Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Fracture Resistance of Provisional Crowns Fabricated with CAD / CAM Process and Conventional Process after Aging in Simulated Oral Condition ความต้านทานต่อการแตกหักของครอบฟันช่ัวคราวทีผ่ลติจากกระบวนการแคดแคม และกระบวนการปกติหลงัผ่านสภาพช่องปากจ าลอง

The study was to investigate difference in fracture resistance of provisional single crowns fabricated from three different provisional resins namely auto-polymerized PMMA (Unifast Trad UF), auto-polymerized Bis-acryl (Protemp4 PT), and CAD/CAM PMMA block (Brylic S BS) after simulated oral condition. Eight crowns were fabricated for each group using conventional direct technique for the first two groups, and CAD/CAM technique for the last. All crowns were cemented and put through 5,000 cycles of 5°C and and 100,000 cycles of 100N occlusal force before tested for maximum force at fracture in universal testing machine. One-way ANOVA showed that UF has significantly lower fracture resistance at 655.88±75.58N (p<0.05) while no significant difference between PT (1112.42±183.98N) and BS (960.83±84.40N). It can be summarized that UF is inferior to PT and BS in terms of fracture resistance.
Use of Microbial Phytase for Decrease of Pollutant Due to Environmental Poultry Excreta Phosphorus

This experiment was conducted to study the effects of different levels of microbial phytase (0, 500 & 1000 FTU/ kg diet), calcium (2.275 & 3.25%) and available phosphorus (0.175 & 0.25%) on phytate phosphorus utilization in laying hens. One hundred ninety two 30-week aged White Leghorn (Hy-line W-36) laying hens were randomly allocated in cages for 12 dietary treatments with arranged of 3*2*2 factorial experiment with four replicates and four hens per replicate. The experimental period lasted 90 days, when the age of hen was 42 weeks. Dietary phytase caused a significant (P < 0.05) improvement in feed intake, feed conversion ratio, tibia ash weight, tibia ash percentage, tibia phosphorus, plasma phosphorus and phosphorus digestibility. Available phosphorus levels had significant effect (P < 0.05) on tibia ash weight and tibia ash percentage. Reduction dietary available phosphorus caused a significant (P < 0.05) decrease in feed consumption. Effect of dietary calcium were significant (P < 0.05), on tibia ash weight and feed consumption. Interaction between phytase and available phosphorus on tibia phosphorus were significant (P < 0.05). Overall, it could be concluded that in low phosphorus diet where feed consumption is low, phytase would increase feed consumption as well as retention of phosphorus in tibia bone. Also, the lower excreta of phosphorus by using phytase could decrease environmental pollution.
Assessment of Cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata ( L . ) Walp ) Genotypes in Response to Rhizobium Inoculation in Makurdi , Benue State , Nigeria

Received 13 July 2018; Accepted 17 August, 2018 Field experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of some selected cowpea genotypes inoculated with Rhizobium was conducted at Teaching and Research Farm of the University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria during the 2016 rainy season. Four varieties (UAM09-1046-6-2, UAM09-1055-6, IT99K-573-1-1 and UAM14-143-4-1) were used and laid out in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replications. Each variety was shared into two portions one inoculated while the other was not inoculated. Seeds were inoculated with Rhizobium (Bradyrhizobium japonicum) by placing seeds in a plastic bowl, adding a little water to moisten, then, and adding three spoonful of sugar as adhesive. Five grams inoculant (Bradyrhizobium japonicum) was weighed and added to 500 g of cowpea seeds, stirred and spread on aclean surface under a shade to air-dry for one hour. Seeds (inoculated and non-inoculated) were then sowed on prepared ridges at three seeds/hole at 40 cm apart. All agronomic practices were carried out. Data collected were on plant height, number of branches, days to 50% flowering, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, number of nodules, and grain yield per plot. The results showed significant effect of Rhizobium inoculation on grain yield, while inoculated cowpea variety UAM09 1046-6-2 had the highest yield.
Mycochemicals and antioxidant activity of polyphenol-rich fraction of Termitomyces microcarpus

