esfuerzo, Desinterés por el trabajo y rechazo del mismo y Ansiedad facilitadora. Obteniendo como resultado, después del análisis estadí­stico descriptivo y el análisis factorial, dos factores a los que denominamos Motivación Externa y Motivación por la Tarea que explican el 59% de la varianza de la motivación en los estudiantes de administración de empresas. Mismos que corresponden a las orientaciones al rendimiento o motivación extrí­nseca, y motivación al aprendizaje o motivación intrí­nseca, Estos resultados son similares, más no idénticos a los encontrados por Alonso y Huertas (2000).
Las mujeres, el laberinto cultural y la asunción del pensamiento crí­tico.
Authors: Cánovas Marmo Célica Esther 
Published: November 2017

Esta ponencia aborda el papel que juega el pensamiento crí­tico en la autoconstrucción del género, lo que permite a mujeres y hombres evadir los prejuicios que estructuran el laberinto cultural en que se ven confinados. Mismo que deriva de ”una lógica binaria mediante la cual la diferencia es conceptualizada como â€˜o lo uno o lo otro’. El uno ocupa la posición jerárquica superior y el otro (la otra), la desjerarquizada; uno es sujeto, el otro (la otra) es objeto” (Burin, 1996).Mediante entrevistas realizadas en diferentes ámbitos y tiempos, he podido identificar los procesos subjetivos donde mujeres de distintas clases sociales, razas, sectores económicos, niveles educativos, y algunas con profunda fe religiosa, construyen nuevos significados en torno al género, -categorí­a compleja de análisis, creada para darle visibilidad a las mujeres en la historia-.Los resultados de estas indagaciones muestran que en este proceso de construcción median dos tipos de pensamientos: el intuitivo y el crí­tico. El primero permite percibir la magnitud del problema que implica asumir la resignificación del género. El segundo es un proceso reflexivo que ubica a mujeres ante sí­ misma y ante los y las demás; proceso del que no pueden permanecer ajenos los hombres, cuando realmente se involucran en el desafí­o de establecer relaciones intergenéricas diferentes.Dicho pensamiento crí­tico y las maneras subjetivas en que se manifiesta, evidencian una particularidad femenina que las pone al margen de una tradición cultural que les desconoce la posibilidad de razonar.Creo importante retomar el origen de ciertos conceptos como el género y la perspectiva de género en momentos en que tanto se habla sobre la igualdad de género, del trato con equidad de hombres y mujeres, así­ como de la aceptación de la presencia femenina en los diferentes ámbitos sociales. Pienso que esto es factible mediante la construcción de otras conductas, como la que conllevan prácticas de una especie de sincretismo entre la razón y la subjetividad, pautando una feminidad diferente donde el pensamiento crí­tico juega un papel importante.
Caring and Collaborating A case study on a complex patient under multiple teams
Authors: Engel Larissa J. , Ryan Mandy J. 
Published: November 2017

Abstract
This case study introduces Mr X, who was diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB) in early 2016. Although the TB originated in his lungs it spread causing Miliary TB in his brain. The case study focuses on the nursing issues identified during the collaboration of different specialities and disciplines, while ensuring the patient’s and family’s needs are met.
This particular case was especially challenging for the authors due to cultural differences, difficulties with communication with both family, specialties and multidisciplinary team (MDT), and the challenges of each team involved to work together and giving differing information to all involved. Due to the rare diagnosis for this patient, this was not something we had come across before.
This case study was developed through information gained from nursing the patient directly, discussions with the surgical and medical teams involved, research articles, personal reflections, and viewing the patient’s clinical notes and scans.
Nursing considerations will be discussed throughout the case study including the obstacles in nursing a patient who required complex care with several different MDT.
Preparation of MoO3Thin Films by Spray Pyrolysis and its Gas Sensing Performance
Authors: Ahire D. V. , Shinde S. D. , Patil G. E. , Thakur K. K. , Gaikwad V. B. , Wagh V. G. , Jain G. H. 
Published: November 2017

