Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Survey on Lung Cancer Diagnosis Using Novel Methods

— Data mining techniques in the field of disease diagnosis is being approved in the health institutions. This opportunity has made way for several opportunities to conduct treatments for diseases. Data mining is the process of analyzing large amount of data in order to derive some useful information. Some of the data mining techniques like classification, association rule mining and clustering are used to analyze the types of disease. Classification is a crucial and an important process in Data mining. Presently, data mining plays a vital role in the medical system in order to predict some severe diseases like cancer, etc. In case of lung cancer we gather some significant patterns and their corresponding age, weight and score with the help of k means clustering and the decision tree algorithm. This paper aims to study on the process of detecting and diagnosing lung diseases in the early stages so as to help doctors to save patient’s life. This study briefly analyses the potential use of classification based data mining techniques like the Decision tree, k means clustering, PCA, SVR and C4.5 using MATLAB.
Genetic and nutritional diversity of Bacillus subtilis isolates demonstrating different aspects related to plant growth promotion

Currently, agricultural practices have been undergoing intense transformations, imposing major challenges such as maintaining productivity with lower production costs and environmental impacts. One of the alternatives to meet these requirements is the use of plant growth promoting bacteria, including Bacillus subtilis. However, different isolates may express different aspects and levels of plant growth promotion. The present study aimed to verify the genetic and nutritional diversity of eight B. subtilis isolates, demonstrating different aspects and levels of plant growth promotion. Eight B. subtilis isolates were analyzed as to their nutritional diversity by BiologEcoPlate TM kit, genetic diversity by Box-PCR, and a trial in greenhouse conditions. The experimental design in greenhouse trial was completely randomized with 9 treatments and five replicates, resulting in 45 pots. Treatments were eight Bacillus subtilis strains, and a control treatment using plants without bacterial inoculation. Isolates 290 and 287 are genetically similar, while isolates 248 and 263 also showed similarity. Genetic and substrate consumption (carbon) analyses showed differences and similarities among isolates, allowing the distribution of isolates into different groups. It was observed that the isolate with the highest ability to promote plant growth was the only isolate that consumed glycyl-Lglutamic acid. These results open the way for further investigations in an attempt to clarify what are the conditions and / or characteristics required by isolates for the plant growth promotion to be more effective.
TOEFL iBT Training in the CALL Classroom

Ritsumeikan University richinwit@hotmail.com This paper describes a CALL course for EFL students at a Japanese university in which Moodle quiz activities were used in conjunction with NanoGong (a sound-recording plugin) to simulate TOEFL iBT-style speaking and writing exercises. In addition to describing and sharing our experience implementing the course, we also share survey and interview feedback from students, which touches upon themes such as learner anxiety toward peer assessment and a positive response toward the use of simplified scoring rubrics. We conclude with some practical suggestions for teachers interested in carrying out iBT training with Moodle in their CALL rooms.
Temporal Sources of Deuterium (&dgr;D) Variability in Waterfowl Feathers Across A Prairie-to-Boreal Gradient

Abstract. The use of hydrogen isotopes to delineate origins of migratory birds relies on predictable relationships between levels of deuterium (&dgr;D) in tissue and those predicted from long-term precipitation (&dgr;Dp). Variance in deuterium associated with the year of interest, the long-term isotopic database, and in feathers (&dgr;Df) of waterbirds occupying small wetlands is an issue confronting isotopic comparisons. We examined the factors that influence isotopic variation among feathers of known-origin Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) from breeding locations in north-central North America. We evaluated temporal variability in &dgr;Df values at two spatial scales. At scales >500 km, annual differences accounted for 0–45% of variation in &dgr;Df values of feathers from the North American Boreal Forest, Peace Lowlands, Aspen Parkland, and Prairie ecoregions; annual variability was greatest in the Aspen Parkland. At scales <50 km, differences among and within years contributed similarly and together accounted for 93–95% of variation in &dgr;Df values of Mallard broods at two Canadian prairie sites. Variability in &dgr;Df among Mallards from one small wetland complex in prairie Canada was best explained by variability in &dgr;Dp values that represented the period of feather synthesis through the beginning of the previous growing season >12 months earlier. These annual and seasonal shifts in &dgr;Df values may help to explain why assigning origins of wetland birds on the basis of deuterium levels can be more uncertain at finer spatial scales, particularly in regions of complex wetland hydrology.
Search Frictions, Real Rigidities, and Inflation Dynamics

