Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
MICROBIOLOGICAL PROFILE OF DENGUE CASES REPORTED AT GOVERNMENT GENERAL HOSPITAL,

Introduction: Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease that occurs in tropical and subtropical areas of the world, is considered to be a significant threat for the mankind in both developing and developed countries.It causes a wide spectrum of illness from mild asymptomatic illness to severe fatal dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome. Its impact today is thirty times >50 years ago. Global incidence of dengue has drastically upped in the last few years. Materials and Methods: The study was carried out in the department of microbiology at Government general hospital,siddipet fpr a period of one year , that is from January 2019 to December 20219. Blood was collected from each patient suspected to be suffering from dengue, at least 3 days after onset of fever. Serum was tested for the presence of dengue NS1 antigen and antihuman IgM antibodies using Panbio Dengue Early enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit and National Institute of Virology. Results: A total of samples 2251 were tested over a period of one years i.e. from January 2019 to December 2019. Out of which 592 (26.29%) were sero-positive for dengue with symptoms of classical dengue fever. IgM in 349(58.9%) NS1243 (41.04%). Conclusion: As vaccines or antiviral drugs are not available for dengue viruses, the only effective way to prevent dengue is to control the mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti and prevent its bite.
Detail Me More: Improving GAN’s photo-realism of complex scenes

Generative models can synthesize photo-realistic images of a single object. For example, for human faces, algorithms learn to model the local shape and shading of the face components, i.e., changes in the brows, eyes, nose, mouth, jaw line, etc. This is possible because all faces have two brows, two eyes, a nose and a mouth, approximately in the same location. The modeling of complex scenes is however much more challenging because the scene components and their location vary from image to image. For example, living rooms contain a varying number of products belonging to many possible categories and locations, e.g., a lamp may or may not be present in an endless number of possible locations. In the present work, we propose to add a "broker" module in Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to solve this problem. The broker is tasked to mediate the use of multiple discriminators in the appropriate image locales. For example, if a lamp is detected or wanted in a specific area of the scene, the broker assigns a fine-grained lamp discriminator to that image patch. This allows the generator to learn the shape and shading models of the lamp. The resulting multi-fine-grained optimization problem is able to synthesize complex scenes with almost the same level of photo-realism as single object images. We demonstrate the generability of the proposed approach on several GAN algorithms (BigGAN, ProGAN, StyleGAN, StyleGAN2), image resolutions (2562 to 10242), and datasets. Our approach yields significant improvements over state-of-the-art GAN algorithms.
Simple Question Answering over Wikidata Thomas

Question Answering over Knowledge Bases (QAKB) aims to extract the answer to a natural language question from a Knowledge Base. We approach this task for the Knowledge Base Wikidata by translating a natural language question into its corresponding SPARQL query which returns the answer to the question. Our focus is on simple questions which means that the corresponding SPARQL query contains only one triple. We provide a modular, easy-to-extend QA pipeline and evaluate it on the SimpleQuestionsWikidata benchmark. With it, we also provide an evaluation web tool which enables analyzing evaluation results of the pipeline.
The Impact of Mobile Learning Application Through Intention to Use on Employees Skill Usage

The learning delivery mechanism has evolved. The two most prevalent delivery modalities are instructor-led and self-paced. Self-learning tools include e-learning, online learning, and even mobile learning. Mobile learning is the latest trend in many industries and areas. Mobile device technologies are constantly developing, leading to increased usage. Mobile devices as learning tools have become a new corporate training delivery method. A similar learning tool is used by Telekom Malaysia (TM) organization. This study examined the impact of mobile learning applications on Telekom Malaysia employees' skill usage. This study has four goals. Hypotheses based on TAM and Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model have been generated for testing. Data were collected via questionnaires. The questionnaire has four primary study variables: perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU), intention to use (ITU), and skills. The surveys were given to executives and non-executives at Telekom Malaysia in Klang Valley, Malaysia. The study employed 137 completed questionnaires. The analysis uses SmartPLS 3 and IBM SPSS Statistics 26. The findings demonstrated that perceived ease of use, usefulness, and intention to use influenced TM employee skill usage. Intention to Use (ITU) mediated the link between perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness with TM employee skill usage. This study has contributed to both theoretical and practice.
Managerial Labor Market Mobility and Corporate Social Responsibility

