Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Decentralized Finite-Time Sliding Mode Controller for Large-Scale Systems : a Moore-Penrose Inverse Approach

232 Published By: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication Pvt. Ltd.  Abstract: In this paper, a class of uncertain large-scale systems with mismatched uncertainties and unknown disturbances of state variables is considered. First, a novel reduced-order observer (ROO) is designed to estimate unmeasurable variables. A novel decentralized finite-time sliding mode controller (DFTSMC) based on measured variables is then established to drive state trajectory of systems to a sliding surface and main a sliding motion on it thereafter in finite time. In addition, a newly appropriate linear matrix inequality (LMI) condition is given such that the system in sliding mode is asymptotically stable. Finally, a numerical simulation is performed which shows the effectiveness and advantages of proposed method.
Barriers to access safe abortion services in East Shoa and Arsi Zones of Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Background: Unsafe abortion continues to be a major public health problem especially in the developing world. Despite abortion being legally available under several circumstances in Ethiopia after a change in legislation in 2004, a host of barriers and challenges restrict access to safe abortion services, resulting in unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions, with deleterious consequences for the health and lives of women. Objective: The main objective of the study was to assess the barriers to accessing safe abortion services from the clients’, health extension workers’ and service providers’ perspective. Methods: A qualitative research design was used which included 38, 9 and 7 in-depth interviews with women who sought medical abortion, Health Extension Workers and Service providers respectfully.The study was conducted at three purposively selected health facilities found in Adama and Asella towns of East Shoa and Arsi zones of Oromia Regional State. The analysis was done using ATLAS Ti version 7.0 software. Results: Financial constraints, lack of awareness, stigma and discrimination, religious belief, male dominance and pressure from the family or community, poorly equipped health facilities particularly in the rural areas and weak referral system were mentioned as barriers to accessing safe abortion services. Conclusion: These barriers deprive women from accessing safe and timely abortion care, thus exposing them to unwanted births or to unsafe abortion and its devastating consequences. Thus, building community awareness about the service, the existing abortion related polices or laws, increasing service delivery points especially in rural areas, and strengthening referral linkages are essential intervention mechanisms to increase accessibility and utilization of safe abortion service. [Ethiop. J. Health Dev. 2015;29(1):13-21]
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Purpose This study aims to examine the effect of organizational justice on organizational dissent. MethodologyA quantitative research is conducted on white and blue color employees of large scale and medium sized firms operating in automotive industry in Bursa-Turkey. 105 employees, thorough face-to-face survey administration, filled out questionnaire forms. Convenience sampling method is used. Data obtained from those 105 questionnaires were analyzed through the SPSS statistical packet program. Findings Research findings revealed the positive effects of procedural and distributive justice on upward organizational dissent, whilst the nonsignificant relation between interactional justice and upward organizational dissent. Analyses results also indicated the non-significant relations of procedural, distributive and interactional justice to latent organizational dissent. Conclusion The finding of positive effect of procedural justice and distributive justice on dissent behavior, is consistent with the literature, which indicates that justice perceptions of managerial employees increased upward dissent behaviors. However, the finding of this research implying a non-significant effect of interactional justice on organizational justice is inconsistent with the literature, which indicates employees getting better relationship with their managers are more prone to upward dissent. In scope of this survey, employees’ dissent behaviors are influenced by fairness of formal rules and procedures, and acquisitions rather than the fairness of managerial relationships. This distinctive result of this survey may stem from employees’ distrust in relationship with their managers and their prioritization of formal procedures and concrete acquisitions rather than abstract relationships while evaluating the possible retaliations and results of their dissent.
Resource - Use Efficiency: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Production Function to Plantain Farmers in Ogun State, Nigeria

This study assessed the resource-use efficiency of plantain farmers in Ogun State, Nigeria using the stochastic frontier production function analysis. Primary data were collected from 160 plantain farmers in Abeokuta zone of Ogun State Agricultural Development Programme (OGADEP). The mean efficiencies values for plantain production were 0.835, 0.675 and 0.721 for technical, allocative and economic efficiencies respectively. The return to scale value showed that plantain production was at stage of decreasing positive return to scale. The study also revealed the presence of inefficiency in the resource-use among plantain farmers in the study area (p < 0.05). The distribution of results also showed that the plantain farmers were more efficient in the use of some inputs. Changing the input combinations was observed to increase farm level efficiency. The farmers in the study area therefore need to use available input intensively so as to reduce current inefficiencies significantly. Keywords: Food security, Plantain farmer, Allocative efficiency, Stochastic frontier, Technical efficiency
The Efficacy of Hyperbaric Oxygen in the Treatment of Chronic Ulcers

