Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Myocardial protection of Ginseng fruit saponins in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

months after the operation. Results: Dogs had significant higher levels of systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and mean arterial pressure (MBP) compared to its baseline (P<0.05). The SBP, DBP and MBP in interventional group were significantly lower compared to the contral group on 1 month and 3 months after operation (P<0.05). Three months after the operation, renal angiography in all dogs drevealed no sign of renal artery stenosis. Plasma S-100B and NSE expression in interventional group were higher compared to control group at 3 day, 1 week, 2 week after operation (P<0.05). Conclusions: Renal sympathetic denervation could significantly reduce the SBP, DBP and MBP in hypertensive dogs. The plasma concentration of S-100B and NSE may be used as one of indicator for assessment of renal nerve injury after renal sympathetic denervation.
Boundary integral equations for BVPs , and their high-order Nyström quadratures : a tutorial

We build up the essentials required to understand and code high-order and spectrally-accurate quadratures for Nyström methods to solve boundary integral equations (BIE). We show how these are used to solve common elliptic boundary value problems in R, using dense linear algebra for tutorial purposes. Simple, readable, modular Matlab codes, and theory and coding exercises, are included. The singular schemes and ideas for R are only sketched.
Role of Microcirculation in the Pathogenesis of Kidney Fibrosis

While large arteries are essential for delivering blood flow into the kidney, renal microcirculation, namely glomerular capillaries and peritubular capillaries (PTC) are responsible for delivering oxygen and nutrients to the renal parenchymal cells, thus also required to sustain sufficient glomerular filtration rate for clearing waste products and production of urine. Postglomerular capillary blood flow exits the glomerulus via efferent arterioles and divide to form PTC plexuses interacting with the tubules of the nephron and interstitium.
Beyond Levermore-Pomraning for Implicit Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer in Binary Stochastic Media

This paper describes the modifications to the implicit Monte Carlo algorithm for thermal radiative transfer required to implement the Levermore-Pomraning algorithm and a local realization preserving algorithm for transport in participating binary stochastic media. We also describe the approach for incorporating the Su-Pomraning modified closure into both stochastic medium transport algorithms. We assess the accuracy of the various stochastic medium transport algorithms using a thermal radiative transfer binary stochastic medium benchmark suite. The local realization preserving algorithm with the Su-Pomraning modified closure is the most accurate model overall for this benchmark suite.
Clients APP APP APP APP APP Server experiencing bursty traffic ( helpee ) APP Server with normal load

Unexpected bursty traffic due to certain sudden events, such as news in the spotlight on a social network or discounted items on sale, can cause severe load imbalance in backend services. Migrating hot data—the standard approach to achieve load balance—meets a challenge when handling such unexpected load imbalance, because migrating data will slow down the server that is already under heavy pressure. This paper proposes PostMan, an alternative approach to rapidly mitigate load imbalance for services processing small requests. Motivated by the observation that processing large packets incurs far less CPU overhead than processing small ones, PostMan deploys a number of middleboxes called helpers to assemble small packets into large ones for the heavily-loaded server. This approach essentially offloads the overhead of packet processing from the heavily-loaded server to others. To minimize the overhead, PostMan activates helpers on demand, only when bursty traffic is detected. To tolerate helper failures, PostMan can migrate connections across helpers and can ensure packet ordering despite such migration. Our evaluation shows that, with the help of PostMan, a Memcached server can mitigate bursty traffic within hundreds of milliseconds, while migrating data takes tens of seconds and increases the latency during migration.
Comparison of Data Efficiency in Dynamic Routing for Capsule Networks

Capsule Networks are an alternative to the conventional CNN structure for object recognition. They replace max pooling with a dynamic routing of capsule activation. The goal is to better exploit the spatial relationships of the learned features, not only to increase recognition performance, but also improve generalization capability and sample-efficiency. Recently, two algorithms for dynamic routing of capsules have been proposed. Although they received a lot of interest and they are from the same group, an experimental comparison of both is still missing. In this work we compare these two routing algorithms and provide experimental results on data efficiency and generalization to increased input images. Although the experiments are limited to variants of the MNIST dataset, they indicate that the approach of Sabour et al. (2017) is better at learning from few training samples and the EM routing of Hinton et al. (2018) is better at generalizing to changed image sizes.
Successive Medical Treatment Versus Watchful Waiting in Chronic Otitis Media with Effusion

Materials and Methods: A randomized and prospective study was planned. One group of patients with chronic OME was treated with a 3-step treatment protocol consisting of amoxicillin, amoxicillin clavulanic acid and trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole along with decongestants and antihistamines. The other group of patients was followed on a basis of watchful waiting. Results: A total of 70 patients were included in the study, 36 of them were in the watchful waiting group and 34 of them were in the treatment group. The recovery rate in the treatment group (65%) was found to be significantly higher than the watchful waiting group (36%) (p=0,032). Conclusion: Considering worldwide increase in the antibiotic resistances and economical concerns, watchful waiting should be chosen in uncomplicated patients. Successive medical treatment may provide a viable alternative when watchful waiting is not applicable and surgery is anticipated.
Sensitivity analysis of supersonic turbine trailing edges

