Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Role of Integrin α2 (ITGA2) factor in Iraqi Females Patients with Breast Cancer

Cancer is the second leading cause of death throughout the world. Breast cancer is one of the leading mortality reasons in women from Western Countries in Iraq; breast cancer is the second reason of death After cardiovascular Diseases. Integrin are heterodimer integral membrane glycoproteins with distinct Two chainα, β, one of the receptors of adhesion molecules has an important role in metastasis. The study included (106) female sample of Iraqi people. In divided into two groups, the first group (68) patients with breast cancer, were investigated, the patients attended to (tumor unit at madienatalteb teaching hospital and Al-Amal Al-Waaniihospital in Baghdad, while second group (38) apparently healthy controls. ELISA and PCR has been used in this study. ELISA Technique has been used to determinate the serum level of integrin α 2 (an adhesion molecules) while in PCR Technique used to study the polymorphism of integrin α 2 (ITGA2 ) gene (C807T), the two under studying group undergo to the both technique. The serological study was carried out by using ELISA technique, while molecular study was carried out by using PCR technique, 5ml of peripheral blood had been drawn from each patients, then blood sample divided in two part (2 ml) in Gel tube for serological study, and (3ml) in EDTA tube for molecular test. By ELISA technique the results that recorded (ITGA2)a non-significant differences in patients (25.17 ± 1.15) than controls (24.20 ± 2.03). A molecular study part (PCR RFLP) employed 106 individual (68) patients and (38) healthy individual. The electrophoresis results for gene (ITGA2)at site C807T for two alleles are (T, C) showed a three genotypes (TT, CT, CC) and repeat compositions genetic (TT)that recorded a non-significant differences while the genotype (CT, CC) recorded a higher significant differences under probability P<0.01 in the patient group than control. Allele T recorded a non-significant differences in patients compared to control using the test Fisher and relying on relative factor and showed that the allele T was Etiological faction (EF). while allele C showed a non-significant difference in patients compared to controls by using test Fisher depending on relative factor showed a preventive faction (PF) of the disease. Repeat genotype TT difference is a non-significant in patient compared to control and showed style of etiological faction (EF) of disease , while genotype CT showed a significant difference under probability <0.05 in patients compared to controls and recorded style of Etiological faction (EF) of disease. Whereas a repeat genotype CC showed a nonsignificant difference in patients compared to controls and showed style preventive fraction (PF).
Arab Students’ Perspectives on the Value of Literature

While the value of literature has long been the subject of lively debate in Western universities, little attention has been given to how most Arab learners perceive it. The key concern of the present paper is to analyze literature’s value for Arab students in general and for Sultan Qaboos University students in particular. To this end, the study begins with a review of the myriad benefits (social, educational and personal) claimed for literature. It then examines literature’s negative social and learning impacts on SQU students. Based on a questionnaire conducted among 25 prospective SQU English majors, including Translation, Arts and English Education students, the study revealed that literature, in their view, still has a high value on account of its numerous advantages, the most important being its enhancement of their language competence, despite obsolete teaching methods likely to kill their taste for it. Finally, the paper recommends that modes of teaching create a philetic environment, and that new literature circles be created to sensitize students to the value of literature at an earlier stage of their lives in order to cultivate a stronger passion and love for literature in them.
A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge on Infection Control among Staff Nurses in I.C.U in Selected Hospitals in Chennai

The aim and objective of the study was to knowledge on infection control among staff nurses in I.C. U in selected Hospitals Chennai, India. A descriptive study was adopted. A total of 30 nurses participated in the present study, randomly chosen from I.C. U. An observational checklist was used for data collection after getting their informed consent. Self-made scoring system was used to categorize the participants as whether they follow the correct practice, partially correct practice or the incorrect practice. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to select the sample of the study. The result of the study concluded that the frequency and percentage distribution of level practice on infection control among staff nurses reveals that 24(80%) staff nurses were found following correct practices, 4(13.3%) of staff nurses were found following partially correct practices, and 2(6.7%) were following incorrect practices. The study reveals that some nurses were correctly practicing the various aspects of infection controlbut for some who were not found to be completely responsible for infection control in the hospital; their problems were sort out such as inadequate staff in the I.C. U; less supervision, increase workloads, etc. It is the responsibility of the nurse to care for the environment and public health particularly in relation to the infection control. The importance of training regarding infection control cannot be overemphasized; lack of proper and complete knowledge about infection control impacts practices of appropriate waste disposal among staff nurses in the hospital.
The later development of an early-emerging system: the curious case of the Polish genitive