The staggered rejection of the inevitable disclosure doctrine (IDD) by state courts increases the mobility of both managerial and rank-and-file employee labor markets. Flammer and Kacperczyk (2019) report a positive impact of the IDD rejection on firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) and interpret the finding as managers using CSR to retain employees. We propose and test managerial incentives to grow their external employment potential as another explanation. We find that the IDD rejection impact is stronger when industry firms are more likely to hire external CEOs and when external tournament prizes are greater, and weaker when CEOs are held up by unvested equity grants and when governance control is stronger. We fail to find that the IDD rejection effect varies with employee incentives. We further find that CSR investment does help CEOs obtain sought-after personal benefits by increasing their total pay and the likelihood of landing a new executive position.
“Towards Using Information Systems for Enhancing the Efficiency of Entrepreneurship”

: Information systems (IS) have a great impact on the field of entrepreneurship via several applications, Therefore lack of IS skills reduces the benefit from entrepreneurship and may stand against starting new ventures, hence improving the level of IS skills became urgent need for the potential entrepreneurs of students as well as their teachers who support them by the new entrepreneurial techniques. Crowdsourcing is a novel example of using information systems to support entrepreneurship; we hence propose an application for crowdsourcing illustrate its support for entrepreneurship.
Application of soot in the removal of 2, 5-dichlorophenol in aqueous medium

In this study, soot was used as adsorbent for the removal of 2,5-dichlorophenol (2,5-DCP) in aqueous medium. The adsorption kinetic and isotherm were studied using a variety of adsorption models. Soot, obtain from the exhaust pipe of vehicles, was a poor adsorbent with a very limited surface area. As such, the adsorption of 2,5-DCP had to be conducted for 7 hours in order to achieve equilibrium, which was between the 240th and 360th minutes. The highest percentage of removal of 2,5-DCP achieve was 43.9%. This showed that soot was a weak adsorbent. The experimental data showed that the adsorption kinetics and adsorption isotherm of 2,5-DCP by soot obeyed the pseudo-second order kinetic model (R2=0.9985) and Freundlich isotherm (R2=0.9825) respectively indicating that both physisorption and chemisorptions were instrumental in the adsorption process. Characterization of the soot recovered from the exhaust pipe showed that the ash content and moisture content in soot were quite high at 4.62% and 2.50% respectively. SEM indicated that the soot was nanoparticle in size (>100nm) with non-visible pores. The soot had spherical shape and tend to cluster together forming aggregates. FTIR showed that the functional groups such as O-H, C-H, and C=O groups, may have contributed to the adsorption process. BET isotherm indicated that soot obey the type III isotherm without the presence of hysteresis loop. Although this material is not a good adsorbent, it adsorptive ability may be improved by altering its structure chemically providing a waste to wealth opportunity.
Key design elements for the inverse manufacturing

Sustainable production cannot be achieved just by encouraging energy and material recycling of wastes. Rather we should establish closed-loop product life cycles. To do so, it is critical to develop new methodologies for designing products. In this paper, the author identified key design elements for the environmentally conscious design in the context of inverse manufacturing (he calls them design for inverse manufacturing (DFIM) as a whole). Inverse manufacturing (IM) is the concept to reduce production and consumption of products with maintaining profits of companies and quality of individual life. Identified key design elements include upgradable design, design for reuse, design for cleaning and inspection and design for transportation and collection. By relating the key design elements to the key concepts of the IM and required social systems, he clarifies that remanufacturing and reuse, maintenance with upgrading and life cycle services are the most effective means for realizing the IM and the major bottlenecks include awareness of consumers, preparation of social infrastructures and additional costs of companies.
Influence of Measurement Location on Reflectance Pulse Oximetry in Sleep Apnea Patients: Wrist vs. Upper Arm

Peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) plays a key role in diagnosing sleep apnea. It is mainly measured via transmission pulse oximetry at the fingertip, an approach less suited for long-term monitoring over several nights.In this study we tested a more patient-friendly solution via a reflectance pulse oximetry device. Having previously observed issues with pulse oximetry at the wrist, we investigated in this study the influence of the location of our device (upper arm vs. wrist) to measure SpO2. Accuracy was compared against state-of-the-art fingertip SpO2 measurements during a full overnight polysomnography in nine patients with suspected sleep apnea.The upper arm location clearly showed a lower root mean square error ARMS = 1.8% than the wrist ARMS = 2.5% and a lower rate of automatic data rejection (19% vs 25%). Irrespective of the measurement location the accuracies obtained comply with the ISO standard and the FDA guidance for pulse oximeters. In contrast to the wrist, the upper arm location seemed to be more resilient to deteriorating influences such as venous blood.Reflectance pulse oximetry at the wrist remains challenging but the upper arm could provide remedy for more robust SpO2 estimates to reliably screen for sleep apnea and other diseases.Clinical Relevance— The performance of reflectance pulse oximetry measured at the upper arm during sleep is superior to measurements at the wrist which are perturbed by undesired large fluctuations suspected to be caused by venous blood. If confirmed, this could also apply to the optical measurement of other vital signs such as blood pressure.
The behaviour of an offshore steel pipeline material subjected to bending and stretching

