Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Validation of Hepatoma Arterial Embolization Prognostic (HAP) Score in Egyptian Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Background: Hepatoma Arterial Embolization prognostic (HAP) score has recently emerged as an overall survival predictor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients after treatment with transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE). It depends on serum bilirubin, albumin, alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and tumor size. We evaluated the utility and validity of HAP score in a cohort of Egyptian patients with HCC who underwent TACE. Methods: Our study included 416 Egyptian patients with HCC who underwent TACE at National Liver institute, Menoufia University, Egypt from January 2013 to May 2015. Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP), BCLC Staging as well as HAP score were calculated. Overall survival was assessed with a minimum follow up period of 12 months. Results: Patients were mainly males (83.7 %) with a mean age of 58 ± 8.1 years, 267 (64.9%) patients had Child A cirrhosis, 143 (34.7%) had Child B cirrhosis and only one (0.2%) patient had Child C cirrhosis. Ten patients (2.4%) were in BCLC stage 0, 63 patients (15.1%) were in BCLC stage A, 335 patients (80.5%) were in BCLB stage B, 7 patients (1.7%) were in BCLC stage C and only one patient (0.2%) was in BCLC stage D. Fifty-one patients (12.3%) had a HAP score of 0, 129 (31%) had a score of 1, 164 (39.4%) had a HAP score of 2 and 72 (17.3%) had a HAP score of >2. Patients with HAP 0, HAP 1, HAP 2 and HAP >2 had a median survival of 53, 23, 22, 14 months respectively, showing a significantly shorter survival with more advanced score. Survival probability was 37.2%, 26.1%, 9.2% and 7.3% for patients with HAP score 0, 1, 2 and >2 respectively, with a P value 0.001. Conclusion: HAP score is useful in survival prediction after TACE in HCC patients and can be used for proper patient selection to improve outcome after TACE.
Preliminary observations on the reproductive strategies in five early-flowering species of Gagea Salisb . ( Liliaceae )

Gargano, D. , Peruzzi L. , Caparelli, K. F. & Cesca, G. : Preliminary observations on the reprodutctive strategies in five early-flowering species of Gagea Salisb. (Liliaceae). — Bocconea 21: 349-358. 2007. — ISSN 1120-4060. The field and laboratory studies about Gagea bohemica (Zauschn.) Schult. & Schult. f. , G. chrysantha Schult. & Schult. f. s. l. , G. granatellii (Parl.) Parl. , G. lutea (L.) Ker-Gawl. , G. fragifera (Vill.) Ehr. Bayer & G. Lòpez are carried on community structure, phenology and reproductive biology. The studied species show differences in terms of community characteristics (species composition, structure), time and duration of flowering, and seed production. The species of rocky environment (G. granatellii and G. bohemica) show the highest number of vegetative individuals with respect to the flowering ones, the shortest duration of flowering and the lowest seed-set. It appears as a consequence of the low resource availability. The species of meadows (G. chrysantha, G. fragifera and G. lutea) appear instead to suffer overall the biological competition for resources and pollinators. Gross morphological analysis of the pollen grains revealed that deformed pollen is more abundant in triploid (G. chrysantha, G. granatellii) and heptaploid (G. fragifera) species, compared to the tetraploid (G. bohemica) and the hexaploid (G. lutea) ones. Seed production was very low. There is a positive correlation between amount of morphologically regular pollen and number of produced seeds. In most of the studied species we observed a trend to increase the seed production in individuals with many flowers; probably this is the result of a strategy aimed diminishing the effects of pollenand pollinator-limitation.
The effects of different protocols of physical exercise and rest on long-term memory

