Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Experimental characterization of the Underground UWB channel

Results from parametric modeling of the indoor channel frequency response for very large number of sweeps over a frequency range of 3 GHz to 10 GHz are presented. The characterization of the frequency-dependence of the ultra wideband mining channel across the considered bandwidth is addressed and the smooth frequency response is evaluated using an Auto Regression (AR) method, which is proved in this study, sufficient to better approximate each recorded frequency response. This study concludes that the number of poles needed to describe the AR process is always less than 2 in the studied area. The appropriated poles of the model are obtained by minimizing the root means squared error (RMSE) between the original frequency response measurement and the predicted one. It is finally found out that the frequency decaying factor (δ) is around 0.5 in the underground area on study.
Validity and reliability of the Farsi version of Wijma delivery expectancy questionnaire: an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis

Background Fear of childbirth may cause complications such as experiencing severe labour pain, postpartum depression, and impaired mother–fetus attachment. Objective To validate the Farsi version of the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (W-DEQ) (versions A & B) in a sample of Iranian women. Methods The WDE-Q (versions A & B) was translated into Farsi, and the content validity of the scales was confirmed. In a cross-sectional study conducted in 2015, 405 pregnant women in the third trimester of pregnancy and 320 postpartum women completed the Farsi W-DEQ versions A & B, respectively. The construct validity and reliability of the scales were examined using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFA and CFA) and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, respectively. SPSS version 18 and Lisrel version 8.80 were used for statistical analyses. Results Results of the CFA on 33 items could not confirm the one-factor structure proposed by Wijma (RMSEA= 0.14, SRMR=0.11, Chi-square/df=8.95, p<0.05, CFI=0.86, IFI=0.86) or other structures suggested by previous studies. We conducted an EFA on 33-item version A and found six factors with eigenvalue > 1. One item was not loaded on any factor. A CFA on 32 items of the W-DEQ (version B) yielded acceptable fit for the factorial structure found on version A (RMSEA= 0.075 (CI [0.071, 0.08]), SRMR=0.078, Chi-square/df=2.93, p<0.05, CFI=0.95, IFI=0.95). Cronbach’s Alpha coefficients for the 32-item Farsi W-DEQ (versions A & B) were 0.914 and 0.919, respectively. Conclusions Both Farsi W-DEQ are reliable and valid instruments to assess fear of childbirth in Iranian pregnant and postpartum women. Further research should be designed to examine the validity of the W-DEQ (A) in pregnant women regardless of gestational age.
Haemophilia and thrombophilia

Summary For the study presented here 135 pediatric PUP patients with haemophilia consecutively admitted to German pediatric haemophilia treatment centers were investigated. In addition to factor VIII activity, the factor V (FV) G1691A mutation, the factor II (FII) G20210A variant, methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) T677T genotype, elevated lipoprotein a (Lp a), antithrombin, protein C, and protein S were investigated. 103 out of 122 HA patients (FVIII activity <1%) were suffering from severe HA. The prevalence of prothrombotic risk factors in children with severe haemophilia A (HA) did not differ from previously reported data: FV GA 5.8%, FII GA 3.9%, MTHFR TT 10%, elevated Lp a 7%, protein C type I deficiency 1.1%. The first symptomatic bleeding leading to diagnosis of severe haemophilia occurred with a median age of 1.6 years (range: 0.5-7.1 years) in children carrying prothrombotic risk factors compared to non-carriers (0.9 years (0.1-4.0; p = 0.01). Two patients presenting with neonatal stroke due to elevated Lp a and the FII GA variant showed haemorrhagic stroke transformation triggered by severe haemophilia. In addition, when haemophilia A was corrected by administration of factor VIII concentrates eight out of 25 children with central lines in place developed catheter-related thrombosis. Conclusion: The data of this multicentre cohort study demonstrate that the clinical phenotype of severe haemophilia A in childhood is clearly influenced by the coinheritance of prothrombotic risk factors.
Spatial estimation of electricity consumption using socio-demographic information

