Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Clinical Study of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome with a Unani Formulation : A randomized single-blind placebo controlled study

Main objective of the study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a Unani formulation in the management of Marz Akyas Khusyatur Rehm (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) and to provide the safe, economic and effective alternative therapy for the patients of Marz Akyas Khusyatur Rehm (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome). A randomized single blind, placebo controlled trial was carried out on 70 patients was at A&U Tibbia College and Hospital Karol Bagh New Delhi. After obtaining ethical clearance, 70 eligible patients was randomly assigned into test and control groups. Test group was administered with 6 gm of Unani formulation orally in the morning and same dose in the evening for three months while control group was given placebo for the same period of time as that of test drug. Written informed consent was sought from every subject before inclusion in the study. Present study was completed within a period of one year. Response was measured by the assessment of pictorial blood loss of assessment, acne, obesity, Hirsutism staging score (Ferrimans Gallewey Score), Acanthosis Nigrican grading, BMI, Serum LH, Serum FSH, LH/FSH ratio, Serum Testosterone and Serum Prolactin. Patient was called for follow up on every 15 th day. The result was statistically analyzed by applying „t‟test, χ 2 test and one way Annova. Test group showed strongly significant decrease in LH/FSH ratio (p<0.0001), decrease in Serum LH concentration (p<0.0001), F.G score (P=0.0440), USG study after 3 month is normal in 17 patients out of 35 patients and PBACscore (p<0.0001). The study revealed that test drug appeared to be beneficial in PCOS patients by decreasing LH/FSH ratio, improving PBAC score, decreasing F.G score and increasing fertility rate without any adverse reaction hence can be safely recommended in PCOS patients.
Influence of Synthetic and Natural Fibers on the Characteristics of Wood-Textile Composites

CAMELIA COSEREANU1, IOAN CURTU2*, AUREL LUNGULEASA1, DUMITRU LICA1, MIHAELA POROJAN1, LUMINITA MARIA BRENCI1, IVAN CISMARU1, IOAN IACOB3 1Transilvania University of Braoov, Wood Industry Faculty, Department of Wood Technology, 29 Eroilor Blv. , 500039, Braoov, Romania 2Transilvania University of Braoov, Faculty of Mechanics, Department of Strength of Materials and Vibrations, 29 Eroilor Blv. , 500039, Braoov, Romania 3“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaoi, Faculty of Textiles, Leather and Industrial Management, Department of Technology and Design of the Textiles Products, 53 D. Mangeron, 700050, Iaoi, Romania
Pedestrian Walking Distance Estimation Based on Smartphone Mode Recognition

Stride length and walking distance estimation are becoming a key aspect of many applications. One of the methods of enhancing the accuracy of pedestrian dead reckoning is to accurately estimate the stride length of pedestrians. Existing stride length estimation (SLE) algorithms present good performance in the cases of walking at normal speed and the fixed smartphone mode (handheld). The mode represents a specific state of the carried smartphone. The error of existing SLE algorithms increases in complex scenes with many mode changes. Considering that stride length estimation is very sensitive to smartphone modes, this paper focused on combining smartphone mode recognition and stride length estimation to provide an accurate walking distance estimation. We combined multiple classification models to recognize five smartphone modes (calling, handheld, pocket, armband, swing). In addition to using a combination of time-domain and frequency-domain features of smartphone built-in accelerometers and gyroscopes during the stride interval, we constructed higher-order features based on the acknowledged studies (Kim, Scarlett, and Weinberg) to model stride length using the regression model of machine learning. In the offline phase, we trained the corresponding stride length estimation model for each mode. In the online prediction stage, we called the corresponding stride length estimation model according to the smartphone mode of a pedestrian. To train and evaluate the performance of our SLE, a dataset with smartphone mode, actual stride length, and total walking distance were collected. We conducted extensive and elaborate experiments to verify the performance of the proposed algorithm and compare it with the state-of-the-art SLE algorithms. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed walking distance estimation method achieved significant accuracy improvement over existing individual approaches when a pedestrian was walking in both indoor and outdoor complex environments with multiple mode changes.
Spaces for the Empowerment of Women : Rural Arts and Crafts Projects

