Hydatid disease of liver and disseminated hydatidosis: anatomical, microbiological and radiological perspective

The article underlies the geographic locations of the disease as the disease is not uniformly distributed and is common in certain parts of the world and rare in other parts. The article tries to summarize the microbiological aspects along with the anatomical and surgical perspectives for in depth knowledge and reasons for spread of disease. The photographs indicate the radiological spectrum of the disease in line with the text

VPT: Privacy Preserving Energy Trading and Block Mining Mechanism for Blockchain based Virtual Power Plants

The desire to overcome reliability issues of distributed energy resources (DERs) lead researchers to development of a novel concept named as virtual power plant (VPP). VPPs are supposed to carry out intelligent, secure, and smart energy trading among prosumers, buyers, and generating stations along with providing efficient energy management. Therefore, integrating blockchain in decentralized VPP network emerged out as a new paradigm, and recent experiments over this integration have shown fruitful results. However, this decentralization also suffers with energy management, trust, reliability, and efficiency issues due to the dynamic nature of DERs. In order to overcome this, in this paper, we first work over providing efficient energy management strategy for VPP to enhance demand response, then we propose an energy oriented trading and block mining protocol and named it as proof of energy market (PoEM). To enhance it further, we integrate differential privacy in PoEM and propose a Private PoEM (PPoEM) model. Collectively, we propose a private decentralized VPP trading model and named it as Virtual Private Trading (VPT) model. We further carry out extensive theoretical analysis and derive step-by-step valuations for market race probability, market stability probability, energy trading expectation, winning state probability, and prospective leading time profit values. Afterwards, we carry out simulation-based experiment of our proposed model. The performance evaluation and theoretical analysis of our VPT model make it one of the most viable model for blockchain based VPP network as compared to other state-of-the-art works.Comment: Article Submitted for Revie

Explaining Visual Classification using Attributes

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Frequency of Vitamin D Deficiency in Patients in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients

Objective: To determine the frequency of Vitamin D deficiency in chronic hemodialysis patients and its association with duration on dialysis. Material and Methods: One hundred fifty two patients on hemodialysis were taken in this descriptive study, conducted at department of Nephrology, Fatima Memorial Hospital, Lahore from June 2014 to June 2016. After brief history, examination and record review, blood sample was collected for 25(OH) Vitamin D and SPSS was employed for data entry and analysis purpose. Results: Of these 152 study cases, 93 (61.2%) were male patients while 59 (38.8%) were female patients. Mean age of our study cases Was 48.84 ± 7.34 years, for male patients mean was 47.38 ± 7.72 years while of female patients was 51.15 ± 6.07 years (p=0.002) and 92 (60.5%) belonged to age group of 46 – 60 years of age. Of these 152 study cases, 83 (54.6 %) were diabetic, 40 (26.3 %) were hypertensive patients. Majority of our study cases i.e. 98 (64.5%) were poor, 31 (20.4%) had middle income and 23 (15.1%) were rich. Ninety two (60.5 %) were from rural area while 60 (39.5%) were from urban areas. Sixty four (42.1%) had history of exposure to the sunlight while majority 88 (57.9%) did not had history of exposure to sunlight. Mean duration on hemodialysis was noted to be 18.04 ± 8.57 months (with minimum duration on hemodialysis was 4 months while maximum duration on hemodialysis was 39 months). Mean vitamin D level was noted to be 13.78 ± 8.78 ng/ml; ranging from 7 ng/ml to 29 ng/ml. Vitamin D deficiency was noted in the 129 (84.9%) of our study cases. Conclusion:In our study, frequency of vitamin D deficiency was very high among patients on hemodialysis. Vitamin D level should be routinely monitored and corrected among patients on Hemodialysis which will improve their quality of life. These patients need supplementation of high dosage of cholecalciferol. Vitamin D deficiency was significantly associated with female gender, hypertension, poor socioeconomic status, disease duration and exposure to the sunlight. Proper supplementation can help save these patients from cardiovascular diseases and immunological disorder. Keywords:Vitamin D deficiency, hemodialysis, chronic kidney disease

The Effect of Educational Units According to the Cognitive Training Strategy in Learning the Football Handling Skill

The importance of the cognitive training strategy for students’ learning in the first stage in football handling was addressed. The research problem was to answer the question: Do the educational units applied by the researchers have a positive role in learning the football handling skill? The aim of the research was to prepare educational units using the cognitive training strategy in Learn the skill of handling football. Where the research areas were: The human field: First stage students in the College of Basic Education, Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences / Al-Mustansiriya University, Time field: for the period from 10-12-2022 until 10-2-2023. The research population was represented by the students of the first stage in the College of Basic Education - Al-Mustansiriya University (70) students, and the research sample consisted of two equal groups (10) control and experimental. The researchers conducted pre-tests for the research sample, then applied the main experiment for a period of 10 weeks, after which the researchers conducted the post-tests by applying The same procedures were used in the pre-tests, which indicated that there were significant differences between the two groups, in favor of the experimental group. The conclusions showed that there was a positive impact of the educational units used in the research to learn the skill of handling, and the researchers recommended using the cognitive training strategy to learn other skills