Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Clinical and Rumen Fluid Evaluation of Ruminal Disorders in Cattle

Clinical and rumen fluid changes in various ruminal disorders were studied clinically in 13 cattle at University of Gondar veterinary clinic, Gondar town, Ethiopia from September 2013 to May 2014. History, clinical signs, physiological and rumen fluid parameters were studied in all the cattle. The comparisons of the means between different stages of physiological parameters of different ruminal disorders were determined by repeated measure ANOVA to evaluate pre and post rumenotomy changes. The predominant clinical observations were, abdominal distension in non potential foreign bodies; grunt with bruxism in potential foreign bodies; bloat along with colic signs in ruminal tympany; and fluid splashing sound with palpable mass in the rumen in ruminal impaction. Poor quality roughage and excess concentrate were found to be the predisposing factors in ruminal disorders. In physiological parameters significant increase in temperature and decrease in rumen motility from the presurgical values up to 24 hrs and 48 hrs after rumenotomy were observed. Heart, pulse and respiratory rates revealed none significant changes between pre and post surgical intervals. The rumen fluid of cattle with different ruminal disorders on analysis before rumenotomy showed brownish colour, watery consistency, aromatic odour, pH range 4.9–8.0, increased MBRT and sedimentation activity time in most of the cases.
Retrospective baseline measurement of self-reported health status and health-related quality of life versus population norms in the evaluation of post-injury losses

Background: Owing to the difficulty in prospectively measuring pre-injury health status and health-related quality of life (HRQL) in an injured cohort, population norms or retrospective baseline scores are often used as comparators for evaluating post-injury losses. However, there has been little discussion in the literature or research into the soundness of these approaches for this purpose. Objectives: To investigate the appropriateness of the retrospectively measured baseline health status and HRQL in an injured population for the purpose of evaluating post-injury losses. Methods: A cohort of injured admitted to hospital (n = 186) was followed up for 12 months after injury. Retrospectively measured pre-injury health status and HRQL scores were compared with those at 12 months after injury for participants who reported complete recovery (n = 61) and those who did not. Retrospective baseline scores for the whole cohort were also compared with Australian population norms. Results: For participants who completely recovered, no significant difference was observed between scores at baseline (measured retrospectively) and those at 12 months after injury (36-item Short Form Questionnaire physical component summary z = −1.274, p = 0.203; 36-item Short Form Questionnaire mental component summary z = −1.634, p = 0.102; Short Form 6 Dimensions: z = −1.405, p = 0.296). A borderline significant difference was observed in HRQL as measured by the Assessment of Quality of Life (z = −1.970, p = 0.049). Retrospectively measured pre-injury scores were consistently higher than Australian norms for all measures. Conclusions: The injured population may not be representative of the general population. Consequently, retrospective baseline measurement of pre-injury health states may be more appropriate than general population norms for the purpose of evaluating post-injury losses in this population.
Error Weighted Semi-Coupled Hidden Markov Model for Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition

This paper presents an approach to the automatic recognition of human emotions from audio-visual bimodal signals using an error weighted semi-coupled hidden Markov model (EWSC-HMM). The proposed approach combines an SC-HMM with a state-based bimodal alignment strategy and a Bayesian classifier weighting scheme to obtain the optimal emotion recognition result based on audio-visual bimodal fusion. The state-based bimodal alignment strategy in SC-HMM is proposed to align the temporal relation between audio and visual streams. The Bayesian classifier weighting scheme is then adopted to explore the contributions of the SC-HMM-based classifiers for different audio-visual feature pairs in order to obtain the emotion recognition output. For performance evaluation, two databases are considered: the MHMC posed database and the SEMAINE naturalistic database. Experimental results show that the proposed approach not only outperforms other fusion-based bimodal emotion recognition methods for posed expressions but also provides satisfactory results for naturalistic expressions.
Understanding Trending Topics in Twitter

