Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cephalometric evaluation for Malaysian Malay by Steiner analysis

Many researchers tried to define and put cephalometric norms for different ethnics groups. However, these studies may be specific to an ethnic group and cannot always be applied to other ethnic types. The aim of this study is to obtain cephalometric norms for Malaysian Malay by Steiner analysis and compare with Caucasian norms. The method involved clinical examination, collection and analysis of 60 lateral cephalometric radiograph of Malaysian Malay subjects from pure ethnic group (30 males and 30 females, 20 to 24 years old). All cephalometric landmarks were located and determined and subsequently tracing had been done according to Steiner analysis. Statistical comparisons between the groups were done using t-test. The result of this study show that the Malaysian Malay maxilla and mandible is set more forward than Caucasian. They also show bimaxillary dental protusion when compared to Caucasian. The Malaysian Malay has more protrusive upper and lower lips, the chin is less prominent when compared to Caucasian. Malaysian Malay have higher cant of both the occlusal and the mandibular planes, mandibular posterior rotation when compared to the Caucasian. In conclusion, these ethnic differences should be considered during treatment, especially in prosthodontics and orthodontics where arch dimension can be modified appreciably. Key words: Lateral cephalometric radiograph, facial profile. Steiner analysis, Caucasian norms, Malaysian Malay population.
Political and social actors in TV news programmes. A challenge for Mexican TV channels

Introduction: Broadcast television is the main medium of communication in Mexico, but its news programmes offer biased information regarding political issues, as they tend to privilege governmental sources of information to the detriment of non-official sources. Method: In order to prove this hypothesis, the contents of the two most-watched TV news programmes in Mexico were analysed to identify the political actors that appeared the most, the diversity of sources, and the frequency of appearance. The obtained data were subjected to the regular statistical analyses used in content analysis, while the Gini index, which is a measure of statistical dispersion, was used to establish the degree of imbalance in the representation of the different political actors in news programmes. Results: The findings indicate that the main sources of information included in the TV news programmes were members of Mexico’s Federal Government and, to a lesser extent, the legislative power and the state governments. Furthermore, of the different political parties operating in Mexico, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the current ruling party, is the most represented in TV news programmes. Unsurprisingly, the main issues addressed in TV news programmes were economy, security and politics, which are precisely also the main issues included
Tilburg University Regret Equilibria in Games

We study boundedly rational players in an interactive situation. Each player follows a simple choice procedure in which he reacts optimally against a combination of actions of his opponents drawn at random from the distribution generated by a player’s beliefs. By imposing a consistency requirement we obtain an equilibrium notion which we call regret equilibrium. An existence proof is provided and it is shown that the concept survives the iterated elimination of never-best responses. Additional properties are studied and the regret equilibrium concept is compared with other game theoretic solution concepts. The regret equilibrium concept is illustrated by means of interesting examples. It is shown that in the centipede game, players will continue to play with large probability. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Number: C72
Effects of Public Emergency on Citizens' Usage Intention Toward E-Government: A Study in the Context of War in Iraq

The study examines the effects of a public emergency on citizens’ intention to use e-government services. Since the national disaster on September 11, 2001, the United States government has invested considerable efforts to increase homeland security and public safety. However, virtually no academic research has focused on the impact of public emergencies on e-government services. The study examines relationships between citizens’ intentions to use e-government services and factors that can influence those intentions in the context of a public emergency. The first survey was conducted in April 2003, when the second Iraq war was ongoing and the Homeland Security Advisory System’s terrorist treat level was high. The analysis of the survey results and implications of the study are presented.
Numerical and experimental investigations on aerodynamic and thermal aspects of rotating wheels