Electric power consumption is known at fine temporal scales (e.g. hourly) for geographical zones corresponding to the electric network service divisions (e.g. substations). In several applications, there is a strong need to estimate the past or to forecast future consumption at different divisions, for example the town, district or city block levels. The deployment of smart meters only gives a partial answer to this problem because they usually do not provide exhaustive measures at such temporal scales. We propose in this paper a generic approach to estimate electric consumption on any geographical zones from source zones where fine-grained consumption data is available, using in addition socio-demographic information. The approach is evaluated on both real and simulated data.
On the relation between linearity‐generating processes and linear‐rational models

We review the notion of a linearity‐generating (LG) process introduced by Gabaix and relate LG processes to linear‐rational (LR) models studied by Filipović et al. We show that every LR model can be represented as an LG process and vice versa. We find that LR models have two basic properties that make them an important representation of LG processes. First, LR models can be easily specified and made consistent with nonnegative interest rates. Second, LR models go naturally with the long‐term risk factorization due to Alvarez and Jermann, Hansen and Scheinkman, and Qin and Linetsky. Every LG process under the long forward measure can be represented as a lower dimensional LR model.
Third generation antiepileptic drug monotherapies in adults with epilepsy

ABSTRACT Introduction: Drugs marketed during the last few years (i.e. Lacosamide, Ruifinamide, Eslicarbazepine acetate, Brivaracetam and Perampanel) are increasingly regarded as third generation AEDs. This paper presents available data about monotherapy with third generation drugs and on-going clinical trials with special attention to the existing debate about monotherapy license in epilepsy. Areas covered: References were identified by searches of Medline/PubMed. In addition, currently active studies for these AEDs were identified in the ClinicalTrials.gov database. Expert commentary: Results of studies on Eslicarbazepine acetate and Lacosamide clearly suggest good efficacy and tolerability. The selective pharmacological profile, the lack of interactions, the good tolerability with low propensity for cognitive side effects and the availability of different pharmacological formulations represent evident advantages. Although third generation monotherapies are quite promising, long-term safety data is needed in order to understand how these compounds will place in the current armamentarium.
Bayesian network on labour dissonance: a social sector development challenge to India

India's unorganized labour force contributes about one third of the total labour sector. The scenario is even worse in the Indian automotive industry which employs a little over 7% on a permanent basis. Problems get exaggerated due to the outdated labour laws, ironically established to support and protect workers. The disappointing areas in the labour contract act and labour laws have led to unfair wage practices and a hostile work environment, giving way to labour discord. This research paper discusses the key issues of labour dissonance in the Indian automobile industry using a Bayesian network analysis. Real-life case-study examples from the Indian automobile industry were considered to identify the rationale behind labour unrest. Bayesian analysis of a set of 250 responses helped us to understand the associations among key attributes of labour dissatisfaction.
Energy expenditure and growth failure after intestinal transplantation: A case report

We present a 12‐yr‐old boy who received a combined liver–pancreas small bowel transplantation at the age of two. The post‐operative period was complicated by wound closure problems resulting in a large asymptomatic abdominal wall defect. Further follow‐up was uneventful, with the exception of new onset growth failure not explained by extensive routine investigations. An indirect calorimetry was performed. The resting energy expenditure (REE) was significantly increased (126% of predicted), demanding a daily caloric intake of 123 kcal/kg body weight (normal for age: 80 kcal/kg). In the absence of classic reasons for increased REE, a thermal camera revealed increased dermal heat loss at the abdominal wall defect (estimated surplus in energy loss of at least 29 kcal/day: 10.4% of the elevated REE). In addition, we found lower total lung capacity due to impaired abdominal breathing. In the exploration of growth failure in children after (ITx), increased REE must be taken into account. Indirect calorimetry can serve as a valuable diagnostic tool for evaluating individual energy requirements and nutritional support. In this child, exaggerated heat loss through an aberrant abdominal wall could be a potential important contributor to the patient's increased energy requirements.
The Rights and Responsibilities of Parents According to the Views of Teachers