: Many events, for instance in sports, political events, and entertainment, happen all over the globe all the time. It is difﬁcult and time consuming to notice all these events, even with the help of different news sites. We use tweets from Twitter to automatically extract information in order to understand hashtags of real-world events. In our paper, we focus on the topic identiﬁcation of a hashtag, analyze the expressed positive, neutral, and negative sentiments of users, and further investigate the expressed emotions. We crawled English tweets from 24 hashtags and report initial investigation results.
EFFECT OF SKILL ACQUISITION ON ENTERPRISE CREATION AMONG MALAYSIAN YOUTHS

This study aims at investigating whether moderating factors such as self-motivation and social influence could hinder skill acquisition from resulting to enterprise creation among Malaysian university graduates. A survey, and proportionate stratified random sampling method, was adopted to collect data from a sample of 240 youths in Malaysia peninsula. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and hierarchical regression methods. One of the results reveals that self-motivation moderated between skill acquisition and enterprise creation among the youths. The study recommends that more counseling from parents, universities, governments and other stakeholders be given to youths to engender greater interest in enterprise creation
Antinociceptive and Antiedematogenic Activities of Andrographolide Isolated From Andrographis paniculata in Animal Models

The current study was performed to evaluate the antinociceptive and antiedematogenic properties of andrographolide isolated from the leaves of Andrographis paniculata using two animal models. Antinociceptive activity was evaluated using the acetic acid— induced writhing and the hot-plate tests, while antiedematogenic activity was measured using the carrageenan-induced paw edema test. Subcutaneous (s.c.) administration of andrographolide (10, 25, and 50 mg/kg) did not affect the motor coordination of the experimental animals but produced significant (p < .05) antinociceptive activity when assessed using both tests. However, 2 mg/kg naloxone failed to affect the 25 mg/kg andrographolide activity in both tests, indicating that the activity was modulated via nonopioid mechanisms. Furthermore, andrographolide showed significant (p < .05) antiedematogenic activity. In conclusion, the results obtained suggest that andrographolide has antinociceptive and antiedematogenic activities; it may be useful for treating pain and inflammation once human studies are conducted.
Impact of Social Media on Consumer Buying Behavior

Today, social media is one of the most popular and widely utilized forms of communication. People currently utilize social media to interact with one another all around the world. People have been using social media to discuss their experiences in recent years. This also includes experiences using a product or service or platform. These product reviews posted by social media users are read by thousands of people every day and they have become a source of influencing consumer buying behavior. Organizations have started to use social media to sell their products and services after realizing the value of this medium. Social media is being used today to effectively market products and services and to attract a wide demographic of audience. This paper aims at identifying how different aspects of social media can impact consumer buying behavior.
Parental Permission and Perceived Research Benefits in Adolescent STI Research

An understanding of why parents provide consent for adolescent participation in research on sensitive topics can inform and improve the ethical conduct and review of such research. As part of a longitudinal study of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in lower-income adolescents, we asked 134 parents why they permitted their daughter to participate, analyzing responses using qualitative methods. Over half described participation benefits, providing reasons such as the study being generally good for their daughters, sex education, someone to talk to, and STI testing. Other reasons included positive interactions and familiarity with research and clinical staff, friend or family member participation, and adolescent autonomy in making the decision to participate. If parents perceived their daughter to be “at risk” in some way, such as for STI or pregnancy, they were more likely to cite participation benefits. These data can be used to make such research more sensitive to family and community needs.
Impact of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Genomic Instability on the Application of Typing Methods for Chronic Cystic Fibrosis Infections

