Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
CMR–based Modelling of the Left Ventricle: a Tool for Functional Assessment and Surgical Decision Support

The most challenging objective of the clinical decision making in the management of patients with myocardial dysfunction is to choose the best option for improving myocardial function and clinical outcome. The present work aims at developing patient-specific computational models to assist cardiologists and cardiac surgeons in defining the severity and extent of disease in patients with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, with or without mitral regurgitation, and in supporting clinical decision making and planning of the optimal treatment for left ventricle-valve repair. Two software were developed: the Functional Assessment Tool (FAT) provides cardiologists with the automatic extraction of quantitative MRI-derived parameters about LV performance; the Functional Predictive Tool (FPT) allows cardiac surgeons for easy and fast simulations of post-operative scenarios for different surgical choices. FAT validation, focused on LV dimension and function indices, demonstrated a good ability in detecting endoand epicardium and provided results comparable to the gold standard. Preliminary simulations of surgical procedures using FTP allowed to calculated segmental circumferential and radial strains with sufficient accuracy. Future developments will include the tuning of simulation parameters used accordingly with the feedback of clinicians and the effects of changes in peripheral resistances and heart rate, typically associated to post-operative scenarios.
Analysis and design of a novel UWB antenna array

A novel 1 × 4 planar UWB antenna array is proposed. The utilized single element is a compact planar circular slot micro-strip antenna. The feeding network is 1 to 4 Wilkinson power divider. The bandwidth of the antenna array is from 3.1GHz to 12.4GHz and the radiation pattern is bidirectional.
INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL AND ITS IMPACT ON FIRM PERFORMANCE OF THE TURKISH FINANCIAL SECTOR BEFORE AND AFTER FINANCIAL CRISIS

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital and financial performance of financial companies listed in Borsa Istanbul, using data of 44 listed companies over 2004-2015. Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC) method is used as a measure of intellectual capital (IC). An OLS regression is utilized to examine the impact of intellectual capital; Human capital efficiency (HCE), Structural capital efficiency (SCE), and Capital employed efficiency (CEE) on market performance, financial performance, and productivity performance. The findings show that HCE has a positive significant relation with ROA after the crisis and with ROE before and after the crisis. SCE show a positive significant relation with PE and ROE after the crisis and a negative significant association with MB after the crisis. Regarding to CEE, the results show that it has only a positive significant impact on MB after the crisis and a negative significant influence on ATO after the crisis. Generally, VAIC has a negative significant relationship with ATO before the crisis and has a positive association with ROA after the crisis, in addition to a positive significant influence of ROE before and after crisis.
No . 398 Do Multinationals Transplant their Business Model ?

What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant their mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of a multinational firm about transplanting its business organisation to other countries. We test the theory with original and matched parent and affiliate data on the internal organisation of 660 Austrian and German multinational firms and 2200 of their affiliate firms in Eastern Europe. We find that three factors stand out in promoting the multinational firm’s decision to transplant the business model to the affiliate firm in the host country: a competitive host market, the corporate culture of the multinational firm, and when an innovative technology is transferred to the host country. These factors increase the respective probabilities of organisational transfer by 18.5 percentage points, 37, and 31 percentage points.
CFD simulation of flame spray process for silica nanopowder synthesis from tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS)

The process of synthesizing silica nanopowder by the gas phase thermal oxidation of tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) in a diffusion flame reactor was simulated using a commercial computational fluid dynamic (CFD) code. The fuel combustion process and silica particle formation and growth in the flame are modeled. The temperature, velocity and particle size distribution (PSD) fields inside the reactor are computed. Chemical reaction rate and population balance model (PBM) were used to calculate the particle formation and growth and PSD.
Telecenter Sustainability: An Embedded, Multiple-Case Study on Telecenters in Indonesia