Abstract Eighty Polish children and adolescents aged from 6 to 18 participated in a nonce word inflection experiment testing their productivity with the two genitive masculine endings, -a and -u, and their sensitivity to the distributional and semantic factors determining the choice of ending. All participants were able to use at least one ending productively, although the youngest children did not do so consistently, confirming earlier research which suggests that children are only partially productive with these inflections. In the youngest group, the choice of ending was not influenced by either semantic or distributional cues. Participants began to show sensitivity to distributional cues from about ten years of age; the strength of this sensitivity continued to increase right up to age 18. However, only a few of the oldest participants were also sensitive to the semantic factors determining the choice of ending. Another unexpected finding was a sharp increase in the number of gender errors around age 14, suggesting that the system might be undergoing a reorganization at this late age. The experiment also revealed considerable individual differences in the rate of development as well as the actual generalizations that learners extract. The results challenge the widely-held view that learners' mental grammars reach a steady state in early or middle childhood, and that speakers of the same dialect acquire the same set of rules.
Optimization of the enzymatic hydrolysis conditions of waste from shortfin scad ( Decapterus Macrosoma ) for the production of angiotensin I-converting enzyme ( ACE ) inhibitory peptide using response surface methodology

This study aims to optimize enzymatic hydrolysis process for producing angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory peptides from protein hydrolysate of shortfin scad (Decapterus Macrosoma) waste (SWH). The enzymatic hydrolysis conditions, namely the temperature (40, 50, 60°C), time (B: 60, 120, 180 min), pH (C: 7, 8, 9) and enzyme substrate concentrations (D: 1, 2, 3%) on yield, degree of hydrolysis (DH) and ACE-inhibitory activity were analysed. Responses were optimized using the response surface methodology (RSM) by employing four factors, 3-levels and the Central Composite Design (CCD). The optimized conditions were further validated to indicate the validity of the prediction model. The optimal conditions obtained for the hydrolysis conditions were at temperature of 50°C, time of 60 min, pH of 9 and enzyme to substrate concentration of 2.92%. The experimental result for yield was lower than the predicted value, as generated by RSM. However, the degree of hydrolysis of SWH was higher than the predicted value. The ACE inhibitory activity of SWH was 79.34%, and showed lower than the predicted value. Therefore, the optimized conditions of SWH served as good conditions for the production of bioactive peptide with high ACE inhibitory activity.
Epidemiology of General Obesity and Abdominal Obesity among People in Hilly Areas of North India: A Hospital Based Study -

Results: Participants aged from 20–74 years and 56.5% were females. Prevalence of abdominal obesity was found 38.5% (24.1% for men and 49.6% for women, p<0.05) using WHO Asia Pacific Guidelines. By WHO obesity criteria for europids, the prevalence of abdominal obesity was 19.5% (11.5% for men and 25.7% for women, p<0.05). Multiple logistic regression analysis showed women and not working patients had a higher risk of general obesity and abdominal obesity than working men with p <0.05.
A Coccidian Parasite Inhabiting the GI Tract and Leucocytes of Styela plicata (Lesuaer, 1823) and Ciona intestinalis (Linnaeus, 1767) Sampled from the Arabian Gulf (Saudi Arabia)

Styela plicata and Ciona intestinalis were collected from the shallow water of the Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia during 2011 – 2014. Breeding and non breeding seasons were considered. Specimens were dissected alive in seawater and isolated parts from the intestine were sampled. In a previous study, a sporocyst of a coccidian was observed completely embedded in the intestinal epithelial cells of Styela plicata . Since that time, the author tried to find all stages of the life cycle of this coccidian parasite and describe them. Ascidians may obtain parasites from their food through water filtration, or directly swallow an unsporulated oocyst with incurrent water. Sporozoites initiate infection probably homoxenously or heteroxenously. Sporozoites then enter host intestinal epithelial cells and there transform into meronts. Merozoites of the final merogony enter blood cells to initiate the gametic cycle, and become either macrogamonts or microgamonts. Microgamontes became trophozoites (uninucleated zoite). These divide by multiple fission to produce large numbers of flagellated microgametes. Macrogamonts develop into macrogametes without further division. Syngamy produces zygotes, then merogony proceeds to form merozoites which enter new host cells extraintestinal like blood cells to produce more merogonous cycles. The present study concluded that the investigated parasite may belong to Genus Isospora (schneider, 1881). Since in isosporans sporogony leads to the formation of four sporozoites inside each sporoblast and this agametic phase develop extraintestinal.
On Automatic Music Genre Recognition by Sparse Representation Classification using Auditory Temporal Modulations

