Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Book Review

THE DEBATE OVER THE NEED for empiricallybased practice that has become a focal point for social work education is not limited to our profession . For any who doubt this, Scott Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, and Jeffrey Lohr' s edited text demonstrates that psychology is struggling with similar concerns, as well as an all-too-familiar dichotomy between its researchers and clinicians. To bring attention to this issue, and the concerns it has raised, the editors have invited members of their field to, in their words, "subject a variety of therapeutic, assessment, and diagnostic techniques . to incisive but impartial scientific scrutiny" (p. xix). Given the range of such techniques, the editors have limited this inquiry to those that are both controversial and widely used. The text incorporates five sections, beginning with four chapters that address controversies in assessment and diagnosis. These are followed by three chapters on broad issues in psychotherapy, three on the treatment of specific adult disorders, two on child disorders, and three concluding chapters, one on self-help, one on the media, and a final one on constructive remedies to the problems identified throughout the text. The editors acknowledge that this undertaking will be upsetting to many readers, some because the information will challenge their current practices and others because they may not have realized the degree to which questionable techniques are being used . Although Lilienfeld and his coeditors do not themselves address the vitriol to which previous debunkers of pseudoscientific methods have been subjected, Carol Tavris' foreword discusses the reactions to her New York Times Book Review essay, "Beware the Incest Survivor Machine" (1993), as well as to the Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman Psychological Bulletin article, "A Meta-Analytic Examina tion of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples" ( 1998). Tavris, a social psychologist, observed in her essay that several popular books on incest made claims about memory and trauma that any undergraduate p sychology student should have recognized as scientifically unfounded. Following the essay's publication, Tavris was accused of being "directly on the side of the molesters, rapists, pedophiles and other misogynists" (p . xv) . The Rind et al. study offered the reassuring conclusion that child sexual abuse is not always as traumatic as clinical samples suggest. Not only did clinicians and political conservatives attack the research, they also attacked the authors as
Classification of Breast Thermography using Machine Learning for Early Detection of Malignancy

Uncontrolled growth of cells in the breast tissue causes Breast Cancer and it has been the major cause of fatality in the developing countries. Although the existing methods of detection have been efficient, they largely focus on women above the age of 40. Early detection in a stage 1 mutation would be helpful in better diagnosis and treatment protocol thus ensuring longer lifespans. Therefore the thermography method proposes to take thermal images of the breast, highlighting the areas with extra growth. A pattern recognition technique that has been most effective in classifying tumours as benign or malignant – Fast support vector machine (FSVM) is used on the Thermo-gram. It is a three-step approach. In the first step, thermal image pre-processing and segmentation is done. The second step focuses on Textural Features Extraction using Curvelet transform. The percentage of area occupied by pixels with the higher temperatures of the image is calculated. The third step is used to extract classification of the tumour and highlight a boundary with the affected cells. Using this screening technique will pave way for a non-invasive, highly efficient, early detection method for women of all age groups.
Schwannoma of Lower Lip: An Unexpected Diagnosis-A Rare Case Report

Schwannoma is a benign encapsulated neuronal tumor arising from the perineural Schwann cells. It has predilection for sensory nerves. Only about 1% is located intraorally. When compared to other sites in intraoral region like tongue, palate, floor of mouth and buccal mucosa, schwannoma of lip is very rare. Only a very few cases have been reported in literature. Here, we present a very rare case of schwannoma lower lip in a 18 year young adolescent boy. He came with the history of swelling in the lower lip since 5 years. The swelling was painless and gradually increased in size. The swelling was excised under local anesthesia and sent for histopathological examination. Gross examination revealed a 1x1cm encapsulated grey white homogeneous mass. Histopathological examination revealed characteristic Antoni ‘A’ and Antoni ‘B’ patterns. The tumor was positive for immunohistochemistry S-100.
A review of the methods used in the determination of flaxseed components

