Concern For Human Beings Research Articles

Predicting Coronary Heart Disease using Various Regression Analysis

Nowadays, cardiovascular diseases are the major concern for Human beings. Cardiovascular Heart Diseases (CHDs) are the major reason for mortality globally causing millions of deaths each year. The global death toll from Cardiovascular Heart Disease (CHD) rose from 12.1 million in 1990 to 20.5 million in 2021. The age-standardized death rate for CHD in India was 282 deaths/100000 was higher compared with global levels that is 233 deaths/100000. The leading factors contributing to cardiovascular diseases or fatalities encompass high cholesterol level, triglyceride, etc. These are the most common factors nowadays which result in heart attack in humans. The main aim of this particular project is to explore various risk factors associated with myocardial infarction, commonly known as Heart Attack. We have used tensorflow and Keras frameworks for the following project. In this project, we utilize neural network models to forecast the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) using various features. The prediction process involves training the models on a portion of the data and assessing their effectiveness on the remaining test set. These models are designed to discern patterns and correlations between input features and the target variable, 'chd'. The choice of features, architecture, and training parameters influences the model's predictive performance. The research focuses on two distinct neural network models: the first, 'sbp_model,' predicts CHD using only systolic blood pressure ('sbp'), while the second, 'linear_model,' utilizes all available features after normalization. Both models are evaluated on their ability to predict CHD through mean absolute error, with training histories and loss curves analysed. We have taken into consideration all the important Regression Models.

Determination of lindane in surface water samples and its degradation by hydrogen peroxide and persulfate assisted TiO2-based photocatalysis.

Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) have been used extensively as insecticides and herbicides. This study investigates the occurrence of lindane in surface water from the Peshawar valley (i.e., Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshera, Mardan and Swabi districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan). Out of 75 samples tested (i.e., 15 samples from each district), 13 samples (including 2 from Peshawar, 3 from Charsadda, 4 from Nowshera, 1 from Mardan, and 3 from Swabi) are found to be contaminated with lindane. Overall, the detection frequency is 17.3%. The maximum concentration of lindane is detected in a water sample from Nowshera and found to be 2.60 μg L-1. Furthermore, the degradation of lindane in the water sample from Nowshera, containing the maximum concentration, is investigated by simulated solar-light/TiO2 (solar/TiO2), solar/H2O2/TiO2 and solar/persulfate/TiO2 photocatalysis. The degradation of lindane by solar/TiO2 photocatalysis is 25.77% after 10 h of irradiation. The efficiency of the solar/TiO2 process is significantly increased in the presence of 500 μM H2O2 and 500 μM persulfate (PS) (separately), represented by 93.85 and 100.00% lindane removal, respectively. The degradation efficiency of lindane is lower in natural water samples as compared to Milli-Q water, attributed to water matrix effect. Moreover, the identification of degradation products (DPs) shows that lindane follows similar degradation pathways in natural water samples as the one in Milli-Q water. The results show that the occurrence of lindane in surface waters of Peshawar valley is a matter of great concern for human beings and the environment. Interestingly, H2O2 and PS assisted solar/TiO2 photocatalysis is an effective method for the removal of lindane from natural water.

The role of economic policy uncertainty and social welfare in the view of ecological footprint: evidence from the traditional and novel platform in panel ARDL approaches.

In the contemporary world, environmental degradation has become a concern for human beings. Accordingly, the impact of social welfare, economic policy uncertainty, natural resource rents, life expectancy, and trade openness are examined on ecological footprint (the most comprehensive proxy of environmental degradation) in 19 energy-intensive countries from 1997 to 2018. With this in mind, this study used the traditional panel ARDL and CS-ARDL approaches to evaluate how the study’s variables influence ecological footprint. Notably, the results of the CS-ARDL approach are more robust due to cross-sectional dependence and slope heterogeneity problems. The outcomes revealed that economic policy uncertainty and trade openness affect the ecological footprint negatively in the short run and positively in the long run. Moreover, social welfare degrades the environment in the long run, and natural resource rents improve environmental quality by mitigating the ecological footprint in the short run and harming the environment in the long run. Besides, life expectancy does not significantly affect ecological footprint in the long or short run. Meanwhile, the results confirmed the bi-directional causal relationship between the study’s variable and ecological footprint. Based on the outcomes, the way to adopt effective policies to improve the quality of the environment has been paved. Furthermore, a comprehensive policy framework for stricter environmental regulation is expected to be developed using the outcomes derived from this study.

