Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
kidneys and effectiveness of endovascular treatment: a single-center experience. Ann Vasc Surg. 2014

The ACR Committee on Appropriateness Criteria and its expert panels have developed criteria for determining appropriate imaging examinations for diagnosis and treatment of specified medical condition(s). These criteria are intended to guide radiologists, radiation oncologists and referring physicians in making decisions regarding radiologic imaging and treatment. Generally, the complexity and severity of a patient’s clinical condition should dictate the selection of appropriate imaging procedures or treatments. Only those examinations generally used for evaluation of the patient’s condition are ranked. Other imaging studies necessary to evaluate other co-existent diseases or other medical consequences of this condition are not considered in this document. The availability of equipment or personnel may influence the selection of appropriate imaging procedures or treatments. Imaging techniques classified as investigational by the FDA have not been considered in developing these criteria; however, study of new equipment and applications should be encouraged. The ultimate decision regarding the appropriateness of any specific radiologic examination or treatment must be made by the referring physician and radiologist in light of all the circumstances presented in an individual examination.
New records of digenetic trematodes infecting Melanoides New records of digenetic trematodes infecting Melanoides tuberculata (O.F. Müller, 1774) in Florida, USA tuberculata (O.F. Müller, 1774) in Florida, USA

Melanoides tuberculata is a well-known invasive, freshwater snail and intermediate host for many species of parasitic trematodes. Despite being well established in Florida’s freshwater systems, little work has been conducted to document the associated trematodes of the snails. Live snails were collected from 11 sites from 25 locations sampled across the state of Florida, USA of which individuals from six sites were found to be infected with trematodes. Gross morphological characters and phylogenetic analysis using 18S rRNA and ITS2 gene regions, were used to identify these trematode taxa. Snails infected with the gill flukes, Centrocestus formosanus and Haplorchis pumilio (Heterophyidae) were found at two and four sites, respectively. While C. formosanus has been documented in this snail species in Florida, H. pumilio has not been documented in Florida before this study. The eye fluke, Philophthalmus sp. (Philophthalmidae) was found in two sites. This parasite was previously reported in Florida in birds but not in any snail hosts. An unidentifiable species of kidney fluke, Renicolidae sp. , and an unidentifiable species of bat fluke, Lecithodendriidae sp. , were found in one site each. Both Renicolidae sp. and Lecithodendriidae sp. are new North American records of trematodes infecting M. tuberculata , but whether they are they are of native or invasive origin is unknown. These new records of trematode taxa infecting M. tuberculata in Florida emphasizes the critical need for monitoring of invasive snails and their associated parasites.
EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF USING UAV-BASED SPECTRAL DATA AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION ON THE ESTIMATION OF GRAPEVINE WATER STATUS AT CANOPY LEVEL

: Monitoring and management of grapevine water status (GWS) over the critical period between flowering and veraison, plays a significant role in producing grapes of premium quality. GWS is an integrated response to cultivation practices, climatic, and soil/terrain factors, but which of these variables are the main drivers of GWS variation remains unclear. An understanding of this is essential to irrigation management and decision-making. The goal of this study is to provide viticulturists insights into how the variation in canopy GWS relates to vegetation, climatic, and soil/terrain variables over the critical period. An unmanned aerial vehicle was flown over canopies and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) images with a 4.3 cm pixel resolution were created of the canopy volume for individual grapevines. Other data included soil and terrain variables, slope and elevation extracted from the digital elevation model (DEM), and apparent electrical conductivity (EC a ) obtained from an EM38 survey. Weather variables from an automated weather station provided continuous air temperature, humidity, rainfall, windspeed, irradiance
On Gap-dependent Bounds for Ofﬂine Reinforcement Learning

This paper presents a systematic study on gap-dependent sample complexity in ofﬂine reinforcement learning. Prior work showed when the density ratio between an optimal policy and the behavior policy is upper bounded (the optimal policy coverage assumption), then the agent can achieve an O � 1 ✏ 2 � rate, which is also minimax optimal. We show under the optimal policy coverage assumption, the rate can be improved to O � 1 ✏ � when there is a positive sub-optimality gap in the optimal Q -function. Furthermore, we show when the visitation probabilities of the behavior policy are uniformly lower bounded for states where an optimal policy’s visitation probabilities are positive (the uniform optimal policy coverage assumption), the sample complexity of identifying an optimal policy is independent of 1 ✏ . Lastly, we present nearly-matching lower bounds to complement our gap-dependent upper bounds.
University of Birmingham Interaction between interpersonal and postural coordination during frequency scaled rhythmic sway