The research was carried out to determine the rights and responsibilities of parents, whether they were treated accordingly, the reasons of not complying the responsibilities, and whether they were treated accordingly in the event that there was a specific legal text regarding the rights and responsibilities. The research was conducted in a primary school in 2018-2019 academic year in Efeler in Aydin where the children of the parents with high socio-economic status studied. 8 voluntary classroom teachers participated in the study. Phenomenology approach, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the research. The data of the research was collected by face-to-face interviews with a semi-structured interview form. The most frequently repeated rights were; meeting the classroom teacher and the parents, receiving information about the achievement of their children, transferring them to another school and enrolling them in the school. The most frequently repeated responsibilities of parents regarding their children were; nutrition, dressing, providing their clothes and school uniforms, following their homework/lessons, helping their homework at home, directing them to social activities and acquiring self-care skills. The teachers thought that all the parents in their school already knew and claimed their rights. However, half of the parents regularly fulfilled their responsibilities. The reasons for not fulfilling their responsibilities were divided into two categories as parental characteristics and educational reasons. At the end of the research, such suggestions were made as preparing a specific legal text with sanction power that included the rights and responsibilities of parents.
Ambivalent cartographies: Exploring the legacies of indigenous land titling through participatory mapping

Abstract This paper reflects on the possibilities and limits of participatory mapping as a tool for interrogating the power–knowledge inequalities that structure indigenous peoples’ engagements with postcolonial state cartography and bureaucracy. I describe mapping activities conducted in a remote Guaraní community in the Bolivian Chaco as part of a research project exploring the dynamics and legacies of Native Community Lands, a national indigenous land titling programme. While these exercises were designed to explore the disjunctures between state and indigenous knowledges of territory, they generated unexpected power dynamics that led me to reflect more deeply on the power of maps, the pitfalls of ‘countermapping’ as an activist practice and my own imbrication in a bureaucratic field of power. The paper concludes that participatory mapping can be a fruitful if ambivalent method for studying state bureaucracy, which demonstrates the value of examining the legal-cartographic knowledges of the state ‘from the margins’ – including from the perspective of the people and places they claim to represent.
Effects of early oseltamivir therapy on viral shedding in 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection.

BACKGROUND Pandemic influenza (H1N1) 2009 is susceptible to oseltamivir. There are few reports on its clinical and virologic response to oseltamivir. METHODS During the pandemic containment response in Singapore, all patients with positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results for pandemic influenza (H1N1) 2009 were hospitalized, given oseltamivir for 5 days, and discharged when daily PCR results for combined nasal and throat swab samples became negative. Six patients had concurrent positive viral culture and PCR results. RESULTS The median age of the first 70 consecutive patients was 26 years (interquartile range, 21-38 years); 60% were men, and 29% had comorbidity. The mean time (+/-SD) from illness onset to hospital admission was 3+/-2 days. Influenza-like illness was noted in 63% of patients. Fever occurred in 91%, cough in 88%, sore throat in 66%, and rhinorrhea in 53% of patients. The mean duration (+/-SD) of viral shedding from illness onset was day 6+/-2 days. Viral shedding persisted beyond 7 days in 37% of patients. Clinical features and viral shedding were similar between those with and without comorbidity, except the former had more cough and lower oxygen saturation. Patients receiving oseltamivir on days 1 to 3 of illness had significantly shorter viral shedding duration, compared with those treated from day 4 onwards (P < .05). The mean durations (+/-SD) of positive PCR and viral culture results were 5+/-8 and 4+/-18 days, respectively, for 6 patients with concurrent positive viral culture and PCR results. CONCLUSIONS Prolonged viral shedding was noted in young immunocompetent adults with mild pandemic influenza (H1N1) 2009 despite receipt of oseltamivir. When prescribed during the first 3 days of illness, oseltamivir shortened the duration of viral shedding.
Bond Lengths in Helium Hydrides as Sums of the Relevant Radii of He and H

