Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Wideband 3D characterization of mobile radio channels in urban environment

This paper describes three-dimensional (3D) radio channel measurements at the base station site in an urban environment. We introduce a measurement concept which combines an RF switched receiver array and a synthetic aperture technique and allows full 3D characterization of the channel. Additionally, dual-polarized patch antennas as array elements enable full determination of the polarization properties of the impinging signals. We describe measurements at over 70 different transmitter positions and three receiver array sites with different sectors and antenna heights. Our results show that the received energy is concentrated within identifiable clusters in the azimuth-elevation-delay domain. We demonstrate that the observed propagation mechanisms are mainly determined by the environment close to the base station. Street canyon propagation dominates also when the receiver array is at or even above rooftop level with the studied measurement distances. Thus, the azimuth spectrum at the BS site is fairly independent of the location of the mobile. Signal components propagating over the rooftop are often related to reflections from high-rise buildings in the surroundings.
Role of Enterococcus in Nosocomial Urinary Tract Infection In A Tertiary Care Hospital in West Bengal

Enterococci are one of the common causes of Nosocomial urinary tract infection (UTI)Worldwide . Objective of this cross sectional study was to identify different species of Enterococci causing nosocomial urinary tract infection in a tertiary care hospital. In addition, antibiotic susceptibility pattern of the isolated strains to set up an Empericial therapy for reduction of morbidity& mortality. Standard microbiological procedure and related automation were followed to perform the study. Out of total 369 urine samples from selected patients, 37 were culture positive (almost 10%). Out of 37 culture positive cases, Enterococci were isolated in 11 cases (29.7%). Enterococcus faecalis & Enterococcus faecium were found in five and four cases respectively. Two Enterococcus gallinarum strain was also isolated. However Escherichia coli were isolated in 19 cases (51.35%). All isolated Enterococcus gallinarum and Enterococcus faecalis were sensitive to both Benzyl penicillin and Ampicillin although all isolated Enterococcus faecium were resistant to both of the drugs. All isolates of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium were sensitive to Vancomycin and Linezolid but Enterococcus gallinarum isolates was Vancomycin resistant (MIC value is ≥32μg/ml). In addition, the resistance pattern was van-A type (fingerprint was identified by VITEK 2Advanced Expert System). All of the Enterococcus faecalis isolates were resistant to Quinupristin & Dalfopristin whereas isolated Enterococcus faecium were sensitive to those antimicrobials. All of the isolates were sensitive to Nitrofurantoin except one Enterococcus faecium isolate (MIC value=64μg/ml) was intermediately susceptible to the drug.
EFFECTS OF BLOCK AND DAILY UNDULATING PERIODIZATION ON NEUROMUSCULAR PERFORMANCE IN YOUNG MALE HANDBALL PLAYERS

The purpose of the present study was to compare block periodization (BP) and daily undulating periodization (DUP) in eliciting changes in strength, jumping performance and throwing velocity in young male handball players. Fifteen players, of the same competitive level, were assigned to one of the periodization groups (DUP=9; BP=6). Pre- and post-tests included a one repetition maximum (1 RM) back squat, countermovement jump (CMJ), triple jump with the left and right leg, 20 m speed test, standing medicine ball throw, 7 m standing throw, and 9 m jumping throw. Strength training was performed twice a week throughout an 8-week period. The BP group performed training phases in the following order: hypertrophy, power strength and explosive strength; DUP alternated every week two sessions with a different focus. Total volume and intensity during the 8-week period were equal in both training groups. Despite both groups significantly improved 1 RM squat (33.3%, effect size [ES]=1.48 for DUP and 17.4%, ES=1.40 for BP) and triple jump (4-6.3%, ES=0.32-0.51 for DUP and 9.7-12.7%, ES=1.40 for BP) performance, greater gains (ES=0.96) were detected in DUP for the 9 m throwing velocity. No significant changes were found in either group for the 20 m sprint and CMJ. It can be concluded that both periodization programs elicited significant improvements in maximal strength and jumping performance in young male handball players, while DUP was more effective than BP on throwing velocity. Key words: strength, youth, team sport, training
Who Benefits From Microfinance? The Impact Evaluation Of Large Scale Programs In Bangladesh

This paper evaluates the impact of microfinance on household consumption using a new, large and unique cross-section data set from Bangladesh. The richness of the data and program eligibility criterion allow the use of a number of non-experimental impact evaluation techniques, in particular instrumental variable (IV) estimation and propensity score matching (PSM). Estimates from both IV and PSM strategies have been interpreted as average causal effects that are valid for various groups of participants in microfinance. The overall results indicate that the effects of micro loans are not robust across all groups of poor household borrowers. It appears that the poorest of the poor participants are among those who benefit most. The impact estimates are lower, or sometimes even negative, for those households marginal to the participation decision. The effects of participation are, in general, stronger for male borrowers. These results hold across different specifications and methods, including correction for various sources of selection bias (including possible spill-over effects).
Relations entre pratiques d'élevage et qualité globale du lait de vache en étables suburbaines au Maroc

