Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dao, Trung-Kien and Le, Thi-Lan and Harle, David and Murray, Paul and Tachtatzis, Christos and Marshall, Stephen and Michie, Craig and Andonovic, Ivan (2015) Automatic cattle location tracking using image

Behavioural scientists track animal behaviour patterns through the construction of ethograms which detail the activities of cattle over time. To achieve this, scientists currently view video footage from multiple cameras located in and around a pen, which houses the animals, to extract their location and determine their activity. This is a time consuming, laborious task, which could be automated. In this paper we extend the well-known Real-Time Compressive Tracking algorithm to automatically determine the location of dairy and beef cows from multiple video cameras in the pen. Several optimisations are introduced to improve algorithm accuracy. An automatic approach for updating the bounding box which discourages the algorithm from learning the background is presented. We also dynamically weight the location estimates from multiple cameras using boosting to avoid errors introduced by occlusion and by the tracked animal moving in and out of the field of view. Index Terms Image and video processing; Object tracking in crowded environments; Cattle localisation;
Evaluation of Three Chance-Seedling of Dry Date Palms and Soltany Cultivar Grown Under Bahriya Oasis Conditions

This study was carried out during two successive years (2013 and 2014) at El – Qasr Valley in Bahriya Oasis, Giza Governorate on three chance-seedling of dry date palms and Soltany cultivar. This study aimed to evaluate yield loads and characters of fruit physical and chemical characteristics in two stages (completing color and ripening stages). It was selected Soltany cultivar as reference because it considered to be the highest economic value among local dry cultivars in Bahariya Oasis. The results revealed that, Palm(2) gave the highest yield ( 70,70 Kg) comparing Soltany cultivar ( 63, 66 Kg ) and palm (3) recorded (58,66 Kg ) , also palm (3) gave the highest weight of fruit and flesh, fruit length, fruit diameter and fruit size, while, Soltany cultivar and palm (3) recorded the highest total sugar and reducing sugar in ripening stage and, it also records the highest value in the Soluble solids content in two stage while palm (3 ) gave the highest dry matter content in two seasons comparing with Soltany cultivar. Palm (3) can be the beginning of dry cultivar with good characteristics under Bahariya Oasis conditions. The soltany cultivar and palm (3) is suitable as a dry date palm replacement and in the extension for southern Egyptian Governorates .
Disaggregating rates of return to education

Education is effectively used as a discontinuous variable in studies estimating the rates of return by level of education. We find that the normal procedure used for estimating the rate of return to broad aggregates such as secondary and high understates the returns to these levels and subsequently suggest a procedure for rectifying this bias. We also find, as expected, that broad aggregations that ignore sub-levels of education result in a loss of important insights about the interaction of education and the labor market.
GA – A 25564 MONTE-CARLO SIMULATION OF HIGH HARMONIC FAST WAVE HEATING OF NEUTRAL BEAM IONS AND EFFECTS ON MHD STABILITY : VALIDATION WITH EXPERIMENTS by

Experimentally, during fast wave (FW) radio frequency (rf) heating in DIII-D L-mode discharges, strong acceleration of neutral beam (NB) deuterium beam ions has been observed. Significant effects on the n/m = 1/1 sawtooth stability are also seen. Simulations using the Monte-Carlo Hamiltonian code ORBIT-RF, coupled to the TORIC full wave code, predict beam ion tails up to a few hundred keV, in agreement with the experiment. The simulations and experiment both clearly show a much greater efficiency for 4th harmonic FW heating than for 8th harmonic heating. Simple analyses of the kinetic contribution to the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) potential energy from energetic beam ions generated by FW heating yields reasonable consistency with the observations. A more detailed analysis shows a more complicated picture, however. Other physics effects such as geometry, plasma rotation, and the presence of a free boundary, play a significant role.
A Reconfigurable Coplanar Waveguide Bowtie Antenna Using an Integrated Ferroelectric Thin-Film Varactor