Whilst there are many studies comparing the different effects of exercise on long-term memory, these typically adopt varying intensities, durations, and behavioural measures. Furthermore, few studies provide direct comparisons between exercise and different types of rest. Therefore, by providing a standardised methodological design, this study will ascertain the most effective intensity and protocol of exercise for the modulation of long-term memory, whilst directly comparing it to different types rest. This was achieved using the same old/new recognition memory test and an 80-90 min retention interval. Three experiments were performed (total N=59), each with a three-armed crossover design measuring the extent to which physical exercise and wakeful rest can influence long-term memory performance. In Experiment 1, the effects of continuous moderate intensity exercise (65-75% HRmax), passive rest (no cognitive engagement) and active rest (cognitively engaged) were explored. In Experiment 2, continuous moderate intensity exercise was compared to a type of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and passive rest. Experiment 3 observed the effects of low- (55-65% HRmax), moderate- and high-intensity (75-85% HRmax) continuous exercise. Across the three experiments moderate intensity exercise had the greatest positive impact on memory performance. Although not significant, HIIT was more effective than passive-rest, and passive rest was more effective than active rest. Our findings suggest that it is not necessary to physically overexert oneself in order to achieve observable improvements to long-term memory. By also investigating wakeful rest, we reaffirmed the importance of the cognitive engagement during consolidation for the formation of long-term memories.
1 Communication in corporate environmental reports

Since the beginning of the 1990s the number of companies producing environmental reports have increased considerably, a rise that now has plateaued. Some critics claim environmental reports are merely an exercise in public relations. This study describes the ascent of and the motives behind corporate environmental reporting and examines the extent to which the messages communicated in environmental reports correlate with the messages contained in corresponding annual reports and actual corporate behaviour. The indicated praxis of steering attention away from environmental problems – a by-pass solution – can involve providing contradictory information to various stakeholders. This article looks into third-party verification impacts on the credibility of environmental reports and calls for stricter reporting rules. The paper also discusses how eco-efficiency and sustainability demands placed on the scope of environmental reporting could enhance the sustainability of this reporting phenomenon, by for example doing away with merely limiting reports to company-judicial borders.
Relation of Second Hand Smoker and Effect on Pregnancy Outcome and Newborns Parameters

Background: exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is a major health problem in worldwide. Few studies have examined the relationship between passive smoking and its effects on neonatal complications, but the results obtained, were not significant. The aim of this study is to determine the effects of cigarette smoking on pregnant women, who are exposed to it, on some neonatal complications and maternal outcomes. Materials and Methods: this study was a cross sectional study, and it was conducted on 1500 non smoker pregnant women, who referred to shohadaye karegar hospital of Yazd, for singleton delivery, from march 2012 to march 2014. They were interviewed after delivery using a structured check list. The samples, based on exposure to cigarette smoking, were divided into two groups: passive smoking-exposed and control groups. Then, the outcomes of maternal and neonatal complications, in two groups were compared. Results: 213 pregnant women (14.2%), of the subjects, were exposed to cigarette smoke. Mothers, after delivery, were examined, based on: gestational age, premature rupture of membranes, preterm delivery, weight, length, head circumferences and fetal mortality. Our results showed that the mean of weight and length and head circumferences of the newborns and the delivery age of mothers who are exposed was decreased but premature rupture of membranes and preterm labor was increased. Conclusion: these results, indicate that exposure to environmental cigarette smoke, during pregnancy is associated with increased fetal complications.
B ffect of Conditioning Regimen on the Outcome of one Marrow Transplantation from an Unrelated onor

Little information is available regarding the effect of the conditioning regimen on the outcome of bone marrow transplantation (BMT) from an unrelated donor. Therefore, we retrospectively compared the outcome after a cyclophosphamide/total body irradiation (Cy-TBI) regimen, an intensified Cy-TBI regimen (Cy-TBI ), a busulfan and cyclophosphamide (Bu-Cy) regimen, and a Bu-Cy regimen with total lymphoid irradiation (Bu-Cy-TLI). Clinical data of 1875 adult patients who underwent unmanipulated unrelated BMT for leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome by using 1 of the 4 regimens between 1993 and 2002 were extracted from the database of the Japan Marrow Donor Program. The effect of the conditioning regimen was adjusted for other independent significant factors by multivariate analyses. The Cy-TBI regimen was significantly better than the Bu-Cy regimen with regard to the incidence of engraftment failure (odds ratio, 2.49; P .046) and overall survival (relative risk [RR], 1.31; P .050). The Bu-Cy-TLI regimen decreased relapse (RR, 0.13; P .039) but increased nonrelapse mortality (RR, 1.89; P .0061). The Cy-TBI regimen resulted in increased nonrelapse mortality (RR, 1.48; P .0003) and inferior survival (RR, 1.45; P < .0001). The results of this retrospective study suggested that the Cy-TBI regimen was superior to other regimens in unrelated BMT. © 2005 American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Radiosurgery and pathological fundamentals