Polyphenol-rich fraction from edible mushroom, Termitomyces microcarpus, was tested for its antioxidant capacity and estimated for the presence of bioactive components. The extract was found to contain maximum amount of phenols followed by flavonoids, ascorbic acid, β-carotene and lycopene consecutively. HPLC analyses revealed the presence of good amount of pyrogallol (32.07 μg/mg of dry weight of mushroom powder). Findings for in vitro antioxidant activities showed that EC50 values were below 1mg/ml for DPPH, hydroxyl radical scavenging and superoxide radical scavenging test but reducing ability and chelation of ferrous ion assays showed EC50 values at 1.7 mg/ml and 1.3 mg/ml respectively. Results imply that phenol-rich fraction of T. microcarpus can be a potential source of natural antioxidant and may be used as food supplement to combat oxidative stress related human disorder.
Optimization for anthocyanin and antioxidant contents and effects of acidulants on purple corn cake containing corn silk powder qualities

The objectives of this study were: 1) to investigate the optimal raw material ratio of purple corn cake containing corn silk powder (PCC) for maximal the total anthocyanin content (TAC), 2,2’-azinobis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) radical scavenging ability (ABTS-RSA) and texture score using response surface methodology (RSM) and 2) to evaluate the effects of adding organic acids of PCC on TAC, total phenolic content (TPC), ABTS-RSA, ferrous chelating ability (FCA), color values and sensory evaluation. The optimal raw material ratio for maximal TAC (142.0 μg CE/g), ABTS-RSA (1,249.0 μg TE/g) and texture score (6.6) was the ratio of purple corn flour to rice flour of 71.1:28.9, corn silk content of 10.0 and water content of 27.1 (% total flour weight basis). The acidified PCC (APCC) with citric acid, fumaric acid, glucono-delta-lactone (GDL) and lactic acid at 0, 0.3, 0.75, 1.5, 3.0, 4.5 and 6.0% (% total flour weight basis) could reduce the degradations of TAC, TPC, ABTS-RSA and FCA. However, APCC with 3% fumaric acid showed the highest of TAC (282.7 μg CE/g), TPC (2,154.7 μg GE/g), ABTS-RSA (1,884.8 μg TE/g) and FCA (5,571.1 μg EDTA/g). The difference color (∆E) and chroma values of APCC were significantly increased as increasing acid concentrations. Inversely, hue value was decreased as increasing acid concentrations. Additionally, the sensory scores in taste, texture and overall acceptability of APCC with 0.3% organic acid were higher than other acid preparations.
Study of Foetal Outcome in Pregnancy with Iron Deficiency Anaemia *

Background: In pregnancy the demand for iron is increased to meet the needs of the expanding red cells mass and requirements of the developing foetus and placenta. Current knowledge indicates that iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy is a risk factor for preterm delivery and subsequent low birth weight and possibly for inferior neonatal health. Methods: This study was conducted in the department of Obstretics and Gynaecology, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal, Manipur State from February 2014 to January 2016. Hundred pregnant women in their last trimester, irrespective of parity,and whose Hb level is below 11.0 gm/dl attending antenatal OPD/admitted in antenatal ward during the period were included for the study. For the iron deficiency anaemia the cut off level for serum ferritin is taken as 12ug/l and below. Fifty randomly selected non-anaemic healthy pregnant women in their last trimester were selected as control group. Results: Maximum number of anaemic cases were seen in the age group between 2130 years of age and gravity1.The red cell morpholgy examination showed that majority of cases were of normochromic normocytic. A high incidence of preterm labour was noted in anaemic group as against cases in control group which was statistically significant. The incidence of low birth was higher in anaemic group as compare to control group.A correlation between Apgar Score and haemoglobin levels (mean and SD) are made and found to be significant. Conclusion: Iron deficiency is well correlated with foetal outcome when preterm labour, low birth weight, Apgar score, and other haematological and biochemical iron profile were considered.
An Accurate Framework for Arbitrary View Pedestrian Detection in Images

