Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Conditioned Random Walks from Kac-moody Root Systems

Random paths are time continuous interpolations of random walks. By using Lit-telmann path model, we associate to each irreducible highest weight module of a Kac Moody algebra g a random path W. Under suitable hypotheses, we make explicit the probability of the event E: " W never exits the Weyl chamber of g ". We then give the law of the random walk defined by W conditioned by the event E and prove this law can be recovered by applying to W a path transform of Pitman type. This generalizes the main results of [15] and [10] to Kac Moody root systems and arbitrary highest weight modules. Our approach here is new and more algebraic that in [15] and [10]. We indeed fully exploit the symmetry of our construction under the action of the Weyl group of g which permits to avoid delicate generalizations of the results of [10] on renewal theory.
The Determinants of Terrorism: What Lessons for a Developing Country?

-The aim of this study is to analyze the determinants of terrorism for a developing country, Tunisia, strongly affected by such dynamics. Our empirical study is based on an estimate using the ARDL model on annual data for the period 1987 to 2019. The results have revealed that there is a short and long term relationship between various social and economic variables and terrorism. These findings have important policy implications for economic agents, politicians as well as for policy makers. Indeed, our work helps to identify the socio-economic determinants of terrorism. In addition, our analysis can serve as a dashboard for policymakers to analyze the short and long term effects of various social and economic variables on terrorism.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NEUTROPHIL-TO-LYMPHOCYTE RATIO (NLR) AND LYMPHOCYTE-TO-MONOCYTE RATIO (LMR) AS PREDICTIVE INDICATORS IN COVID-19

Background: A prompt clinical diagnosis in Covid 19 is easily made due to recent scientific advances but it is still difficult to prognosticate the patients in early stages. As the disease carries high mortality it is important to predict the outcome and manage accordingly right from the onset. These prognostic markers should also be widely available and cost effective. So we tried to study NLR, LMR in covid 19 with varying severity, its impact on progression and outcome. The aims and objectives are to investigate and compare the NLR and LMR in admitted patients of COVID-19 with varying severity and to correlate NLR and LMR with disease progression, severity, and outcome in covid patients. Materials and Methods: Three hundred laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 records were studied in a retrospective observational study at the Department of Medicine, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, from June 2021-June 2022. Out of 300, 100 cases were mild, 100 cases were moderate and 100 belonged to severe category based on the WHO criteria of clinical severity of Covid 19. (Mild Disease (n=100), Moderate Disease (n=100), and Severe Disease (n=100)). Detailed history, vital signs, complete blood cell count (CBC) at admission, and inflammatory markers (mainly serum ferritin, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, CRP, serum lactate dehydrogenase, D-Dimer) & high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT)- chest (wherever indicated) were recorded. NLR and LMR in all patients were calculated. The duration of hospital stay and outcome of each patient, along with the type of respiratory support needed by each patient, was also recorded. Result: In out study population, COVID-19 infection was more common in patients with 41-50 years (24%), followed by 51-60 years (18.7%) and 31-40 years (18%). There was slight male preponderance (Males were 58.3% whilst females were 41.7%. Mean NLR was significantly higher in severe Covid-19 cases (6.96±3.8) compared to moderate cases (4.48±3.45) and mild cases (3.31±2.44) (p<0.001). No significant association was obtained between LMR and disease severity (p=0.154). Receptor operating curve analysis found that NLR, LMR, and CRP were significant prognostic markers for the severity of the disease. The area under the curve was highest for NLR (0.846; p<0.001) among the significant parameters. The area under the curve for LMR was 0.154, which is considered a poor instrument in predicting the outcome as per the AUC value, suggesting no value as per the AUC. On univariate analysis, NLR was found to have a significant OR (1.387). Conclusion: High NLR but not LMR was significantly associated with the disease severity and mortality in COVID-19.
Restructuring of Post-Crisis GPNs: Tourism in Indonesia

Abstract Global production network (GPN) maps are not static, and both incremental and major changes can and do occur. This study examines one potentially game-changing scenario, that is, the effect of an external shock. The most damaging of these are severe shocks brought about by economic or terrorist events. Three types of shocks relevant in the case studies of Bali and Sulawesi presented here were the devastating Bali bombs, which fundamentally changed the GPN for low-end mass tourism of Australian origin; the financial crises of 1998 and 2008, which sucked the lifeblood out of the market; and ethnic tensions in Sulawesi, which scared away virtually all tourism from Sulawesi. This paper attempts to show that there can be significant differences in these maps, ‘pre-’ and ‘post-shock’. The paper also discusses the nature of coping by workers in tourism as employment and incomes fell.
Private Bene�ts, Public Harms, and Citizen Participation in Corruption: a Field Experiment in Nairobi, Kenya