The issue of empowering women has become topical at both continental and international level. Taking into consideration the reported challenges encountered by women, (especially women in rural areas) such as poverty, low literacy levels and unemployment, government and local initiatives are seeking ways to empower women so that they can become their own agents of positive change. Previous research has indicated that art and craft-making as a leisure-based activity yields numerous benefits for participants, including improved wellbeing, an enhanced sense of self and self-efficacy and economical gains. Using a semi-structured questionnaire, this qualitative study explored the contribution of leisurebased community arts and crafts projects toward the social empowerment of eighteen rural women in two district municipalities of the Limpopo Province (South Africa). Voice recordings and field notes were analysed through qualitative content analysis to develop themes. The results indicate that community based arts and crafts projects in rural areas empower women in four ways. These projects serve as a means for economic empowerment, enhancing a sense of community, establishing networks of support and are also therapeutic for the women. It is concluded that community arts and crafts projects make a positive contribution toward empowering women but require more support from available structures to ensure sustained benefits from participation for rural women.
Fast multipole method applied to 3D frequency domain elastodynamics 1

This article is concerned with the formulation and implementation of a fast multipole-accelerated BEM for 3-D elastodynamics in the frequency domain, based on the so-called diagonal form for the expansion of the elastodynamic fundamental solution, a multi-level strategy. As usual with the FM-BEM, the linear system of BEM equations is solved by GMRES, and the matrix is never explicitly formed. The truncation parameter in the multipole expansion is adjusted to the level, a feature known from recent published studies for the Maxwell equations. A preconditioning strategy based on the concept of sparse approximate inverse (SPAI) is presented and implemented. The proposed formulation is assessed on numerical examples involving O (10 5 ) BEM unknowns, which show in particular that, as expected, the proposed FM-BEM is much faster than the traditional BEM, and that the GMRES iteration count is signiﬁcantly reduced when the SPAI preconditioner is used.
Social Play in Kaka (Nestor meridionalis) with Comparisons to Kea (Nestor notabilis)

Social play in the kaka (Nestor meridionalis), a New Zealand parrot, is described and contrasted with that of its closest relative, the kea (Nestor notabilis), in one of the first comparative studies of social play in closely related birds. Most play action patterns were clearly homologous in these two species, though some contrasts in the form of specific play behaviors, such as kicking or biting, could be attributed to morphological differences. Social play in kakas is briefer, more predictable, and less sequentially diverse than that shown by keas. Kaka play also appears to be restricted to fledglings and juveniles, while the behavior is more broadly distributed among age groups in keas. Play initiation behaviors were relatively more frequent in kakas and more tightly intercorrelated in occurrence. A primary grouping of action patterns in kakas consisted of arboreal play, which was rare in keas. The most striking species difference was exhibited in social object play, which is pervasive among keas, but which was not observed in kakas. Although the two species are morphologically similar, they differ strikingly in several aspects of their ecology and social behavior, including the duration of the association between juveniles and adults, the degree of exploratory behavior, and the flexibility of their foraging strategies. The observed species differences in play behavior are discussed in relation to the contrasting life histories in the two species, suggesting that many features of social play may reflect evolutionary responses to particular ontogenetic and ecological constraints.
Deep Learning based Side Channel Attacks in Practice