This study attempts to explore the degree of financial and social sustainability of telecenters in East Java, Indonesia, and their influencing factors. An embedded, multiple-case study approach will be applied with telecenter as the main unit of analysis and community as the embedded unit of analysis. Selection of cases will be based on a comprehensive telecenter survey and confirmation from experts in the field. Mixed methods data collection and analysis techniques will be utilized with qualitative method being the primary technique. Within-case and cross-case analyses of two sets of cases of sustainable and barely-sustaining telecenters will be conducted to derive results and confirm commonalities. Q-methodology will be applied to examine community’s subjective perception towards telecenter social sustainability. An integrated framework of the Five Pillars of Sustainable Telecenters and the Change Agent element from the Diffusion of Innovation theory will be used as the conceptual basis of investigation. The outcomes of this research are expected to bring important theoretical and methodological contributions to academics as well as recommendations to policy makers and telecenter activists. Abstract This study attempts to explore the degree of financial and social sustainability of telecenters in East Java, Indonesia, and their influencing factors. An embedded, multiple-case study approach will be applied with telecenter as the main unit of analysis and community as the embedded unit of analysis. Selection of cases will be based on a comprehensive telecenter survey and confirmation from experts in the field. Mixed methods data collection and analysis techniques will be utilized with qualitative method being the primary technique. Within-case and cross-case analyses of two sets of cases of sustainable and barely-sustaining telecenters will be conducted to derive results and confirm commonalities. Q-methodology will be applied to examine community’s subjective perception towards telecenter social sustainability. An integrated framework of the Five Pillars of Sustainable Telecenters and the Change Agent element from the Diffusion of Innovation theory will be used as the conceptual basis of investigation. The outcomes of this research are expected to bring important theoretical and methodological contributions to academics as well as recommendations to policy makers and telecenter activists.
Differential modulation of E. coli mRNA abundance by inhibitory proteins that alter the composition of the degradosome

In Escherichia coli the initial step in the processing or decay of many messenger and structural RNAs is mediated by the endonuclease RNase E, which forms the core of a large RNA‐catalysis machine termed the degradosome. Previous experiments have identified a protein that globally modulates RNA abundance by binding to RNase E and regulating its endonucleolytic activity. Here we report the discovery of RraB, which interacts with a different site on RNase E and interferes with cleavage of a different set of transcripts. We show that expression of RraA or RraB in vivo is accompanied by dramatic, distinct, and inhibitor‐specific changes in degradosome composition – and that these are in turn associated with alterations in RNA decay and global transcript abundance profiles that are dissimilar to the profile observed during simple RNase E deficiency. Our results reveal the existence of endonuclease binding proteins that modulate the remodelling of degradosome composition in bacteria and argue that such degradosome remodelling is a mechanism for the differential regulation of RNA cleavages in E. coli.
Catabolite control of Escherichia coli regulatory protein BglG activity by antagonistically acting phosphorylations

In bacteria various sugars are taken up and concomitantly phosphorylated by sugar‐specific enzymes II (EII) of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS). The phosphoryl groups are donated by the phosphocarrier protein HPr. BglG, the positively acting regulatory protein of the Escherichia coli bgl (β‐glucoside utilization) operon, is known to be negatively regulated by reversible phosphorylation catalyzed by the membrane spanning β‐glucoside‐specific EIIBgl. Here we present evidence that in addition BglG must be phosphorylated by HPr at a distinct site to gain activity. Our data suggest that this second, shortcut route of phosphorylation is used to monitor the state of the various PTS sugar availabilities in order to hierarchically tune expression of the bgl operon in a physiologically meaningful way. Thus, the PTS may represent a highly integrated signal transduction network in carbon catabolite control.
Weakly supervised sentiment analysis using joint sentiment topic detection with bigrams

Online reviews evolve rapidly over time, which demands much more efficient and flexible algorithms for sentiment analysis than the current approaches. Current approaches detect the overall sentiment of a document, without performing an in-depth analysis to discover. We propose a Document level sentiment classification in conjunction with topic detection and topic sentiment analysis of bigrams simultaneously. This model is based on the weakly supervised Joint Sentiment-Topic model, and this extends the Latent Dirichlet Allocation by adding the sentiment layer. We considered Bigrams in ordered to increase the accuracy of sentiment analysis. We created a sentiment thesaurus with positive and negative lexicons and this is used to find the sentiment polarity of the bigrams. This model can be shifted to other domains. This is verified experimentally through four different domains which even outperforms the existing semi-supervised approaches.
Arteriosclerosis in Parkinsonism