Intelligent Vehicle Visual Navigation Algorithm Based on Visual Saliency Improvement

The automobile has gradually developed into an indispensable tool for human daily travel and transportation. Further reducing the traffic accident rate to improve the traffic safety level and improving the road traffic safety performance is a global issue worthy of common concern for human beings, moreover, it is a common concern for political circles, scholars, researchers, and other related workers in the field of transportation all over the world. Therefore, in this paper, by studying a large amount of literature and carrying out relevant model construction, based on the theories of visual navigation basic theory, intelligent vehicle theory and visual saliency improvement theory, etc., the intelligent vehicle visual navigation with visual saliency improvement is studied in depth through the feature point tracking algorithm research method (including three feature point methods and one optical flow method), and it is concluded that the intelligent vehicle with visual saliency improvement is better than the ordinary. The conclusion that the overall performance of the vehicle is better in all aspects. The following discussions are also proposed for the algorithm improvement: acquisition of visual saliency images; continuous enhancement of visual saliency of images; reasonable application of filtering algorithm.

The Thought of Man's All Round Development and Man's Modernization -- Based on Marxist Viewpoint

The theory of human free and all-round development is an important part of Marxist theory, and it is also Marx's ideal goal for human development. It is an inevitable requirement for the development of Marx's theory of human studies and the realization of the ultimate concern for human beings to deeply tap the essence of Marx's theory on the free and comprehensive development of human beings. The modernization of human beings is a realistic problem faced by the development of modern people. From the dialectical relationship between the two, the all-round development of human beings is the ultimate goal of human modernization and the value guidance of human modernization; the modernization of human beings is the necessary stage of human development, which plays an important role in promoting the all-round development of human beings.

Acrylamide content in starch based commercial foods by using high performance liquid chromatography and its association with browning index

The harmful effects of acrylamide (AA) are a major health concern for human beings. To find out the levels of AA content in commercial food products, 43 samples representing 3 important product categories (French fries, bakery biscuits, and branded biscuits) were procured from the local market in Allahabad, India. An assay of AA was done using HPLC-DAD. The LOD and LOQ for AA were 3.733 and 11.045 ng/μl, respectively. The AA recovery from ten standard solutions was 100.6 percent, indicating good extraction efficiency. Level of AA ranged between 144.35 and 781.17 μg/kg, 126.33–664.90 μg/kg, and 825.96–1143.15 μg/kg, in branded biscuits, bakery biscuits, and French fries, respectively. A strong and positive correlation of AA was found with HMF, a* value, BI and negatively with ΔE (P ≤ 0.01). It is concluded that a high browning index is significantly associated with AA content and can be used as a screening food to reduce the intake of AA in the diet.

Иконология и компаративистика: междисциплинарный дискурс

The present paper is the result of a comprehensive study of the author's collective. It touches upon different fields of humanitarian knowledge: art criticism, philology and folklore studies. The unifying core of the study is the principle of interdisciplinary and research methods of iconology and comparative studies. The appeal to these methods is dictated both by the polystylistic nature of contemporary art and culture, as well as the change in the correlation of text and context within scholarly discourse. The strengthening of the role of context within the boundaries of a particular scholarly area allows one to reach the level of general artistic and even multicultural generalizations. At the same time the fiction text under study is thought of as part of the overall system, which allows us seeing in it not only the singular, but also the unified. Thus, the literary text is conceptualized as a cultural concept. The authors demonstrate this approach through the analysis of several artistic and aesthetic phenomena: the modern architectural neoclassicism (by G. V. Varakina), the prose poem “Christ” by I. S. Turgenev (by S. N. Perevolochanskaya), the 20th century mystery (by V. V. Azarova), the storyline “Cupid and Psyche” (by V. E. Dobrovolskaya). The general conclusion of the research establishes the importance of cross-disciplinary approach in Humanities, due to the growing complexity of culture and art and increasing requirements for researcher’s erudition and systematic way of thinking. Science strives to reveal the true meanings, making up for the lack of spirituality of the post-industrial society. Taking such an active interest in cross-disciplinary research is due to an increased concern for human beings, anthropocentricity.