A novel printed antenna with a frequency reconfigurable feed network is presented. The antenna consists of a bowtie structure patch radiating element in the inner space of an annulus that is on a nongrounded substrate with a ferroelectric (FE) Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) thin film. The bowtie patch is fed by a coplanar waveguide (CPW) transmission line that also includes a CPW-based BST shunt varactor. Reconfiguration of the compact 8 mm × 8 mm system has been demonstrated by shifting the antenna system’s operating frequency 500 MHz in the 7–9 GHz band by applying a DC voltage bias.
Genetic analysis of seed growth rate and progress towards flowering in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)

Genetic analysis of seed growth rate (SGR) and progress towards flowering (RPF) along with yield components was carried out in chickpea using Hayman's and Griffing's diallel procedures. Estimates of genetic parameters showed significant additive and non-additive gene effects in the inheritance of the traits studied. The additive component was predominant for RPF, SGR and seed weight, and the non-additive component was predominant for pods per plant, seeds per plant, seeds per pod and seed yield. Estimate of the narrow-sense heritability was high (90%) for RPF, SGR and seed weight, and low for the remaining traits. The close association observed between SGR and seed weight makes it possible to select for higher SGR through selection for larger seed size. SGR and seed weight could be used as selection criteria for yield improvement.
Your smartphone can save someone ' s life Twój smartfon może uratować komuś życie

IN T R O D U C T IO N : Each year in Europe there are about 350 thousand deaths recorded, following sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). To reduce this number, new methods are being looked for to assist non-medical people in CPR. The objective of this contribution is to compare the efficacy of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and its compliance with the BLS algorithm in persons showing no medical background, using generally available means of support. M A T E R IA L AN D M E TH O D S : The conducted randomized pilot study comprised 50 volunteers with no medical background. The participants were randomized into two test groups. Group 1 – with smartphone applications, Group 2 – no support. R E S U L TS : The persons making use of mobile application support showed better compliance with the initial steps of the algorithm. Improved chest compression quality was also observed, in particular regarding the cHOT parameter. Statistically, the application users also proved better in evaluating the victim’s breathing. C O N C L U S IO N S : A smartphone application may be helpful in first aid procedures performed by people with no medical background, mainly for the common use of this type of mobile phones. It is recommended to extend the scope of knowledge of AED defibrillators.
Motor-mediated clustering at microtubule plus ends facilitates protein transfer to a bio-mimetic cortex

Polarized protein distributions at the cortex play an important role in the spatial organization of cells. In S. pombe, growing microtubule ends contribute to the establishment and maintenance of such distributions by delivering specific factors to membrane receptors at the poles of the cell. It is however unclear how microtubule plus-end tracking of proteins favours protein accumulation at the cell cortex compared to proteins arriving directly from the cytoplasm. To address this question, we developed an in vitro assay, where microtubules were made to deliver His-tagged plus-end tracking proteins to functionalized microchamber walls. We found that motor-mediated protein clusters formed at microtubule ends were able to transfer to the walls, but non-clustered proteins were not. We further show that this transfer mechanism leads to preferential cluster accumulation at chamber poles, when microtubules are confined to elongated microfabricated chambers with sizes and shapes similar to S. pombe.
Comparing the effect of low-power laser therapy with methylprednisolone injection in unilateral plantar fasciitis

: Background: Plantar fasciitis accounts for 11 to 15 percent of foot pain in adults. Although an injection of corticosteroids is a common treatment in plantar fasciitis, it has side effects and short - term pain relief. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the effect of low-power laser therapy (LPLT) with methylprednisolone injection in unilateral plantar fasciitis patients. Materials and Methods: In this clinical trial study, 40 patients with unilateral plantar fasciitis were randomly allocated into two groups (n=20). In the first group, 40 mg of prednisolone was locally injected and the second group received LPLT in 10 sessions. Levels of pain and morning stiffness were evaluated. Results: Forty-two percent of cases were male and 57.5% female. Fifty-five percent of the patients had right and 45% had left foot fasciitis. The mean age of the patients was 52.98 years and the disease duration was 32.38 weeks. In men pain was seen more in the right foot and in women in left foot. Duration of pain in women with plantar fasciitis was more than the men. The effect of the two therapies on morning stiffness and pain reduction was the same in both groups. Moreover, pain reduction measured by visual analogue scale had a similar effect during the study in both groups. Conclusion: LPLT like corticosteroid injection has significant effect on the intensity and duration of pain and morning stiffness in plantar fasciitis and can be used as an alternative to corticosteroid
Promoting Communicative Competence within EFL Contexts: A UAE Case Study