ABSTRACT The Liverpool epidemic strain (LES) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is widespread among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients in the United Kingdom and has emerged recently in North America. In this study, we report the analysis of 24 “anomalous” CF isolates of P. aeruginosa that produced inconsistent results with regard to either pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) or PCR tests for the LES. We used a new typing method, the ArrayTube genotyping system, to determine that of the 24 anomalous isolates tested, 13 were confirmed as the LES. LES isolates could not be clearly distinguished from non-LES isolates by two other commonly used genetic fingerprinting tests, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis and BOX-PCR, and varied considerably in their carriage of LES genomic islands and prophages. The genomic instability of the LES suggests that identification of this emerging transmissible strain could be a challenging task, and it questions whether discrimination is always a desirable feature of bacterial typing methods in the context of chronic CF infections.
The Effect of Appurtenant Golf Memberships on Residential Real Estate Prices

Considerable prior research confirms the existence of real estate price premiums associated with golf course amenities in residential development projects. This study examines a unique residential development project in which membership in a golf club is appurtenant to the real estate: ownership of certain (but not all) dwellings in the project includes deeded membership in the projecti¦s golf club. In this development project, golf memberships can only be obtained or disposed of by acquiring or selling the associated dwelling, respectively. The results of this analysis indicates that price premiums associated with appurtenant golf memberships, after controlling for golf course view and other relevant property characteristics, are significantly positive. Furthermore, the results indicate that the magnitude of the price premium for appurtenant golf memberships varies across dwelling types (detached vs. attached) in this project. These findings may be important for housing developers, consumers, lenders, appraisers, and property and income tax authorities.
In Situ Spectroelectrochemical Techniques as Tools for Investigating the Properties of Electroactive Systems †

Spectroelectrochemical analysis techniques allow both charge transfer processes and the species that take part in these processes to be followed. The spectroelectrochemical methodology has found extensive application since its conception in the mid-twentieth century and the array of different experimental procedures and their applications reported in literature continues growing on a yearly basis. Although the current work discusses the most significant and most recent developments in the field of spectroelectrochemical methods, attention is given to the variety of systems and processes that can be investigated, as well as providing a brief overview of the practical aspects of conducting such measurements.
Interleukin‐28 gene polymorphisms may contribute to HBsAg persistence and the development of HBeAg‐negative chronic hepatitis B

Aim of this study was to investigate whether a potential association exists between several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the IL‐28B gene (rs12979860, rs1188122, rs8099917, rs8105790, rs12980275) and HBsAg persistence. Further, a potential effect on the development of HBeAg‐negative CHB vs. inactive HBsAg carrier state was assessed in a genotype D HBV cohort. A cohort of chronic HDV patients was also used to see if they behave differently compared to chronic HBV patients.
Financial Distress Risk Pricing In Asian Markets

We examine asset pricing factors in six post-1990 Asian equity markets with DataStream data. We use the Lai, Li, Conover and Wu (2010) 4-factor asset pricing model that adds an O-score financial distress risk factor to Fama and French’s (1993) 3-factor model. We test across portfolios adjusted for common book-to-market, size and financial distress factors. We find empirical cross-sectional support for the country-specific O-score financial distress risk model in five of the six emerging Asian markets, supporting Lai, Li, Conover and Wu’s (2010) findings for Japan and the United States.
Exporting Firms, Productivity And Profitabiliy: A Survey Of The Evidence From Manufacturing Industries

It is believed that export firms are more productive than non-export firms. The reasons for that exporting firms have to endure additional cost because of transport costs, marketing research, advertising, local regulations etc. Export firms are also inclined to pay higher wages than non-export firms, because they use a higher skilled and more productive labours. Hence, export firms have to be more productive due to these additional costs. The aim of this study is to explain whether the productivity advantage of export firms does lead to a profitability advantage of exporters compared to non-export firms. For this reason, this paper attempts to summarise previous empirical studies on the firm level data considering the relationship between exporting firms, productivity, and profitability.
Multiple Intimate Partner Violence Experiences: Knowledge, Access, Utilization and Barriers to Utilization of Resources by Women of the African Diaspora