THE ENVIRONMENT AND COLONIALISM IN JAMAICA KINCAID’S LUCY AND MY GARDEN (BOOK)

This research paper sets out to show how Jamaica Kincaid, in her celebrated works, Lucy and My Garden (Book), intrinsically links the degradation of the environment to colonialism through memory even though most critics posit that men/women should preserve their environment.
 Purpose: To the protagonists, the environment brings back memory of subjugation and oppression that undermine man-nature relationship in Kincaid’s selected works.
 Methodology: Qualitative research was used to write this paper since it involves textual analysis. Information of this research paper was gathered from the primary sources (Lucy and My Garden (Book) and secondary sources. Post colonialism and ecocriticism were deemed suitable theories on which this research paper could be hitched, in order to show how the environment is related to colonialism. The paper stresses on Kincaid’s protagonists’ hostility to the environment. In fact, whenever they see elements of the environment, they reflect on colonial trauma.
 Findings: The traumatic feeling from the characters under study stifles their relationship with the environment despite the fact that environmentalists and ecofeminists advocate for a close relationship with nature and its preservation in order to combat the current environmental crisis.
 Unique Contribution to Theory, Policy and Practice: This research, just like most environmentalists and ecofeminists will make people to understand that the natural environment is very vital to man and its preservation is a main concern for human beings. It will as well deepen discussion in the field of postcolonialism and ecocriticism. Readers of this article will help sensitize leaders of the world to stop colonialism so that the environment can be saved because traumatic memories are detrimental to the preservation of nature.

The Potential of Pistia stratiotes in the Phytoremediation of Selected Heavy Metals from Simulated Wastewater

The pollution of heavy metals in aquatic environments is a major concern for human beings. The present study demonstrates the phytoremediation potential of the aquatic macrophyte Pistia stratiotes for removal of Cr, Pb and Ni from simulated wastew

In vitro Antihelmintic Evaluation of a Novel Polyherbal Formulation

Ayurveda is a holistic traditional system of medicine in India which was established centuries ago. Ayurveda is also known as “Mother of all healing” Drug formulations in Ayurveda can be of two types- single drug formulation and polyherbal formulation where a mixture of powdered drugs are used to bring about synergistic effect. One of the diseases of concern for human beings is helmintic infections. A large population in developing countries is affected is a variety of helminth parasites like hook worm, tape worm and others. We have developed a novel PHF containing a mixture of powdered bachhi, bael, katha, guggul, spogel and vidanga. The objective of the present study is to formulate and evaluate the antihelmintic activity of aqueous, methanol and petroleum ether extract of a PHF containing a mixture of powdered ayurvedic plants in earthworm, Pheritima posthuma which bears anatomical resemblance with the parasitic helminths.

Dental caries status of Lisu preschool children in Yunnan Province, China: a cross-sectional study

BackgroundDental caries is still considered a major public health concern for human beings, especially minority groups and those living in disadvantaged communities. The Lisu is a minority group in China of more than 702,000 people located primarily in Yunnan Province. The present study was aimed at studying the status of dental caries status, as well as its risk factors, among Lisu children aged 5 years in Yunnan Province, China.MethodsA multistage cluster sampling method was employed for participants’ recruitment. Two calibrated dentists carried out the clinical examination with dental mirrors and CPI probes under an LED headlight. The dental caries experience was assessed by the dmft index. Oral hygiene status was evaluated using the visible plaque index (VPI). Information on the child’s socio-demographic characteristics and oral health-related practices were collected using a parental questionnaire. A zero-inflated negative binomial regression (ZINB) was employed to analyse the associations between the dental caries status and the children’s social-demographic status and their oral health–related behaviours.ResultsIn all, 470 Lisu children aged 5 were invited, and 404 were examined. Their mean dmft (±SD) and caries prevalence were 5.6 ± 4.8 and 80%, respectively. Their mean VPI scores were 58% ± 21%. Lisu children who brushed their teeth at least once daily had higher dmft scores, and children from high-income families were more likely to have dental caries.ConclusionThe prevalence of dental caries among Lisu children aged 5 years in Yunnan, China was high, and their caries status was severe, with a majority of carious teeth untreated. The dental caries experience of Lisu children aged 5 was related to their brushing frequency and families’ economic backgrounds.

The influence of ventilation mode and personnel walking behavior on distribution characteristics of indoor particles

People spend nearly 90% of their time daily in various indoors, hence indoor environment is important for mortal survival and activity, which affected human health directly. Indoor particulate pollution has become an issue of increasing concern for human beings. Personnel walking behavior and ventilation mode will significantly affect the transfer characteristics of indoor particles. This paper analyzes the effect of walking process on indoor particle resuspension, and different ventilation modes (ceiling exhaust and slit exhaust) on the removal of indoor particulate concentration in experimental and theoretical models. The results show that the particle diffusion model under walking is in good agreement with the experimental results. The particles with different sizes have different diffusion characteristics during walking due to the surface deposition and resuspension rate. Particles of 1.0–3.0 μm have the fastest velocity and the largest amount in suspension, while the smallest for 0.5–1.0 μm particles. Different ventilation modes have different effects on the removal of indoor particles. The particles attenuation index is higher under slit exhaust mode, therefore the ventilation effect is higher than ceiling ventilation mode.