Background: Chronic ulcers are a significant socio-economic problem and represent a major risk factor for hospitalization, amputation, sepsis and even death. The treatment of chronic ulcers is often difficult and painful. Experimental results have shown that hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is useful to the treatment of chronic ulcers Iatrotek key words: ulcers”, “wound healing”, chronic ulcers”, ulcers”, ulcers”. Ten randomized controlled trials, one retrospective trial and one clinical trial, Nine studies involved with ulcers, in one study patients with venous ulcers, in one study patients with diabetic and venous ulcers and in one study patients with pressure ulcers. HBOT improves the healing rate of and the of the reduces the size of the and the risk of amputation in diabetic ulcers. In venous and pressure the effectiveness of HBOT minimum number of available trials. Conclusion: There is evidence that the use of HBOT can improve healing of chronic ulcers, but the available results are inadequate to prove it clearly. Any benefit from HBOT should be further examined in unbiased randomized trials.
CODEN (USA): IJPSPP Anti-metastatic Potentiality of Purified Anthocyanin from Osbeckia aspera (L.) Blume. and O. reticulata Bedd. Against Selected Human Cancer Cell Lines

To evaluate the anti-metastatic potentialities of purified anthocyanin from Osbeckia aspera (L.) Blume. and O. reticulata Bedd. against selected human cancer cell lines such as HT29 colon, MG63 bone and HeLa cervical by using 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay, apoptosis and DNA fragmentation test. Anthocyanin was extracted from the in vitro callus culture of the Osbeckia species, purified using amberlite column chromatography and fractionated by LC-MS/MS. Anthocyanin producing callus cultures were trialed on MS medium fortified with various combinations of phytohormones and sucrose. Significant callus formation in O. aspera was initiated in cultures containing 0.5 mg/L of 2, 4-D and 0.5 mg/L BA, while that in O. reticulata was initiated with 1.2 mg/L BA and 1.4 mg/L NAA. The same hormonal combinations on sub-culturing turned white friable callus into red compact callus. Purified anthocyanins obtained from O. aspera and O. reticulata contained Malvidin-3 -diglucoside, delphinidin, cyanindin aglycone and Peonidin. Osbeckia species displayed differential responses against the HT29 colon, MG63 bone and HeLa cervical cancer cell lines in terms of IC50 values of toxicity. O. aspera was more effective against HeLa cervical cell lines (23.7μg/ml) followed by HT29 colon (64.7μg/ml) as compared to O. reticulata. Poor selectivity index was noticed with bone cancer cell lines. The results were substantiated by apoptotic analysis and DNA fragmentation results. The overall results suggest that the purified anthocyanin of O. aspera and O. reticulata was excellent as antimetastatic and warrant further studies to isolate novel compounds for chemotherapeutic use.
COLOSTOMY IN CHILDREN: A SINGLE TEACHING INSTITUTION EXPERIENCE, SUDAN

Background: Colostomy is a common procedure in children and may be attended by many complications. Objective: To determine the various causes, various types of colostomies, outcome (morbidity and mortality) of colostomy in pediatrics. Patients and method: This prospective study was conducted in the Department of Pediatric Surgery of Khartoum Teaching Hospital over a period of 2 years (between May 2011 and April 2013) and included all the children (age limit of 0 days to 12 years) presented and managed by creation of colostomy. Results: There were 88 children, their mean age was 9.96 months (Range: 1 day to 7.8 years). The male to female ratio was 3.6:1. The indications for colostomy were congenital anomaly (94.3%). Complications after colostomy formation were encountered in 31.8% patients and the commonest complication was stenosis (11.4%). It was neither related to the age nor to the primary indication for the colostomy p>0.05, but it was related to operator experience, the observed inter-operator difference was statistically significant, p=0.041. Conclusion: A significant number of colostomies in children is constructed largely due to Hirschsprung's disease.
Evaluation Of Fiber Characteristics Of Ricinodedron Heudelotii (Baill, Pierre Ex Pax) For Pulp And Paper Making

The fiber characteristics of Ricinodendron heudelotii (Baill, Pierre ex Pax), an angiosperm, were investigated for its potential as a fibrous raw material for pulp and paper production. Bolts of about 70 cm were cut from the felled trees at three different merchantable height levels of 10%, 50%, and 90% to obtain: corewood, middlewood and outerwood samples. The fiber characteristics of the selected trees viz: the fiber length, fibre diameter and lumen diameter were measured while the cell wall thickness, Runkel ratio, slenderness ratio, flexibility coefficient, Luce’s shape factor and solid factor of the fibers were derived from the measured fibre dimensions. The average fiber length, cell wall thickness, lumen width, Runkel ratio, flexibility and slenderness ratio were 1.40 mm, 4.6 mm, 32.3 μm, 0.31, 0.77 and 35.85, respectively. Some of the fibre morphology revealed that R. heudelotii is suitable for pulp and paper production.
CONVERTING KNOWLEDGE INTO PRACTICE: A CROSS SECTIONAL SURVEY AMONG NURSES OF SUB HIMALAYAN REGION ABOUT BREAST CANCER SCREENING