A recent system combining sparse representation classification (SRC) and a perceptually-based acoustic feature (ATM) [31, 30, 29], is reported to outperform by a significant margin the state of the art in music genre recognition, e.g., [3]. With genre so difficult to define, this remarkable result motivates investigation into, among other things, why it works and what it means for how humans organize music. In this paper, we review the application of SRC and ATM to recognizing genre, and attempt to reproduce the results of [31] where they report 91% accuracy for a 10-class dataset. We find that only when we pose the sparse representation problem with inequality constraints, and, more significantly, reduce the number of classes by half, do we begin see accuracies near those reported. In addition, we find evidence that this approach to classification does not benefit significantly from the features being based on a perceptual analysis.
School governor regulation in England’s changing education landscape

The changing education landscape in England, combined with a more rigorous form of governor regulation in the form of the Ofsted 2012 Inspection Framework, are together placing more demands than ever before on the 300,000 volunteer school governors in England. These school governors are, in many cases, directly accountable to the Secretary of State for Education. Using a form of Goffman’s frame analysis and drawing on theory which indicates that head teachers and inspection reports are highly influential regarding the ways in which governors make sense of their environment and accountability, this paper traces the development of a system which is highly specific to England, in order to evaluate to what extent present governor regulatory accountabilities can be seen as either conflicting or in harmony with head teacher and inspector understandings of the role. The paper concludes that there is considerable evidence that the current regulatory framework combined with conflicting and often contradictory head teacher and inspector understandings of governance is giving rise to what Koppell terms ‘Multiple Accountabilities Disorder’ and that this is creating tensions in the system of education governance and regulation in England.
Exponential asymptotics and gravity waves

The problem of irrotational inviscid incompressible free-surface flow is examined in the limit of small Froude number. Since this is a singular perturbation, singularities in the flow field (or its analytic continuation) such as stagnation points, or corners in submerged objects or on rough beds, lead to a divergent asymptotic expansion, with associated Stokes lines. Recent techniques in exponential asymptotics are employed to observe the switching on of exponentially small gravity waves across these Stokes lines. As a concrete example, the flow over a step is considered. It is found that there are three possible parameter regimes, depending on whether the dimensionless step height is small, of the same order, or large compared to the square of the Froude number. Asymptotic results are derived in each case, and compared with numerical simulations of the full nonlinear problem. The agreement is remarkably good, even at relatively large Froude number. This is in contrast to the alternative analytical theory of small step height, which is accurate only for very small steps.
An Asian Problem, Oligosaccharides in CowÃ¢ÂÂs Milk Formula (CMF) CausingAnaphylaxis in Older Children, 2 Years Above and Prenatal and Post NatalMothers in Singapore

Short chain Galacto-oligosaccharides (scGOS) or prebiotic is a carbohydrate, is made of short sugar chains limited to to seven or less in length, synthesized by B galactosidases [1]. Prebiotics in infants are suggested to have effects, as in animal studies [2] an impact on certain immune markers, and diminished allergic sensitization on young female mice and reduced allergic sensitivities like allergic asthma.
Habitat filtering determines spatial variation of macroinvertebrate community traits in northern headwater streams

Although our knowledge of the spatial distribution of stream organisms has been increasing rapidly in the last decades, there is still little consensus about trait-based variability of macroinvertebrate communities within and between catchments in near-pristine systems. Our aim was to examine the taxonomic and trait based stability vs. variability of stream macroinvertebrates in three high-latitude catchments in Finland. The collected taxa were assigned to unique trait combinations (UTCs) using biological traits. We found that only a single or a highly limited number of taxa formed a single UTC, suggesting a low degree of redundancy. Our analyses revealed significant differences in the environmental conditions of the streams among the three catchments. Linear models, rarefaction curves and beta-diversity measures showed that the catchments differed in both alpha and beta diversity. Taxon- and trait-based multivariate analyses also indicated that the three catchments were significantly different in terms o.
Effects of Stem Cutting Types, Position and Hormonal Factors on Rooting in Stevia Rebaudiana Bertoni

Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni, a compositae, originated from Paraguay. It is propagated by stem cuttings. Leaves’ glycosides are about 300 times sweeter than sugar and safe for diabetic patients. In Malaysia, techniques for stevia mass production are limited. Varieties MS012 and MS007 obtained from MARDI were studied. For each variety, cuttings made were: (i) young apical shoot (ii) old apical shoot and (iii) non apical shoot. They were treated with six concentrations of IBA ranging from 1.9 to 2.5mM, and were placed in micro cutting chambers with the control. Characters studied were: (i) number of days for rooting, and (ii) root number at emergence. Analysis of variance revealed there were significant differences between characters at probability level p < 0.05. Cuttings from young apical shoots of MS012 and MS007 rooted on 5 th day with root number ranging from 2.8 to 13.8. IBA 2.3mM was optimal. Young apical cuttings of either variety treated with the IBA 2.3mM were ideal.
The effect of vermiculite as litter material on some health and stress parameters in broilers.