Upon university graduation, under-graduate students studying in the United Arab Emirates are expected to acquire adequate communicative competence in English as a foreign language. Despite the efforts made within the area of teaching English to university students majoring in subjects other than English language and literature, the outcome as reflected by students’ skills and competencies in English is still below expectations. Believing in the essential role literature can play in promoting communicative competence on the part of EFL learners; the current study introduces a literature-based course: LEARN AND GAIN. Adopting an experimental design, the research project involved two groups: experimental and control. To examine treatment effectiveness, the researcher set and administered a pre-posttest. The pre-posttest aimed to measure subjects’ communicative critical reading competence and subjects’ communicative critical writing competence in English. Based on the statistical findings, the experimental group students’ achievement on the communicative critical reading competence pre-posttest and the communicative critical writing competence pre-posttest was significantly better than that of their counterparts of the control group students. In the light of findings and conclusions, a number of recommendations have been made.
Retrospective Evaluation of Family Medicine Outpatient Clinic Profile at a Tertiary Hospital in İzmir

Objective: Primary Health Care is defined as, the health institutions and the produced services where diagnostic procedures and treatment of 95% of admitted patients are performed, besides referring patients to secondary and tertiary hospitals in certain circumstances and serving preventive health care. In this study we assess two-month patient profiles and develop recommendations based on the data obtained from our outpatient clinics in a tertiary hospital. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study in which 1708 patients whom were referred to a tertiary hospital family medicine outpatient clinic in Izmir between 1.11.2015 and 31.12. 2015 were evaluated retrospectively. Age, gender, smoking behavior, admission requests, diagnoses, consultation, laboratory tests and prescription data of patients were obtained. Results: The mean age of patients enrolled in the study was 47.11±16.70 years and 545 (68.2%) patients were women. The average of application per patient was 1.5±1.2 to a family medicine outpatient clinic in a tertiary hospital. The most common admission was the demand for physical examination with 500 patients (62.6%). The most common complaints in the physical examination group were stomach related complaints (15%), abdominal pain (12.4%) and body pain (11.0%). Among the 500 patients, 398 (79.6%) were investigated by laboratory tests, 289 (57.8%) were prescribed, and 108 (21.6%) were referred to other clinics. The rheumatology clinic was the most commonly referred to with 22.2% (n:24) of patients. Conclusion: It is important to give an appropriate education during resident training and encourage continuing medical education about monitoring and management of chronic diseases, vaccines, child and pregnancy surveillance issues and other commonly observed complaints in order to provide quality primary care services.
Reproductive state and choline intake influence enrichment of plasma lysophosphatidylcholine-DHA: a post hoc analysis of a controlled feeding trial