From global action against malaria to local issues: state of the art and perspectives of web platforms dealing with malaria information

BackgroundSince prehistory to present times and despite a rough combat against it, malaria remains a concern for human beings. While evolutions of science and technology through times allowed for some infectious diseases eradication in the 20th century, malaria resists.ObjectivesThis review aims at assessing how Internet and web technologies are used in fighting malaria. Precisely, how do malaria fighting actors profit from these developments, how do they deal with ensuing phenomena, such as the increase of data volume, and did these technologies bring new opportunities for fighting malaria?MethodsEleven web platforms linked to spatio-temporal malaria information are reviewed, focusing on data, metadata, web services and categories of users.ResultsThough the web platforms are highly heterogeneous the review reveals that the latest advances in web technologies are underused. Information are rarely updated dynamically, metadata catalogues are absent, web services are more and more used, but rarely standardized, and websites are mainly dedicated to scientific communities, essentially researchers.ConclusionImprovement of systems interoperability, through standardization, is an opportunity to be seized in order to allow real time information exchange and online multisource data analysis. To facilitate multidisciplinary/multiscale studies, the web of linked data and the semantic web innovations can be used in order to formalize the different view points of actors involved in the combat against malaria. By doing so, new malaria fighting strategies could take place, to tackle the bottlenecks listed in the United Nation Millennium Development Goals reports, but also specific issues highlighted by the World Health Organization such as malaria elimination in international borders.

Genetic algorithm hyper-parameter optimization using Taguchi design for groundwater pollution source identification

Abstract Groundwater pollution has been a major concern for human beings, since it is inherently related to people's health and fitness and the ecological environment. To improve the identification of groundwater pollution, many optimization approaches have been developed. Among them, the genetic algorithm (GA) is widely used with its performance depending on the hyper-parameters. In this study, a simulation–optimization approach, i.e., a transport simulation model with a genetic optimization algorithm, was utilized to determine the pollutant source fluxes. We proposed a robust method for tuning the hyper-parameters based on Taguchi experimental design to optimize the performance of the GA. The effectiveness of the method was tested on an irregular geometry and heterogeneous porous media considering steady-state flow and transient transport conditions. Compared with traditional GA with default hyper-parameters, our proposed hyper-parameter tuning method is able to provide appropriate parameters for running the GA, and can more efficiently identify groundwater pollution.

IndividualandCombinedCytotoxicEffectsof Co-OccurringDeoxynivalenolFamilyMycotoxinson HumanGastricEpithelialCells.

Mycotoxin contamination is a significant health concern for human beings, but health risk assessments are usually based on one single mycotoxin, which might neglect the additive or competitive interactions between co-occurring mycotoxins. In this study, we assessed the individual or combined toxicological effects to multiple deoxynivalenol-family mycotoxins, namely deoxynivalenol (DON), Nivalenol (NIV), and their acetyl derivatives of 3-acetyldeoxynivalenol (3-ADON), 15-acetyldeoxynivalenol (15-ADON), deoxynivalenol-3-glucoside (D3G), and Fusarenon-X (FX) based on the human gastric epithelial (GES-1) cells. GES-1 cells were treated at different concentrations over 24 h and cell viability was measured by a cell counting kit (CCK8). The results show that D3G has no toxicity and 3-ADON is less potent in reducing cell viability compared to DON, whereas 15-ADON and FX appear to be slightly less potent than their parent compounds of DON and NIV on GES-1 cells. In general, the toxic ability of individual mycotoxins was shown as 3-ADON << 15-ADON < DON < FX < NIV, in an increasing order. All mixtures caused a dose-dependent decline of cell viability and the interactions analysis of binary combinations were assessed using the combination index (CI)-isobologram method. For the interaction types of mycotoxins mixtures, the synergistic cytotoxicity of DON + 15-ADON, DON + NIV, and DON + FX at low and/or moderate inhibitory concentration levels (IC10–IC70, IC10–IC80, and IC10–IC40, respectively) were observed. FX + NIV resulted in almost completely synergistic cytotoxicity, whereas 15-ADON + NIV and 15-ADON + FX presented almost entirely antagonistic cytotoxicity on the GES-1 cell model. These results suggest that the simultaneous presence of low-dose type B trichothecenes in dietary food may be more or less toxic than the prediction based on individual mycotoxins.