The use of compact architectures on aircraft turbine engines challenges the design and management of structural and thermal load requirements. Even operating in subsonic conditions, supersonic regimes may develop at the high pressure turbine pas- sages, experiencing complex compression and expansion wave systems that interact with adjacent stages of the turbine. When cooling flow is ejected through the blade trailing edge slots, non-symmetrical configurations can appear due to the interaction of the in- jected flow with the surrounding flow field, leading to undesired loads and efficiency loses. In this work, a combination of RANS simulations, global stability and sensitivity analy- sis is employed to identify and explain the physical mechanisms of this phenomenon. A global mode associated with the geometrical expansion of the trailing edge slot is iden- tified, and linked to the non-symmetrical configurations. To conclude, the regions where the flow would be more sensitive to flow modifications to excite or damp this phenomena are identified throughout an adjoint approximation.
Retina PPAR a Regulates Mobilization and Homing of Endothelial Progenitor Cells Through the HIF-1 a / SDF-1 Pathway

Citation: Wang Z, Moran E, Ding L, Cheng R, Xu X, Ma J-X. PPARa regulates mobilization and homing of endothelial progenitor cells through the HIF-1a/SDF-1 pathway. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2014;55:3820– 3832. DOI:10.1167/iovs.13-13396 PURPOSE. The mechanism for the antiangiogenic activity of peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor alpha (PPARa) remains incompletely understood. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) are known to participate in neovascularization (NV). The purpose of this study was to investigate whether PPARa regulates EPC during retinal NV.
The Correlation Between Self-Esteem And Optimism For The Recovery Of Hemodialysis Patient In The Dr . H . Kumpulan Pane Hospital

This research aims to see the correlation between self-Esteem and optimism for the recovery of hemodialisis patient in the Dr. H. Kumpulan Pane Hospital Tebing Tinggi subdistrict. Subjects in this research are fifty hemodialysis patients in the Dr. H. Kumpulan Pane hospital by using total population sampling technique. By assuming is that the higher the Self-Esteem, so the higher the optimism for healing occurs and the Self-Esteem lower, so the lower the optimism to heal occurs in Hemodialisa patients. Based on the data analysis, the following results are obtained: 1) It is known that there is a significant positive correlation between SelfEsteem and Optimism to heal where rxy = 0.282; P = 0.047 <0.05. It means that the better self-esteem means the the higher optimism. 2) Based on this result means that the proposed hypothesis is accepted. With the 7.9% contribution of Self-Esteem to Optimism to heal, this means there are still 92.1% more of the other factors that influence Optimism, such as family support, social status, gender, religion and culture. The results of this study is based on the hypothesis with the results of research in the field.
Self-Employment in Times of Crisis: The Case of the Spanish Financial Crisis

While some researchers have suggested that the self-employment (SE) sector is a haven during a financial crisis, others believe that SE is not necessarily the desired outcome, but an indicator that the labor market is tightening for some groups. Few researchers have compared the SE sector before and after the occurrence of a significant financial crisis, especially in developed countries. This paper analyzes the determinants of entry into self-employment during the 2008 Spanish Crisis. Using data from the Encuesta de Presupuesto Familiar (EPF), results show that although the rate of SE did not experience a significant change during this time, the crisis affected people differently based on gender, with females being more affected than males. Results also suggest differences between Comunidades Autonomas in how the self-employment sector behaved during the crisis.
Evaluation of the sleep quality in medical students from Ribeirão Preto , SP / Brazil

Traditional curricula medical students exhibit poor sleep quality, high sleep deprivation and high incidence of daytime dysfunctions, which impairs academic and professional performances. By the other hand, problem-based learning (PBL) curricula has been correlated to improved leaning abilities in medical students, and to enhanced clinical reasoning and diagnostic ability in medical professionals. Thus, the present study was aimed to evaluate the sleep quality in PBL curricula medical students from the University of Ribeirão Preto (Brazil), and to point the potential implications of PBL on students sleep quality, and its consequences on academic learning. Sleep quality was evaluated by filling out the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index PSQI (PSQI), which was applied in 236 medical students grouped into different stages (1 st to 8 th Stages). The median values of the most frequent score obtained for each PSQI component were analyzed by the Chi-squared test (χ 2 test), to investigate the statistical differences among the stages and the correlation between the stage and its respective score. Our findings showed that PBL curricula medical students from the University of Ribeirão Preto (Brazil) presented a fairly poor subjective sleep quality, a slight sleep deprivation and a fairly high incidence of daytime dysfunctions. When compared to the very poor sleep quality, the higher sleep deprivation and the higher incidence of daytime dysfunctions in traditional curricula medical students, our findings allow us to suggest that the PBL educative approach in Medical Schools may contribute to avoid further damages in students sleep quality and in their academic performance.
POPULATION DYNAMICS OF MITES , Tetranychus urticae KOCH ON BRINJAL IN RELATION TO WEATHER PARAMETERS