Flaxseed ( Linum usitatissimum L.) is a multi-purpose crop and its consumption is beneficial for human health. The nutritional components of flaxseed are oil, protein, lignans, fiber and vitamin. The determination of the minor components is of great importance in establishing the flaxseed oil quality and their genuineness. The qualitative and quantitative determination of its constituents has been carried out by using several analytical techniques most of which are based on gas chromatography and some being based on high-performance liquid chromatography. In the present work, the different methods used for the determination of flaxseed components are revised. Keys words : Methods, chromatography, flaxseed, food, fiber, protein, oil, lignans.
Chemical composition and biological activities of essential oils and solvent extracts of Origanum vulgare subsp. glandulosum Desf. from Tunisia

This study aimed to quantify the active biological compounds in Origanum vulgare subsp. glandulosum Desf. Analysis of the chemical composition essential oil from Tunisia was carried out using gas chromatography-mass spectral (GC-MS). The antioxidant capacities of essential oil and extracts were evaluated using free radical scavenging, ferric reducing antioxidant power assay and metal chelating effects. The antidiabetic activity was screened using α-amylase. The oil was dominated by carvacrol (61.20 to 74.03), p-cymene (5.89 to 12.60), and γ γ γ γ-terpinene (1.13 to 6.88). 1,1-diphenyl-2picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and ferric reducing antioxidant power assay (FRAP) assays showed that leaves of O. vulgare have a potent antioxidant activities which was comparable to Trolox. The methanol extract have the highest ion chelating ability at around 76.98 mg equivalent ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA)/g dry matter (DM). The amounts of chlorophylls A and B were higher than that of lycopene and β-carotene. Essential oils and extracts, screened for α-amylase inhibitory effect, showed a strong capacity to inhibit the degradation of starch by pancreatic and salivary α-amylase. Extracts and essential oils of O. vulgare showed substantial antioxidant activity, and detectible inhibitory effect on α-amylase activity, therefore it could be used as a natural preservative ingredient in food and/or pharmaceutical industries.
EVOLUTION OF INTERLEUKIN-18 BINDING PROTEIN

Motivation: Interleukin-18 (IL-18) is one of the pivotal cytokines, which controls defense mechanism called inflammation. To develop proteins available for controlling the local and/or circulating IL-18 levels, we initiated study of interleukin-18 binding proteins (IL-18BPs). Results: Eighteen IL-18BPs, 7 from vertebrates and 11 from chordopoxviruses, were picked from the NCBI database. All of their IL-18 binding domains (IL-18BDs) were aligned and a phylogenetic tree constructed. Our results suggested that at least two independent events created two different ancestral viral IL-18BP genes by retroposing IL-18BP genes from the vertebrate lineage. These two events are estimated to have occurred, after an ancient mammalian IL-18BP gene diverged from bird, and before the mammalian IL-18BP gene diverges into human, ungulate and rodent IL-18BP genes.
Exogenous Application of Gibberellic Acid Counteracts the Ill Effect of Sodium Chloride in Mustard

The response of mustard (Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss cv. Varuna) to presowing seed treatment with sodium chloride (NaCl) was investigated. The plants raised from treated seeds were sprayed with water or 10-6 M GA3 at the 30- day stage. The seeds imbibed in 1 or 10 mM of NaCl resulted in a decrease in dry mass, leaf chlorophyll content, carbonic anhydrase activity (E.C. 4.2.1.1), nitrate reductase activity (E.C. 1.6.6.1) and net photosynthetic rate at the 60-day stage, and pod number and seed yield at harvest. However, spray application of GA3 neutralized the ill effect of soaking treatment in NaCl (1 or 10 mM).
Investigating the Accuracy of Surf Forecasts Over Various Time Scales

Whether or not surfable waves appear in a certain place and time depends upon many factors, some of which can be predicted by mathematical models. Typical outputs available to the public are significant wave height, mean wave direction, peak period, wind speed and wind direction. Wind inputs to wave models depend upon mean sea-level pressure (MSLP) values predicted by atmospheric models, and many surfers still prefer using MSLP charts for ‘manual’ surf predictions. As a simple test of the accuracy of these forecasts, a hindcast was performed using 27 sets of nine North-Atlantic MSLP charts, each giving predictions at 24hour intervals between one and eight days ahead. The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index, to which the surf in Europe is closely linked, was used to quantify in a simple way the situation on each chart. The root-mean-square (r.m.s.) error in NAO index across 18 sets of forecasts was noted as a function of forecast horizon. An increase in error with increasing forecast time was best described by an exponential regression model of the form bx ae y = . The r.m.s. error of 6 hPa for a 1-day forecast was considered acceptable for surfing forecasts based on these charts, whereas the r.m.s. error of 19 hPa for an 8-day forecast was not. For a particular r.m.s. error, a steady lengthening of forecast horizon is expected as computing power continues to increase. ADDITIONAL INDEX WORDS: Forecast, MSLP, NAO, Surfing
A Powerful Method for Obtaining Exact Solutions of Volterra Integral Equation’s Types