Abstract The major facilitator superfamily domain 2a protein was identified recently as a lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) symporter with high affinity for LPC species enriched with DHA (LPC-DHA). To test the hypothesis that reproductive state and choline intake influence plasma LPC-DHA, we performed a post hoc analysis of samples available through 10 weeks of a previously conducted feeding study, which provided two doses of choline (480 and 930 mg/d) to non-pregnant (n 21), third-trimester pregnant (n 26), and lactating (n 24) women; all participants consumed 200 mg of supplemental DHA and 22 % of their daily choline intake as 2H-labelled choline. The effects of reproductive state and choline intake on total LPC-DHA (expressed as a percentage of LPC) and plasma enrichments of labelled LPC and LPC-DHA were assessed using mixed and generalised linear models. Reproductive state interacted with time (P = 0·001) to influence total LPC-DHA, which significantly increased by week 10 in non-pregnant women, but not in pregnant or lactating women. Contrary to total LPC-DHA, patterns of labelled LPC-DHA enrichments were discordant between pregnant and lactating women (P < 0·05), suggestive of unique, reproductive state-specific mechanisms that result in reduced production and/or enhanced clearance of LPC-DHA during pregnancy and lactation. Regardless of the reproductive state, women consuming 930 v. 480 mg choline per d exhibited no change in total LPC-DHA but higher d3-LPC-DHA (P = 0·02), indicating that higher choline intakes favour the production of LPC-DHA from the phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase pathway of phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis. Our results warrant further investigation into the effect of reproductive state and dietary choline on LPC-DHA dynamics and its contribution to DHA status.
Improvement of Ornamental Plants - A Review

Ornamental crops provide better income from a unit area with higher profitability. There is huge untapped flower production potential in our country which could benefit a large segments of the weaker sections of the society. Both the domestic market and the export potential of flowers and ornamentals are tremendous. Besides, earning foreign exchange and improving the national income, the floriculture business being labour intensive generates gainful employment to rural youth. Ornamental plants are appreciated by their ability to please the eye of consumers as garden or pot plants or when sold as cut material. The main emphasis in ornamental plant breeding is to improve variety traits, novel colour, form, size, number of flowers, flower vase life, repeat blooming, disease resistance, nutrient uptake capacity and growth habit. Various types of new varieties of ornamental crops have been produced for many years by cross hybridization and mutation breeding techniques, separately or in combination. Many ornamental plants have been originated from inter-specific and inter-generic crosses, which leads to high degree of heterozygosity in the resulting hybrids, often polyploidy and aneuploidy also occur. In the present review, origin, modes of reproduction, introduction, selection, hybridization, mutation and polyploidy breeding of various ornamental plants are discussed in details.
Molecular subtyping of invasive breast cancer and its relation to common risk factors: a hospital based study

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Indian women. Majority of our patients do not have the traditional risk factors, and present in a locally advanced stage which progresses despite treatment. Studies have shown that it can be stratified in molecular subtypes by using a panel of immunohistochemical markers for estrogen, progesterone and HER 2neu receptor, which is closely related to its prognosis. Aim: This study was done to determine the prevalence of various molecular subtypes in our patients and its relation to various risk factors. Materials and Method: 446 breast cancer patients treated at Mahavir Cancer Sansthan, Patna from January 2015 toDecember 2015 were retrospectively analysed for their age, parity, history of breast feeding, menopausal status, height, weight, ER, PR & HER2neu receptor status. They were then classified in four molecular subgroups, Luminal A, Luminal B, Triple negative and HER2neu positive cancers and its relation to menopausal status and body mass index was analysed. Observations and Results: 68.38% patients were premenopausal with a mean age of 47.12 years. 24.38% patients were obese or overweight, with an average BMI of 22.38. Luminal A subtype followed by Triple Negative subtype was found in 37% and 29% of the patients respectively. The prevalence of Triple Negative subtype was more in premenopausal and overweight patients. Conclusion: Overall prevalence of triple negative subtype in our patient population is high esp. among premenopausal overweight patients.
Further considerations on the genus Buthacus Birula, 1908 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) with a description of one new species and two new subspecies