L'etude a consiste a evaluer les facteurs de variation de la qualite du lait de vache et a les mettre en relation avec les pratiques d'elevage adoptees dans cinq fermes bovines situees en zone suburbaine au Maroc. Un suivi d'elevage detaillant les modes de conduite des vaches a ete adopte. En parallele, douze prelevements mensuels de lait de melange ont ete realises par ferme et ont ete analyses pour leurs qualites physiques et chimiques (pH, temperature, densite, taux butyreux et proteique.) et hygieniques. Les resultats montrent le caractere "hors-sol" de la production laitiere, largement dependant des concentres alimentaires. Le taux butyreux moyen etait inferieur a 35 g/kg dans 2 des 5 fermes etudiees. En revanche, le taux proteique etait plus stable, illustrant les utilisations massives et generalisees des aliments concentres. La qualite hygienique etait mauvaise pour tous les echantillons consideres et peu influencee par la refrigeration. Globalement, les resultats temoignent de la variabilite importante de la qualite du lait et de ses relations aux modes d'elevage. Une typologie des echantillons de lait a ete elaboree, afin de synthetiser les variations des parametres du lait. Ces resultats conduisent a proposer des voies de remuneration des eleveurs en fonction des caracteristiques du lait pour inciter les producteurs de la filiere a adopter une politique de qualite. (Resume d'auteur)
The Community Reinforcement Approach

The Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA), originally developed for individuals with alcohol use disorders, has been successfully employed to treat a variety of substance use disorders for more than 35 years. Based on operant conditioning, CRA helps people rearrange their lifestyles so that healthy, drug-free living becomes rewarding and thereby competes with alcohol and drug use. Consequently, practitioners encourage clients to become progressively involved in alternative non-substance-related pleasant social activities, and to work on enhancing the enjoyment they receive within the “community” of their family and job. Additionally, in the past 10–15 years, researchers have obtained scientific evidence for two off-shoots of CRA that are based on the same operant mechanism. The first variant is Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA), which targets adolescents with substance use problems and their caregivers. The second approach, Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), works through family members to engage treatment-refusing individuals into treatment. An overview of these treatments and their scientific backing is presented.
Knowledge regarding postexposure prophylaxis of HIV among nurses

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Exploration of a Possibility to Assess Erosive Cavitation by Acoustic Emission Technique

In order to complement the conventional model scale cavitation erosion test methods, research is being undertaken to explore the use of an acoustic emission technique to provide a quantified measure of cavitation. The amplitude of AE signals within a structure, such as a propeller shaft, is assumed to change in proportion with the pressure impact loads from the collapse of vapour cavities. Analysis of the power spectrum of the signals should show some meaningful parameters in relation to the cavitation intensity and frequency, which can be used as a quantitative index of the cavitation erosion risk. The main results of a preliminary study are provided with illustration of some results of the experiment using a G-32 type vibratory cavitation apparatus combined with a CFD simulation. It is found that the AE power spectrum indicated two main peak frequencies from the acoustic excitation and the sub-harmonic oscillation of the acoustic cavities as reported in the other relevant literature. However, the acoustic driving frequency component appeared much stronger and the sub-harmonic oscillation frequency appeared as a band rather than a single peak. An investigation on the vibration characteristics of the sonotrode revealed the vibration amplitude could vary in the order of about 15 % of that desired. This might partly explain the reason of the frequency band formation around a central frequency of the sub-harmonic oscillation. Further investigation on the possible causes is underway. It has still a long way to go to establish a new model test methodology, but it appears the AE signal amplitude response has a certain relation with the magnitude of cavitation impact loadings. Keywords: cavitation
Analysis of DNN-based Embeddings for Language Recognition on the NIST LRE 2017

In this work, we analyze different designs of a language iden-tiﬁcation (LID) system based on embeddings. In our case, an embedding represents a whole utterance (or a speech segment of variable duration) as a ﬁxed-length vector (similar to the i-vector). Moreover, this embedding aims to capture information relevant to the target task (LID), and it is obtained by training a deep neural network (DNN) to classify languages. In particular, we trained a DNN based on bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM) recurrent neural network (RNN) layers, whose frame-by-frame outputs are summarized into mean and standard deviation statistics for each utterance. After this pooling layer, we add two fully connected layers whose outputs are used as embeddings, which are afterwards modeled by a Gaussian linear classiﬁer (GLC). For training, we add a softmax output layer and train the whole network with multi-class cross-entropy ob-jective to discriminate between languages. We analyze the effect of using data augmentation in the DNN training, as well as different input features and architecture hyper-parameters, obtaining conﬁgurations that gradually improved the performance of the embedding system. We report our results on the NIST LRE 2017 evaluation dataset and compare the performance of embeddings with a reference i-vector system. We show that the best conﬁguration of our embedding system outperforms the strong reference i-vector system by 3% relative, and this is further pushed up to 10% relative improvement via a simple score level fusion
Limits to doping in oxides