Light fingertip touch between partners swaying rhythmically side by side evokes interpersonal synchrony. In non-dancers and dancers swaying to a metronome, we examined the effects of frequency scaling and touch between the partners on both postural (ankle-hip) and inter-personal coordination. In both groups, touch did not interfere with the ankle-hip coordination. In non-dancers but not dancers, increasing frequency resulted in a loss of the ankle-hip coupling that was accompanied by a reduction of the touch mediated interpersonal synchrony. It is suggested that the effect of touch on interpersonal synchrony depends on the reliability of the haptic information sensed at the fingertip and assumes an in phase ankle-hip coupling. These findings have implications in clinical practice when using touch to help balance impaired individuals.
Effect of Foliar Application of Bio and Micronutrients Fertilizer on Increasing Productivity of Fenugreek Yield

Two field experiments were carried out at Wadi El-Rayan, Fayoum Governorate, Egypt, during the two successive winter seasons of 2011/2012and 2012/2013 to study the foliar applications effect of Yeast Bread and Fetrilon Combi-2 at three rates and mixture on growth, yield , yield components and chemical constituents of two fenugreek cultivars. The results could be summarized as follows : Significant differences were found among the studied fenugreek cultivars at 75 and 105 days from sowing , plant height (cm),number of branches and leaves /m 2 (g),leaf area (cm 2 ),leaf area index, specific leaf area and specific leaf weight except leaf area index at 105 days from sowing. Also there were significant differences between two fenugreek cultivars in yield and its components. Giza-3 cultivar significantly exceeded Giza-2 cultivar in all yield characters under study. Protein , carbohydrate and oil percentage of fenugreek seeds significantly affected by cultivars. Giza- 3 cultivar significantly surpassed Giza-2 cultivar in protein and oil percentage, while Giza-2 cultivar significantly exceeded Giza-3 cultivar in carbohydrate percentage. The effect of foliar application on growth parameters was significant. Foliar application of Yeast Bread + Fetrilon Combi-2 at 400 L/ fed. was superior in respect of plant height ,number of branches and leaves /m 2 (g ), total dry weight /m 2 (g),leaf area (cm 2 ),leaf area index, specific leaf area and specific leaf weight. Yield and yield components of fenugreek plants significantly affected by the foliar application of Yeast Bread, Fetrilon Combi-2 and mixture of them. The highest values were recorded by the plants spraying with Yeast Bread + Fetrilon Combi-2 at 400 L/ fed. Plants treated with Fetrilon Combi-2 at 400 L/fed. , were much superior in seed content of protein, carbohydrate and oil percentage. Data concluded that spraying Giza-3 cultivar with Yeast Bread + Fetrilon Combi-2 at rate of 400 L/fed. , could be useful for improving the productivity and nutrient status of fenugreek plants at Wadi El- Rayan, Fayoum Governorate, Egypt. Kew words: Fenugreek- Yeast Bread- Micronutrients Fertilizer- Yield.
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Scope: To characterize diet-dependent miRNA profiles and their targets in the visceral adipose of mice with polygenic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes. Methods and results: Six-week NONcNZO10/LtJ (NZ10) and control SWR/J mice were subjected to high protein-fish oil or control diets for 19 weeks and micro-RNA microarray analyses were implemented on visceral adipose RNA. We found that 27 miRNAs were significantly induced and 10 significantly repressed in the VA of obese NZ10 mice compared with controls. 12 selected regulated miRNAs were confirmed by RT-PCR based on the microarray data and we demonstrated that the expression of these miRNAs remained unaltered in the VA of control SWR mice. To assess the possible functional roles of miRNAs in adipogenesis, we also analyzed their expression in 3T3-L1 cells during growth and differentiation. This revealed that suppression of miRNA-205 alone correlated selectively with increased cell proliferation and lipid formation of adipocytes. Conclusion: Diet and genetics control the expression of obesity-regulated miRNAs in the visceral adipose of NZ10 mice.
Heliotropism in Trillium grandiﬂorum provides increased reproductive success