Objective. This study examined knowledge, access, utilization, and barriers to use of resources among Black women exposed to multiple types of intimate partner violence in Baltimore, Maryland and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). Methods. We analyzed quantitative survey data collected by 163 women recruited from primary care, prenatal or family planning clinics in Baltimore and the USVI. In addition we analyzed qualitative data from in-depth interviews with 11 women. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and qualitative data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Results. A substantial proportion of Black women with multiple types of violence experiences lacked knowledge of, did not have access to, and did not use resources. Barriers to resource use were identified at the individual, relationship, and community levels. Conclusion. There is need for programs to develop awareness, promote access and utilization of resources, and eliminate barriers to resource use among abused Black women.
A COMPARISON OF CORE COMPETENCIES OF WOMEN AND MEN LEADERS IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

This study compared the rankings of fourteen leadership core competencies for women and men managers in middle management and women and men in first-line supervisory positions in five manufacturing companies in the Midwest. Surveys were completed by the respondents and followup interviews were conducted. Results indicated that there were no significant differences in the rankings of core competencies between women and men supervisors or women and men managers. However, all supervisors (women and men combined) ranked mentoring and coaching employees higher than all managers (p<.05), and all managers ranked managing finances and employing strategic leadership higher than the supervisors (p<.05). It appears that the role of the leader position may be a more determinant factor in selecting core competencies than the gender of the leader. Including these core competencies in leadership professional development is recommended.
Anti‐I Agglutinins in Non‐Human Sera

Summary. Macroglobulin cold haemagglutinins, mostly of anti‐I specificity, were found in high incidence and titre in sera from sheep, cattle, kangaroos, wallabies, wombats and possums living in a range of environments in Australia. There was neither positive nor negative correlation between the I‐antigen content of the cells of the different species and the incidence of cold haemagglutinins. For example, the red cells of laboratory rabbits were still capable of binding radioactively labelled I‐antibody at 37°C, yet the rabbit sera had the weakest cold haemagglutinins in the lowest incidence.
Measurement , Analysis , and Modeling of MIMO Propagation Channel

複数の送受信アンテナを用いる MIMO 通信技術は ブロードバンドワイヤレス実現の必須技術であると考 えられている(例えば [1]とその引用文献). MIMO通 信システムの伝送容量は MIMO 伝搬特性及びアレー アンテナ構成によって決定づけられることがよく知ら れている [2]~[5]. そこでアレーアンテナ構成を含む MIMO伝搬特性の測定・解析・モデル化が重要となる. MIMO伝搬特性を測定・解析・モデル化する際には アレーアンテナを伝送路の一部とみなすか否かによっ て 2通りのアプローチがある(図 1). アンテナを伝送 路の一部とみなす場合には,MIMO伝搬特性は送信ア レーと受信アレー間の MIMO チャネルとして表現さ れる. 代表的な MIMO チャネルの統計的モデルとし て IST METRA プロジェクトで提案されたクロネッ カー近似に基づくチャネルモデル [6]がある. 一方,ア ンテナを伝送路の一部と考えない場合には,MIMO伝 搬特性は各素波の放射・到来角を用いた時空間マルチ パス伝搬路で表現される [7]. これらは次の二つの観点 で差別化できる. まずモデルの複雑さであるが,前者
Approximate Multi-Keyword Rank Search on Encrypted Cloud Data

With the growing popularity of cloud computing, more and more data owners outsource their data to cloud storages because of the convenience for management. Since cloud storages are usually run by third party service providers, data security is definitely an important problem. A simple way to protect the security is to encrypt the data before outsourcing them to the cloud. Some existing techniques provide keyword search over encrypted data. However, most of the techniques use a long index for the documents and do exact keyword search over the dataset. Those techniques may suffer from the computation and communication time as well as the storage space. In this paper, a keyword search over encrypted data scheme is proposed to improve the search performance in terms of computation time and required space. Essentially, the relations between the documents and selected keywords are first analyzed. Then, the principal information in the keyword-document relations is extracted to reduce the document indexes. The relevance of users' query and the documents is quantitatively evaluated to select the final documents of interest. Experiments on real-world dataset show that the proposed scheme effectively improves the computation performance.
Shrec'16 Track: Retrieval of Human Subjects from Depth Sensor Data