The chemical trends of limits to doping of many semiconducting metal oxides is analyzed in terms of the formation energies needed to form the compensating defects. The n-type oxides are found to have high electron affinities and charge neutrality levels that lie in midgap or the upper part of their gap, whereas p-type oxides have small photoionization potentials and charge neutrality levels lying in the lower gap. The doping-limit energy range is found to vary with the bulk free energy of the compound.
Statistical Modeling of Egg Weight and Egg Dimensions in Commercial Layers

Egg weight and dimensions of table eggs from Harco heavy breed layers in the humid tropics of Lagos, Nigeria were measured, and relationships between Egg Weight (EGGWT), Egg Length (EGGLT), Egg Width (EGGWD) and Egg Shape Index (SHPINDX) were studied. A total of 2951 eggs obtained from layers in five different age groups were sampled. Egg weight and egg width exhibited similar pattern in their distribution across the different age groups, with steady increase from age group A (22 32 weeks), peaked at age group D (55 65 weeks) before a decline afterwards. Egg length consistently increased with increasing age of hen, while shape index consistently decreased with increasing age of hen. Correlation between egg weight & egg length, egg width and shape index was 0.78, 0.84 and -0.07 respectively, while the correlation between egg length & egg width and shape index was 0.53 and -0.60 respectively, and between egg width and shape index was 0.37. The fitted model of the study was EGGWT = -124.72 + 1.65(EGGLT) + 1.32(EGGWD) + 0.43(SHPINDX). All coefficients obtained were significant (P<0.05), however, it was observed that egg length and egg width were better predictors of egg weight when compared to shape index. Analysis of variance revealed that effects of all factors studied (age group, egg length, egg width, shape index and egg length x egg width interaction) were highly significant (P<0.01) on egg weight except for shape index which was significant (P<0.05). Egg dimensions were good estimators of egg weight.
A Shred of Evidence on Theories of Wage Stickiness

A small interview survey was undertaken to see how actual wage-setters would react to the central. ideas of several economic theories of wage stickiness. Wage cuts were surprisingly prevalent in recent years, despite the booming economy. The strongest finding was that managers believe that perceptions of fairness play a major motivational role in labor markets; and that a "fair" wage policy is a good deal more complicated than simply not cutting wages. We also found substantial evidence for money illusion and against the adverse-selection version of the efficiency wage model.
Myrtus communis Linn. ─ A review

Myrtus communis Linn . or common Myrtle (Family ─ Myrtaceae) is one of the important drugs being used in Unani System of Medicine since ancient Greece period. It is recognized as Aas and its berries are known by the name of Habb-ulAas . It is often grown for its attractive foliage, flowers and berries. Its berries, leaves as well as essential oil are frequently used for various ailments like gastric ulcer, diarrhoea, dysentery, vomiting, rheumatism, haemorrhages, deep sinuses, leucorrhoea and cosmetic purposes like hair fall control. The leaves, berries and twigs are used in flavouring of food and wines. In past times, ripe fruits were used as food integrators because of their high vitamin contents. A wide range of biologically active compounds such as tannins, flavonoids, coumarins, essential oil, fixed oil, fibres, sugars, citric acid, malic acid and antioxidants are present in the plant. This contribution provides a comprehensive review of its ethno-medical uses, chemical constituents and pharmacological profile as a medicinal plant.
Bacterial Contamination of Intensive Care Units at a Tertiary Hospital in Bauchi, Northeastern Nigeria

Bacterial contamination of intensive care units is of clinical concern because it is one of the major risk factors of ICU -acquired infections and centre point of multidrug resistant (MDR) pathogens. Periodic surveillance is an early warning signal to non-adherence of basic standard infection control procedures and emergence of MDR pathogens. This study evaluated the bacterial contamination, bacterial pathogens isolated and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern in the ICU units. The units sampled were adult and neonatal intensive care units, accordingly to previously described methods and analyzed by standard microbiological methods. A total of 113 samples were collected, overall, 71(62.8%) yielded positive bacterial growth, 15(21.1%) detected by open-plate and 14(19.7%) by swabbing in adult intensive care unit and 20(28.2%) and 22(31.0%) in neonatal care unit. Bacillus spp,Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase negative staphylococci spp predominated in both units 24(33.8%), 19(26.8%), 14(19.7%), Other pathogens 19%, clinically relevant pathogens isolated were Eschericia coli (1%), Klebsiella pneumonia(4%) and Streptococcus pneumonia (3%) respectively. High indoor contamination was recorded in both units, 51.7% (n=15) in AICU and 47.6% (n=20) in NICU and inanimate items/equipments. Clinically relevant pathogens were recovered from routinely used equipment and critical sites. High resistance to commonly prescribed and administered agents, cotrimoxazole, amoxicillin and ampicillin was observed. Though the findings has provided a baseline information for furthered surveillance, but the high indoor contamination within both units signify increased traffic, ventilation system problem and inadequate cleaning procedures.
DRS Parsing as Sequence Labeling