The latest astrophysical discovery for the first time of HeH+ inspired the author to look into its bond length. Using the previously calculated values of the various radii of He and H, it is shown here that the reported inter-nuclear distance in HeH+ is the sum of the radii of He- and the section of the Bohr radius pertaining to the proton. Interpreted here also is the inter-nuclear distance of the He.H bond in He.H. He+, as the sum of the covalent radius of He and the Bohr radius of H. Both cases support the rule of additivity of radii of adjacent atoms and or ions in bond lengths established by the author over the years.
Dual Mode Microwave System to Enhance Early Detection of Cancer

A dual mode microwave system has been developed that will permit early detection of cancer. The system combines the use of the passive microwave radiometer with an active transmitter. The active transmitter will provide localized heating to enhance early detection by taking advantage of the differential heating (i.e., tumor temperature with respect to surrounding tissue) associated with thermal characteristics of tumors.
Anteroposterior gradient of epithelial transformation during amphibian intestinal remodeling: immunohistochemical detection of intestinal fatty acid-binding protein.

To determine whether the remodeling of the well-organized intestinal epithelium during amphibian metamorphosis is regionally regulated along the anteroposterior axis of the intestine, we raised a polyclonal antibody against the Xenopus laevis intestinal fatty acid-binding protein (IFABP), which is known to be specifically expressed in intestinal absorptive cells, and examined immunohistochemically the differentiation, proliferation, and apoptosis of the epithelial cells throughout X. laevis small intestine. During pre- and prometamorphosis, IFABP-immunoreactive (ir) epithelial cells were localized only in the anterior half of the larval intestine. At the beginning of metamorphic climax, apoptotic cells detected by nick end-labeling (TUNEL) suddenly increased in number in the entire larval epithelium, concurrently with the appearance of adult epithelial primordia. Subsequently, the adult primordia in the anterior part of the intestine developed more rapidly by active cell proliferation than those in the posterior part, and replaced the larval epithelial cells earlier than those in the posterior part. IFABP-ir cells in the adult epithelium were first detectable at the tips of newly formed folds in the proximal part of the intestine. Thereafter, IFABP expression gradually progressed both in the anteroposterior direction and in the crest-trough direction of the folds. These results suggest that developmental processes of the adult epithelium in the X. laevis intestine are regionally regulated along the anteroposterior axis of the intestine, which is maintained throughout metamorphosis, and along the trough-crest axis of the epithelial folds, which is newly established during metamorphosis. Furthermore, the regional differences in IFABP expression along the anteroposterior axis of the intestine were reproduced in organ cultures in vitro. In addition, IFABP expression was first down-regulated and then reactivated in vitro when the anterior part, but not the posterior part, of the larval intestine was treated with thyroid hormone (TH) for extended periods. Therefore, it seems that, in addition to TH, an endogenous factor(s) localized in the intestine itself with an anteroposterior gradient participates in the development of the adult epithelium during amphibian metamorphosis.
PpTFDB: A pigeonpea transcription factor database for exploring functional genomics in legumes

Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.), a diploid legume crop, is a member of the tribe Phaseoleae. This tribe is descended from the millettioid (tropical) clade of the subfamily Papilionoideae, which includes many important legume crop species such as soybean (Glycine max), mung bean (Vigna radiata), cowpea (Vigna ungiculata), and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). It plays major role in food and nutritional security, being rich source of proteins, minerals and vitamins. We have developed a comprehensive Pigeonpea Transcription Factors Database (PpTFDB) that encompasses information about 1829 putative transcription factors (TFs) and their 55 TF families. PpTFDB provides a comprehensive information about each of the identified TFs that includes chromosomal location, protein physicochemical properties, sequence data, protein functional annotation, simple sequence repeats (SSRs) with primers derived from their motifs, orthology with related legume crops, and gene ontology (GO) assignment to respective TFs. (PpTFDB: http://14.139.229.199/PpTFDB/Home.aspx) is a freely available and user friendly web resource that facilitates users to retrieve the information of individual members of a TF family through a set of query interfaces including TF ID or protein functional annotation. In addition, users can also get the information by browsing interfaces, which include browsing by TF Categories and by, GO Categories. This PpTFDB will serve as a promising central resource for researchers as well as breeders who are working towards crop improvement of legume crops.
Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation on Urban Ecosystem Health

