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Sleep quality in elderly patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis at orthopedic outpatient clinic
Get PDFBackground: Elderly patients have osteoarthritis pain who suffering from sleep latency, difficulty maintaining sleep, sleep fregmentation and early morning are all symptoms of poor sleep. Aim: This study aims to assess sleep quality in elderly patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis. Study Design: : A descriptive research design was used for conducted this study. Setting: The study was conducted at the orthopedic outpatient clinic of Fayoum General Hospital. Sample: A purposive sample was used in this study and included 169 of elderly patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis (demographic characteristics, past and present medical history and patients’ knowledge about osteoarthritis). Tool II: Two standardize tools; Part I- Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index to assess sleep quality. Part II- The Visual Analog Pain Scale to assess pain severity. Results: the presenting study showed that, (90.9%) of patients with osteoarthritis were found to have poor sleep quality, 80% had unsatisfactory knowledge, 92.9% of females were having poor sleep more than men. 60 % of patients had severe pain (VAS > 7). 55.7% of patients had sleep latency, 59.2% had short sleep duration. Statistically significant relation between total knowledge, sleep quality and pain with p value (p=0.001*). 
Informal caregivers’ awareness regarding patients with hemiplegia
Get PDFBackground: Hemiplegia is a condition, caused by brain injury that results in a varying degree of weakness, stiffness and lack of control in one side of the body. Aim to assess the informal caregivers’ knowledge, practice, attitude and health problems regarding patient with hemiplegia. Design: A descriptive research design was used in this study. Sample: A purposive sample equal (285) informal caregivers’ of patients with hemiplegia. Setting: This study was conducted in stroke outpatient clinic in 15 May hospital- Helwan-Egypt. Tools: One tool used interviewing questionnaire sheet composed of 5 parts;( demographic data of patient and informal caregivers’, knowledge of informal caregivers’ about hemiplegia, the reported practice of the informal caregivers’ about the hemiplegia, the attitude of informal caregivers’ about the hemiplegia and the informal caregivers’ health problems. Results: the study result revealed that 50% of the studied sample had poor knowledge, 40 % of the studied sample had satisfactory practice, 45.0% of them had negative attitude regarding patient with hemiplegia and 75.0% of caregivers complain of health problems
Assessment of the prevalence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa among Iraqi patients with acne and study of their antibiotic susceptibility patterns
Get PDFBackground: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is found in soil and water all over the world. It prefers moist areas, such as wash basins, toilets, and swimming pools that are insufficiently chlorinated, and expired and ineffective disinfection solutions. Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections range from external infections such as acne. A simple, severe, life-threatening disorder that is highly antibiotic-resistant. Aims: The current study was undertaken to analyze the frequency of P. aeruginosa as a microbial skin infection patient with acne and study their antibiotic sensitivity patterns due to a rise in instances of acne among young people in Iraq. Methods: A total of 61 samples were taken from inflamed and pus discharge patients,27 males and 34 females, with acne vulgaris on the face. Samples were cultured on selective, enrichment, and special media then incubated for 18-24 hr. at 37 °C. Bacterial Isolates Identification was done using different culture media, Microscopic Examination with Gram stain, in addition to Biochemical tests. In addition to API 20E identification system and conformation by VITEK 2 compact system. Antibiotic susceptibility test is done using different antibiotics. Results: Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates were found in 23 (37.70%)/ 61 of the samples, with 11 (47.83%) male and 12 (52.17%) female. 
Assessment of osteoprotegerin as bone marker in chronic kidney disease patients
Get PDFChronic kidney disease is a chronic impairment in the structure or function of the kidney. (eg, glomerular filtration rate [GFR] <60 mL/min/1.73 m2 or albuminuria ≥30 mg per 24 hours) for more than 3 months.Renal osteodystrophy is a change in bone morphology in CKD patients, and it is one marker of the skeletal component of the systemic condition of chronic kidney disease mineral bone disease (CKD-MBD) that can be quantified using histomorphometry on bone biopsies chronic kidney disease mineral bone disease (CKD-MBD) defines a complex syndrome of renal osteodystrophy, mineral disorders and cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease. The study was a case –control design which conducted in Dialysis Unit in AL-Mahmoodia General Hospital and ALyarmook Teaching Hospital in Baghdad. This study was carried out in private laboratories between September 2021to march 2022. In this investigation,the total subjects were 90, the patient group was Consist of 45 Hemodialysis (HD) (CKD) ( 18 males and 27 females). 