Foreword: Brotchi, J. Preface: Lunsford, L.D. Gamma Knife - The Early Story: Memoirs of a Privileged Man: Backlund, E. -O. Introduction: The Contribution of Pathology to Radiosurgery: Szeifert, G.T. et al. Radiobiology of Radiosurgery: Kondziolka, D. et al. Dose Selection in Stereotactic Radiosurgery: Flickinger, J.C. et al. Medical Physics Principles of Radiosurgery: Simon, S. et al. Radiosurgery Techniques and Current Devices: Niranjan, A. et al. Integration of Functional Imaging in Radiosurgery: The Example of PET Scan: Levivier, M. et al. The Role of Computer Technology in Radiosurgery: Wikler, D. et al. Radiosurgical Pathology of Brain Tumors: Metastases, Schwannomas, Meningiomas, Astrocytomas, Hemangioblastomas: Szeifert, G.T. et al. Radiosurgery for Metastatic Brain Tumors: Yamamoto, M. Modern Management of Vestibular Schwannomas: Regis, J. et al. Radiosurgery for Intracranial Meningiomas: Lee, J.Y. K. et al. The Role of the Gamma Knife in the Management of Cerebral Astrocytomas: Szeifert, G.T. et al. Radiosurgery for Pituitary Adenomas: Pollock, B.E. Pathological Findings following Radiosurgery of Pituitary Adenomas: Sheehan, J. et al. Treatment Strategy and Pathological Background of Radiosurgery for Craniopharyngiomas: Kobayashi, T. Radiosurgery for Miscellaneous Skull Base Tumors: Lunsford, L.D. et al. Gamma Knife Treatment for Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations: Kemeny, A.A. et al. Histopathological Changes in Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations following Gamma Knife Radiosurgery: Szeifert, G.T. et al. Radiosurgery for Cavernous Malformations: Kondziolka, D. et al. Pathological Considerations to Irradiation of Cavernous Malformations: Nyary, I. et al. Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia: Massager, N. et al. Pathological Findings following Trigeminal Neuralgia Radiosurgery: Szeifert, G.T. et al. Movement Disorder Radiosurgery - Planning, Physics and Complication Avoidance: Duma, C.M. Epilepsy: Regis, J. Bartolomei, F. Chauvel, P. Radiosurgery in Epilepsy - Pathological Considerations: House, P.A. et al. Stereotactic Intracavitary Irradiation of Cystic Craniopharyngiomas with Yttrium-90 Isotope: Julow, J. et al. Pathological Findings in Cystic Craniopharyngiomas after Stereotactic Irradiation with Yttrium-90 Isotope: Szeifert, G.T. et al. Image Fusion Guided Stereotactic Iodine-125 Interstitial Irradiation of Inoperable and Recurrent Gliomas: Julow, J. et al. Tissue Response to Iodine-125 Interstitial Brachytherapy of Cerebral Gliomas: Julow, J. et al. Radiosurgery in Ocular Disorders. Clinical Applications: Liscak, R. Vladyka, V. CyberKnife Radiosurgery for Spinal Neoplasms: Gerszten, P.C. Burton, S.A. Ozhasoglu, C. Heritage of Radiosurgical Research, Current Trends and Future Perspective: Niranjan, A. et al. Physiological and Pathological Observations on Rat Middle Cerebral Arteries and Human AVM Tissue Cultures following Single High-Dose Gamma Irradiation: Major, O. et al. The Future of Radiosurgery: Leskell, D.
An Automated Surface Defect Inspection System Using Local Binary Patterns and Co-Occurrence Matrix Textures based on SVM Classifier