We consider the problem of detect pedestrian under from images collected under various viewpoints. This paper utilizes a novel framework called locality-constrained affine subspace coding (LASC). Firstly, the positive training samples are clustered into similar entities which represent similar viewpoint. Then Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is used to obtain the shared feature of each viewpoint. Finally, the samples that can be reconstructed by linear approximation using their top- k nearest shared feature with a small error are regarded as a correct detection. No negative samples are required for our method. Histograms of orientated gradient (HOG) features are used as the feature descriptors, and the sliding window scheme is adopted to detect humans in images. The proposed method exploits the sparse property of intrinsic information and the correlations among the multiple-views samples. Experimental results on the INRIA and SDL human datasets show that the proposed method achieves a higher performance than the state-of-the-art methods in form of effect and efficiency.
Elastomeric Asphalt Extender – A New Frontier on Asphalt Rubber Mixes

The Reacted and Activated Rubber (RAR), as an Asphalt Rubber Binder, is composed of plain soft bitumen, fine crumb rubber, and an Activated Mineral Binder Stabilizer (AMBS) at optimized proportions. RAR is produced by a shorttime hot blending and activation in a specially designed process to form a dried granulated activated rubber. RAR can be added to any type of Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) – Dense, Open Graded, Gapgraded, SMA, etc., for replacing part of the asphalt cement (bitumen) at different proportions. In the mixing plant it is added directly to the pug mill or dryer drum, right after the bitumen spraying, using existing feeders (i.e. fiber feeders for SMA mixes, etc.). This paper summarizes an R&D Research effort showing that Asphalt Rubber HMA, produced with RAR, outperforms conventional HMA and even regular modified and asphalt rubber mixes. In general, it was found that RAR is an elastomeric asphalt extender that modifies the plain bitumen by increasing its PG grading, resilience, softening point and recovery properties. As shown in the paper, Different types of HMA mixes produced with RAR showed much better Stability, Rutting and Fatigue resistance under attractive cost/benefit conditions.
Public Fears of Terrorism , Partisan Rhetoric , and the Foundations of American Interventionism

An American’s yearly chance of being killed by a terrorist attack sits at about 1 in 3.5 million. Yet over 40% of the public have been consistently found to believe they or a family member are likely or very likely to be the victim of a terror attack. Can these heightened estimates of the risks posed by terrorism be brought closer to reality? With trillions of dollars spent on the War on Terror, this question is not just theoretically but practically important. To investigate, we use an experimental approach, testing whether participants update beliefs when presented with factual information about the risks posed by terrorism. In a pilot experiment conducted on Mechanical Turk in late 2017, we found that people did update their risk estimates to more accurate levels when given factual information, but that the information only had a strong and enduring effect when it was reinforced by a cue from a co-partisan political elite. In this paper, we first present these pilot results and then lay out a design for a revised and expanded study which will build on them. In particular, the revised design will: (1) conduct the survey experiment on a nationally representative sample, and (2) test the impact of a richer set of elite cues as treatments. Overall, this project helps show how the American public’s overblown fear of terrorism – a particularly costly and sticky misperception in contemporary world politics – can best be mitigated and reduced to more realistic levels.
The dynamics of physical and mental health of students of economic specialties in the course of employment aqua

Цель работы - определить влияние физкультурно-оздоровительных занятий по аквафитнесу на физическую и умственную работоспособность студенток. Объём экспериментальной выборки составил 69 студенток основной медицинской группы в возрасте 17-18 лет. Анализ результатов проводился по данным Гарвардского степ-теста, а также по результатам скорости и точности обработки зрительной информации с применением буквенной таблицы Анфимова. Сравнительный анализ данных показал тенденцию более выраженных положительных изменений в физической и умственной работоспособности студенток экспериментальной группы 1 и экспериментальной группы 2. Низкий уровень индекса физической работоспособности в пределах 42,39 отмечен у контрольной группы. Повышение значений скорости и точности обработки зрительной информации в контрольной группе не отмечается.
Deep learning for noise-tolerant RDFS reasoning