I analyze the effect of search frictions on inflation dynamics, in a New Keynesian model where firms make both pricing and vacancy posting decisions. I find that search frictions create real rigidities in price setting. This mechanism flattens the New Keynesian Phillips curve, relative both to the standard model with a frictionless labor market and a model where pricing and vacancy posting decisions are made by different subsets of firms. This helps the model improve its empirical performance along a number of dimensions. First, inflation becomes more persistent. Second, output responses to monetary shocks become larger and more persistent. Finally, unemployment becomes more volatile. (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)
Virtual communities of practice: An inquiry into the creation, benefits, motivations, enablers and barriers to participation

Osaka Prefecture University emailsimonatwork@gmail.com Teachers’ Communities of Practice (CoP) offer the potential for continuous professional development through knowledge sharing networks. Taking place both face-to-face and online in Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoP) the transfer, generation, and reinforcement of knowledge can promote better practices in the classroom. Through this investigation, the barriers, motivations and enabling factors affecting the creation and success of VCoPs will be illustrated with reference to literature and interviews with members of a professional organization of teachers in Japan. Significant influences affecting VCoPs will be shown to be teachers’ personal motivations, technology use and interpersonal relationships.
Hyperhomocystéinémie et grossesse : une association dangereuse.

RÉSUMÉ L’homocystéine résulte de la transméthylation d’un acide aminé essentiel : la méthionine. Son métabolisme met en jeu essentiellement 3 enzymes et des cofacteurs vitaminiques (vit. B6, B9 et B12). Les anomalies génétiques de ces enzymes ou les carences en ces vitamines aboutissent à une hyperhomocystéinémie. L’hyperhomocystéinémie fait partie des thrombophilies congénitales et est un facteur de risque vasculaire anciennement connu. La découverte que l’hyperhomocystéinémie pouvait également être responsable de plusieurs pathologies gravidiques est beaucoup plus récente. Les travaux sont encore rares et portent sur de courtes séries. Il semble cependant clair que l’hyperhomocystéinémie est associée au syndrome des fausses couches à répétition, à la pré-éclampsie, à l’hématome rétro-placentaire, aux accidents thromboemboliques, aux anomalies de fermeture du tube neural et peut-être aux morts fœtales in utero et aux retards de croissance intra-utérins. La supplémentation en vitamines B9 permet de diminuer les taux d’homocystéine plasmatique, elle est donc recommandée chez les patientes hyperhomocystéinémiques. La prévention des accidents thrombo-emboliques par un traitement anticoagulant en cours de grossesse est également souhaitable chez ces patientes.
Nutritional value of different food sources for the benthic Daphnidae Simocephalus vetulus : role of fatty acids

In this experimental study, growth, survival and fecundity of the benthic Cladoceran Simocephalus vetulus were measured when feeding on Cryptomonas ovata, Paraphysomonas vestita, Cyclidium glaucoma and particulate amorphous organic matter to investigate the nutritional value of these food sources. Cladocerans fed Cr. ovata (autotrophic flagellate) exhibited the highest fecundity and growth. Par- ticulate organic matter (POM, mainly composed of detrital particles) and Cy. glau- coma (ciliate) supported a lower grow and neonate production. P. vestita (heterotrophic flagellate) was inadequate to promote development and fecundity of S. vetulus and also resulted in high mortality. The concentrations of (n-3) series polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in the tested diets seemed to be the main factor determining their nutri- tional quality. S. vetulus' fecundity and increase in size were significantly correlated with the percentages of (n-3) PUFA in the diet, especially eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5 n-3). Although PUFA concentrations in Cy. glaucoma and POM were substantially lower than those provided by Cr. ovata, an apparent ability to bioconvert PUFA al- lowed S. vetulus to reproduce successfully. The fatty acid profiles of neutral lipids and phospholipids of the cladocerans indicate that S. vetulus is able to synthesise long- chain PUFA from dietary C18 PUFA through a process of elongation and desaturation. However, the long chain (n-3) PUFA, especially 20:5(n-3), in the lipids of P. vestita were apparently too scarce to be compensated for by bioconversion.
Analysis and Design of an Ultra-Low-Power Bluetooth Low-Energy Transmitter With Ring Oscillator-Based ADPLL and 4 $\times$ Frequency Edge Combiner