Background: and reduce the cultural and emotional barrier about breast screening among the female patients and community they come across. Objective: programmes among nursing students and staff of a tertiary care center. Methodology: Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College, Kangra at Tanda, Himachal Pradesh in 2016. A semi structured predesigned study tool was introduced to assess the demographic pro regarding screening methods pertaining to breast cancer. Results: among younger age nurses (age <40 years). A positive attitude towards breast self promotion in mass media was observed in more than 80% of younger age group nurses (<30 years). Majority (78%) of them performed BSE once a month; 11.3% underwent clinical breast examination (CBE) and 11.6% mammography. Time constraint (14.6 %), lack o specialist (23.6%) and embarrassing to get examined (10.6%) were the quoted as the reasons behind not getting CBE. responded of taking immediate consultation from Conclusion: our country. The frontline workers can prove to be a great asset in creating community awareness.
SVM classification of high resolution urban satellites Images using Haralick features

Abstract — The classification of remotely sensed images knows a large progress taking into consideration the availability of images with different resolutions as well as the abundance of classification’s algorithms. SVMs (Support Vector Machines) are a group of supervised classification algorithms that have been recently used in the remote sensing field, a number of works have shown promising results by the fusion of spatial and spectral information using SVM. For this purpose, we propose a methodology allowing to combine these two information. The SVM classification was conducted using a combination of multi-spectral features and Haralick texture features as data source. We have used homogeneity, contrast, correlation, entropy and local homogeneity, which were the best texture features to improve the classification algorithm. The result will be compared with both a standard SVM classifier and a SVM classifier with a Graph Cuts approach that introduces spatial domain information applied as a post-classification. The proposed approach was tested on common scenes of urban imagery. Results showed that SVMs, especially with the use of Haralick texture features, outperform the SVM classifier with post-processing in term of the global accuracy. The experimental results indicate a mean accuracy value of 94.045 % which is very promising.
Expression and Characterization of Salt Stress Induced ABF Transcription Factors from French Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris)

ABA responsive element binding factor (ABF) plays an important role in stress responses via regulating the expression of stress-responsive genes. ABFis a bZIP transcription factor and functions in positive modulation of abiotic stress tolerance. It may be an important candidate gene for molecular breeding of stresstolerant plants. In this study, four ABF coding genes were isolated from French bean(Phaseolus vulgaris) under salt stress (400mM NaCl) conditions.All the four PvABFexhibits complete open reading frame of 1347 bp, encoding a 448 amino acid peptide, and shared high sequence identities with ABFs from other plants. PvABF was sub-cellular targeted to the nucleus, exhibited transactivation activity and could bind to ABF, supporting its role as a transcription factor. Expression levels of PvABFwere induced by treatments with Salt stress conditions.
Classification of Epistles using Distant Supervision

: We introduce a novel approach for automatically classifying the sentiment of Twitter messages. These messages are classified as either positive or negative with respect to a query term. This is useful for consumers who want to research the sentiment of products before purchase, or companies that want to monitor the public sentiment of their brands. There is no previous research on classifying sentiment of messages on microblogging services like Twitter. We present the results of machine learning algorithms for classifying the sentiment of Twitter messages using distant supervision. Our training data consists of Twitter messages with emoticons, which are used as noisy labels. This type of training data is abundantly available and can be obtained through automated means. We show that machine learning algorithms (Naive Bayes, Maximum Entropy, and SVM) have accuracy above 80% when trained with emoticon data. This paper also describes the preprocessing steps needed in order to achieve high accuracy. The main contribution of this paper is the idea of using tweets with emoticons for distant supervised learning.
A Study on Impact of Clinical Pharmacist Interventions on Relationship between Treatment Satisfaction and Medication Adherence in Hypertensive Patients

The primary aim of this study was to assess the relation between treatment satisfaction and medication adherence in hypertensive patients. Secondary objective of the study was to provide patient counselling and developing the levels of treatment satisfaction and medication adherence. A total of 200 patients were selected in the study period of 6 months. The socio-demographical data was gathered by using specially designed data collection form. The questionnaires like Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS) and Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM) were adopted in study. Out of 200 patients, 185 patients answered complete questionnaires; the majority were males 56.2%, non-adherent 54.6%. According to TSQM scale findings in the study, the components mean scores for the patients (N=185) were Effectiveness 75.5, Side Effects 89.1, Convenience 79.6 and Global Satisfaction 78.3. Further, the non-adherent dissatisfied patients were selected for their improvement of Treatment Satisfaction and medication adherence by one month patient follow-up. After one month patient follow-up there was a significant improvement in their adherence and satisfaction domains. Here the significance is based on the p value <0.05. The results of this study support the hypothesis that treatment satisfaction is reliable indicators of adherence to antihypertensive medications in patients presenting with hypertension.
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM): Evidence from Nigeria

