Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An Automatic Diagnosis of Melanoma based on Multi-feature Fusion

Melanoma is a malignant skin disease. Melanoma is difficult to be detected in the early stage, and it is difficult to cure once this disease develops to the late stage. The mortality rate of patients with advanced melanoma is as high as 98%. Melanoma dermatosis can be effectively controlled by early screening and timely treatment. However, due to the large population and uneven distribution of medical resources in China, it is difficult for most melanoma patients to get early diagnosis and treatment from doctors. Therefore, it is necessary to study the computer-aided diagnosis technology of melanoma. At present, deep learning is the most advanced melanoma diagnosis method, which has a good performance in terms of accuracy of automatic diagnosis. With the latest ISIC2019 dermatological data set, we study and implement the automatic diagnosis method based on traditional handcrafted features and the automatic diagnosis method based on deep learning. The traditional handcrafted features include the color features, shape features and boundary features of the lesion area. A total of 89 handcrafted features were extracted. The method based on deep learning is to use Inception V3 model which is pre-trained on ImageNet and we get the final model by fine-tuning. Finally, we use the dense layer of artificial neural network to fuse traditional handcrafted features and deep-learning features. We implement a feature fusion model based on traditional methods and deep learning, and its accuracy of diagnosis is 82.02%. Compared with the deep-learning model of the same convolutional neural network, the feature fusion model can effectively improve the accuracy of automatic diagnosis. The feature fusion model of this topic can also be applied to the use of multi-modal data.
Sequence of limiting amino acids in gelatin for the growing chick.

Abstract Several 6-day growth assays were conducted to delineate the amino acid limitations of gelatin for chick growth. At a dietary level of 14.5% crude protein, gelatin was observed to be severely deficient in nine essential amino acids. Tryptophan, sulfur amino acids and isoleucine were first, second and third limiting, respectively. Aromatic amino acids, threonine and valine were found to be equally fourth limiting, while leucine, histidine and lysine were seventh, eighth and ninth limiting, respectively. Arginine, glycine-serine and proline were observed to be adequate to super-adequate. Rate and efficiency of gain by chicks fed the completely-supplemented diet were such as to suggest rather high availabilities of amino acids in the protein of gelatin.
Outcome Measures Following Metacarpophalangeal Joint Replacement

We used the Jebsen–Taylor hand function assessment system to prospectively study the effect of metacarpophalangeal joint replacement on overall hand function in 29 hands. In addition pain relief, subjective improvement in hand function, appearance and overall patient satisfaction were assessed. There was modest improvement in the number of Jebsen–Taylor tasks performed (1.8 to 3.1), and pain relief was good or excellent in 18 of 24 patients. Eleven patients felt their hand function had improved by more than 50%, and the majority of patients (22 of 24) were very satisfied with the procedure. This study demonstrates that despite limited improvements in objective outcome measures, this procedure is reliable in producing a very high rate of patient satisfaction.
Investigation of flow structures during HFE-7100 refrigerant condensation

The experimental research of environmentally friendly refrigerant HFE-7100 condensation in pipe minichannels was conducted. During the investigations of HFE-7100 condensation in a minichannel with internal diameter 2 mm together with visualization of ﬂow patterns was made. Visualization results were compared with existing ﬂow structure maps. The identiﬁcation of the range of ﬂow patterns occurrence during the condensation process of low-pressure refrigerant HFE-7100 was made. The tests were performed throughout the whole range of condensation process.
Customer behaviour and data analytics

The present evolution of the electrical sector is paying increasing attention to the customer needs. This paper deals with a number of aspects addressed in the present discussions on the characteristics of individual and aggregate consumers, referring to the shape and flexibility of the demand. Specific points addressed include the role of metering, how to obtain knowledge from load pattern disaggregation and clustering, customer-related effects of microgrids development, and active users' participation in demand response initiatives.
Somali asylum seekers’ perceptions of privacy in healthcare