In this paper, we present an all-digital ring oscillator (RO)-based Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) transmitter (TX) for ultra-low-power radios in short range Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. The power consumption of state-of-the-art BLE TXs has been limited by the relatively power-hungry local oscillator (LO) due to the use of LC oscillators for superior phase noise (PN) performance. This paper addresses this issue by analyzing the PN limit of a BLE TX and proposes an RO-based solution for power and cost savings. The proposed transmitter features: 1) a wideband all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) featuring an <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{\mathrm {RF}} / {4}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> RO, with an embedded 5-bit TDC; 2) a 4<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> frequency edge combiner to generate the 2.4-GHz signal; and 3) a switch-capacitor digital PA optimized for high efficiency at low transmit power levels. These not only help reduce the power consumption and improve PN performance but also enhance the TX efficiency for short range applications. The TX is prototyped in 40-nm CMOS, occupies an active area of 0.0166 mm<sup>2</sup>, and consumes 486 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu \text{W}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> in its low-power mode, while configured as a non-connectable advertiser. The TX has been validated by wirelessly communicating beacon messages to a mobile phone.
The Value Added of Strategic Is Planning: Understanding Consistency, Validity, and Is Markets

The impact of IS technologies on the competitive capacity of the firm has increased the need for effective strategic IS planning. This paper argues that an effective strategic IS planning process must provide for (1) definition of key markets (within the firm) for IS products and services; (2) internal consistency, particularly between the strategic business plan and strategic IS plan; and (3) a means to assess the validity of the planning process. The need to establish validity is seen as critical in today's highly turbulent business environment. Results of an actual planning process are used to illustrate how assumption surfacing can be used as one means to address the validity issue.
Long-lasting Effect of Creatine or GuanidinoaceticAcid on Mulard Ducks Performance, Behaviour, Tissue Creatine Stores and Meat Quality

This study was to determine the effectiveness of guanidinoaceticacid(GAA) with or without methioninein comparison with creatine (CREA)at enhancing ducks performance,restoring tissue Cr and improving meat quality.Mulardducklings (n=250) were fed on control diet or control diet plus CREA;GAA; GAA with 0.2% Met (GAAMet0.2) or GAA with 0.4%Met (GAAMet0.4). Dietarysupplementation of CREA or GAA significantly increased (P
Anesthesia for Plastic Surgery Procedures

Plastic surgery is currently more popular and available with increasing frequency throughout the world. Its advances are related to progress in anesthesiology. Nowadays, it is possible to operate patients with pathologies that previously did not allow this type of surgery. The developments in perioperative monitoring, pharmacology, prevention of complications, and the wide communication between patients and physicians, as well as the development of surgical units that facilitate a prompt programming and reduce the total costs, have resulted in a logarithmic growth of plastic and reconstructive surgery procedures. Local, regional, or general anesthesia, anesthetic monitoring, or conscious sedation is used routinely, allowing to manage patients as ambulatory or short stay. Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism remain the most frequent complications, followed by postoperative pain, nausea, and vomiting.
Lower Limb Prosthesis After Amputation the End or the Beginning of Treatment