The purpose of this paper is to obtain an exact solution of linear as well as nonlinear Volterra integral (VIE) and Volterra integro-differential (VIDE) equations. These equations exist in many applications, namely here, the motion of a charged particle in an oscillating magnetic field. Also, the probability density that is associated with a continuous-time random walk in three dimensions. For some nonlinear problems, the classical homotopy perturbation method (HPM) is divergent. Therefore, a modified algorithm is made on the (HPM). The method will be named as a power series homotopy perturbation method (PSHPM). This method is convergent when solving nonlinear VIE or VIDE. In all studied cases, it converges to a closed form which resulted in an exact solution. Through this method, an algorithm is successfully established to solve linear and nonlinear VIE and VIDE. Finally, several examples are presented to validate the applicability of the deducted technique.
Advances in tissue engineering of the cardiac muscle for myocardial regeneration

Tissue engineering is currently at the avant-garden of research and aims to build regenerative alternatives in vitro by means of combining a scaffold material, adequate cells and bioactive molecules. It has been 20 years since the initial description of a tissue engineering construct, but in relation to the management of heart disease, these new technologies are not yet fully established, due to the challenges presented by their transfer to the clinic. However, advancements are being made into these therapies, and therefore it necessary, for example, support to academic laboratories, adequate funding, cooperation between different laboratories by coordinating comparable approaches and evidence-based information. Generally, scaffold materials such as gelatin, collagen alginate or synthetic polymers and cardiac cells are used to reconstitute native tissue-like constructs in vitro. They should have propensity to intgrate and remain contractile in vivo. This review aim is to present cardiac tissue engineering strategies for the functional recovery of altered cardiac tissue with a focus on different methods of application, neovascularization, advances in 3D bioprinting and future perspectives. Resumen La ingeniería de tejidos está actualmente en la vanguardia de la investigación y tiene como objetivo construir alternativas regenerativas in vitro mediante la combinación de un material de andamiaje, células adecuadas y moléculas bioactivas. Han pasado 20 años desde la primera descripción de una construcción de ingeniería tisular, pero en relación con el manejo de las enfermedades cardiacas, estas nuevas tecnologías aún no están completamente establecidas, por los desafíos que presenta su traslación a la clínica. No obstante, se está progresando con estas terapias y por ello se necesita, por ejemplo, apoyo a los laboratorios académicos, financiación adecuada, cooperación entre los distintos laboratorios mediante la coordinación de enfoques comparados e información basada en evidencia. Generalmente, se utilizan materiales de andamiaje como gelatina, colágeno, alginato o polímeros sintéticos y células cardíacas para reconstuir in vitro constructos similares a los tejidos nativos. Estos deben ser propensos a integrarse y permanecer contráctiles in vivo. El objetivo de esta revisión es presentar las principales estrategias de ingeniería tisular para la recuperación funcional del tejido cardiaco alterado con un enfoque en los distintos métodos, la neovascularización, los avances en la bioimpresión 3D y las perspectivas futuras. Ruiz-de-Almirón-de-Andrés, B. Estudiante de la Facultad de Medicina. Universidad de Granada Blanca Ruiz de Almirón de Andrés Facultad de Medicina Avenida de la investigación, 11 · 18016 Granada E-mail: blancaruizdealmiron@correo.ugr. es Palabras clave: Insuficiencia cardiaca; Ingeniería tisular; Biomateriales; Regeneración; Células madre; Cardiomiocitos.
Four New Species of the Rasbora trifasciata-Group (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Northwestern Sumatra, Indonesia