With todays and future environmental legislations for CO2 and other emission gases, all vehicle manufacturers are forced to further develop tools and methods to make their vehicles more energy efficient and environmentally friendly. One option to achieve this is to reduce the aerodynamic resistance since it has a significant influence on the vehicle fuel consumption, especially for velocities higher than 50 km/h. Several methods can be used to assess the aerodynamic performance of passenger cars. Wind tunnel testing and numerical simulations are two of the most common, and both have evolved considerably over the last decades. Moreover, growing computational capacity and increasing general knowledge on the methods in context allow the vehicle manufacturers to advance even further in the development of their products. Hence, some effects, phenomena and processes, not accounted for earlier, can be studied thoroughly today. In this thesis a number of such effects and phenomena associated with rotating wheels of a passenger vehicle are addressed. The discussions focus on three main topics: deformation of tyres under different driving and testing scenarios; wheel aerodynamic resistance moment also known as ventilation resistance; and the possibility of combining aerodynamics and thermal management on studies of brake system performance. All topics are investigated experimentally in the Volvo aerodynamic wind tunnel as well as numerically using CFD simulations. From the results it can be concluded that the wheel ventilation resistance moment has a significant influence on the total aerodynamic resistance of a vehicle; however, both measurements and computations of this moment are quite challenging. Furthermore, it has been found that the inertial expansion of tyres is responsible for a substantial change in vehicle ride height and pitch angle. These movements are often restricted in wind tunnel studies, but can be captured using different types of fastening struts that allow vertical displacements, also known as floating struts. It has been shown that that there is a significant difference in the aerodynamic forces measured depending on the type of strut being used during the test. This is especially pronounced at high velocities. Lastly, the investigation has shown a large potential in combining aero- and thermodynamics for modelling and studying of the brake system performance under different load scenarios. However, further investigations are required to extend and develop the current simulation model.
Preliminary Study on Avian Tuberculosis and Associated Risks in Domestic Chickens at Shashemene District, Ethiopia

The study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of avian tuberculosis (TB) and assess associated risk factors in Shashemene District. In addition, the zoonotic implication of avian tuberculosis in the District was investigated. In this study, 260 adult domestic chickens of both sexes were tested by tuberculin test on their wattle. Test positive chickens were sacrificed and examined for the presence of tuberculous lesion. Suspicious lesions were cultured for mycobacterial isolation and characterization using multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR). On top of these, questionnaire was used to assess public perception and the potential public health risks of the disease. The prevalence of avian TB at Shashemene District was 4.23% (11/260). Gross TB lesions were detected in six of the 11 tuberculin positive chickens. Culture positivity was confirmed in three of the chicken with gross lesions. These isolates were confirmed to be members of the Genus Mycobacterium. Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that male owners had a better knowledge of avian TB compared to females (adjusted OR=2.01; 95% CI: 0. 35-11.26). Furthermore, human TB exposed owners had better knowledge of avian TB compared to TB unexposed owners (adjusted OR=3.92; 95% CI: 0.98-15.76). The survey indicated that chicken kept in extensive production system and as there exist a close physical contact between the chicken and their owners, there could a possibility of transmission of mycobacteria between chicken and their owners. On top of this, the low perception of the owners about zoonotic TB including avian TB could add up to the transmission. Key w ords : Avian tuberculosis, domestic chicken, M. avium complex , prevalence, Shashemene.
ACTIVE REGION EMERGENCE & REMOTE FLARES