AbstractMoO3thin films have been prepared by a simple spray pyrolysis technique at substrate temperature 250°c. The structure and morphology of thin films are characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy and UV-vis spectroscopy. The gas sensing properties of MoO3thin film is studied at gas concentration 400 ppm and working temperature of 100–400 °c. It was found that the sensitivity depended on the working temperatures and also H2S gas concentration. The results show that the MoO3thin film can be used to fabricate high performance H2S gas sensors.
Modeling and Controller Design of Pneumatic Actuator System with Control Valve
Authors: Lai W.K. , Rahmat M.F. , Wahab N. Abdul 
Published: November 2017

Abstract
Pneumatic actuators offer several advantages over electromechanical and hydraulic actuators for positioning applications. Nonetheless, pneumatic actuators are subject to high friction forces, dead band and dead time, which make fast and accurate position control difficult to achieve. This research paper presents the process of controller identification, design, modeling and control for pneumatic actuator system. System Identification approach is used with the purpose to estimate the mathematical model of pneumatic actuator system and for controller design. Data collection of input and output signal of the system has been performed from experiment procedure. This data is used for estimate the model by selecting Auto-Regressive Exogenous (ARX) model as a model structure. The accepted model is based validation test namely as residual correlation, Akaike Final Prediction Error and best fit percentage. Different control schemes such as PID and LQR (Linear Quadratic Regulator) have been applied for controller design. PID controllers with Ziegler Nichols tuning are enabled to provide good performance in various systems. The effects of Tustin transformation, zero order hold and discrete model are tested in PID controller designed. The methodology for this paper combines off-line model based on analysis with on-line iteration. Different external loads are added in order to investigate the effectiveness to the designed controllers in real time system. The tracking performance of the closed loop system is satisfied which offers considerable robustness even on a slight increase in load. The results obtained in the experiment are successful to prove that the output signals which with the controller are almost the same for both simulation and experimental modes.
Probabilistic Joint State Estimation of Robot and Non-static Objects for Mobile Manipulation
Authors: Qian Kun , Ma Xudong , Dai Xian Zhong , Fang Fang , Zhou Bo 
Published: November 2017

Abstract
In this paper, a unified and probabilistic method is proposed for simultaneously localization of a mobile service robot and states estimation of surrounding objects and co-existing people. This method allows intelligent robots to navigate reliably in dynamic environments and provide home-care services based on joint localization results. The algorithm makes use of probabilistic model to represent non-static people and objects states. Moreover, Rao-Blackwellized particle filters (RBPFs) are utilized for efficient joint estimation and laser sensing based smooth observation model is also introduced. The resulting algorithm works in real-time and estimates the position of people and state of doors with sufficient precision. Our approach has been tested in typical indoor environment with people, doors and other non-static objects. Experimental results demonstrate the favorable performance of the position estimation accuracy as well as the capability to deal with the uncertainty of mobile sensing.
Advanced Secure User Authentication Framework for Cloud Computing
Authors: Jiang Rui 
Published: November 2017

Abstract
Cloud Computing, as an emerging, virtual, large-scale distributed computing model, has gained increasing attention these years. Meanwhile it also faces many security challenges, one of which is authentication. Lots of researches have been done in this area. Recently, Choudhury et al proposed a user authentication framework to ensure user legitimacy before entering into the cloud. They claimed their scheme could provide identity management, mutual authentication, session key agreement between the user and the cloud server, and demanded user password change. However, we find the scheme will easily suffer from some attacks such as the masquerading attack, the OOB (out of band) attack, and the password change flaw through our analysis. In this paper, we first point out the security vulnerabilities to the Choudhury et al’s scheme, and present the detailed attacks on the scheme. Then, based on some remote user authentication schemes such as Ku-Chen’s scheme and Chen’s scheme, we apply the two-factor authentication technology to propose our advanced secure user authentication framework which can overcome above security shortages. Without sending one time key through secure OOB channel, our new protocol is able to ensure that only legitimate users can access the cloud service based on smartcard. In addition, our advanced scheme can hold all the merits of the Choudhury et al’s scheme. Formal security analysis, which is based on the strand space model and authentication test, proves that our proposed scheme is secure under standard cryptographic. Also, the simulation results illustrate that our advanced scheme is more efficient on the communication performance than other schemes.