Abstract Four new cyprinid species of the Rasbora trifasciata-group, Rasbora api, R. nodulosa, R. kluetensis, and R. truncata, are described from northwestern Sumatra, Indonesia. Rasbora api is distinguished from its congeners in the R. trifasciata-group by an anteriorly tapering black midlateral stripe extending posteriorly along the flank from the first lateral-line scale system and terminating at a slightly wider black basicaudal spot on the caudal-fin base, and stout conical cephalic tubercles with basal portion bearing microgranules (Type A tubercles). Rasbora nodulosa is distinguished from its congeners in the species group by having nodular and smaller cephalic tubercles (Type D tubercles). Rasbora kluetensis is distinguished from its congeners in the species group by the conical cephalic tubercles with a somewhat protruded base bearing microridges (Type E tubercles). Rasbora truncata differs from its congeners in the species group by a combination of meristic, pigmentary, and tuberculation features, and details of the lateral line system. Other members of the R. trifasciata-group in the region, Rasbora meinkeni and R. tobana, are redescribed. Rasbora tobana is resurrected. Three new areas of endemism in northwestern Sumatra are proposed based on the distributions of three new endemic species: the Tripa District represented by R. nodulosa, the Kluet District represented by R. kluetensis, and the Alas District represented by R. truncata.
Genetic relationships between Gardenia jasminoides var. radicans and G. jasminoides for. grandiflora revealed by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA.

Seven Gardenia jasminoides var. radicans populations (three cultivated and four wild populations) and six G. jasminoides for. grandiflora populations (four cultivated and two wild populations) in Korea were analyzed for the genetic diversity and population structure by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers. Shannon’s information indices of diversity Ho were 0.767 and 0.776 on average for G. jasminoides var. radicans and G. jasminoides for. grandiflora, respectively. For both taxa the means HPOP of wild populations were higher than those of cultivation populations although there did not show significant difference (paired t-test). It was suggested that domestication processes via artificial selection do not have eroded the high levels of genetic diversity. The RAPD markers were effective in classifying wild populations of wild G. jasminoides in East Asia as well as cultivated G. jasminoides. The information about the phylogenetic relationship of G. jasminoides var. radicans and its closely related species is very valuable of the systematics of genus Gardenia, the origin of cultivated G. jasminoides, and future G. jasminoides breeding.
Antiproliferative activity of Erycibe elliptilimba against human leukemic cancer cell lines

Erycibe elliptilimba Merr and Chun. , family Convolvulaceae, is a Thai traditional medicine that has long been used as a remedy for various infectious and malignant diseases. Biological examination of extracts from E. elliptilimba showed that the methanol fraction (F3) had significant antiproliferative effects on four human leukemic cell lines (NB4, HT93A, Kasumi and K562) with IC50 values of 57.74, 63.76, 69.55 and 47.58 µg/ml, respectively. It induced apoptosis without significant change in the cell cycle process of those cell lines, especially NB4 and HT93A. The significant levels of apoptosis on NB4 and HT93A were 89.13 and 61.21%. The methanol fraction was further chromatographed to produce special extracts F3.1-3.7. The antiproliferative test showed growth inhibition of human leukemic cell lines produced by F3.6 with IC50 values of 22.68, 31.54, 28.88 and 47.72 µg/ml, respectively. Isolation of the major component in F3.6 was performed and resulted in compound E, which was identified as a mixture of s-sitosteryl and stigmasteryl-O-b-glucopyranosides. In conclusion, this active fraction (F3.6) from E. elliptilimba Merr and Chun. contained s-sitosteryl and stigmasteryl glucosides (compound E) as a major compound. It will be used as a marker compound in the standardization of the active fraction (F3.6), which will be further studied for the antiproliferative effect. Key words: Erycibe elliptilimba, antiproliferative effect, NB4, K562.
Influence of autoinducer 2 (AI-2) and AI-2 inhibitors generated from processed poultry on virulence and growth of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