In a two-stage �eld experiment (N = 1,403) in Nairobi, Kenya, we demonstrate that citizens’ own self-interest legitimates common instances of corruption but concerns for harming others subsequently attenuates real willingness to participate in it. An in-person vignette experiment that manipulates the reason bribes are commonly paid demonstrates that public support for bribery is highest when bribes function as a cooperative arrangement with o�cials that helps citizens avoid consequences of their own mistakes and misdeeds, even though participants also recognize that these self-interested bribes cause signi�cant harm to other citizens and institutions. In a follow-up behavioral experiment, the same respondents were offered an opportunity to cooperate with a corrupt o�cial to receive a disproportionate cash payment following their participation in the study. Willingness to engage in the corrupt transaction was signi�cantly reduced by a subtle reminder that accepting the additional funds could result in monetary loss to other citizens. We compare our results to earlier work using laboratory-based bribery games and discuss the potential for anti-corruption strategies based on the same types of social group preferences normally regarded as detrimental to macro-level collective action.
The Value of Ultrasound Diagnostic Imaging of Meniscal Knee Injuries Verified by Experimental and Arthroscopic Investigations

(1) Introduction: Meniscal knee injuries may develop as the result of trauma or overloading. Ultrasound imaging is an observer-dependent modality, meaning that the assessment of structural damage depends on the investigator’s experience. None of the published papers provides a standardized method for ultrasound examination of knee menisci. The main goal of this study is to realize and standardize ultrasound imaging diagnostics of meniscal knee injuries based on individual features of ultrasound presentation and to evaluate the applicability of this modality in clinical practice. (2) Material and methods: This study consisted of two anatomical parts, including a clinical part that started with clinical examination of 50 patients with suspected meniscal knee injuries. After this we performed ultrasound examinations in patients with positive clinical test results, using sonographic confirmation for inclusion in the next stage. Finally, knee arthroscopy by two physicians in an operating room was performed, with procedures documented through photographs and video recordings, and analytic material obtained from patients in the control group documented similarly. (3) Results: In the clinical part of the study, arthroscopic examination revealed 13 longitudinal injuries (corresponding to 36% of all injuries in the group), 14 multidirectional injuries (corresponding to 28% of all injuries), 3 radial injuries (corresponding to 6% of all injuries), and 20 oblique injuries (corresponding to 40% of all injuries). The analysis of the sensitivity and specificity of the diagnostic test in terms of recognizing actual meniscal injuries on the basis of full-thickness or partial-thickness delamination, meniscal cyst oedema, and articular space stenosis revealed that the presence of at least two of these three characteristics was associated with the sensitivity of 88% and the specificity of 86% relative to the number of actual meniscal injuries as seen in arthroscopic examination. (4) Conclusions: Research results confirm that clinical examination combined with ultrasound imaging is a very efficient tool for evaluation of meniscal injuries.
Transcriptome pro�ling of a synergistic volumetric muscle loss repair strategy

Volumetric muscle loss overwhelms skeletal muscle’s ordinarily capable regenerative machinery, resulting in severe functional de�cits that have de�ed clinical repair strategies. In this manuscript we pair the early in vivo functional response induced by differing volumetric muscle loss tissue engineering repair strategies that are broadly representative of those explored by the �eld (scaffold alone, cells alone, or scaffold + cells) to the transcriptomic response induced by each intervention. We demonstrate that an implant strategy comprising allogeneic decellularized skeletal muscle scaffolds seeded with autologous minced muscle cellular paste (scaffold + cells) mediates a pattern of increased expression for several genes known to play roles in axon guidance and peripheral neuroregeneration, as well as several other key genes related to in�ammation, phagocytosis, and extracellular matrix regulation. The upregulation of several key genes in the presence of both implant components suggests a unique synergy between scaffolding and cells in the early period following intervention that is not seen when either scaffolds or cells are used in isolation; a �nding that invites further exploration of the interactions that could have a positive impact on the treatment of volumetric muscle loss.
Into the Abyss: Occupational Segregation of Immigrant Workers and the Spanish Crisis 2006-2012

Spain became one of the world’s top immigration destinations in the 21st century, with the share of migrants in employment climbing to a peak of 17% just as the crisis hit the country. How did these immigrants fare in a rigid labour market as the housing bubble burst and recession brought soaring unemployment? Our paper explores the occupational segregation of Spain’s immigrants and finds that it declined in the wake of the crisis. The improvement, however, obscures massive job destruction in temporary jobs and in the low-skilled sectors where foreigners were concentrated. The results point to the need for better skills and training and measures to tackle the deep permanent/temporary contract divides in Spain, to protect migrant workers as well as unskilled Spaniards.
IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY FOR EMBEDDING IN LSB METHOD BASED DIGITAL IMAGE WATERMARKING