Background: Privacy has been recognized as a basic human right and a part of quality of care. However, little is known about the privacy of Somali asylum seekers in healthcare, even though they are one of the largest asylum seeker groups in the world. Objectives: The aim of the study was to describe the content and importance of privacy and its importance in healthcare from the perspective of Somali asylum seekers. Research design: The data of this explorative qualitative study were collected by four focus group interviews with 18 Somali asylum seekers with the help of an interpreter. The data were analysed by inductive content analysis. Ethical considerations: Research permissions were obtained from the director of the reception centre and from the Department of Social Services. Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of Turku University. Findings: The content of privacy includes visual privacy, physical privacy and informational privacy. All contents can be shared with healthcare professionals. The importance of privacy includes respect, dignity and freedom. Discussion: Privacy is strongly connected to the collectivism of Somali culture and religion. Unlike the Western cultures, privacy is not important only for the individual; most of all, it is seen to support collectivism. Conclusion: Even though all contents of privacy can be shared with healthcare professionals, it is important to recognize the cultural aspect of privacy especially when using interpreters with Somali background.
Discovering Side-Chain Correlations In alpha-Helices

Using a new representation for interactions in protein sequences based on correlations between pairs of amino acids, we have examined alpha-helical segments from known protein structures for important interactions. Traditional techniques for representing protein sequences usually make an explicit assumption of conditional independence of residues in the sequences. Protein structure analyses, however, have repeatedly demonstrated the importance of amino acid interactions for structural stability. We have developed an automated program for discovering sequence correlations in sets of aligned protein sequences using standard statistical tests and for representing them with Bayesian networks. In this paper, we demonstrate the power of our discovery program and representation by analyzing pairs of residues from alpha-helices. The sequence correlations we find represent physical and chemical interactions among amino-acid side chains in helical structures. Furthermore, these local interactions are likely to be important for stabilizing and packing alpha-helices. Lastly, we have also detect correlations in side-chain comformations that indicate important structural interactions but which don't appear as sequence correlations.
Constraints on the Efficiency of Electromicrobial Production

Electromicrobial production technologies (EMP) aim to combine renewable electricity and microbial metabolism. We have constructed molecular to reactor scale models of EMP systems using H2-oxidation and extracellular electron transfer (EET). We predict the electrical-to-biofuel conversion efficiency could rise to ≥ 52% with in vivo CO2-fixation. H2 and EET-mediated EMP both need reactors with high surface areas. H2-diffusion at ambient pressure requires areas 20 to 2,000 times that of the solar photovoltaic (PV) supplying the system. Agitation can reduce this to less than the PV area, and the power needed becomes negligible when storing ≥ 1.1 megawatts. EET-mediated systems can be built that are ≤ 10 times the PV area and have minimal resistive energy losses if a conductive extracellular matrix (ECM) with a resistivity and height seen in natural conductive biofilms is used. The system area can be reduced to less than the PV area if the ECM conductivity and height are increased to those of conductive artificial polymers. Schemes that use electrochemical CO2-fixation could achieve electrical-to-fuel efficiencies of almost 50% with no complications of O2-sensitivity.
Community Development and Corporate Social Responsibility in Ebonyi State : An Investigative Study of Selected Mining Firms and Communities

This study “Community Development and social corporate responsibility in Ebonyi State’ examine the activities of mining firms in Ebonyi State on the development of their host communities. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to strategies that corporations or firms adopts to conduct of their business in such a way that is ethical, society friendly and beneficial to community in terms of development. The study is anchored on Edward Freeman’s Stakeholders Theory of 1948. The study adopted a descriptive survey design with a variety of qualitative research methods. The paper then discusses the role of CSR in community. Competencies required by CSR managers are also analyzed in order to have a better understanding of the practical aspects of CSR. Effective partnership between managers of mining corporations and community leaders was recommended as the basic measure to solve the lingering problem between mining corporations and host communities in the state. However, the integration of ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ partnership strategies that combine social investment and the strengthening of local and national capacities to reduce the risk and vulnerability of local communities to the negative externality of mining activities as well as the general negative effect of globalisation would most likely make more difference to sustainable community development than either a top-down strategy or a bottom-up strategy alone.
Brain death: time for an international consensus.

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Exploring Demand toward Celebrity Memorabilia: Do Celebrities Never Really Die?