Some textbooks on general and neurological medicine give the impression that cerebral arteriosclerosis is an important cause of Parkinsonism (e.g., Alpers, 1945; Yater, 1949; Purves-Stewart and Worster-Drought, 1952; Wilson, 1955; Cecil and Loeb, 1959; Grinker, Bucy, and Sahs, 1959; Merritt, 1959; Baker, 1962; Brain, 1962). Whether or not this is so, it is often very difficult to distinguish clinically between arteriosclerotic and other aetiological types of Parkinsonism in the individual patient (Merritt, 1959). Experience of this difficulty has led to an examination of some aspects of the concept of arteriosclerotic Parkinsonism. widened the concept of arteriosclerotic Parkinsonism so that it came to resemble classical paralysis agitans rather more than had Critchley's (1929) original account. Perhaps, partly in reaction to this blurring of aetiological identities, clinicians have more recently expressed misgivings concerning the role of arteriosclerosis in producing Parkinsonism (Schwab and England, 1958; Heyman, 1959; Howell, 1959; Merritt, 1959; Walton, 1961). Doshay (1960) now considers that 'the arteriosclerotic variety is undoubtedly part and parcel of the idiopathic'.
PM Electrical Machines Diagnostic - Methods Selected

 Abstract — This paper presents a several diagnostic methods designed to electrical machines especially for permanent magnets (PM) machines. Those machines are commonly used in small wind and water systems and vehicles drives. Those methods are preferred by the author in periodic diagnostic of electrical machines. The special attention should be paid to diagnostic method of turn-to-turn insulation and vibrations. Both of those methods were created in Institute of Electrical Drives and Machines Komel. The vibration diagnostic method is the main thesis of author’s doctoral dissertation. This is method of determination the technical condition of PM electrical machine basing on its own signals is the subject of patent application No P.405669. Specific structural properties of machines excited by permanent magnets are used in this method electromotive force (EMF) generated due to vibrations. There was analysed number of publications which describe vibration diagnostic methods and tests of electrical machines with permanent magnets and there was no method found to determine the technical condition of such machine basing on their own signals.
A Step Towards Accountable Algorithms ? : Algorithmic Discrimination and the European Union General Data Protection

Algorithms, and the data they process, play an increasingly important role in decisions with significant consequences for human welfare. This trend has given rise to calls for greater accountability in algorithm design and implementation, and concern over the emergence of algorithmic discrimination. In that spirit, this paper asks whether and to what extent the European Union’s recently adopted General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) successfully addresses algorithmic discrimination. As the first piece of legislation to explicitly address algorithmic discrimination, the GDPR sets an important precedent: its success, or failure, will have repercussions that extend well beyond Europe. We argue that while the GDPR’s two primary principles for dealing with algorithmic discrimination—data sanitization and algorithm transparency—are likely inadequate, the legislation also paves the way for third party inspections of algorithms or ‘algorithm audits’. If implemented properly, the algorithm audits supported by the GDPR could play a critical role in making algorithms less discriminatory and more accountable.
Minimized Overhead and Administrator based Secure Routing Protocol

As an emerging new technology a wireless communication allows users to access services electronically, wherever they might geographically be positioned. A MANET (M obile Ad Hoc Network )is a special wireless network without any fixed infrastructure and It has dynamic topology. In this paper we have discussed a new secure routing protocol named as minimized overhead and admsinistrator based secure routing protocol(MOAP) for data packets, which is signifiacndly different from existing routing protocol. We have reduced the amount of network activity for each node required to route a data packet. We have utilized our algorithm to implement this protocol and then simulate with diffentent test cases. Finally we have discussed how this protocol prevents various attacks which may jeopardize any wireless network.
An FPGA co-processor for adaptive lane departure warning system

This paper presents an FPGA co-processor design for adaptive lane departure warning system, which requires intensive computation for real-time video image processing. The main functions of the co-processor include color scheme conversion, 2D filtering, transferring intensity into binary pattern using Otsu's threshold method, and detecting lanes using Hough transform. The system design is implemented on a Xilinx Kintex FPGA with FMC DVI module connected to a camera. Our experimental tests prove the design is fully functional and the FPGA-based implementation meets the real-time requirement of reporting lane departure for practical applications.
Development of Nests and Composition of Colonies of Nasutitermes nigriceps (Isoptera: Termitidae) in the Mangroves of Jamaica