Guidelines have been worked out on how to design sub-sea pipelines in fishing-rich areas subjected to the possible interference by trawl gear or ship anchors. One topic of special interest for the offshore industry is pipelines first subjected to impact from an anchor before being dragged along the seabed. After removal of the load, the pipe will be straightened due to rebound and present axial forces. The material in the deformed impact zone will experience a complex stress and strain history, which subsequently can cause cracking, leading to leakage or full failure. To study these topics, full-scale testing is not straightforward and thus a simplified approach is chosen as a first step in the present study. Motivated by the observed local curvature in impacted pipelines, three-point bending tests of plate strips cut from a typical offshore pipeline have been carried out and the strips subsequently stretched to a straight position. One objective of these tests was to investigate whether cracking in the plate strip could occur after such a loading sequence. Material tests with specimens taken in different directions and at different locations in the actual pipe were carried out to calibrate an appropriate constitutive relation (taking anisotropy and kinematic hardening into account) and a simplified fracture criterion. Numerical simulations of the complete loading sequence were finally carried out and the predicted response was validated against the experimental data.
Association of Longitudinal Sleep and Next-day Indoor Mobility Measured via Passive Sensors among Community-dwelling Older Adults

Previous studies have shown there is a relationship between sleep and mobility in older adults by collecting and analysing self-reported data from surveys and questionnaires, or by using objective measures from polysomnography or actigraphy. However, these methods have limitations for long-term monitoring, especially for community-dwelling adults. In this paper, we investigate the association between sleep and indoor mobility using longitudinal data collected over a period of about 12 months for older adults (65 years or older) living at home in Australia. The data was collected objectively and continuously using non-invasive and passive sensors. First, we explored whether sleep and indoor mobility are different across gender and age groups (70s, 80s, and 90s). Second, we investigate the association of sleep and next-day indoor mobility through a stepwise multivariate regression. We found that males and females have significant differences in mobility, time in bed, total time in sleep, number and duration of awakenings and sleep efficiency. Additionally, mobility and all sleep measures significantly vary across the three age groups, except for sleep onset latency between 80s and 90s. Our findings show that sleep efficiency and total sleep time are the key sleep measures affecting next-day mobility, while sleep onset latency has the least effect.Clinical relevance - Our study contributes to a better understanding of the sleep patterns of older adults and how they affect their physical functioning.
Thin-film and crystalline solar cell array system performance comparisons

This paper summarizes the results of a study of the performance of various solar array system configurations for 4 generic missions. Ranges of photovoltaic efficiencies were assumed for 2 device types: crystalline multijunction and "thin-film" cells. The study goal was to identify the potential performance of thin-film array systems, and to contrast that with crystalline cell platforms to project when and where thin-film arrays will be desirable. Representative power levels and system level requirements for LEO, MEO, GEO, and interplanetary (IP) mission applications were assumed and a number of appropriate array configurations were considered. This study endeavored to design and compare various array options against real mission requirements at end of life (EOL) using consistency in regard to loss factors, thermal effects, mass margins, radiation degradation, and other analyses. Comparisons of resulting performance metrics such as W/kg, W/m/sup 2/, W/m/sup 3/, and MOI are given with commentary on design particulars, risks, and technology readiness. Different array systems each have particular missions and cell types for which their usage is attractive. To clearly lead in one metric generally requires a penalty in another.
Role of breath phase and breath boundaries for the classification between asthmatic and healthy subjects

Asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways which causes cough, chest tightness, wheezing and other distinct sounds during breathing. Spirometry is a golden standard lung function test, is used to monitor and diagnose asthma. Spirometry is very time-consuming and requires a lot of patient’s efforts. Therefore, an alternate method which can overcome spirometry limitations is required. Sound based method can be one such alternative as it is less tedious, less time consuming and suitable for patients of all ages. It has been shown in the past that breath, among other vocal sounds, performs the best for an asthma vs healthy subject classification task. Breath consists of two phases, namely, inhale and exhale. Experiments in this work show, exhale performs better for classification task compared to the entire breath cycle as well as the inhale. However, this requires manual marking of the breath boundaries, which is a very time-consuming task. We, in this work, investigate how critical are the breath cycle and breath phase boundaries for the classification task. Experiments with chunks of random duration shows that they perform on par or better than the exhale. However, a segment comprising the second and third quarters of a breath cycle results in the highest classification accuracy of 80.64%. This suggests that, while breath phase boundaries may not be important, breath cycle boundaries could benefit in the classification task.
Impacted Permanent Incisor Associated With Compound Odontoma:

They are typically divided into compound and complex odontomas although mixed forms have been described. Compound odontomas are formed by many little tooth-like structures often strictly adapted to each other and held together by a more or less complete connective capsule. They are easily recognizable; they are usually small but large lesions contain up to 100 denticles. Complex odontomas are formed by a single amorphous mass of mature odontogenic tissues without any structural organization, with tissues arranged in a more or less disorderly pattern [3,4].
Injury Severity and Total Harm in Truck-Involved Work Zone Crashes

Society pays a high cost for work zone crashes in terms of operational disruptions, property damage, injuries, and loss of life. Given narrow lanes in work zones, large trucks are of particular concern. Truck-involved collisions in work zones, as opposed to non-truck-involved collisions in North Carolina, are empirically examined. This examination helps in understanding which work zone attributes are empirically associated with the most seriously injured occupant and total harm in a crash. Specifically, with a unique data set, effects of the following variables were explored: type of work zone, presence of warning signs and cones, type of activity in the work zone, location of the crash in the work zone, and construction impact of the work zone on the roadway. The results show that work zone crashes in North Carolina, especially those involving large trucks, were more injurious than were non—work zone crashes. Rigorous modeling results suggest that truck-involved multivehicle crashes were most injurious and harmful when (a) they occurred on two-way undivided or two-way divided but unprotected (without a median barrier) roadways; (b) the roadway was closed and a detour was required on the opposite side; (c) they occurred adjacent to the work area; and (d) the posted speed limits were higher. The results provide valuable information on high-risk factors in work zones.
Effect of NPK fertilization on the chemical properties and bioactive compounds of the cabezona pineapple fruit

Objective: To evaluate the effect of NPK fertilization on the chemical properties and bioactive compounds of the cabezona pineapple fruit. Design/methodology/approach: 15 NPK fertilization treatments were evaluated and carried out in the field in a random complete block design with four repetitions per treatment. At the end of the crop cycle, we determined the pH, °Brix and citric acid % of the fruits that were harvested, following the methodology established in NMX-FF-028 and 011. The pH of the juice was measured directly using a potentiometer. Ascorbic acid was measured with a SIGMA-ALDRICH® kit, the total polyphenol contents were determined following the methodology of De la Cruz-Ricardez et al. (2020), while total flavonoid contents were measured following a modified version of the methodology proposed by Hossain et al. (2011). Results: The mean values for °Brix, citric acid %, and pH were 7.3, 7.1 and 3.4 respectively, without significant differences between treatments. A highly significant difference in the concentration of ascorbic acid was observed between treatments; treatment three had the highest concentration (19.4 mg 100 g-1 FF). There were no significant differences between the fertilization treatments and the control, regarding total polyphenol content (41.34 mg 100 g-1 FF) and flavonoids (1.6 mg 100 g-1 FF) concentrations. Study limitations/implications: The ripening degree of the pineapple fruit directly influences the chemical properties and the concentration of bioactive compounds. Findings/conclusions: NPK fertilization had no effect on °Brix and pH. The citric acid percentage and the total polyphenol content increased as the doses of P2O5 increased. The ascorbic acid concentration and total flavonoid content are not affected by the NPK fertilization dose.
Gender and Place of Settlement as Predictors of Perceived Social Support, PTSD, and Insomnia among Internally Displaced Adolescents in North-East Nigeria

Previous research has shown that gender affects social support and post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD). The present study explores the main and interaction effects of gender and place of settlement on social support, PTSD symptoms, and insomnia in internally displaced adolescents (IDAs) in North-east of Nigeria. A stratified sampling method was used to select 109 participants from IDAs living in the camp, while 27 additional IDAs were purposively recruited from those living in the host community. Participants completed measures of Harvard Trauma Questionnaire Part-II, Insomnia Severity Index, and Crisis Support. No significant effects of gender on perceived social support, PTSDs, and insomnia were observed. Place of settlement had a significant effect on social support, with IDAs living in the camp having a higher mean score, while place of settlement had no significant effects on PTSD and insomnia. A significant interaction effect of gender and place of settlements on insomnia was found, with males living in the community having a higher mean score than their female counterparts, as well as both males and females in the camp. In conclusion, there is a need to understand male IDAs who reside in non-camp settings better, including the nature of their challenges, the outcomes they desire, and the limitations they experienced.
Robust estimation of ionospheric density using multisensor sounding data

A robust algorithm for estimating the parameters in a simple model of ionospheric electron density in the presence of model uncertainties and malicious noise is presented. Noisy sounding data is asynchronously recorded by a geographically distributed array of identical ionospheric sounders. The ionospheric dynamics are modelled as a state space system, with a robust H/spl infin/ type filter developed to track the evolving ionospheric state as new measurements become available.