— Computer vision techniques have been widely used in automating the surface defect inspection process where the goal is to detect and identify defects. Surface defect is defined as global color deviation or local textural irregularity which has the main concern in the inspection process. In this paper, the proposed automated system identifies different surface defects using Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier according to surface textural features. The proposed system introduces a novel feature description technique that extracts local and global features of surfaces. This technique combines Local Binary Pattern (LBP) features with the global textural features of Gray-level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) to address different surface defects. The proposed system has been tested on wood and ceramic tiles images. Experimental results successfully demonstrated the efficiency of the feature description technique and the overall surface defect inspection system.
Interactive Physical Experiments in an Advanced Undergraduate Structural Dynamics Course

This paper describes a number of physical models and hands-on lab activities incorporated in an advanced undergraduate structural dynamics lecture and laboratory course pairing offered within the Architectural Engineering department at California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo. These course modifications were designed and implemented in the Winter 2018 quarter to enable students to:  Collect acceleration data during free or forced vibration tests using a smartphone accelerometer application to generate data plots in Matlab;  Conduct free vibration tests on various single-degree of freedom (SDOF) systems to investigate effects of varying mass, stiffness/height, material type, and damping type (pendulum or sloshing damper) on structural period and damping behavior;  Observe and analyze data from forced vibration tests using a small-scale shake table or eccentric mass shaker for various SDOF systems, diaphragms, and multi-story frames to understand natural frequency, dynamic amplification, and mode shapes; and  Execute a parametric study using Matlab interface that animates modal and time history response of a rigid diaphragm to illustrate impacts of changing mass, geometry, or
Portfolio Risk and Investment Horizon of Institutional Investors

We examine the relationship between portfolio risk and investment horizon of institutional investors and its effect on equity returns. We find that short-term institutions outperform long-term institutions partly due to higher systematic risks. In particular, the former experience higher factor loadings in Carhart's (1997) four-factor model and the liquidity risk factor of Pastor and Stambaugh (2003). While stocks increased by short-term institutions outperform those by long-term institutions by 0.14% per month, they exhibit higher factor loadings on market, firm size, and momentum. Our findings offer an additional explanation for the higher returns of short-term institutions. JEL classification: G11, G12, G14, G20
Epidemiology of the hepatitis C infection in Van ’ s region

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an enveloped positive-strand RNA virus of the genus hepacivirus in the family of Flaviviridae. HCV causes chronic infection in more than 80% of cases. It is responsible for more than 50% of liver transplantation among adults in the developed countries. Approximately 200 million people are infected with HCV entire of the world. Africa and many parts of Asia are the major endemic areas for HCV infection. Although HCV is one of the most common cause of chronic liver disease in middle-east, its epidemiology remains unclear around the Lake Van region. Therefore, we assessed the prevalence of HCV infection in individuals who live in rural areas of eastern part of Turkey. We retrospectively analyzed 1062 (405 male, 657 female) patients who admitted to Gastroenterology clinic of Yuzuncu Yil University Faculty of Medicine between January -October in 2011. Patients with prior HCV infection and with acute HCV infection were excluded. Presence of HCV infection was assessed by the routine ELISA method. Anti-HCV antibodies were screened by ELISA method using ADVIA Centaur ® XP Immunoassay System (Siemens, Ireland). Samples with positive HCV RNA real-time PCR was used as the correction method. Isolation reaction processes were analyzed by QIAGEN (Düsseldorf, Germany) brand in the QIAsymphony SP/AS instrument. Real Time PCR analysis was studied by Rotor Gene Q instrument and Artus HCV Virus-1 QS-RGQ kits (QIAGEN, Düsseldorf, Germany). All data was recorded on SPSS and was analyzed by simple statistical methods. The mean age was 46.1±17.9 years in males and was 42.5±17 years in females. 3 men and 6 women had anti-HCV antibody. Total Anti-HCV seropositivity was 0.8%. Interestingly, HCV infection is not a serious health problem in eastern part of Turkey. It may be due to low prevalence of intravenous drug users and homosexuals as well as to strict traditional rules. Further analyses may be required to establish this phenomenon particularly in eastern part of Turkey which is located on the main crossroad of the world narcotic trade.
A Semantico-Syntactic Approach to Event-Mention Detection and Extraction In Hindi