Ecosystem health is the prerequisite for ecosystem service function. To assure socio-economic sustainable development, how to effectively evaluate the trends of urban ecosystem health is a key issue for ecological planning. The paper established an evaluation model of urban ecosystem health based on the approaches of entropy weight and fuzzy logic mathematics, which avoided the uncertainty in estimating the standard of urban ecosystem health subjectively. Wuhan urban ecosystem was selected as an example for application and its health conditions from 1993 to 2004 was assessed. The results showed that: (1) The relative health status of Wuhan urban ecosystem health increased from 1993 to 2004. The most healthy year was 2003, and the least healthy year was 1994. (2) Based on the maximum membership degree principle, the maximum membership degree in human health group was 0.7627 (2003), in ecosystem service function group was 1.000 (2004), in social group was 1.000 (2001), in economic group was 0.9561 (2004), in environmental group was 0.7526 (1998).
On the mechanism of substrate specificity by resistance nodulation division (RND)‐type multidrug resistance pumps: the large periplasmic loops of MexD from Pseudomonas aeruginosa are involved in substrate recognition

Tripartite efflux systems of Gram‐negative bacteria that contain an inner membrane transporter belonging to the resistance nodulation division (RND) superfamily can extrude a large variety of structurally diverse compounds. To gain an insight into the molecular mechanisms of substrate recognition by these multidrug resistance (MDR) transporters, we isolated spontaneous mutations that altered the substrate specificity of the MexCD–OprJ pump from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. These mutations enabled the pump to extrude the normally non‐transported β‐lactam antibiotic carbenicillin. All amino acid substitutions were mapped to the large periplasmic loops (LPLs) of the RND proper, MexD. Q34K, E89K, A292V and P328L were found in the first LPL, located between transmembrane domains (TMD) 1 and 2, whereas F608S and N673K were contained in the second LPL, located between TMD7 and TMD8. These mutations also had a substantial impact on the MexCD–OprJ‐mediated transport of numerous other substrates. Subsequent replacement of amino acid residues identified above by cysteines rendered MexCD–OprJ susceptible to inhibition by a thiol‐reactive agent, MIANS. Interestingly, MIANS inhibited the transport of some (pyronin, EtBr) but not other (ANS, Leu–Nap) substrates of the pump. Our results suggest that the precise structure of the periplasmic loops of MexD determines the rate of transport of individual substrates. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that, in the case of RND transporters, the LPLs are directly implicated in substrate recognition and contain multiple sites of interaction for various structurally diverse compounds.
An effective recognition method for medical sheet based on deep learning approach

At present, most medical sheet (such as medical report, laboratory sheet, medical cases, etc.) in the form of nonelectronic is easy to lose, and difficult to be integrated with other electronic health data. In order to fully utilize these valuable data, in this paper we propose a deep learning approach, named k-CNN, which can intelligently recognize the contents of medical sheet. The main advantages of k-CNN are summarized as follows: Firstly, the local feature of the character is extracted by the pattern recognition KNN algorithm; Secondly, CNN algorithm is used to extract the deep features of the characters; Finally, based on the tesseract that is an open source recognition engine, the recognition results of KNN and CNN are combined to get the intelligent identification of medical sheet. The experimental results show that k-CNN recognition algorithm can accurately identify the common medical sheets, and the recognition accuracy is better than other traditional algorithms.