Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Naive Bayesian Machine Learning to Diagnose Breast Cancer

A novel MLAC (Machine Learning Against Cancer) method to distinguish between cancerous and noncancerous RNA genomic data is developed and tested with 100\% accuracy on all healthy and cancerous Breast tissue samples. A Naive Bayesian ML (Machine Learning) system is trained using WES (Whole Exome Sequencing) data in a high-level i.e. normalized quantification of RNAs obtained from 1091 breast cancer samples’ WES files from the TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) and 179 healthy samples’ WES data from the GTEx (Genotype-Tissue Expression) project. We could show that both sensitivity and specificity of the method in classification of cancerous and noncancerous cells is perfectly 100%.
New algorithms for in vivo characterization of human trabecular bone: Development, validation, and applications

Recommended Citation Liu, Yinxiao. "New algorithms for in vivo characterization of human trabecular bone: development, validation, and applications. " PhD iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS After six years, Iowa City is the place where I have spent the longest time ever besides my hometown. It is not just a span of time to pursue a Ph.D. degree, but a lifelong memory and treasure that I will cherish and enjoy. It is my great fortune to be here in the University of Iowa and meet the important people who will influence my whole life. The best and worst of my Ph.D. life were shared with them. I want to thank all those who ever and are still giving me help, bringing me happiness and enlightening my future. Above all, the most important person I want say thank you is my advisor, Dr. Punam K. Saha, without whose guidance and help, the path for me will be much harder during my six year of Ph.D. study. He patiently provided the vision, encouragement and advice necessary for me to go through the program and complete my dissertation. He would help me hand by hand when I got stuck at the beginning of the program, and he would trust me to take charge of a project when I became senior. And I greatly appreciate the advice he gives me in both work and life which will benefit my whole life, just like an old friend. His spirit, hardworking attitude, intelligence, carefulness and pursuing of perfection really impresses and changes me all the time. It is my great honor to finish my degree under his instruction. for their support, guidance and helpful suggestions. Their guidance has served me well and I owe them my heartfelt appreciation. Also, I want to thank Dr. Xiaodong Wu and Dr. Ei-wei Bai for serving on my Master defense committee and providing me valuable suggestions in May 2009. It is because of you that my life here is enriched, and full of beautiful memories. I would also like to thank the department secretary Catherine Kern and the administrative assistant Dina Blanc for their patient assistance. Most of all thanks are for my parents and other family members. It is impossible for me to go this far without their love and support. v ABSTRACT Osteoporosis is a common bone disease that increases risk of low-trauma fractures associated with substantial morbidity, mortality, and financial costs. Clinically, …
Sensitivity Analysis for Functional Structural Plant Modelling

Global sensitivity analysis has a key role to play in the design and parameterization of functional-structural plant growth models (FSPM) which combine the description of plant structural development (organogenesis and geometry) and functional growth (biomass accumulation and allocation). Models of this type generally describe many interacting processes, count a large number of parameters, and their computational cost can be important. The general objective of this thesis is to develop a proper methodology for the sensitivity analysis of functional structural plant models and to investigate how sensitivity analysis can help for the design and parameterization of such models as well as providing insights for the understanding of underlying biological processes. Our contribution can be summarized in two parts: from the methodology point of view, we first improved the performance of the existing Sobol's method to compute sensitivity indices in terms of computational efficiency, with a better control of the estimation error for Monte Carlo simulation, and we also designed a proper strategy of analysis for complex biophysical systems; from the application point of view, we implemented our strategy for 3 FSPMs with different levels of complexity, and analyzed the results from different perspectives (model parameterization, model diagnosis).
Development of 38GHz-band wireless communication system using high altitude platform station (HAPS) for 5G network - study on effective frequency resources utilization with polarization -

: HAPS (High-Altitude Platform Station) is expected to extend the communication coverage in the era of beyond 5G. HAPS moves around a circle at 20 km altitude and tries to make beams fixed on the earth by beamforming. However, if HAPS uses polarization like satellite communication, there is a possibility that received SNR (Signal to Noise power Ratio) degrades because the fluctuation of HAPS aircraft could generate polarization mismatch between HAPS and earth stations. This paper reports experimental results using on-air polarization signal from a satellite with artificial polarization offset to evaluate feasibility of polarization utilization in HAPS. The results show SNR loss due to the polarization offset can be confined within 0.5dB and good tracking performance thanks to the polarization diversity by MMSE (Minimum Mean Square Error) receiver.
Integrating Service Learning and Digital Technologies: Examining the Challenge and the Promise