A recent line of research has investigated a new profiling technique based on deep learning as an alternative to the well-known template attack. The advantage of this new profiling approach is twofold: (1) the approximation of the information leakage by a multivariate Gaussian distribution is relaxed (leading to a more generic approach) and (2) the pre-processing phases such as the traces realignment or the selection of the Points of Interest (PoI) are no longer mandatory, in some cases, to succeed the key recovery (leading to a less complex security evaluation roadmap). The related published works have demonstrated that Deep Learning based Side-Channel Attacks (DL-SCA) are very efficient when targeting cryptographic implementations protected with the common side-channel countermeasures such as masking, jitter and random delays insertion. In this paper, we assess the efficiency of this new profiling attack under different realistic and practical scenarios. First, we study the impact of the intrinsic characteristics of the manipulated data-set (i.e. distance in time samples between the PoI, the dimensionality of the area of interest and the pre-processing of the data) on the robustness of the attack. We demonstrate that the deep learning techniques are sensitive to these parameters and we suggest some practical recommendations that can be followed to enhance the profiling and the key recovery phases. Second, we discuss the tolerance of DL-SCA with respect to a deviation from the idealized leakage models and provide a comparison with the well-known stochastic attack. Our results show that DL-SCA are still efficient in such a context. Then, we target a more complex masking scheme based on Shamir’s secret sharing and prove that this new profiling approach is still performing well. Finally, we conduct a security evaluation of a batch of several combinations of side-channel protections using simulations and real traces captured on the ChipWhisperer board. The experimental results obtained confirm that DL-SCA are very efficient even when a cryptographic implementation combines several side-channel countermeasures.
Examination of two issues concerning functional gain measurements.

The test-retest variability of aided sound-field thresholds and the feasibility of using corrected 2-cm3 coupler gain values to predict individual functional gain were examined. Test-retest data were used to generate critical differences (in dB) for statistical significance between two aided sound-field thresholds. To be significantly different at the . 05 level, two aided thresholds would have to differ by greater than 15 dB. Functional gain and 2-cm3 coupler gain were compared for 20 subjects using careful measurement procedures. Individual variability in the difference between functional gain and 2-cm3 coupler gain was reduced substantially from previous studies and indicates that corrected coupler gain measurements may have some clinical utility.
Measles immunisation in children with allergy to egg

Objective: To examine the occurrence of adverse reactions to measles vaccine given as a single dose to children with egg allergy, and to determine if the administration of single dose to children with a positive result in an intradermal skin prick test with the vaccine is associated with adverse reactions. Design: Review of results of immunisation and prospective study of 96 consecutively presenting children given intradermal skin testing with the vaccine. Setting: Children's allergy centre. Subjects: 410 children sensitive to egg referred to the allergy unit for advice about measles immunisation. Main outcome measures: Nature and severity of reactions associated with the administration of measles vaccine. Results: All children had a positive result in a skin prick test with egg white, and five had a positive result in a skin prick test with vaccine. Of 96 consecutive children, 46 had a positive result in an intradermal test with vaccine. After immunisation with a full dose (0.5 ml) of vaccine adverse reactions were associated with a mild reaction in four children, none of whom required treatment. Only one of the 46 children with a positive result in an intradermal vaccine skin test had a reaction associated with vaccine administration. None of the children with a positive result in a skin prick test with measles vaccine reacted to the vaccine. The rate of minor reactions to the vaccine not requiring treatment was 0.98% (95% confidence interval 0.27% to 2.48%) and serious reactions requiring treatment was 0% (0% to 0.9%). Conclusion: Children with IgE mediated allergic reactions to egg protein should be investigated and managed by practitioners with special knowledge in this subject. Measles immunisation should be performed in a setting where any adverse reactions can be dealt with appropriately. Skin tests and measles vaccine and desensitisation are not necessary.
Structural evolution and timing of deformation along the Proterozoic Spring Creek shear zone of the northern Tusas Mountains