Celebrities always seem larger than life; it is when they die that we remember they are only human. With the emergence of the Internet and social networking sites, consumers are able to follow the daily activities of their favorite celebrities. After a celebrityi¯s death, consumers exhibit a stronger interest in the lives of these celebrities and demand for celebrity-related products increases sharply. The aim of the present study is to examine young consumersi¯ responses to celebrity deaths and explore the major factors that lead to increased demand for celebrity memorabilia and merchandise. Specifically, this research will attempt to present why young consumers exhibit such a sudden and strong interest in celebrity-related products after their death and why these products are cherished so greatly. Factor analysis is applied and the results indicate that a celebrityi¯s death increases young consumersi¯ demand for memorabilia due to five major factors. These factors include immortality of the celebrity, keepsake value & deep-felt love as well as uniqueness of the celebrity, prestige and financial value attached with the product and wide availability & increased media promotion. Based on these factors, it can be argued that consumption of celebrity merchandise is motivated by the attachment and significance of the celebrity to the young consumer before death. These results are important for marketers to grasp the effect of death on the consumption of celebrity merchandise. Online and traditional retailers need to understand the major factors attracting consumers to celebrity memorabilia and merchandise so that they can respond quickly and efficiently to sudden demand fluctuations.
Reduced expression of the TrkB receptor in Huntington's disease mouse models and in human brain

Deficits of neurotrophic support caused by reduced levels of brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) have been implicated in the selective vulnerability of striatal neurones in Huntington's disease (HD). Therapeutic strategies based on BDNF administration have been proposed to slow or prevent the disease progression. However, the effectiveness of BDNF may depend on the proper expression of its receptor TrkB. In this study, we analysed the expression of TrkB in several HD models and in postmortem HD brains. We found a specific reduction of TrkB receptors in transgenic exon‐1 and full‐length knock‐in HD mouse models and also in the motor cortex and caudate nucleus of HD brains. Our findings also demonstrated that continuous expression of mutant huntingtin is required to down‐regulate TrkB levels. This was shown by findings in an inducible HD mouse model showing rescue of TrkB by turning off mutant huntingtin expression. Interestingly, the length of the polyglutamine tract in huntingtin appears to modulate the reduction of TrkB. Finally, to analyse the effect of BDNF in TrkB we compared TrkB expression in mutant huntingtin R6/1 and double mutant (R6/1 : BDNF+/–) mice. Similar TrkB expression was found in both transgenic mice suggesting that reduced TrkB is not a direct consequence of decreased BDNF. Therefore, taken together our findings identify TrkB as an additional component that potentially might contribute to the altered neurotrophic support in HD.
Genetic programming-based modeling on chaotic time series

One of the difficulties in nonlinear time series analysis is how to reconstruct the system model from the data series. This is mainly due to the dissipation and "butterfly" effect of the chaotic systems. This paper proposes a genetic programming-based modeling (GPM) algorithm for the chaotic time series. In GPM, genetic programming-based techniques are used to search for appropriate model structures in the function space, and the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is introduced for nonlinear parameter estimation (NPE) on dynamic model structures. In addition, the results of nonlinear time series analysis (NTSA) are integrated into the GPM to improve the modeling quality and the criterion of the established models. The effectiveness of such improvements is proved by modeling the experiments on known chaotic time series.
A Miniaturized Yagi-Uda-Oriented Double-Ring Antenna With Circular Polarization and Directional Pattern

A compact circular polarized (CP) double-ring antenna with directional pattern is proposed based on the Yagi-Uda concept. After integrating a local-grounded coupler inside the square ring, a circular polarized wave can be effectively radiated by exciting two orthogonally linearly polarized fundamental modes of the ring resonator, leading to a smaller size than using other high-order modes of the ring. Since the side length of miniaturized patch hybrid coupler is much smaller than the quarter-wavelength ( λ0 /4), the whole coupler plus feeders can be fully embedded inside the ring radiator. To obtain a directional radiation pattern, the second meandered ring is then mounted under the square ring, which can be considered as an inductive Yagi-Uda reflector. Since the physical area of the reflector is almost the same with the square-ring radiator, the total size of the antenna is only about λ0 /4 ×λ0 /4 ×λ0 /16, which can be a good candidate of the antennas for handled mobile terminals. Finally, a prototype of the proposed antenna is designed and fabricated. The measured results show a good agreement with the simulated results.
Developing SCAR markers to study predation on Trialeurodes vaporariorum

DNA markers of Trialeurodes vaporariorum were developed to detect remains of these whitefly in the gut of the predator Dicyphus tamaninii. A 2400‐bp DNA fragment of T. vaporariorum, absent in other closely related prey species and in the predator banding pattern, was identified by random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis. After cloning and sequencing this fragment, two pairs of sequence‐characterized amplified region (SCAR) primers were developed, amplifying single bands of 2100 bp and 310 bp, respectively. Detection of T. vaporariorum DNA in the predator gut was only possible using the primers that amplified the shortest fragment. Specificity tests performed with this pair of primers showed the presence of the 310‐bp band for T. vaporariorum in all stages.
Quantitative Risk Analysis and Integration of Value Engineering to Increase the Efficiency of Project Management Case Study: Sattar Khan Commercial Centre - Flour Parking - Tehran