The internet revolution has caused the current dramatic reform of multimedia applications. The progression of the internet has significantly eased the transfer of data/image, making the transfer faster and more accurate. However, such advancement has also facilitated modification and misuse of valuable information, by way of hacking. Digital watermarking has been proposed to protect the copyright of multimedia data. A watermark encompassing a form, image or text is embedded. Hiding information is an effective solution for the protection of copyright and confidentiality to allow a person to send the data in the middle of the cover image to a person without knowing any third party in this transmission, methods of delivering secret messages are very important. This research provides a way to hide data (which is a text file) after is encrypted adoption method (Keyword Mixed Transposition) to produce cipher text is included in Low– High coefficient wavelet transform and get a good quality image and the possibility of recovering fully embedded message and decoded without relying on the original image. Results have applied to the digital images to get inline images to the data with a high correlation coefficient when compared with the original images in addition to that they gave a few differences when calculating measurements (SNR, PSNR, MSE) This study demonstrates the implementation of watermarking technique, both the invisible using (Least Significant Bit) algorithm and visible forms. Further, image watermarking and various security issues are reviewed. Countless attacks were attempted on the watermarked images. Then, their effects on the quality of images were examined. Image Watermarking using Least Significant Bit (LSB) algorithm was applied for message/logo embedment into the image and the Experiments have shown that the proposed embedding process has increased the embedding efficiency as it does not require going through all bits to modify.
The Lower Permian Abo Formation in Central New Mexico

In central New Mexico, the Lower Permian (middle-upper Wolfcampian) Abo Formation generally overlies the Upper Pennsylvanian (Newwellian) Bursum Formation disconformably and is conformably overlain by the Lower Permian (Leonardian) Yeso Group. The Abo Formation is 100-309 m thick and can be divided into two members: (1) lower, Scholle Member, 40-140 m thick, mostly mudstone; and (2) upper, Cañon de Espinoso Member, 58-256 m thick, characterized by numerous sheet-like beds of sandstone. Across central New Mexico, the Abo Formation is a relatively uniform unit that is almost entirely mudstone and sandstone; minor lithologies are shale, siltstone, calcrete and intraformational conglomerate. Abo Formation vertebrate fossils are of Coyotean age (late Virgilian-late Wolfcampian), and regional correlations indicate that the Abo Formation in central New Mexico is of middle-late Wolfcampian age. Trace fossils from the Abo Formation are an ichnoassemblage of rhizoliths, arthropod locomotion and feeding traces and tetrapod footprints of the Scoyenia ichnofacies. Fossil plants from the Abo Formation are mostly conifers and belong to two paleofloras: (1) red siltstone assemblages that are of low diversity at any given sampling site, and almost always dominated by either conifers or the peltasperm Supaia; (2) green shale/siltstone assemblages, locally more diverse, and still dominated by conifers, but with a significant component of cordaitaleans, callipterid peltasperms, and a wide variety of wetland plants. Invertebrate body fossils are rare and are only known in a carbonaceous shale in the northern Sandia Mountains (conchostracans) and the green shale, estuarine facies of the Abo Formation in the Caballo Mountains, which yields gastropods and diverse bivalves, including euryhaline pectins and myalinids. Vertebrate body fossils are mostly localized in strata of the Scholle Member and are a pelycosaur-dominated assemblage that includes lungfishes, palaeoniscoids, temnospondyl and lepospondyl amphibians, and
Nano-based composite - A successful treatment and preventive measure for coccidiosis in chickens

The parasitic Eimeria species are very harmful to chickens. The chicken sector suffers enormous �nancial losses as a result of these parasites, primarily due to reduced production e�ciency and increased control costs. Clinical coccidiosis is caused by high levels of Eimeriainfection, which is a serious hazard to chicken welfare and a contributing factor in necrotic enteritis. Controlling Eimeria parasites and coccidiosis is thus a critical endeavor; several methods have been developed, and they are frequently used in tandem. Because of their enormous surface area to volume ratio and rapid absorption in the body, nanoparticles can be introduced to feed and provide a good platform for incorporating in diverse chemicals, such as vitamin supplements. We investigate the current state of formula product utilization as a chicken feed additive, as well as the bene�ts and drawbacks of nano-feed. The major goal of this experiment is to examine whether the attack of cecal coccidia (E. tenella) isolated in the wild in Taiwan has been prevented by adding the nano silica composite as additives into the daily edible feed and drinking water of chickens, as described in the experimental design. The prevention and treatment outcomes will serve as a resource for relevant practitioners.
Bioinformatics of Microbes and Microbiomes A Bayesian Multi-Task Approach for Detecting Global Microbiome Associations