This paper introduces a gold standard event-annotated dataset of 810 Hindi news article as well as a set of comprehensive guidelines for detecting and annotating events in Hindi. We present our linguistically motivated guideline development process, with a focus on annotator friendliness, that can be replicated for event mention detection for most Indo-Aryan languages. The paper highlights the challenges of detecting event mentions in Hindi given the unique semantic constraints on the syntactic apparatus used for denoting events. Our work as a whole also establishes a language agnostic pipeline for the development of an event annotated corpora and event detection guidelines.
THREATENING MEASURES, AT FACE VALUE: Electrophysiology Indicating Confounds of the Facial Width-to-Height Ratio

Previous studies support that the relative width of the upper face (facial width-to-height ratio; fWHR) has evolved to signal threat, but these studies rely greatly on subjective facial ratings and measurements prone to confounds. The present study objectively quantifies threat perception to the magnitude of the observers’ electrophysiological reaction, specifically the event-related potential (ERP) called the late positive potential (LPP), and investigate if brow height and jaw width could have confounded previous fWHR studies. Swedish and international students (N = 30, females = 11, Mage = 24 years, SDage = 2.9) were shown computer-generated neutral faces created with the underlying skeletal morphology varying in brow ridge height, cheekbone width and jaw width. Participants first rated how threatening each face was and then viewed 12 blocks of 64 faces while their electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded. The results supported that the LPP could be used to index threat perception and showed that only brow height significantly affected both facial ratings (p < .001, ɳp2 = .698) and magnitude of the LPP within the 400 to 800 ms latency (p = .02, d = .542). Hence, brow height, not facial width, could explain previous findings. The results contradict the hypothesis that fWHR is an evolved cue of threat and instead support the overgeneralisation hypothesis in that faces with similar features to anger will be perceived as more threatening.
Γ-HYPERMODULES: ISOMORPHISMS AND REGULAR RELATIONS

The theory of algebraic hyperstructures (or hypersystems) is a well established branch of classical algebraic theory. In the literature, the theory of hyperstructure was first initiated by Marty in 1934 [15] when he defined the hypergroups and began to investigate their properties with applications to groups, rational fractions and algebraic functions. Later on, many people have observed that the theory of hyperstructures also have many applications in both pure and applied sciences, for example, semi-hypergroups are the simplest algebraic hyperstructures which possess the properties of closure and associativity. Some review of the theory of hyperstructures can be found in [7, 9, 19], respectively. The Krasner hyperring [13] is a well known type of hyperring, with the property that the addition is a hyperoperation and the multiplication is a binary operation. This concept has been studied in depth by many authors, for example, see [10]. The concept of hypermodule over a Krasner hyperring has been introduced and investigated by Massouros [16]. Zhan et al. [20] established three isomorphism theorems of hypermodules and derived the Jordan-Holder theorem for hypermodules. In [3], Anvariyeh and Davvaz introduced a new strongly regular equivalence relation on hypermodules so that the quotient is a module over a commutative ring. Further, Anvariyeh et al. [4] considered the fundamental relation θ defined on a hypermodule and proved some results in this respect. Also, they determined a family of subsets of a hypermodule M and gave sufficient conditions such that the geometric space is strongly transitive and the relation θ is transitive. The concept of Γ-ring was introduced by Barnes [6]. This notion was discussed further by several researchers in connection with their radicals or ideals (see
Cross-Domain Modeling of Sentence-Level Evidence for Document Retrieval

This paper applies BERT to ad hoc document retrieval on news articles, which requires addressing two challenges: relevance judgments in existing test collections are typically provided only at the document level, and documents often exceed the length that BERT was designed to handle. Our solution is to aggregate sentence-level evidence to rank documents. Furthermore, we are able to leverage passage-level relevance judgments fortuitously available in other domains to fine-tune BERT models that are able to capture cross-domain notions of relevance, and can be directly used for ranking news articles. Our simple neural ranking models achieve state-of-the-art effectiveness on three standard test collections.