Heliotropism of ﬂowers is thought to provide a reproductive advantage to individuals of many species; yet, there are few clear demonstrations of a ﬁtness advantage provided by heliotropism, most of which are almost completely restricted to plants from the arctic or alpine regions where a heat gain provides an advantage to the plants. In this study, we report heliotropism in the white trillium, an early spring blooming species from the temperate forests of eastern North America. The white trillium shows horizontal seasonal heliotropism with ﬂowers mainly facing south throughout the summer, but it also exhibits daily horizontal and vertical heliotropism with the orientation of the ﬂower tracking the sun during the day. The study of 479 tethered plants indicated that seasonal heliotropism provides a reproductive advantage to the white trillium, with south-facing individuals showing a 12% increase in fertilized ovules compared to north-facing plants. The ecology of this long-lived perennial is, in many aspects, similar to that of alpine and arctic heliotropic species. Indeed, white trilliums are insect-pollinated and they ﬂower when the weather is cold, before the trees leaf out. This suggests that there are potentially more species for which heliotropism is advantageous amongst early spring ﬂowers from the temperate forest.
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The importance, and associated challenges, of faculty ownership and engagement in the Assurance of Learning (AoL) process are well documented in the literature. This paper demonstrates how schools can further their AoL objectives by encouraging and subsequently supporting organic, faculty led initiatives. Specifically, we present a case study of a faculty led initiative to explore and demonstrate, as a proof of concept, how Lean Six-Sigma (LSS) can be used to improve AoL practices.
Motivating Language and Employee Outcomes: A Multinational Motivating Language and Employee Outcomes: A Multinational Investigation Investigation

Purpose – This study aims to examine the impact of managerial use of motivating language on employee absenteeism, turnover intention, job satisfaction and job performance for employees from three nations: India, the USA and Vietnam. Design/methodology/approach – Data is collected from 614 employees working in India, the USA and Vietnam. A variance-based partial least squares structural equation modeling technique is used to test the hypotheses. In addition, a statistical test is used to examine the statistical differences in the results across the three nations. Findings – The ﬁndings are consistent with the motivating language theory, in that managerial use of motivating language can be an effective strategy in motivating employees. Speciﬁcally, motivating language is found to signiﬁcantly decrease employee absenteeism and turnover intention, as well as signiﬁcantly increase job satisfaction and performance across the three nations. The effect sizes indicate that, across all samples, motivating language has a medium effect for all employee outcomes, except absenteeism, which is shown to have a small effect size. Moreover, the results indicate that employees in different cultures perceive and interpret the leader ’ s use of motivating language in different ways. Whereas motivating language may receive greater success in promoting workers ’ job performance in eastern cultures, it is also more effective in retaining employees in western cultures. Originality/value – The study adds to the literature in three major ways. First, it provides evidence for two understudied relationships: motivating language and absenteeism and motivating language and turnover intention. Second, it assesses the generalizability of the motivating language theory by investigating data from India, the USA and Vietnam. Finally, this paper offers a statistical comparison of the three samples to analyze how the relationship between motivating language and worker outcomes differ among the three samples
Identification and Integration of Key-Metabolic Reactions from Untargeted Metabolomics Data

Metabolomics has become increasingly popular in biological and biomedical 1 research, especially for multi-omics studies, due to the many associations of 2 metabolism with diseases. This development is driven by improvements in metabo- 3 lite identification and generating large amounts of data increasing the need for 4 computational solutions for data interpretation. We present mantra , an approach 5 to estimate how metabolic reactions change their activity between biological con- 6 ditions without requiring absolute quantification of metabolites. Starting with a 7 data-specific metabolic network we utilize linear models between substrates and 8 products of a metabolic reaction to approximate deviations in activity. The obtained 9 estimates can subsequently be used for network enrichment and integration with 10 other omics data. By applying mantra to untargeted metabolomics measurements 11 of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer biopsies, we show that it can accurately pinpoint 12 biomarkers. On a dataset of stool metabolomics from Inflammatory Bowel Dis- 13 ease patients, we demonstrate that predictions on our proposed reaction metric 14 generalize to an independent validation cohort and that it can be used for multi- 15 omics network integration. By allowing mechanistic interpretation we facilitate 16 knowledge extraction from metabolomics experiments.
Clinical evaluation of locking compression plate fixation for comminuted olecranon fractures