The spring creek shear zone is a newly mapped structural feature that closely parallels a lithologic discontinuity in the north-central Tusas Mountains. Both strike east-west and dip steeply to the south. The lithologic discontinuity juxtaposes island arc mafic metavolcanic rocks and metasedimentary rocks of the Moppin Complex to the north to northeast with metarhyolites and quartzites of the Vadito and Hondo Groups to the south to southwest. The shear zone juxtaposes amphibolite facies rocks to the south and greenschist facies rocks to the north. The Moppin Complex is typical of Yavapai Province rocks; the southern domain is typical of the Yavapai-Mazatzal transitional domain in New Mexico. Preliminary U-Pb dates on two granites near the boundary help constrain the timing of deformation. The Tres piedras metagranite (orthogneiss) is 1700-1693 Ma and is interpreted to truncate the lithologic discontinuity on the eastern end. it contains high-temperature solid-state to possibly magmatic flow foliation that parallels a low-temperature fabric in the host rock. Closed to isoclinal similar folds that contain little to no axial planar cleavage, as well as localized reorientation of F2 folds suggest that strain partitioned during cooling of the pluton. The 1693 Ma Tusas Mountain orthogneiss appears to be part of the Tres piedras orthogneiss in time and composition. it intrudes greenschist-grade Moppin series north of the spring creek shear zone. it lacks folds, but contains possible syn-tectonic magmatic flow structures with little evidence for solid-state deformation. D1 and D2 are interrupted to have occurred in the 1700-1690 Ma window during the Yavapai to Mazatzal orogenic transition and were probably a progressive event. These early fabrics were variably reactivated during later Mesoproterozoic 1450-1350 Ma tectonism, with increasing degrees of reactivation south of the Spring Creek shear zone. The reverse fault offset of D2 structures and amphibolite to greenschist facies juxtaposition that define the Spring Creek shear zone post dates D2 and is probably a Mesoproterozoic structure.
Spotlight browsing of resource archives Conference or Workshop Item

Many organizations, particularly in the heritage sector, have large archives of digital content that they could make available to the general public or special interest groups if they had the appropriate mechanisms. Currently, these organizations can develop pre-crafted web sites, simple database-driven web sites or search facilities for accessing the content. However, none of these can be expected to appropriately present this content or scaffold its effective use. Our proposed solution is an approach to navigation that we term spotlight browsing. It has the following key features: (i) Users can select a collection of resources from the archive, shining a spotlight on this area of the archive; (ii) The collection is structured in a number of ways to support its exploration and convey interesting properties of the collection; (iii) Users can see what is on the periphery of their current collection in order to encourage further exploration; (iv) Users can redefine the collection in order to move their spotlight to another area of the archive; (v) Any item viewed while browsing can be bookmarked into a personal collection that can be built up using resources from many different spotlights. The approach has been implemented and tested using an archive of content from a heritage institution.
Damage-zone healing and strike slip fault evolution: Numerical results and geophysical constraints

Numerical simulations of long-term crustal deformation reveal the important role that damage healing plays in the structural evolution of strike-slip fault systems. Geophysical observations indicate that after an early postseismic stage of rapid healing, rock damage in fault zones approches asymptotically values which may vary markedly with location. Variable interseismic damage levels may arise for a variety of reasons and estimates of damage levels have high uncertainties. Nevertheless, the observations motivate exploring a wide range of healing parameters in a contimuum damage rheology used to model fault system evolution. Here we perform 3D simulations of fault evolution to assess the sensitivity of fault zone structure and evolution to reasonable variations in the healing parameters. We find that the spatial extent of damage zones and the long-term geometrical complexity of strike-slip fault systems are strong functions of the healing “effectiveness” associated with a characteristic residual damage level in the interseismic period. Specifically, simulations with highlyeffective healing form localized intensively damaged fault cores that interseismically extend only a few kilometers deep, and are bracketed by wide zones of distributed off-fault damage. Ineffective healing yields deeper zones of intense damage that persist throughout the interseismic interval, and narrower zones of distributed off-fault damage. Furthermore, highly-effective healing leads to a rapid evolution of an initially segmented fault system to a simpler through-going fault, while ineffective healing along a segmented fault preserves complexities such as stepovers and fault jogs and results in long-lasting distributed deformation.
Assessment of Variations in Round Green Tea Volatile Metabolites During Manufacturing and Effect of Second-Drying Temperature via Nontargeted Metabolomic Analysis