Major organizations and large construction companies in the world are always looking for removing challenges of the project environment through risk areas. Potential risks that sometimes emerge at the beginning, middle and late stages of a project, and in case of improper dealing with it and not getting appropriate response and approach sometimes will lead to failure in the project-based organizations. But providing systemic solutions for transforming risk into opportunity and finding knowledge based on more accurate understanding of qualitative and quantitative risk analysis methods in the early stages of the project is an issue that since the past has attracted risk managers and experts' mind and is considered as the necessity of this research. A distinct use of the two approaches, risk management and value engineering in projects has long been done, therefore the combination and integration of these two techniques is an issue that during recent years has been highly regarded by the researchers and managers. Research framework contains a brief description and introduction of tools and quantitative risk analysis techniques, reasons and benefits of integrating risk management with value engineering and then description of case study. This research has provided a new way for planning and forecasting future performance of the final cost projections. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016. v7n4S2p96
Comparison of Erythromycin Stearate and Oxytetracycline in the Treatment of Nongonococcal Urethritis: Their Efficacy against Chlamydia Trachomatis

The effectiveness of Oxytetracycline 250 mg. 6 hourly for 2 weeks and erythromycin stearate 500 mg. 12 hourly for 2 weeks in the treatment of non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) have been compared; cell culture for Chlamydia trachomatis was performed before and after treatment. There was no significant difference between the results obtained with the two antimicrobials. Both were clinically effective in the treatment of Chlamydia-positive NGU. Response to therapy was rapid; 2 weeks after treatment began, only 5 (14%) of 35 men treated with Oxytetracycline and 4 (13%) of 30 men treated with erythromycin stearate still had urethritis. Clinical improvement was accompanied in the majority of cases by failure to re-isolate C. trachomatis, but a small number of men who had not been exposed to the risk of reinfection yielded chlamydiae after therapy with Oxytetracycline or erythromycin stearate. The results of treatment of men with NGU from whom C. trachomatis had not been isolated were similar to those obtained in isolation-positive patients; again, there was no significant difference in the efficacy of the two antimicrobials. It is concluded that erythromycin stearate is a useful alternative to tetracyclines in the treatment of NGU.
Research and Educational Network: Development Management

Relevance of the study is determined by the fact that the management methodology of research and educational network development being of great interest for the improvement of the educational system, currently remains beyond the most scientific researches. Study purpose is aimed at the development of the organizational and pedagogical management model of research and educational network development in the field of education. Leading theoretical method of the research is the structural and functional approach enabling comprehensive consideration of the contents of the main components of the developing research and educational network and dependencies between them. The article presents the organizational and pedagogical management model of the developing research and educational network, describing the objectives, principles of participants’ interaction, functions, and structural networking components, revealing the scope of the activity, conditions, forms and types of the interaction. Materials may be useful to explore the possibilities of development of the intellectual capital of the subjects of network communication; training of specialists qualified in the field of generation and spread of new knowledge in the creation and development of research and education network.
Urban water consumption forecast based on PQPSO-LSSVM

It is well known that accurate forecast of urban water consumption has significance for water supply system. In order to improve the accuracy of prediction, we proposed a novel forecast method based on quantum particle swarm optimization algorithm (QPSO) and least squares support vector machine (LSSVM). Firstly, an improved quantum particle swarm optimization algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithm is encoded by qubit phase adjust the inertia weight factor and global factors according to the particle's fitness value, which is defined as PQPSO. Secondly, the parameters of LSSVM are selected by PQPSO. Finally, urban water consumption is predicted by the proposed method. The experimental results show that prediction accuracy and computational speed are better than the method based on SVM, LSSVM. Therefore, the proposed method is an effective tool for urban water consumption forecasting.
Business Group's Diversification Strategy and Sustainability

This paper explores how the resource endowments of business groups affect diversification strategy, and how different degrees of diversification influence business group financial performance and sustainability. The sample of this study is the top 300 business groups in Taiwan according to China Credit Information Service. Regression results show that tangible, intangible, and human resource endowments all positively affect business group diversification strategy. We also find an inverted-U relationship between the degree of diversification and the financial performance. Thus, diversification strategy enhances business group sustainability.