Sports and exercise are beneficial in terms of physical and psychological wellbeing of not only able-bodied but also for disabled ones. This notion is supported by the fact that sports became an integral component of rehabilitation in a center at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital after World War II that eventually gave birth to the Paralympic Games. The ultimate desire of amputees to partake in high activity sports led to the development of sports specific prosthesis with greater functional advantage over nonspecific ones. But the amputees tend to develop several skin and musculoskeletal complications ascribed to socket prosthesis which can be overcome by osseointegrated implants at the expense of high incidence of superficial infections about the stoma. Further, robotic technology is bringing revolution in the field of prostheses.
Relationships between the Red Fox and Waterbirds in the Ebro Delta Natural Park, N.E. Spain

Abstract We studied the basic biology of the Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) and its interactions with the waterbird colonies in the Ebro Delta natural park, Spain. Dens (earths) were found in areas characterized by sandy dune vegetation, a few buildings, areas where human entry was prohibited, and areas where hunting of waterfowl was banned. Regression associated the presence of dens to the abundance of dunes, halophytic vegetation and prohibited entry. Birds constituted 96% of the prey found at dens, mainly waterfowl (68%), gulls (16%) and rails (10%), but this differed markedly between areas. During the breeding season, foxes obtained their food from a reduced number of sources in the area surrounding their dens, and impacted the nearest breeding birds. We propose changes in the management of foxes in the natural park to safeguard internationally threatened bird species and to prevent them from decreasing, or even disappearing, as a result of fox predation.
Analysis of DNA attached to the chromosome scaffold

Two different methods have been described to investigate whether any specific DNA sequences are intimately associated with the metaphase chromosome scaffold. The chromosome scaffold, prepared by dehistonization of chromosomes with 2 M NaCl, is a nonhistone protein complex to which many looped DNA molecules are attached (Laemmli et al., 1977, Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 42:351--360). Chromosome scaffold DNA was prepared from dehistonized chicken MSB chromosomes by restriction endonuclease EcoRI digestion followed by removal of the looped DNA by sucrose gradient sedimentation. Alternatively, the scaffold DNA was prepared from micrococcal nuclease- digested intact chromosomes using sucrose gradients containing 2M NaCl. Solution hybridization of the radioactively labeled scaffold DNA with a large excess of total nuclear DNA revealed that, in either case, the scaffold DNA is not a unique sequence class of genomic DNA. Southern- blotting hybridization also showed that the scaffold DNA prepared from EcoRI-digested dehistonized chromosomes was not enriched (or depleted) in the ovalbumin gene sequences. The possibility of a dynamic interaction of protein and DNA in the chromosome scaffold and the possibility that the scaffold is a preparative artifact are discussed.
Identification and expression analysis of CYP4G25 gene from the Chinese oak silkworm ( Antheraea pernyi )

CYP450 plays an important role in physiological metabolism. A CYP4G25 gene of P450 family was cloned from Antheraea pernyi using reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and rapid amplification of cDNA end (RACE-PCR). Sequence analysis revealed that this gene was 2112 bp long and has 97.5% identity with Antheraea yamamai CYP4G25. Semi-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) showed that the expression of A. perny i CYP4G25 was found in various tissues with no significant changes. Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and western blot analysis demonstrated that a 63.6 KD recombinant protein was successfully expressed in Escherichia coli cells and its expression was not remarkably changed under induction by different isopropyl-β-D-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) concentration. Key words: Antheraea pernyi, CYP4G25, expression, cytochrome P450.
Allelopathy of root exudates from different resistant eggplants to Verticillium dahliae and the identification of allelochemicals