In this paper, we apply the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to the Nigerian stock market using weekly stock returns from 110 companies listed on the Nigerian stock exchange (NSE) from January 2007 to February 2010. In order to enhance the precision of the beta estimates and reduce the statistical problems that arise from measurement errors in individual beta estimates, the securities were combined into portfolios. The results generally invalidate the CAPM’s predictions that higher risk (beta) is associated with a higher level of return and that the intercept should be equal to zero when estimating SML. The claim by the CAPM that the slope of the Security Market Line (SML) should equal the excess return on the market portfolio is also not supported by this study. This in effect, invalidates the prediction of the CAPM as far as Nigeria is concerned.
Bone Status in Hyperthyroidism: Impact of Severity, Duration, and Etiology of Hyperthyroidism on Bone Turnover Markers and Bone Mineral Density Soma

Background: Hyperthyroidism is accompanied by osteoporosis with higher incidence of fracture rates. The present work aimed to study bone status in hyperthyroidism and to elucidate the impact of severity, duration, and etiology of hyperthyroidism on biochemical markers of bone turnover and bone mineral density (BMD). Subjects& Methods: Fifty-two male patients with hyperthyroidism, 31 with Graves' disease (GD) and 21 with toxic multinodular goiter (TNG), with an age ranging from 23 to 65 years were included, together with 25 healthy euthyroid men with matched age as a control group. In addition to full clinical examination, patients and controls were subjected to measurement of BMD using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometery scanning of the lower half of the left radius. Also, biochemical markers of bone turnover were done for all patients and controls. Results: Biochemical markers of bone turnover: included serum bone specific alkaline phosphatase, osteocalcin, carboxy terminal telopeptide of type l collagen also, urinary deoxypyridinoline cross-links (DXP), urinary DXP/urinary creatinine ratio and urinary calcium/urinary creatinine ratio were significantly higher in patients with GD and TNG compared to controls (P<0.01). However, there was non-significant difference in these parameters between GD and TNG patients (P>0.05). BMD was significantly lower in GD and TNG compared to controls, but the Z-score of BMD at the lower half of the left radius in patients with GD (-1.7±0.5 SD) was not significantly different from those with TNG (-1.6±0.6 SD) (>0.05). There was significant positive correlation between free T3 and free T4 with biochemical markers of bone turnover, but negative correlation between TSH and these biochemical markers of bone turnover was observed. The duration of the thyrotoxic state positively correlated with the assessed bone turnover markers, but it is negatively correlated with the Z-score of BMD in the studied hyperthyroid patients (r=-0.68, P<0.0001). Conclusion: Men with hyperthyroidism have significant bone loss with higher biochemical markers of bone turnover. The severity and the duration of the thyrotoxic state are directly related to the derangement of biochemical markers of bone turnover and bone loss. [Soma Sherif Abd El Gawad, Mohamed Ghonaim, El Hadidy Mohamed El Hadidy and Mohamed Abou El Atta: Bone Status in Hyperthyroidism. Researcher. 2011;3(6):1-8]. (ISSN: 1553-9865). http://www.sciencepub. net.
Sustainability Performance in Infrastructure Projects In the State of Kuwait

The main aim of this study was to examine the sustainability performance of infrastructure projects in Kuwait by examining the sustainable performance of some of the largest infrastructure projects in Kuwait form the construction managers' point of view. A checklist was developed based on previous studies to measure the four main aspects of sustainable performance (economic, social, environmental, engineering/resource utilization) with the indicators that are following each aspect. The checklist was distributed to a sample of (50) construction managers who worked or still working in the largest infrastructure projects in Kuwait that were reported in 2015. The results revealed that there is a great interest in the social and economic aspects besides a setback in the environmental aspects. Therefore, it is necessary to incorporate all the sustainable performance indicators in the comprehensive plans of infrastructure projects in Kuwait in order to assure more sustainable practices.
EFFECT OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE ON EARNINGS MANAGEMENT OF BREWERY INDUSTRY

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of cooperate governance and ownership structure on earnings management of Brewery industries. 2004to 2013 was the period used for this study . Regression technique, was used to analyses the data, the result shows that CEO and Managerial ownership have positive significant effect on Earning management, the findings also reveal that price earnings ratio, Net assets per share of firm affect Earning Management.