An experiment was conducted to study the population dynamics of Tetranychus urticae Koch on brinjal in relation to weather parameters under field condition at College Agronomy Farm, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari during kharif-rabi 2014-15. The incidence of mite was recorded after 1 week of transplanting i.e. from 3 rd week of July (29 th standard week). The incidence was observed in the field up to 4 th week of October (42 nd standard week) and it was in the range of 2.92 (3 rd week of July) to 40.56 (3 rd week of September) with an average of 19.27 per 4 cm 2 leaf area. The mite population reached to the first peak (13.40 per 4 cm 2 leaf area) during 2 nd week of August and the highest peak (40.56 per 4 cm 2 leaf area) during 3 rd week of September. The correlation studies revealed that population of mite had significant positive correlation with minimum temperature (0.476*), morning relative humidity (0.621**), evening relative humidity (0.461*) and mean relative humidity (0.515*). The mite population had negative correlation with bright sunshine hours, maximum temperature, rainfall and wind speed, whereas positive correlation with mean temperature, but the results were non-significant.
Table Fig ( Ficus carica L . ) Selection in Mardin Province of Turkey

Turkey has great variations in distributions of wild fig forms as well as cultivated figs. Beşkonak village has a special importance with respect to the genetic resources of figs. This study was carried out during 2002-2003 in Beşkonak village of Derik county of Mardin province, which is located in the South East Anatolia Region of Turkey. Five different fig genotypes have the same name were selected in this research. According to the results of the weighted ranked method, 47-02-1 and 47-02-4 genotypes which had the highest scores (934 and 924) among the fig types were determined to be the best table figs. In the this study, fruit weight, fruit width, ostiolum width, TSS and titrable acidity of the genotypes were determined as 72.38-56.48 g, 61.35-46.73 mm, 5.15-2.35 mm, 23.53-18.12% and 0.26-0.20%, respectively. In general, these fig genotypes have been consumed to be fresh.
ISOLATION OF FACTORS IN TEACHERS ’ PERCEPTION OF SENIOR SECONDARY CHEMISTRY PRACTICAL IN NIGERIA

The paper highlights the origin of chemistry curriculum in Nigeria together with its associated objectives. The sorry state of chemistry practical in the nation’s secondary schools was made known by the author. However, the perception of 145 chemistry teachers of the practical aspect of the curriculum was analyzed using factor analysis. Eight principal component factors were extracted from the correlation matrices and rotated by the varimax criterion of the teachers’ responses. They were: Strategies for teaching chemistry, Time allotted for teaching chemistry, Overloaded content, Lack of acquisition of necessary skills, Lack of standard laboratory, Facilities and equipment, Learning difficulties and students’ understanding and Teachers’ competency and teaching experience. The resultant eight factors accounted for 80.32% of the total variances on the teachers’ perception profile and they are the major factors perceived by the chemistry teachers to hinder effective learning of skills in the senior secondary school chemistry practical. The paper concludes by giving appropriate recommendations, which would go a long way in enhancing the teaching of chemistry practical in Nigerian schools.
Vented and Conditioned Crawlspace Performance in Marine and Cold Climates of the Pacific Northwest

Vented and conditioned crawlspaces in the marine and cold climates of the Pacific Northwest are evaluated. Temperature, relative humidity, wood moisture content, dew point, radon levels, and air change rates were monitored for up to 2 years. Four new homes in each climate zone were constructed to International Residential Code standards. Homes were configured with vented and conditioned crawlspaces, with and without duct systems located in the crawlspaces. Testing showed that roughly 40% of the house air entered from the vented crawlspace. Power-venting a conditioned crawlspace reversed the stack effect, to where less than 6% of the house air was entering from the crawlspace. Air change rates between the crawlspace and the outside were roughly 4 times higher in vented crawls, providing significantly higher dilution rates for potential pollutant sources. Temperatures were higher and more stable in the conditioned crawls; wood moisture and relative humidity were lower. While more variable, conditions in the vented crawlspaces rarely reached dew point or exceeded acceptable levels. Radon levels in the conditioned crawlspaces were roughly three to ten times the level of the vented crawlspaces. Implications for indoor air quality, duct placement in crawlspaces, and overall performance in heating-dominated climates are discussed.
Effect of blanching temperature and time on the mechanical properties of some Egyptian potatoes