Colonies of Nasutitermes nigriceps (Haldeman) inhabiting the island of Jamaica were extracted from their arboreal carton nests by a two-stage method in which the termites were dislodged from their galleries and separated from nest debris by flotation in water. Recovery of termites by this process was 97.7%. No incipient nests were observed and all small nests collected consisted of both a wooden region, which housed the reproductives and an external carton nest. Except for the soldier caste, the proportion of sterile castes was similar in both regions of the nest. The size of small nests increased with little changes in the total colony size. However, the number of termites in the external carton nest increased with size of colony. Approximately 50% of the large nests contained reproductives. These colonies were consistently monogynous and monandrous. Caste composition of N. nigriceps colonies was comparable at each sample site and in nests of both reproductive status. However, large nests had a smaller proportion of immature termites, but similar proportion of soldiers. The average percentage of workers in small nests was proportional to that of large nests with reproductives, but less than large nests without reproductives.
Evaluation of practical diets containing various terrestrial protein sources on survival and growth parameters of redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus

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New families in the classification of glycosyl hydrolases based on amino acid sequence similarities.

301 glycosyl hydrolases and related enzymes corresponding to 39 EC entries of the I.U. B. classification system have been classified into 35 families on the basis of amino-acid-sequence similarities [Henrissat (1991) Biochem. J. 280, 309-316]. Approximately half of the families were found to be monospecific (containing only one EC number), whereas the other half were found to be polyspecific (containing at least two EC numbers). A > 60% increase in sequence data for glycosyl hydrolases (181 additional enzymes or enzyme domains sequences have since become available) allowed us to update the classification not only by the addition of more members to already identified families, but also by the finding of ten new families. On the basis of a comparison of 482 sequences corresponding to 52 EC entries, 45 families, out of which 22 are polyspecific, can now be defined. This classification has been implemented in the SWISS-PROT protein sequence data bank.
Title Enhanced Drain Current of 4 H-SiC MOSFETs by Adopting aThree-Dimensional Gate Structure

4H-SiC (0001) metal–oxide–semiconductor fieldeffect transistors (MOSFETs) with a 3-D gate structure, which has a top channel on the (0001) face and side-wall channels on the {112̄0} face, have been fabricated. The 3-D gate structures with a 1–5-μm width and a 0.8-μm height have been formed by reactive ion etching, and the gate oxide has been deposited by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition and then annealed in N2O ambient at 1300 ◦C. The fabricated MOSFETs have exhibited good characteristics: The ION/IOFF ratio, the subthreshold swing, and VTH are 10 , 210 mV/decade, and 3.5 V, respectively. The drain current normalized by the gate width is increasing with decreasing the gate width. The normalized drain current of a 1-μm-wide MOSFET is 16 times higher than that of a conventional planar MOSFET.
Describing Functioning, Disability, and Health with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Brief Core Set for Stroke

ObjectiveThe aim of this article was to demonstrate that stroke diagnosis alone does not explain differences and variety in the functioning and disability of patients. We suggest that the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Brief Core Set for Stroke is a useful, brief, and functional instrument to produce a functioning profile for stroke patients. DesignThis article reports the baseline results of a longitudinal study with 111 patients with stroke and their functioning profiles obtained with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Brief Core Set for Stroke. ResultsMost frequently reported problems in body functions were memory, muscle power functions, and attention functions. Walking activities, speaking, and understanding spoken messages are the main restricted and limited activities. Principal differences between capacity and performance (i.e., the impact of environment in performing the activities) were found in activities of self-care, such as washing oneself or dressing. Immediate family and health professionals are the main facilitators reported by patients. ConclusionsThe International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Brief Core Set for Stroke reports accurately on the main problematic areas of functioning and activities of daily living of people after stroke. It is a brief and useful instrument to use in clinical practice and it can be proposed as a “starting point” to plan interventions and organize services for patients after stroke.