Round green tea (RGT) is widely distributed and presents a high yield in China. The quality of RGT can be determined by its aroma; however, the transformation and formation of volatile metabolites during RGT processing remain unclear. In this study, 173 volatile compounds (nine categories) were identified totally from RGT via gas chromatography-mass spectrometry with infrared-assisted headspace-solid phase microextraction. These substances exhibited different changing trends during various procedures, with the most intense transformation occurring during fixation, followed by pan-frying and second drying; moreover, 51 substances were screened, mainly containing fatty acid-derived volatiles (i.e., (E)-2-hexen-1-ol, Hexanal, pentanal, hexanal) and glycoside-derived volatiles (i.e., linalool, geraniol, benzyl alcohol, benzaldehyde), and their evolution during processing was clarified. Furthermore, the effect of the second-drying temperature on volatile compound metabolism was clarified, and 90°C was the best temperature for RGT aroma. This research lays a foundation for in-depth quality control and the aroma formation mechanism of RGT.
Assessment of groundwater quality with special emphasison fluoride contamination in some villages of Chandrapur district of Maharashtra , India

The fluoride (F ̅) concentration in ground water was determined in sixteen villages of Warora tehsil of Chandrapur district of Maharashtra state (India) where it is the only source of drinking water. Various other water quality parameters such as pH, electrical conductivity (EC), total dissolved salts (TDS), total hardness (TH), total alkalinityas well as sodium (Na + ), potassium (K + ), calcium (Ca 2+ ), magnesium (Mg 2+ ), carbonate, bicarbonate, chloride (Cl − ), nitrate (NO3 ) and sulphate (SO4 − ) concentrations were also measured. The results were compared according to the BIS standards (2003). The fluoride concentration in the underground water of these villages varied from 0.53 to 5 mg/L which is found to be above the permissible limit. Result revealed that the fluoride is main contaminant in ground water of this area and due to use of contaminated drinking water, human population affected from a variety of water borne disease. As well as the hydro-geological conditions are also responsible for causing significant variation in ground water quality. A systematic calculation of correlation coefficients among different physico-chemical parameterswas performed. The analytical results indicated considerable variations among the analyzed samples with respect to their chemical composition. Furthermore study on human population is extremely important to have a primary understanding of the current fluoride pollution status in various tehsil.
Excessive gestational weight gain predicts large for gestational age neonates independent of maternal body mass index

Objective: To determine the effects of maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) on large-for-gestational-age (LGA) birth weight (≥90th % ile). Methods: We examined 4321 mother-infant pairs from the Ottawa and Kingston (OaK) birth cohort. Multivariate logistic regression (controlling for gestational and maternal age, pre-pregnancy weight, parity, smoking) were performed and odds ratios (ORs) calculated. Results: Prior to pregnancy, a total of 23.7% of women were overweight and 16.2% obese. Only 29.3% of women met GWG targets recommended by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), whereas 57.7% exceeded the guidelines. Adjusting for smoking, parity, age, maternal height, and achieving the IOM’s recommended GWG, overweight (OR 1.99; 95%CI 1.17–3.37) or obese (OR 2.64; 95% CI 1.59–4.39) pre-pregnancy was associated with a higher rate of LGA compared to women with normal BMI. In the same model, exceeding GWG guidelines was associated with higher rates of LGA (OR 2.86; 95% CI 2.09–3.92), as was parity (OR 1.49; 95% CI 1.22–1.82). Smoking (OR 0.53; 95%CI 0.35–0.79) was associated with decreased rates of LGA. The adjusted association with LGA was also estimated for women who exceeded the GWG guidelines and were overweight (OR 3.59; 95% CI 2.60–4.95) or obese (OR 6.71; 95% CI 4.83–9.31). Conclusion: Pregravid overweight or obesity and gaining in excess of the IOM 2009 GWG guidelines strongly increase a woman’s chance of having a larger baby. Lifestyle interventions that aim to optimize GWG by incorporating healthy eating and exercise strategies during pregnancy should be investigated to determine their effects on LGA neonates and down-stream child obesity.