Considerations are outlined regarding the relationships of several species of the genus Buthacus distributed in north- ern Africa and the Middle East. The stability of the characters used to define the "leptochelys" and "arenicola" complexes is dis- cussed for the first time. Based on the rediscovery of two of the specimens used by E. Simon to describe Buthacus arenicola, this species is redefined, and Buthacus spatzi is regarded as a junior synonym of B. arenicola. A lectotype is designated for Buthacus occidentalis Vachon, and the recently described Buthacus ehrenbergi Kovařik is considered as a synonym of this. One new species and two new subspecies are also described from Algeria and Morocco. Nuevas consideraciones sobre el genero Buthacus Birula, 1908 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) y descripcion de una nueva especie y dos subespecies Resumen: Se presentan diversas consideraciones sobre las relaciones de varias especies del genero Buthacus presentes en el norte de Africa y Oriente Medio. Se discute por primera vez la estabilidad de los caracteres utilizados para definir los grupos "leptochelys" y "arenicola". A partir del hallazgo de los dos especimenes en que se baso E. Simon para la descripcion de Bu- thacus arenicola, se redefine esta especie y se considera a Buthacus spatzi como sinonimo posterior de B. arenicola. Se de- signa lectotipo para Buthacus occidentalis Vachon, y el recientemente descrito Buthacus ehrenbergi Kovařik se considera co- mo sinonimo de dicha especie. Por otra parte, se describen una nueva especie y dos nuevas subespecies de Argelia y Ma- rruecos.
The royalty of loyalty: CRM, quality and retention

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to examine and develop a better understanding of triangle relationship between quality, customer relationship management (CRM) and customer loyalty (CL) which might lead to companies' competitiveness (CC). Design/methodology/approach – A research model (5Qs) was designed to measure satisfaction and loyalty. This model is based on two conditions: the customer database and CRM strategy are well structured; and that management control systems have the capacity to produce required data for the analysis.Findings – Changing in quality over time within various segments or related to specific products or categories of products/services can be used as an indicator the level of loyalty. By linking infrastructure, interaction and atmosphere indicators to the quality of object and processes, researchers and managers can document which changes in CRM strategy improve the overall satisfaction and loyalty, hence the ultimate outcomes.Practical implications – Key ways to build a stron.
Seascape genetics of the New Zealand greenshell mussel: sea surface temperature explains macrogeographic scale genetic variation

Polymorphic microsatellite markers were employed to assay genetic variation in 14 populations of the endemic New Zealand greenshell mussel Perna canaliculus, which is continuously distributed across ~11.5° of latitude. Previous population genetics assessments of this species have identified a pronounced and ~1.3 million year old genetic discontinuity at ~42°S, just south of Cook Strait, the major break between the North and South islands. In addition to this genetic structuring, the present seascape genetics analysis of 7 environmental and 3 geospatial variables revealed that sea surface temperature (SST) explains far more genetic variation (among populations and individuals) than any other variable. Genetic variation across the full distributional range of P. canaliculus is, therefore, best explained by SST, which suggests that a contemporary temperature-related selective force is acting on greenshell mussels from the subtropical north to the cold temperate south. The identification of this association between environmental and genetic variation highlights how previously unrecognised patterns of genetic structure may be revealed by the examination of environmental variation and provides important leads for new research directions.
Culture and Context-sensitive Self: The Amount and Meaning of Context-sensitivity of Phenomenal Self Differ Across Cultures

Self-concepts change from context to context. The experience that one's self is context-sensitive may be universal, however the amount and meaning of context-sensitive self vary across cultures. Cross-cultural differences in the amount and meaning of context-sensitive self were investigated in three Western cultures (Australia, Germany, and UK) and two East Asian cultures (Japan and Korea). The amount of context-sensitivity of self was greater in Japan than in Western cultures and Korea. The meaning of context-sensitive self also varied across cultures. In the Western cultures, a context-invariant self was seen to be clear and true; however, these patterns were not observed in the East Asian cultures. In Korea, a context-invariant self was interpreted to be exhibiting a relational self, which adheres to the ethics of care. In Japan, it was a context-sensitive self that was seen to be true, implying that the true self in Japan may mean to be true to the self-in-context, rather than the transcendental, decontextualized self. The results suggest the importance of differentiating East Asian cultures such as Japan and Korea. The utility of quantitative methods in explicating cultural meaning was highlighted.