In this paper we report the results of the SHREC 2016 contest on "Retrieval of human subjects from depth sensor data". The proposed task was created in order to verify the possibility of retrieving models of query human subjects from single shots of depth sensors, using shape information only. Depth acquisition of different subjects were realized under different illumination conditions, using different clothes and in three different poses. The resulting point clouds of the partial body shape acquisitions were segmented and coupled with the skeleton provided by the OpenNI software and provided to the participants together with derived triangulated meshes. No color information was provided. Retrieval scores of the different methods proposed were estimated on the submitted dissimilarity matrices and the influence of the different acquisition conditions on the algorithms were also analyzed. Results obtained by the participants and by the baseline methods demonstrated that the proposed task is, as expected, quite difficult, especially due the partiality of the shape information and the poor accuracy of the estimated skeleton, but give useful insights on potential strategies that can be applied in similar retrieval procedures and derived practical applications. Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.4. 8 [IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION]: Scene Analysis—Shape
Prevalence of Drug-Resistant HIV-1 in Rural Areas of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China

Objective:To determine the prevalence of drug-resistant HIV-1 and the efficacy of first-line highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimens consisted of generic nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor and nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor among 339 study subjects in rural areas of Hubei province, China. Methods:Two cross-sectional studies were conducted to investigate 150 HAART-naive (99 received subsequent therapy) between 2003 and 2005 and 288 HAART-experienced patients mainly between 2005 and 2006. Patients' CD4+ T-cell count and viral load were determined. HIV-1 pol gene fragments were amplified from patients' plasma by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, subsequently sequenced and analyzed. Results:About 83.5% of the patients were from rural villages. They were dominantly infected with subtype B' HIV-1 (96.7%) through paid blood donation (64.6%) and related blood transfusion (28.3%). We found that there was a steady increase of CD4 count over time among treated patients without detectable viral load (186/288, 64.6%). There was, however, an increasing prevalence of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor- and nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-resistant mutations among patients with detected viremia (102/288, 35.4%) after treatment for 3-6 (24.3%), 9-12 (57.1%), and 20-24 (63.3%) months, respectively. The increasing rates were associated with significant CD4 count drop and viral load increase. Some patients also developed multidrug-resistant mutants. Conclusions:We report the first HIV-1 drug resistance study after 2 years on HAART among Chinese patients living in rural villages. Our data suggest that a significant portion of patients are failing first-line regimens with a trend of AIDS progression. It is therefore necessary to maximize the drug adherence and to make affordable second-line HAART regimens available immediately. Our results have implications for implementing HAART in underresourced developing country settings.
On the Phase Calibration by Multisquint Analysis in TOPSAR and Stripmap Interferometry

The availability of accurate trajectory information is paramount for the processing and exploitation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. Considering the particular case of spaceborne SARs designed for repeat-pass interferometric applications, errors in the trajectory translate into phase artifacts that affect the interferometric performance. In this paper, we propose a model-based procedure to calibrate the trajectories of spaceborne SAR systems by the multisquint (MS) phase. The technique allows to estimate the along and the derivative of across track geometric errors. The geometric model of the InSAR phase is derived as a function of positioning errors and the MS phase model as derivative of the InSAR phase geometric model, with respect to the squint angle. We perform a sensitivity analysis of the model in order to define which geometric errors can be estimated by the MS phase, justifying the assumption that the MS phase is very poorly affected by the atmospheric phase screen. We particularly concentrate on the TOPSAR acquisition mode, where the phase is very sensitive to geometric errors. We start from the classical two-image case and then consider the extension to the multibaseline case. Experimental results obtained by processing of interferometric pairs acquired by the Sentinel-1A sensor are reported.