Influence of Autoinducer 2 (AI-2) and AI-2 Inhibitors Generated from Processed Poultry on Virulence and Growth of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium. (May 2007) Kenneth W. Widmer, B.S., The University of Texas, El Paso; M.S., New Mexico State University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Suresh Pillai Bacteria produce and respond to external stimuli using molecules termed autoinducers. Poultry meat contains inhibitors which interfere with AI-2 signaling. The primary objective of this work was to understand the effects of AI-2 on the virulence and growth of Salmonella Typhimurium, and if the introduction of AI-2 inhibiting compounds would influence these effects. Using DNA microarray analysis, expression of 1136 virulence-related genes in a Salmonella Typhimurium wild type and a luxS mutant strain, PJ002 (unable to produce AI-2), was monitored after exposure to treatments containing in vitro synthesized AI-2 (AI-2) and poultry meat (PM) inhibitors. Responding gene expression was unique in the presence of AI-2, with 23 genes differentially expressed at least 1.5-fold (p < 0.05). The combined AI-2 + PM treatment resulted in 22 genes being differentially expressed. Identification of inhibitory compounds was attempted using GC analysis on a hexane solvent extract obtained from a PM wash. From this analysis, chemical standards of
360-degree Video Streaming by Deep Reinforcement Learning

Current systems on 360-degree video streaming are usually specific to local video contents and local network conditions. Thus, failing to consider the effects on the far future decisions, these streaming systems are by no means optimal. Recently, the development of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) motivates its application in various domains. In video streaming, the sequential behavior of choosing appropriate bitrates makes it fit well into the reinforcement learning framework. Inthispaper, we use DRL to perform 360-degree video streaming. We first notice some special cases have remarkable optimal decision patterns. Using this knowledge, we regularize the neural network with residual connections to improve the performance. Then we use synthetic special cases to illustrate our system’s potential to make approximately optimal decisions, for which both layered coding and non-layered coding scenarios are investigated. Moreover, when we provide the knowledge of the Field of Vision (FoV) prediction accuracy for the streaming agent, higher performance is reached. Finally, we compare our proposed streaming agent using a very simple one layer neural network with an advanced video streaming baseline in a practical 5G environment setting. To evaluate performances, We let both systems perform a 45-second streaming task with a uniform Quality of Experience (QoE) metric. Experiments show our proposed agent is better: the performance is improved by 3.3% on average over the baseline.
Effects of drought on photosynthesis and on the thermotolerance of photosystem II in seedlings of cedar (Cedrus atlantica and C. libani)

The rate of net CO 2 assimilation (A) in cedar needles declined during drought progression, while the quantum yield of electron transport measured under moderate light and high CO 2 (ΔF/F m ) remained almost constant. A slight but significant decrease in ΔF/F m was observed in severely droughted plants. This suggested that the decline in A during drought progression was mostly due to stomatal closure, and that the photosynthetic apparatus of cedar was only impaired by severe water deficits. A Turkish provenance of C. libani displayed a significantly higher thermotolerance than a French provenance of C. atlantica at whatever levels of drought. Nevertheless, there was a strong interaction between drought and heat stress in both cases. The temperature at which F v /F m was lowered to 15% of its original value was increased by more than 3-4°C in droughted plants. This drought-induced shift in the PSII thermotolerance was still evident when heat treatments were done under high light rather than in darkness.
Physiological blockage in plants in response to postharvest stress

Flowers have been designed primarily for cutting because of the diversity of shapes, colors and also durability. However, ornamental plants are used in floral arrangements in vases and have limited shelf-life. Thus, this study showed that one of the factors contributing to this limitation is the physiological blockage that occurs in plants in response to stress imposed by harvest. Key words: Flowers, stress, physiological blockage, harvest.
Growing Adaptive Multi-Hyperplane Machines (APPENDIX)

Proof. The proof closely follows the proof of Theorems 1 and 3 from (Wang et al., 2011). First, we rewrite the update rule of SGD with the pruning step as W ← W − η(t)∂, where ∂ = ∇ + E, and E = E prune + E dupl where we can see that the weight matrix degradation at the tth training iteration E is equal to the sum of weight matrix degradation E prune due to pruning and weight matrix degradation E (t) dupl due to weight duplication. Clearly, E (t) prune = 0 if no pruning is used, and E dupl = 0 if no duplication is used at the t th training iteration. Note that, in contrast to (Wang et al., 2011), we also included the weight duplication degradation. The relative progress towards the optimal solution W∗ at the tth round D can be lower bounded as