This study was conducted to determinine the effect of vermiculite as the litter material on some health and stress parameters such as alanin aminotransferaz (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), total protein (TP), albumin (ALB), glucose (GLU), cholesterol (CHOL), superoxide dismutases (SOD), malondialdehyde (MDA), catalase (CAT), footpad burn (FPB), gait score (GS), tonic immobility duration (TI) and feathering score (FS) in broilers. In present study, 195 day-old chickens were divided into three treatment groups placed on litter materials such as woodshavings (WS), mixture of woodshavings-vermiculite (WSV) and vermiculite (V), respectively. The experiment lasted for 42 days. At the end of the experiment, it was ascertained that the litter material did not have significant effect on ALT, AST, TP, ALB, GLU, CHOL, CAT and feathering score, but had significant effect on FPB, GS, TI, SOD and MDA values (P<0.01). FPB and GS were lower in the pens littered with V and WSV than in the pen littered with WS. The foot health was positively affectef by the use of V and WSV as litter material. TI of WS group was longer than those of V and WSV groups. SOD, MDA values from oxidative stress parameters were found lower (P<0.01) in the V and WSV groups than that of WS group. Consequently, vermiculite may be used as litter material in the rearing of broiler without adverse health problem.
Neural Networks for Semantic Textual Similarity

Complex neural network architectures are being increasingly used to learn to compute the semantic resemblances among natural language texts. It is necessary to establish a lower bound of performance that must be met in order for new complex architectures to be not only novel, but also worthwhile in terms of implementation. This paper focuses on the speciﬁc task of determining semantic textual similarity (STS). We construct a number of models from simple to complex within a framework and report our results. Our ﬁndings show that a small number of LSTM stacks with an LSTM stack comparator produces the best results. We use Se-mEval 2017 STS Competition Dataset for evaluation.
Stone properties and weathering induced by salt crystallization of Maltese Globigerina Limestone

Abstract Most monuments and buildings in the Maltese Islands are constructed of the local Globigerina Limestone. Today, this Globigerina Limestone shows considerable damage in many buildings, particularly through alveolar weathering, which is frequently very intense. Owing to Malta's marine environment, salt crystallization in the stone's pore spaces has been recognized as the main weathering process responsible for the deterioration of the country's monuments. In order to obtain more information on the fabric-dependent weathering processes of Globigerina Limestone, detailed analyses were carried out. Globigerina Limestone samples obtained from stone types with two different known qualities were characterized according to petrographical, geochemical and physical properties. These included porosity, pore radii distribution and tensile strength, as well as water and humidity transport properties. Investigations by means of salt crystallization tests on quarry samples of both stone types reinforced the idea that the extent of salt weathering depends on salt type and concentration and pore-space properties. Visible weathering damage was recorded and evaluated for a representative monument (the Church of Santa Marija Ta' Cwerra in Siggiewi) by means of a monument mapping method, which was carried out twice over a period of 9 years (1995 and 2004). The identified weathering forms were also correlated with a previously developed weathering model for Globigerina Limestone. According to the results of the mapping, salt analyses carried out on samples from the church and salt-loading tests on quarry samples, there exists a significant correlation between visible damage and salt load. The zoning of weathering damage is obviously related to different salt concentrations. The zone with severe weathering damage is characterized by a high concentration of halite. Consequently, salt weathering represents the main damage process for the Globigerina Limestone of Malta.
Attribute-Based Fused Feature for Person Re-identification

In this paper, we propose an attribute-based fused feature which combined low-level and attribute features for person re-identification. Pedestrian parsing and different low-light image enhancement methods are adopted before feature extraction and Random Forest (RF) classifier is used as the basic classifier. Firstly, each of the image is divided into eight strips, and the strips are composed into four parts: head, up-body, low-body and bag areas. Above these four parts, the gradient-LOMO (Local Maximal Occurrence) features are extracted separately to form sub-classifiers features. The sub-classifiers of the independent and different dimensional attributes are respectively trained and then fused to generate a classifier, which describes 21-dimensional attribute features and is combined with the correction mechanism. Then, this classifier can be used to predict attributes on unmarked datasets. In this way, the time complexity of manual marking can be reduced effectively. Finally, the low-level features, which extracted from original and foreground images, are combined with attributes as the fused feature. The results of experiments on three common person re-identification datasets (VIPeR, PRID450S and GRID), indicate that our attribute-based fused feature exhibits prominently performance which outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for person re-identification.
Chapter 1 Microwave Active Filter Design

A simplified method for the project and design of microwave active filters is presented here. The presented design is based on the use of an active inductor that emulates an inductor behavior by implementing a passive variable phaseand amplitude-compensating network and amplifiers, forming a gyrator-C architecture. This method can be applied with success for the design of bandpass filters with very high performances in terms of integration and application from a few hundreds of MHz to tens of GHs with filter high dynamic range and frequency tuning capability.