We study the effect of new emerging solar active regions on the large-scale magnetic environment of existing regions. We first present a theoretical approach to quantify the “interaction energy” between new and pre-existing regions as the difference between (i) the summed magnetic energies of their individual potential fields and (ii) the energy of their superposed potential fields. We expect that this interaction energy can, depending upon the relative arrangements of newly emerged and pre-existing magnetic flux, indicate the existence of “topological” free magnetic energy in the global coronal field that is independent of any “internal” free magnetic energy due to coronal electric currents flowing within the newly emerged and pre-existing flux systems. We then examine the interaction energy in two well-studied cases of flux emergence, but find that the predicted energetic perturbation is relatively small compared to energies released in large solar flares. Next, we present an observational study on the influence of the emergence of new active regions on flare statistics in pre-existing active regions, using NOAA’s Solar Region Summary and GOES flare databases. As part of an effort to precisely determine the emergence time of active regions in a large event sample, we find that emergence in about half of these regions exhibits a two-stage behavior, with an initial gradual phase followed by a more rapid phase. Regarding flaring, we find that the emergence of new regions is associated with a significant increase in the occurrence rate of Xand M-class flares in pre-existing regions. This effect tends to be more significant when pre-existing and new emerging active regions are closer. Given the relative weakness of the interaction energy, this effect suggests that perturbations in the large-scale magnetic field, such as topology changes invoked in the “breakout” model of coronal mass ejections, might play a significant role in the occurrence of some flares.
Anthropological-medical aspects of feeding behavior of children in modern society

Background: The field of nutrition research have shown that an appropriate nutritional balance for each professional occupation, age and environment in which the individual lives, is the ideal solution to prevent profound physiological changes. Aim & Objectives 1. To understand the influence of the modern society on children physical development and diet. 2. To analyse from a medical anthropology perspective, a serie of factors and actual tendecies which led to a change in diet and consequently to the increase of the percetenge of overwight children. 3. To promote a balanced and healthy diet and life style at an early age. 4. To suggest recommendation. Methods/Study Design: The study was conducted in Bucharest in 2010 on a sample of 472 subjects (11-14 years old), through medical and anthropometric examination. Questionnaires with 32 items relating to eating habits were used. The results were processed using statistical methods and compared with those obtained in 1977 on a control group of 142 children from Bucharest. In the study only children from a school with a standard schedule of 4-5 hours per day were included. Study Design: Cross-sectional prospective study. Consent: The study was conducted with parents' written consent, and the interviewed persons had the opportunity to withdraw at any time. Confidentiality respected Romanian and European legislation in force. During the research no person has withdrawn from the study. Results/Findings: The percentage of children in the control group (34.55% male, 18.39% girls) who ate meat or sweets daily (32.73% male, 24.14% girls) was about equal, the difference being statistically insignificant (p>0,05). The percentage of girls in the study group (29.66%) who ate meat every day is less than those who ate sweets daily (42.97%), the difference being statistically significant (p 0.05). The percentage of children who do have dinner in the study group (4.31% male, 6.84% girls) and in the control group (10.91% boys, 9.20% girls) is lower than those who do not eat anything in the morning (9.09% male, 15.59% girls-the study group and 18.18% boys, 13.79% girls-control group) and at noon (boys 5.26%, 8.75% girls-group study and 20.00% boys, 17.24% girls-control group), with a statistically significant difference (p<0.05). Conclusion: Higher consumption of sweets, snacks, high percentage of children who consume cooked meal, meat or cheese in the evening, as well as those who eat in front of the television have contributed to increasing the percentage of overweight children in the study group compared to the control group, the difference being statistically significant (p<0.05).
Real-World Virologic Response Rates and Prediction of Outcomes with Peginterferon Alfa-2a/Ribavirin in Hungarian HCV Genotype 1 Patients