Background: In patients managed with plate ﬁxation for the treatment of an olecranon fracture, the placement of an axial intramedullary screw may obstruct the placement of bicortical screws in the ulnar shaft. To overcome this problem, unicortical screws can be applied with use of a contoured locking compression plate. The present study was designed to assess the effectiveness of this ﬁxation method. Methods: Nineteen consecutive patients with an acute comminuted olecranon fracture were managed with a contoured locking compression plate and intramedullary screw ﬁxation. Sixteen patients were available for follow-up at a minimum of twelve months after ﬁxation. Patient-based outcomes were assessed, and patient satisfaction and pain were evaluated. Results: All nineteen fractures healed. The mean time to fracture union was four months. The mean Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand score was 13. According to the Mayo Elbow Performance Index and the Broberg and Morrey grading system, ﬁfteen of the sixteen patients with at least one year of follow-up had a good or excellent outcome. Nine patients underwent hardware removal at a mean of twelve months postoperatively. The mean elbow extension deﬁcit in these patients improved signiﬁcantly from 34 (cid:2) to 10 (cid:2) following hardware removal. The mean ﬂexion improved from 118 (cid:2) to 138 (cid:2) , but this difference was not signiﬁcant. Conclusions: In the treatment of comminuted olecranon fractures, a contoured locking compression plate combined with an intramedullary screw provides sufﬁcient stability for early postoperative functional rehabilitation, with an excellent fracture union rate and very good clinical outcomes.
Credit , Asset Prices , and Financial Stress in Canada

In the report, Credit, Asset Prices, and Financial Stress in Canada, authors Miroslav Misina, Pierre St-Amant, and Greg Tkacz describe work done at the Bank of Canada on conceptualizing and measuring financial stress, and their recent work that examined the performance of various measures of credit and asset prices as early-warning indicators of financial system vulnerability, both historically and in the latest episode.
Effect of planting methods, plastic mulches and training systems on soil temperature, soil moisture and tomato yield under open field conditions

The present investigation was carried out to study the performance of tomato (var. Solan Lalima) crop under open field conditions with two different planting methods, three types of mulch treatments and two types of training systems. This experiment was conducted at Vegetable Research Farm of DR YSP, UHF, Nauni, Solan during the period from March to September, 2017-18 and similarly for the period from March to September, 2018-19. The highest soil temperature was recorded under black mulch followed by silver/black polythene mulch and no mulch plot treatments during the standard meteorological week (March to September). It was found to be higher by about 1 to 10ºC as compared to no mulch plot. Soil moisture was found to be higher in those treatments where silver/black mulch was used as compared to black mulch plot under the open field conditions. But there was no definite pattern observed under mulched or no mulched conditions. Highest yield (140.71 kg/plot) was obtained under the raised bed planting system, black mulch and two stem training system and the corresponding value being 136.16 kg/plot for raised bed planting method, silver/black mulch and two stem training system.
Limnological study of Malilangwe reservoir in the South-eastern lowveld of Zimbabwe

2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT . 4 GENERAL INTRODUCTION . 10 Justification of study . 12 General objective . 12 Thesis structure . 13 Study area . 15 Introduction . 15 Rainfall . 17 Temperature . 18 Relief and drainage . 19 Catchment and runoff . 19 Lake geology . 20 Water volumes . 21 THE PHYSICOCHEMICAL LIMNOLOGY AND STRATIFICATION OF A SMALL TROPICAL AFRICAN RESERVOIR AND THE APPLICATION OF A 1-LAYER PAMOLARE MODEL FOR EUTROPHICATION MANAGEMENT . 25 INTRODUCTION . 26 METHODS . 28 Study area . 28 Stratification . 29 Basic water quality measurements . 30 Laboratory Procedures . 30 Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) . 30 Nitrate – nitrogen . 30 Ammonia . 30 Total suspended solids (TSS) . 31 Total Nitrogen (TN) . 31 Reactive phosphorus (RP) . 31 Total phosphorus (TP) . 31 Nutrient loading . 32 One-layer PAMOLARE model . 32 RESULTS . 33 Stratification . 33 Seasonal variation in dissolved oxygen and temperature . 33
Evaluation of Drought Tolerance in Bread Wheat Advanced Genotypes in Field and Laboratory Conditions