Mapping of research publications on corona virus disease (COVID-19) in PubMed database: A study
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to find out the publications pertaining to “Corona Virus” available in PubMed database. PubMed database provides links to Full Text publications available with publishers and also Free Full Text publications. The data for the study were extracted from Pub Med database using the search term “Corona Virus”. Totally, 18659 publications pertaining to “Corona Virus” during 2010 to 2020 were retrieved. Out of 18659 publications, 57.90% of publications in Full Text with link to publications. The result shows that 89.43% of the publications were available in the form of “Articles” and 98.37% of publiations were listed under “Medline Journals”. Among four subject categories, the highest number of publications has been classified under subject “Cancer”. English is a dominating language, since, 96.78% of publications were published in English.COVID-19 disease is originated only in December 2019, within the very short span of time, the researchers and authors are rapidly involved in various research activities in order to investigate the factors for COVID-19. Perhaps, the research findings are published at regular and interval to speed up the research and also to encourage the researchers
Evaluation of pre-operative albumin in the prediction of outcomes of emergency laparotomy
Get PDFBackground: Hypoalbuminemia has been established indicator of nutritional status, which may and may not be clinically apparent, but is linked to a significantly higher risk of morbidity and mortality. Objective: To assess the post-operative morbidity with relation to pre-operative albumin status in patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery. Methods: It was a hospital based observational study, 100 patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery at Tertiary care Hospital was included. Hypoalbuminemia was diagnosed if serum albumin level was less than 3.5 gm/dl. Study period was between May 2021 to April 2022. The Statistical software namely SPSS 11.0 and Systat 8.0 were used for the analysis. Results: Pre-operatively, 60 patients had hypoalbuminemia (serum albumin <3.5 g/dl) and 40 patients had normal albumin levels (≥3.5 g/dl). Out of 100 patients, 41 (41%) developed complications postoperatively. 32 patients (50%) out of 60 patients with hypoalbuminemia (with serum albumin<3.5 g/dl) had complications. 9 patients (17.5%) with albumin level ≥3.5 g/dl had complications. Mean length of hospital stay was found to be higher i.e. 9.70±4.75 days in patients with hypoalbuminemia, compared to 6.45±3.31 days with those having albumin level ≥3.5 g/dl. Conclusions: Preoperative albumin is a useful low-cost prognostic predictor for predicting surgery outcome
Learning customer behaviour for effective load forecasting
Get PDFCloud computing is quickly expanding, and there are an increasing number of cloud providers. To stay competitive while earning a profit, cloud providers must focus on cost efficiency and resource cost maximization. The profit maximization challenge in federated cloud systems has been investigated in order to maximize the degree of multiplexing. Outline unique economics-inspired resource allocation strategies to address the profit maximization challenge from the standpoint of a purely active cloud provider. Admission control strategies have been presented that are adjusted within a profit management framework to maximize resource cost. Existing abstractions for in-memory storage on clusters, including as distributed shared memory, key value stores, databases, and Piccolo, use fine-grained modifications to mutable state as their interface. It has been fine-tuned to anticipate cluster load. Summing the loads of each cluster yields the total load for the entire grid. He suggested Smart Grid load forecasting approach has two primary benefits. Learning consumer habits enhances forecast accuracy while also being computationally efficient. SCCRF can simulate a single customer's load forecasting problem while concurrently selecting important features to determine its energy consumption trend. Experiments conducted from various angles show the benefits of the suggested load forecasting system
Sustainable supplier selection in electrical and electronics industry in Thailand
Get PDFThe purpose of this research is to study the causal structure relationship of Sustainable Supplier Selection (SUP) and Competitive Advantage (CA) affecting firm performance (FP) of business operators in the electrical and electronics (E&E) industry. The population and samples were 418 electrical and electronic business operators in Thailand who were members of the Electrical and Electronics Institute (EEI). The research results revealed that SUP, CA and FP in the electrical and electronics industry in Thailand from all questionnaires were at a high level. The model fit indexes modified were empirically and highly appropriate. Results from the final model analysis found that all observed variables were statistically related to latent variables and the error in standardized residuals was less than ±2.58, indicating that the latent variables were internally consistent with the empirical data
An analysis of producers’ attitude towards dairy cooperatives in Dharmapuri district
Get PDFDue to the tireless efforts of millions of rural milk producers throughout the nation, India has become the world's largest producer of milk today. India is the greatest milk-producing nation in the world, accounting for 15% of global milk output. Dharmapuri has a key role in the anticipated milk production. The five Milk Producers Co-operative Societies in the Dharmapuri district provided the majority of the data for this study. Milk Producers Co-operative Societies and Milk Producers Co-operative Union are used to gather secondary data. A lot of libraries, journals, books, magazines, papers, economic surveys, and websites were used in addition to official materials from various divisions and audited yearly reports. Finally employed for percentage analysis, inferential statistics like t-test, chi-square test, and factor analysis were used along with descriptive statistics like mean standard deviation and coefficient variation. Through the Social Science Statistical Package Version 20, it is used for computer applications in the dairy cooperatives
Study the solvation and slit width changing on properties of some Endocrine disrupting agents
Get PDFThe spectral characteristics of Bisphenols (BPA, BPS, and BPF) were investigated using room temperature emission and excitation spectroscopy in solvents (n-hexane, ethanol, 1-propanol, and butanol). The slit offers were used in various offers; The device is set to different slit widths (1.5; 3; 5; 10 and 15 nm); The results revealed to us changing the slit width affects the fluorescence signal's FWHM and intensity. Thus, larger slit width gives higher intensity values with lower fluorescence signal detail. The results of the work showed a wide range of differences across different solvents, as these spectral differences are attributed to the differences in different solubility processes when using different types of organic solvents