Aim: Dual peginterferon/ribavirin therapy remains a viable option for patients with chronic hepatitis C, because of the high cost of Direct-acting Antiviral Agents (DAA). We assessed real-life practice and treatment outcomes in Hungarian treatment-naive HCV genotype 1-infected patients who received peginterferon alfa-2a/ ribavirin treatment. Methods: This analysis of patients enrolled in Hungary as part of a large, multinational cohort study (PROPHESYS) included treatment-naive patients with HCV genotype 1 mono-infection who were prescribed peginterferon alfa-2a plus ribavirin. Results: Of 654 patients included in the analysis, 68% completed ≥ 80% of the planned duration of treatment (93% and 87% received ≥ 80% of the planned doses of peginterferon alfa-2a and ribavirin, respectively) and 23% stopped treatment prematurely because of the insufficient virologic response. Virologic response rates (HCV RNA < 50 IU/mL) were 20.3%, 55.2%, and 63.3% by Week 4, 12, and at the end of treatment (EOT), respectively, and a sustained virologic response 24 weeks post-treatment (SVR24) was achieved in 45.9% of patients. In patients with a virologic response at EOT, the relapse rate was 27.4%. SVR24 rates were 63% in patients who received ≥ 80% of the planned treatment and 55% in patients with lower exposure. Treatment was prolonged to ≥ 72 weeks in 51 patients with HCV RNA ≥ 50 IU/mL at Week 12, and < 50 IU/mL at Week 24, among whom the SVR24 rate was 35%. Conclusion: This analysis shows that SVR24 rates achieved in randomized trials can be reproduced in real-world settings by maintaining high rates of adherence and compliance with responseguided therapy.
Recovering Faces From Portraits with Auxiliary Facial Attributes

Recovering a photorealistic face from an artistic portrait is a challenging task since crucial facial details are often distorted or completely lost in artistic compositions. To handle this loss, we propose an Attribute-guided Face Recovery from Portraits (AFRP) that utilizes a Face Recovery Network (FRN) and a Discriminative Network (DN). FRN consists of an autoencoder with residual block-embedded skip-connections and incorporates facial attribute vectors into the feature maps of input portraits at the bottleneck of the autoencoder. DN has multiple convolutional and fully-connected layers, and its role is to enforce FRN to generate authentic face images with corresponding facial attributes dictated by the input attribute vectors. For the preservation of identities, we impose the recovered and ground-truth faces to share similar visual features. Specifically, DN determines whether the recovered image looks like a real face and checks if the facial attributes extracted from the recovered image are consistent with given attributes. Our method can recover photorealistic identity-preserving faces with desired attributes from unseen stylized portraits, artistic paintings, and hand-drawn sketches. On large-scale synthesized and sketch datasets, we demonstrate that our face recovery method achieves state-of-the-art results.
A Morphological Comparison of Skulls of the Finless Porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides from the Indian Ocean, Yangtze River and Japanese Waters

Skull measurements of the finless porpoise were compared among the Indian Ocean, Yangtze River and Japanese waters. Codylobasal lengths of physically mature specimens were greatest in Japanese waters and smallest in the Indian Ocean as suggested by earlier studies. Analyses of covariance indicated that individuals in the Indian Ocean have relatively shorter and wider rostrums than those in the other areas, while specimens. from Japan have relatively narrower zygomatic widths. Multiple group principal component analysis discriminated the Indian Ocean specimens from the others, but failed to separate the Yangtze River and the Japanese specimens. We consider that geographic differences observed in the finless porpoise are comparable with intraspecific variation reported in a few well examined odontocete species, and not enough to warrant separating Neophocaena into different species. Although overall resolution of taxonomy awaits further studies, the present information supports arguments for classifying finless porpoises in the Indian Ocean and other areas a t the subspecific level.
INFLUENCE OF BIOZYME ON GROWTH , YIELD AND QUALITY OF ONION ( ALLIUM CEPA L . ) CV