Modeling and analysis the productivity of solar desalination units with phase change materials

Water scarcity in several parts of the world is a matter of concern for human beings. Solar stills are capable of producing fresh water during day hours and the production becomes zero after sunset. In this study detailed modeling of water desalination involving PCM that stores energy during day time and emits it during night time is theoretically investigated. The effect of various parameters such as the PCM type through its melting point, PCM quantity, feed-water flow rate, and solar irradiation on the productivity of the unit expressed as the amount of fresh water produced per day is theoretically investigated. The results showed that the presence of PCM with 40 °C melting point maintains higher water temperatures after sunset but negatively affects the productivity. Decreasing the feed flow rate from 10 L/hr to 1 L/hr improved the fresh water productivity by 49%. When the maximum solar intensity increased from 400 to 1000 W/m2, the fresh water productivity increased from 0.75 L/day to 2.1 L/day. In the presence of PCM and at certain solar irradiation intensity the productivity can be improved by using PCM of higher melting point and reducing water feed flow rate.

BIOCHEMICAL IDENTIFICATION OF FUNGAL SPECIES FROM AIR INSIDE REFRIGERATION CELLS IN “AOSTA” MECHANIZED BRIGADE’S REGIMENTS LOCATED IN ORIENTAL SICILY

In our study, we have identified and typed mycotic colonies after isolation from air sampled in refrigeration cells of the “Aosta” Mechanized Brigade’s Regiments, in Eastern Sicily, through an active air sampling system. Typing has been carried out through macro and microscopic examinations and biochemical identification system machine called “Biolog”. All isolated mycotic species belonged to Aspergillus and Penicillium genus, which have both direct and indirect pathogenic concern for human beings.

Normative and pre-normative aspects for the management of actual and perspective POPs in meat and meat products

With the acronym POPs we intend a group of persistent organic pollutants framed within the Stockholm Convention [Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Convention (POPs) (2004). Available from http://www.pops.int/]. POPs are a subgroup of the wide family of the aforesaid chemicals present in the environment, that are primarily of industrial origin. According to their physical–chemical properties, bioaccumulative behaviour in lipid tissues, and possible toxicological effects, they represent a relevant and growing concern for human beings. Foodstuffs of animal origin represent the main source of exposure. Monitoring data from national residue plans report only few non-compliances with respect to regulatory limits. However, the estimated intake, as in the case of polychloro- p-dibenzodioxins (PCDD), polychlorodibenzofurans (PCDF) and dioxin-like polychlorobyphenils (DL-PCBs) may result close to the correspondent safety guidance value (i.e., the Tolerable Daily Intake), thus indicating the need to reduce the overall exposure. In animal productions, the sources of contamination may be the commercial feedingstuffs as well as the contact with contaminated soil and bedding materials and the overall quality of the environment where animal productions are carried out. In this light, a number of safety challenges are envisaged to produce meat, such as: (a) characterization of the environment, (b) identification of the animal-based risk factors, (c) model-based approaches, able to predict bioaccumulation, and (d) teaching and training of stockmen.

Three Kinds of Race‐Related Solidarity

Solidarity is akin to community. “Community,” of course, is a slippery notion that may be used in several different senses. It can name simply any collectivity— workers at Wal-Mart, sociologists, and students and faculty at a university. I will use it in a more restricted sense to mean a collectivity animated by a “sense of community” among its members. In this sense, both community and solidarity involve the following—meaningful bonds between members (of the solidarity group, and the community, respectively); a sense of belonging to a collectivity that is important to its individual members; some degree of mutual concern among the members greater than concern for human beings as such; a sense of mutual support among members; and a sense of linked fate, at least to some extent, or with respect to some specific characteristic. These features not only characterize communities and solidarity groups, but constitute goods realized by them; it is a human good to have meaningful relations with one’s fellow X’s, to have and receive support and concern, to have a sense of belonging to and mutually identify with a good collectivity. However, these goods can be put to bad uses (solidarity among pedophiles) and in some such contexts may not be goods at all. But solidarity and community are not the same. Solidarity seems political in a way that community need not be, in the sense that solidarity is something that responds to adversity, or at least perceived adversity, while community does not necessarily involve adversity. Solidarity is a kind of pulling together of a group in the face of perceived adversity, generally but not necessarily human-created adversity. Communities may exist entirely without a sense of adversity. Suppose a neighborhood is a community in the required sense; that is, it is not simply people living within a few blocks of each other, but the people who have a sense of community with one another. Such a community can go for long stretches without feeling a sense of adversity. The neighbors may help one another in various ways, and respond as a group to certain challenges to the neighborhood, for example, by pressing the city to put up a traffic light on a particular corner. Ethnic communities (whether geographically localized or not) may function similarly. The AsianAmerican students on a college campus, for example, may form a social grouping, a community whose members give one another support and which provides a

Divine Concern for Human Beings in Plato(Section 2)

Divine Concern for Human Beings in Plato(Section 2)