We present the first fully trainable semantic parser for English, German, Italian, and Dutch discourse representation structures (DRSs) that is competitive in accuracy with recent sequence-to-sequence models and at the same time {emph{compositional} in the sense that the output maps each token to one of a finite set of meaning {emph{fragments}, and the meaning of the utterance is a function of the meanings of its parts. We argue that this property makes the system more transparent and more useful for human-in-the-loop annotation. We achieve this simply by casting DRS parsing as a sequence labeling task, where tokens are labeled with both fragments (lists of abstracted clauses with relative referent indices indicating unification) and {emph{symbols} like word senses or names. We give a comprehensive error analysis that highlights areas for future work.
TurkishDelightNLP: A Neural Turkish NLP Toolkit

We introduce a neural Turkish NLP toolkit called TurkishDelightNLP that performs computational linguistic analyses from morphological level to semantic level that involves tasks such as stemming, morphological segmentation, morphological tagging, part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, and semantic parsing, as well as high-level NLP tasks such as named entity recognition. We publicly share the open-source Turkish NLP toolkit through a web interface that allows an input text to be analysed in real-time, as well as the open source implementation of the components provided in the toolkit, an API, and several annotated datasets such as word similarity test set to evaluate word embeddings and UCCA-based semantic annotation in Turkish. This will be the first open-source Turkish NLP toolkit that involves a range of NLP tasks in all levels. We believe that it will be useful for other researchers in Turkish NLP and will be also beneficial for other high-level NLP tasks in Turkish.
Validity And Reliability Of The Turkish Version Of Constipation Assessment Scale In Nursing Students

Aim: Constipation is a common symptom for many patients and constipation assessment scales used by the nurses providing care take a long time to apply. Assessment of constipation is important to improve its management. Therefore, our study aimed to determine the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of The Constipation Assessment Scale. Methods: The Constipation Assessment Scale was translated into Turkish and was administered to a sample of 140 participants after the validation of cultural adaptation. The test–retest method was used to assess the scale’s stability over time. Internal consistency reliability was evaluated with Cronbach’s alpha coefficients. Results: The Constipation Assessment Scale’s structural validity was determined with confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory factor analysis was used to examine dimensionality. The test-retest reliability showed almost perfect agreement, with an ICC of 0.744 (p<0.001) for the total score of the Turkish version of the Constipation Assessment Scale. The internal consistency of the Turkish version of the Constipation Assessment Scale was good (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.784). Conclusion: The linguistic and psychometric evaluation demonstrated the validity of the Turkish version of Constipation Assessment Scale. It is consisting of eight items and providing easy use. So that nurses can assess constipation in less time.
Inflammatory Response in Infective Endocarditis

Endocarditis remains a devastating disease with a high mortality despite timely diagnosis and treatment. The mainstays of treatment include appropriate antibiotics and when indicated, removal of the septic focus. This sounds extremely simple and belies the necessity for a sophisticated multidisciplinary approach to its treatment, the success of which depends not just on the right antibiotic at the right dosage via the right portal, but also on a profound understanding of the inflammatory and infective pathophysiology at work. This review aims at assisting both the clinician and the lab-based physician in the task.
Disentangling Categorization in Multi-agent Emergent Communication

The emergence of language between artificial agents is a recent focus of computational linguistics, as it offers a synthetic substrate for reasoning about human language evolution. From the perspective of cognitive science, sophisticated categorization in humans is thought to enable reasoning about novel observations, and thus compose old information to describe new phenomena. Unfortunately, the literature to date has not managed to isolate the effect of categorization power in artificial agents on their inter-communication ability, particularly on novel, unseen objects. In this work, we propose the use of disentangled representations from representation learning to quantify the categorization power of agents, enabling a differential analysis between combinations of heterogeneous systems, e.g., pairs of agents which learn to communicate despite mismatched concept realization. Through this approach, we observe that agent heterogeneity can cut signaling accuracy by up to 40%, despite encouraging compositionality in the artificial language. We conclude that the reasoning process of agents plays a key role in their communication, with unexpected benefits arising from their mixing, such as better language compositionality.