One of the most important strategies for sustainable agriculture is the integration of organic and inorganic sources of plant nutrient with eco-friendly bio products. Application of bioregulators is common horticultural practice to improve yields (Latimer, 1992). Bio-regulators can affect rooting, flowering, fruiting and fruit growth, leaf or fruit abscission, senescence, regulation of some metabolic processes, and plant resistance to temperature or water stresses (Nickell, 1988). Biozyme is an organic storehouse of naturally occurring nutrients derived from Norwegian seaweed (Ascophyllumnodosum), known to be rich in cytokinins and auxin precursor, enzymes and hydrolyzed protein (Kumar et al., 2000). It is an eco-friendly, non-toxic, non chemical organic storehouse of naturally occurring substances which influences the plants physiological system at very low concentrations. It contains elements which help in cell growth and breakdown of complex molecules into simpler ones which can be easily utilized by the plant and improves soil microbial activities. It contains nutrients which are in a naturally chelated form and are readily assimilated by plants which help to improve cell division and cell enlargement thus resulting into better chlorophyll content and increased production. Manna et al. (2012) reported that application of Biozyme increase growth, yield and quality of chilli.Reetaet al. (2010) observed that soil and foliar spray of sea weed liquid fertilizer showed more significant increase in growth and reproductive parameters over other treatments in tomato. With these ideas in view, field experiments were planned to find out the effect of Biozyme on growth,yield and quality of onion. ABSTRACT Field experiment was conducted to study the influence of Biozyme on growth, yield and quality of onion. Application of Biozyme with or without fertilizer had significant effect on different growth and yield attributing characters like plant height, number of roots per plant, diameter of bulb and bulb weight as well as yield. Maximum total yield (31.89 t/ha) with marketable yield (31.27 t/ha) was obtained when the crop was treated withsoil application of recommended dose of fertilizer (125:80:100) + seedling treatment with Biozyme Seed plus (@ 10 mL/l water) + Biozyme Veg. granules (@ 20 kg/ha) + Biozyme Veg. liquid (@ 500 mL/ha). The quality attributes like Pyruvic acid (4.45 μ mol/g) and Total soluble solid (13.95°B) were markedly influenced by the application of Biozyme. Bulbs obtained from different treatment had edge over control in in relation to shelf life. An economic analysis revealed that application of Biozyme was more beneficial over control. The results led to the conclusion that for better growth, yield and quality of onion with higher economic return of the crop may be treated with soil application of recommended dose of fertilizer (125:80:100) + seedling treatment with Biozyme Seed plus (@ 10 mL/l water) + Biozyme Veg. granules (@ 20 kg/ha) + Biozyme Veg. liquid (@ 500 ml/ha), in the plains of New Alluvial Zone of West Bengal.
Transdermal Drug Delivery System of Aceclofenac for Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Effect of Permeation Enhancers: In vitro and in vivo Characterization

Aceclofenac is a non steroidal anti inflammatory drug which is used to manage the chronic pain and inflammation in the patients of rheumatoid arthritis. But it is associated with short half-life (2-3 h) and gastro-intestinal side effects. To overcome these problems the transdermal delivery of aceclofenac can be investigated for prolonged relief from pain and local inflammation in arthritis. The transdermal films of aceclofenac were prepared using two different permeation enhancers (A nonionic surfactant-Span-20 and a terpene-d limonene) in two different concentrations with solvent evaporation method. The prepared transdermal films were subjected to physicochemical evaluations, ex vivo permeation and in vivo anti-inflammatory studies. The prepared matrix type transdermal films showed high drug content ranging from 94.90±1.40 to 98.20±2.60 with completely flat surface and the folding endurance in the range of 120.0±9.24 to 182.0±4.20. The scanning electron microscopy showed that the drug particles were dispersed in the matrix of the film and was found to be projected on the surface of film also. The ex vivo permeation study in the modified Franz diffusion apparatus through excised rat abdominal skin in pH 7.4 phosphate buffer showed prolonged drug permeation ranging from 61.02-93.4%. The films prepared with permeation enhancers showed greater percent drug permeated at the end of 24 h. The d-limonene showed the greater permeation enhancement effect as compared to that of Span 20. Increasing the concentration of enhancers showed the increased permeation of the drug. The transdermal films were found to be non-irritant to the skin in primary skin irritation test on Wistar rats. The transdermal films with permeation enhancers showed the greater anti inflammatory activity in carrageenan induced hind rat paw edema model. It was concluded that the transdermal films of aceclofenac have the great potential for the use in treatment of arthritis. And d-limonene can have greater effect on increasing the drug flux and eliciting the anti-inflammatory effect as compared to that of Span 20 for the transdermal delivery of aceclofenac.