Since the 2001 envisioning of the Semantic Web (SW) [1] as an extension to the World Wide Web, the main research focus in SW reasoning has been on the soundness and completeness of reasoners. While these reasoners assume the veracity of the input data, the reality is that the Web of data is inherently noisy. Although there has been recent work on noise-tolerant reasoning, it has focused on type inference rather than full RDFS reasoning. Even though RDFS closure generation can be seen as a Knowledge Graph (KG) completion problem (link prediction in particular), the problem setting is different—making KG embedding techniques that were designed for link prediction not suitable for RDFS reasoning. This paper documents a novel approach that applies advances in deep learning to extend noise-tolerance in the SW to full RDFS reasoning; this is a stepping stone towards bridging the Neural-Symbolic gap for RDFS reasoning and beyond. Our embedding technique—that is tailored for RDFS reasoning—consists of layering RDF graphs and encoding them in the form of 3D adjacency matrices where each layer layout forms a graph word. Each input graph and its entailments are then represented as sequences of graph words, and RDFS inference can be formulated as translation of these graph words sequences, achieved through neural machine translation. Our evaluation confirms that deep learning can in fact be used to learn the RDFS inference rules from both synthetic and real-world SW data while demonstrating a noise-tolerance unavailable with rule-based reasoners; learning the inference on the LUBM synthetic dataset achieved 98.4% validation and 98% test accuracy while it achieved 87.76% validation accuracy on a subset of DBpedia.
Studies on genetic divergence for yield attributing traits in mungbean ( Vigna radiata L . Wilczek )

AThirty genotypes of green gram used to study the nature and magnitude of genetic divergence using Mahalanobis D Statistics. The data for ten important traits recorded from the genotypes raised in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replications. The thirty green gram genotypes were grouped into five clusters. Cluster V contained the highest number of fourteen genotypes followed by cluster III and IV with has five-five genotypes. The patterns of distribution of genotypes from different geographical location into five clusters were random, demonstrating that geographical isolation may not be the only factor causing genetic diversity. The highest intra-cluster distance was observed for cluster V (1.506) and the lowest intra-cluster distance was observed for cluster I (0.759). While the highest inter-cluster distance was observed between cluster II and IV (7.677) and the lowest inter-cluster distance was observed between cluster I and V (2.664). The cluster IV has high mean value for days to 50% flowering (69.07), plant height (50.31), days to maturity (100.07), number of pods per cluster (4.02), number of seeds per pod (11.09) and seed yield per plant (5.31). Thus genotypes of these clusters may be used as potential parents for hybridization program for developing high yielding mungbean varieties.
Ten Cracking and damage on concrete structures

Concrete contains a large number of micro-cracks before any load is applied. As loading is applied, these micro-cracks propagate in concrete. The low tensile strength of concrete is the main cause of crack propagation. In this chapter, the behavior of concrete and its mechanical properties under uniaxial, biaxial and triaxial states of stress are discussed. Different numerical methods to model tensile fracture of concrete in various stages are presented and their advantages and disadvantages are reviewed. A summary of information on factors influencing the fatigue strength of concrete are presented. Both the S–N approach and the mechanistic approach for predicting the fatigue behavior of concrete are discussed.
Environmental Accounting Disclosure and Firm Value of Industrial Goods Companies in Nigeria

Companies are expected to prepare an annual report which shows both qualitative and quantitative information about their operations and performance to be presented to their shareholders and stakeholders. The information content requirement by stakeholders helps in disclosing information about organizational financial performance and report on environmental accounting. Therefore, this study examined the effect of environmental accounting disclosure on firm value of listed industrial goods companies in Nigeria from 20072016. The ex-post facto research design was adopted in this study while the data were gathered through the individual sample company annual financial statement. Multiple regression was used to analyze the effect of environmental accounting disclosure on firm value. Environmental accounting disclosure was measured by nonfinancial indicators, financial indicators and performance indicators while the firm value is measured by Tobin's Q. From the result, it is evident that non-financial indicators havea positive significant effect on firm value while performance indicators havea negative significant effect on firm value and the financial indicator has no significant effect on firm value of industrial goods companies in Nigeria. Therefore, there is a need for corporate entities to improve their environmental responsibility practices and disclose comprehensively their environmental risks, liabilities and impact on the environment. The study suggests that sanctions be put in place to encourage disclosures most especially non-financial indicators because it has a direct influence on the firm value of the industrial goods companies in Nigeria. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 23-01-2019 Date of acceptance: 07-02-2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Euler equations , exact solution enclosure ON EXACT SOLUTION ENCLOSURE ON ENSEMBLE OF NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS

The estimation of a vicinity of the approximate solution that contains the exact one (exact solution enclosure) may be performed using an ensemble of numerical solutions if the information on their error ranging is available a priori. A posteriori analysis of distances between numerical solutions enables error ranging by magnitudes, if the ensemble of numerical solutions separates into clusters of “accurate” and “inaccurate” solutions. For nonlinear problems this enclosure may serve as the computational proof of the exact solution existence. The impact of metric selection on the solution enclosure is observed. The numerical tests for the supersonic flows, governed by two dimensional Euler equations, demonstrate the exact solution enclosure using the set of solvers that have different orders of accuracy.
RTM FOR PTSD 1 Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories for PTSD : A randomized controlled trial of 74 male veterans Originally

Design: Randomized waitlist-controlled design (n = 74) examined the efficacy of Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories (RTM) among male veterans with current-month flashbacks and nightmares. Volunteers were randomly assigned to immediate treatment (three 120-minute sessions of RTM), or to a three-week waiting condition before receiving RTM treatment. Blinded psychometricians evaluated symptoms at intake, two weeks, and six-weeks post. Wait-listed participants were re-evaluated then treated. 65 volunteers completed treatment. Results: Of those treated, 46 (71 %) lost DSM diagnosis for PTSD by one of the following definitions: 42 persons (65%) were in complete remission (PSSI ≤ 20 and DSM criteria not met). Four others (6 %) lost DSM diagnosis or were otherwise subclinical by dichotomous criteria (PSSI < 20, and absence of flashbacks and nightmares) but non-ambiguous on PCL-M measures. Within-group RTM effect sizes (Hedges’ g) for PSS-I score changes ranged from 1.45 to 2.3. The between group comparison between the treatment group and untreated controls was significant (p < 0.001) with an effect size equivalent to two standard deviations (g = 2.13; 95% CI 1.56, 2.70]). Patient satisfaction with the intervention was high. Conclusions: RTM shows promise as a brief, cost-effective intervention for PTSD characterized primarily by intrusive symptoms.
GIANT CLAMS ( MOLLUSCA : BIVALVIA : TRIDACNINAE ) IN SINGAPORE : HISTORY , RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION

— This review presents the history of giant clams (S.F. Tridacninae) in Singapore as derived from artifacts, primary and grey literature, museum collections, and anecdotal evidence. Archaeological fi nds from the 14 century include giant clam valves of at least two species: Tridacna crocea (Lamarck, 1819) and T. squamosa (Lamarck, 1819). An 1847 publication lists T. gigas (Linnaeus, 1758) in Singapore, a species that is absent from later inventories. Hippopus hippopus (Linnaeus, 1758) and T. maxima (Röding, 1798) also used to be found on the reefs surrounding Singapore’s Southern Islands, bringing the total number of recorded species to fi ve. Early literature describes how inhabitants of 19 century Singapore relied heavily on fi shing and collection of shells for food and trade and that this activity was already impacting clam stocks. Exploitation was probably the main cause of giant clam decline until the 1960s when intense coastal development became an additional contributor. Contemporary surveys of 29 reef sites show very low densities of T. crocea and T. squamosa and a complete absence of H. hippopus, T. gigas, and T. maxima. Very little research was conducted on giant clams in Singapore until 1998 when a mariculture project was initiated. This was succeeded by a programme of basic research that produced papers on mariculture, behaviour, shell morphology, reproduction, and conservation; here we present an outline of some of the more important fi ndings. Finally, we discuss conservation strategies designed to ensure that giant clams will not disappear from Singapore’s reefs altogether.