هب نـيلا و ماـقرا زا يدادعت يكشخ لمحت يبايزرا روظنم و هـعرزم رد يشـهوژپ ،ناـن مدـنگ ةتفرشـيپ ياـه هاگشيامزآ ) هناوج ةلحرم ينز ( جنا دش ما . هعرزم شيامزآ رد يا 20 كوـلب حرـط بلاق رد نان مدنگ پيتونژ ياـه دندـش يبايزرا لصف ياهتنا يتبوطر شنت و شنت نودب طيارش رد و راركت هس اب يفداصت لماك . دروـم ياـهراميت ليروتكاف تابيكرت ،يهاگشيامزآ يبايزرا رد يسررب 20 يكشـخ شنـت حطـس راهچ و هعلاطم دروم پيتونژ ) ،رفـص 4 / 0 ، 8 / 0 و 2 / 1 لاكساپاگم ( دندوب . دـش ارـجا رارـكت هـس اـب يفداصـت ًلاماـك حرـط بـلاق رد شياـمزآ نيا . پيتونژ يـنعم تواـفت شنـت نودب و شنت طيارش رد هناد دركلمع رظن زا يسررب دروم ياه دنتـشاد يراد . جياـتن صخاش نيب يگتسبمه ليلحت هـك داد ناشـن هناد دركلمع و يكشخ هب تمواقم ياه شنـت لـمحت صخاـش (STI) ، هرهب نيگنايم صخاش يرو (MP) صخاش و هرـهب يسدنه نيگنايم يرو (GMP) پـيتونژ يياـسانش يارـب اـب ياـه دنتسه بسانم يكشخ شنت نودب و شنت طيارش ود ره رد لااب دركلمع . هب صخاش ساسا رب يلك روط تمواقم ياه پيتونژ هناد دركلمع رب ينتبم يكشخ هب هرامش ياه 18 و 19 هب پيتونژ ناونع يكشـخ شنـت ةدـننك لـمحت ياه دندش هتخانش . هزادنا تافص يمامت يكشخ شنت حوطس شيازفا رثا رد ،يهاگشيامزآ يسررب رد شهاك هدش يريگ دنتفاي . هناوج تعرس هناوج دصرد هب تبسن ينز تـشاد يكشخ هب يرتشيب تيساسح ينز . هقاـس لوـط رد زـين هـچ هشير لوط اب هسياقم زا هچ دوب رادروخرب يكشخ هب يرتشيب تيساسح . هناوج ةينب يـسررب تافص رياس هب تبسن ينز هب ،هدش ساسح ناونع دـش هتخانـش يكشـخ هـب تفـص نيرـت . پـيتونژ يهاگشـيامزآ يـسررب رد هرامـش ياـه 2 ) سارك زربلا ( ، 6 و 13 پيتونژ رياس هب تبسن هناوج ةلحرم رد يرتلااب يكشخ لمحت زا اه ب رادروخرب ينز دندو . رد هزادنا تافص نيب قيقحت نيا اب هاگشيامزآ رد هدش يريگ STI ينعم ةطبار دشن هدهاشم يراد . جياـتن نيا ساسا رب هناوج تافص هب ينز پيتونژ باختنا تهج ميقتسم ريغ ياهرايعم ناونع هب لمحتم ياه دشر ةيلوا لحارم رد يكشخ دندوبن بسانم .
↵ -ReQ : Assessing representation quality by measuring eigenspectrum decay

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) with large-scale unlabelled datasets enables learning useful representations for multiple downstream tasks. However, efﬁciently assessing the quality of such representations poses nontrivial challenges. Existing approaches train linear probes (with frozen features) to evaluate performance on a given task. This is expensive both computationally , since it requires retraining a new prediction head for each downstream task, and statistically , which requires task-speciﬁc labels for multiple tasks. This poses a natural question, how do we efﬁciently determine the "goodness" of representations learned with SSL across a wide range of potential downstream tasks? In particular, a task-agnostic statistical measure of representation quality that predicts generalization without explicit downstream task evaluation would be highly desirable. In this work, we analyze characteristics of learned representations f ✓ in well-trained neural networks with canonical architectures & across SSL objectives. We observe that the eigenspectrum of the empirical feature covariance Cov( f ✓ ) can be well approximated with the family of a power-law distribution. We analytically and empirically (using multiple datasets, e.g. CIFAR, STL10, MIT67, ImageNet) demonstrate that the decay coefﬁcient ↵ serves as a measure of representation quality for tasks that are solvable with a linear readout, that is, there exist well-deﬁned intervals for ↵ where models exhibit excellent downstream generalization. Furthermore, our experiments suggest that key design parameters in SSL algorithms, such as BarlowTwins [1], implicitly modulate the decay coefﬁcient of the eigenspectrum ( ↵ ). As ↵ depends only on the features themselves, this measure for model selection with hyperparameter tuning for BarlowTwins enables the search with less compute.