Three eggplant cultivars were inoculated with Verticillium dahliae Kleb. to assess their resistance to Verticillium wilt. Solanum tor was resistant, “Liyuanziqie ” was tolerant, and “ Xi’anlvqie” susceptible. The disease incidence and disease index of Verticillium wilt and the amount of V. dahliae in rhizospheric soil, variation of microbial composition, the allelopathy of root exudates to mycelium growth of V. dahliae and the chemical substances of root exudates from eggplant cultivars with different resistance to Verticillium wilt were investigated in this experiment. The results showed that the root exudates of resistant type could not only affect the growth and development of V. dahliae, but also influence V. dahliae indirectly through regulating soil microbial community composition. This may be one of the reasons for the increase of disease resistance. However, the susceptible type exhibited an opposite trend. It was inferred that the resistant type contained some particular components, such as acohd, amide, pyranoid, fluorene, while the susceptible one comprised more types of components, that is, ketone, phenol, ester and phenolic acid. Key words: Allelopathy, allelochemical, root exudates, eggplant, Verticillium dahliae, Verticillium wilt, microbial composition.
The pH dependence of the structural stability of patatin.

This paper presents the structural stability of patatin, the major potato (Solanum tuberosum cv. Bintje) tuber protein. Using far- and near-ultraviolet circular dichroism and fluorescence spectroscopy, the conformation of patatin was studied under various conditions as a function of temperature. Patatin is a protein that unfolds partly due to either heat or acid treatments. When the protein is highly structured at the start of a heat treatment (near-neutral pH), an apparent two-state thermal unfolding is observed. At low pH, when the starting conformation is already irreversibly unfolded to a certain extent, only minor changes occur upon heating. The residual structures could be part of one or more relatively stable domains. The acidic and the thermal unfolding appear to be similar, but are not identical. These results could contribute to an improved method of isolation, enabling novel food applications of potato proteins.
A Strain of Bacillus thuringiensis for the Control of Plant‐parasitic Nematodes

An isolate of Bacillus thuringiensis, designated CR‐371, was evaluated for efficacy in controlling plant‐parasitic nematodes. This isolate was first shown to be nematicidal to Caenorhabditis elegans in an in vitro laboratory assay. Treatment resulted in a significant reduction in galls due to root‐knot nematode on tomato in a greenhouse trial. In two field trials in Puerto Rico, CR‐371‐treated tomatoes and pepper had significantly fewer root galls due to Meloidogyne incognita than untreated controls, and populations of Rotylenchulus reniformis were smaller. In one experiment, CR‐371 treatment was associated with significant increases in pepper yields, while in the second trial small yield increases of pepper and tomato occurred. In a greenhouse trial, incorporation of CR‐371 into a methyl cellulose seed coat gave similar control of root‐knot nematode on tomato as compared to CR‐371 applied as a drench. CR‐371‐treated strawberry plants also had smaller populations of Pratylenchus penetrans in roots in a gr.
Multispectral Satellite Image Understanding

A problem of major interest to regional planning organizations, disaster relief agencies, and the military is the identification and tracking of land development across large scale regions, and over time. We develop an autonomous image analysis system to understand land development, especially residential and urban building organizations from satellite images. We introduce a set of measures based on straight lines to assess land development levels in high resolution satellite images. Urban areas exhibit a preponderance of straight line features. Rural areas produce line structures in more random spatial arrangements. We use this observation to perform an initial triage on the image to restrict the attention of subsequent, more computationally intensive analyses. Vegetation indices have been used extensively to estimate the vegetation density from satellite and airborne images for many years. We use these as the multispectral information for classification and house and road extraction. We focus on the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and introduce a statistical framework to analyze and extend it. Using the established statistical framework, we introduce new a group of shadow-water indices. We then extend our straight line based measures by developing a synergistic approach that combines structural and multispectral information. In particular, the structural features serve as cue regions for multispectral features. After the initial classification of regions, we introduce computationally more expensive but more precise graph theoretical measures over grayscale images to detect residential regions. The graphs are constructed using lines as vertices, while graph edges encode their spatial relationships. We introduce a set of measures based on various properties of the graph. These measures are monotonic with increasing structure (organization) in the image. We present a theoretical basis for the measures. Having detected the residential regions, we introduce a novel system to detect houses and street networks in these. We extensively use the multispectral information and graph theory to extract houses and road networks. We evaluated the performance of each step statistically and obtained very promising results. Especially, detection performances in house and street detection in residential regions is noteworthy. These results indicate the functionality of our satellite image understanding system.