The effect of blanching temperature (50, 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100°C) and time (10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 min) on mechanical and texture properties of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tubers of the cultivars Spunta and Diamont (maximum force, maximum deformation, hardness and softening) were studied. The mechanical parameters were measured using the Instron Universal Testing Machine (Model 4401) equipped with: 5-mm diameter tip probe and flat plate probe (with 500, 1000 and 5000 N load cell) for penetration test and compression test. The magnitude of all mechanical test parameters, maximum force, maximum deformation, hardness and softening decreased with an increase in blanching time and temperature. Blanching temperatures range of (50-60 °C), (70-80 °C) and (90-100 °C) caused minimal, intermediate and rapid degradation, respectively. So that, some blanching treatments were selected which have high softening degree to make puree from Spunta cultivar’s. The rheological parameters for potato puree such as ( Consistency index, 10 RPM viscosity, apparent viscosity and yield stress) have high correlation coefficient (r > 0.93 ) with softening degree of blanched potatoes. The regression equations of some rheological parameters of processed potato puree on the mechanical parameter softness were obtained at different blanching times at 100 °C. Some chemical and physical properties for potato products were made.
RetrofitControl : Localization ofControllerDesign and Implementation ⋆

In this paper, we propose a retrofit control method for stable network systems. The proposed approach is a control method that, rather than an entire system model, requires a model of the subsystem of interest for controller design. To design the retrofit controller, we use a novel approach based on hierarchical state-space expansion that generates a higher-dimensional cascade realization of a given network system. The upstream dynamics of the cascade realization corresponds to an isolated model of the subsystem of interest, which is stabilized by a local controller. The downstream dynamics can be seen as a dynamical model representing the propagation of interference signals among subsystems, the stability of which is equivalent to that of the original system. This cascade structure enables a systematic analysis of both the stability and control performance of the resultant closed-loop system. The resultant retrofit controller is formed as a cascade interconnection of the local controller and an output rectifier that rectifies an output signal of the subsystem of interest so as to conform to an output signal of the isolated subsystem model while acquiring complementary signals neglected in the local controller design, such as interconnection signals from neighboring subsystems. Finally, the efficiency of the retrofit control method is demonstrated through numerical examples of power systems control and vehicle platoon control.
A Learning Based Robot Interaction System for Multi-User Activities

The population of the world is rapidly aging and there is presently an increasing demand for residential care facilities to provide care for older adults [1]. Understimulation can be a major concern in such facilities due to high resident-to-staff ratios and a decreasing number of healthcare staff to facilitate cognitive, social, and physical activities for older adults [2]. Currently, socially assistive robots are being developed to assist in providing such stimulation. However, the existing robots are limited to only facilitating a set of activities that have been pre-programmed on the robot and cannot be customized to the needs of a facility. Furthermore, the majority consider only oneon-one activities, rather than providing stimulation to groups of users at the same time. This thesis focused on developing a learning based interaction system for socially assistive robots to: 1) autonomously facilitate multi-user activities while providing individualized assistance; 2) learn new customized activities from caregivers; and 3) personalize robot assistive behaviours to obtain
VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF AVAILABLE MACRONUTRIENTS IN RELATION TO PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES UNDER DIFFERENT LAND USES OF COLD ARID SOILS OF SPITI VALLEY IN HIMACHAL PRADESH

AvailableMacro nutrients are important constituents in soil that promote plant growth. Concentrations of these macronutrients in the soil are generally determined before the site is disturbed in order to complete a site reclamation plan. Macronutrient are important for growth because it is major part of amino acid, which are the building block of all proteins, including the enzymes, which control virtually all biological processes. A good supply of macronutrients stimulates root growth and development, as well as the uptake of the other nutrients. Spiti region is a separate geographical unit separated from Lahaul by Kunzum pass (4551m amsl), a typical cold arid mountain much more difficult with a lowest point at 3050 m amsl. The major area is under barren and uncultivated land (77%) and pastures (22%). Major crops of the valley are Pea, Barley, Potato, Wheat, Rajmash, and Apple. Soil micro flora population is sparse due to poor soil structure, texture, very high sand and clay, low biological activity and freezing during long winter period in this region (Campbell and Claridge, 1987). The extremely high altitude of Himalaya probably provides a unique glacial climate on earth. In this area, sub zero temperature during maximum periods are responsible for different texture, mineralogy and very low soil development process indicating more advance stage of weathering. Altitude profoundly affects the soil’s inherent fertility and runoff-erosion behavior (Bowman et al., 2002). Level of rainfall, snowfall, and temperature variation affects organic matter decomposition that affect accumulation of organic matter with elevation (Walker et al., 2000). These changes in microenvironment may affect physico-chemical characteristics of soil in this region hence there is need to study the physicochemical characteristics of soil in this area.