Motivation: The human gut microbiome has been shown to be associated with a variety of human diseases, including cancer, metabolic conditions and inﬂammatory bowel disease. Current statistical techniques for microbiome association studies are limited by relying on measures of ecological distance, or only allowing for the detection of associations with individual bacterial species, rather than the whole microbiome. Results: In this work, we develop a novel Bayesian multi-task approach for detecting global microbiome associations. Our method is not dependent on a choice of distance measure, and is able to incorporate phylogenetic information about microbial species. We apply our method to simulated data and show that it allows for consistent estimation of global microbiome effects. Additionally, we investigate the performance of the model on two real-world microbiome studies: a study of microbiome-metabolome associations in inﬂammatory bowel disease (Beamish, 2017), and a study of associations between diet and the gut microbiome in mice (Turnbaugh et al. , 2009). We show that we can use the method to reliably detect associations in real-world datasets with varying numbers of samples and covariates. Availability: Our method is implemented using the R interface to the Stan Hamiltonian
potential biomarkers for the early diagnosis of cellular

Agricultural workers involved in the harvest of tobacco crops are regularly exposed to large quantities of pesticides. In order to determine how this exposure to pesticides induces genetic alterations in these workers, blood samples were obtained from 77 exposed individuals, as well as from 60 unexposed subjects. DNA damage was analyzed by the Comet assay and by the micronucleus (MN) test. The antioxidant pro ﬁ le was evaluated by activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD), and the polymorphism of gene PON1 was used as a susceptibility biomarker. The content of inorganic elements in the blood samples was determined by PIXE analysis. Our results demonstrated that the damage frequency, damage index, the MN frequency, and the SOD activity were signi ﬁ cantly elevated in the exposed relative to the unexposed group. A modulation of the MN results for the PON1 gene was observed in the exposed group. The concentrations of inorganic elements in the exposed group were higher compared to those of the unexposed group. In this study, we observed that genetic damage, and change in oxidative balance were induced by the exposure of workers to complex mixtures of pesticides in the presence of inorganic compounds, whereby an in ﬂ uence of the genotype was evident.
EVALUATION OF SUCCESSFUL ERP-BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS WITH DELONE AND MCLEAN INFORMATION SUCCESS MODEL

Private companies in case studies are engaged in companies that provide goods and services in the field of IT (Information Technology) and use ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) as a solution to carry out the company's operational activities. The private company that is the site of a new case study was established in 2015 and only has about 60 employees. The costs incurred by the company for ERP implementation are significant, while the implementation results have never been evaluated or measured. Therefore, it must be re-evaluated to find out what factors can affect the success of the implementation with the expected results of ERP as a basis to add new modules if needed. DeLone and McLean's success measurement method is used as a modelling in researching with six measurements: System Quality, Information Quality, Use, User Satisfaction, Individual Impact, and Organization Impact. The sample that will be the object of the research is as many as 30 people, and the data taken is processed using SmartPLS. The results showed that four hypotheses were rejected, and four theories were accepted. The research indicates that ERP Information Quality has a significant influence on Use, ERP Information Quality has a considerable influence on ERP User Satisfaction, ERP User Satisfaction has significant power on the Individual Impact of ERP, and Individual Impact of ERP has a substantial effect on the Impact of ERP Organizations on private companies.
Opleiding Informatica The effect of humanoid embodiment on the perceived intelligence, usability, likability and animacy of reception robots

The use of robots in daily life has become increasingly popular in recent times. Robots are nowadays used in different fields of work such as education and elderly care. A lot of research has already been done within the research field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) to improve the interaction. Anthropomorphism is for example an important factor. Research has also been conducted on the physical and virtual appearance of robots, as well as on robots with different personalities. In this study, we investigate the effect of using different humanoid robots in a receptionist setting. We investigate the effect on the following aspects: Animacy, perceived intelligence, likeability, and usability. To investigate this, we divide this study into three parts. First, we conducted a requirement study, where we attempted to determine, through questioning students, what the key tasks should be that the reception robot should be able to perform. Additionally, we conducted a pilot study. The purpose of this pilot study was to test the interaction we built based on the key tasks identified in the requirement study. The findings from the pilot study were used to enhance the final interaction used for the effect study. Lastly, we conducted an effect study. The purpose of this effect study was to examine the impact of various robot embodiment on animacy, likeability, perceived intelligence, and usability. The results show that only in terms of animacy, a statistically significant effect can be found. The NAO robot had the highest perceived animacy and this difference was significant with the Alpha Mini. For the other three aspects, there was no statistically significant effect found.