En este artículo pretendemos enmarcar la incorporación del aprendizaje-servicio y las tecnologías digitales en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje, a la vez que analizar la complejidad de algunos de sus desafíos y promesas. De esta forma, se compromete a los lectores con las preguntas y los problemas que se abordan en los artículos que componen este monográfico de RIED. Buscamos proporcionar perspectivas que puedan contribuir a la implementación de innovaciones e investigaciones pedagógicas que mejorarán la práctica y, en consecuencia, los resultados de aprendizaje. Comenzamos brindando una descripción general de lo qué es y el porqué del aprendizaje-servicio, para examinar, en una segunda parte, el cómo del aprendizaje-servicio en escenarios digitales. Finalmente, exploramos varios temas que pueden dar forma a nuevos desarrollos en el contexto de estas dos innovaciones pedagógicas.
The Robutler: Towards Service Robots for the Human Environment

In this video we present a mobile hand-arm system with anthropomorphic features as well as some capability for autonomous behaviour. In the presented service robotics scenario the system is used in combination with basic navigation skills, realtime scene analysis by stereo vision, compliant motion control for the arm and the hand, and an intuitive man-machine interface. Convenient to the presented application, we have called this system the Robutler.
The sport and fitness sector : an introduction

Sport and fitness has become a key contemporary industry. Those working within the sector are now expected to demonstrate greater expertise and professional competence than ever before. The Sport and Fitness Sector: An Introduction is a vital resource for all students of sport, leisure and fitness management, offering an essential guide to professional practice and a wealth of background information on current issues within the industry. Drawing together new material and an edited selection of readings from a wide range of academic and professional sources, the book has been designed to bridge the gap between the classroom and the workplace, opening up the theory and practice of sport and fitness management for those undertaking either work-based study or conventional degree courses.
The Relationship Between Gadget Usage and Adolescent Sleep Quality

Introduction: Adolescent are very interested in gadgets that make it easier for them to carry out various social activities. One of the problems that can arise from gadget overuse is decreased quality of sleep. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between gadget usage behavior and adolescent sleep quality. Methods: Cross-sectional design was used in this study. Ninety-nine respondents had chosen with a proportionate stratified random sampling. Analysis was done by Chi square test. Results: Data analysis showed that 84.8% of the respondents were categorized as gadget addiction and 80.8% of the respondents experienced poor sleep quality. The relationship between gadget usage and sleep quality was significant with a p-value of 0.0001. Conclusion: There was a relationship between gadget usage and sleep quality in adolescents, in which gadget dependency had poorer quality of sleep.
Immune interaction map of human SARS-CoV-2 target proteins: implications for therapeutic avenues

Background There exists increasing evidence that people with preceding medical conditions, such as asthma, diabetes, cancers and heart disease, have a higher risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 and are more vulnerable to severe disease.Methods To get insights into the role of the immune system upon COVID-19 infection, 2811 genes of the gene ontology term “immune system process GO: 0002376” were selected for analyses. The immune system genes potentially co-expressed with the human targets of SARS-CoV-2 (HT-SARS-CoV-2) ACE2, TMPRSS2 and FURIN were determined in tissue samples from patients with cancer and diabetes mellitus. The network between HT-SARS-CoV-2 and immune system process genes was analyzed based on functional protein associations using STRING. In addition, STITCH was employed to determine druggable targets.Results DPP4 was the only immune system process gene, which was coexpressed with the three HT-SARS-CoV-2 genes, while eight other immune genes were at least co-expressed with two HT-SARS-CoV-2 genes. STRING analysis between immune and HT-SARS-CoV-2 genes plotted 19 associations of 8 commonly networking genes in mixed healthy (323) and cancer (11003) tissues in addition to normal (87), cancer (90) and diabetic (128) pancreatic tissues. Using this approach, three druggable connections between HT-SARS-CoV-2 and immune system process genes were identified. They include positive associations of ACE2 - DPP4 and TMPRSS2 – SRC as well as a negative association of FURIN with ADAM17. Furthermore, the 16 drugs were extracted from STITCH (score <0.8) with 32 target genes.Conclusions This bioinformatics pipeline identified for the first time an immunological network associated with COVID-19 infection thereby postulating novel therapeutic opportunities.
Total quality in information systems and technology

Harnessing the Power of Information Technology Through Total Quality Overview of Technology, Quality and Information The Behavior of Technology The Power of Technology The Rise of Organizational Society, Management Theory and Total Quality The Age of Information The Culture of Change Networks, Satellites and Superhighways The Nexus of Information Technology and Total Quality Understanding the information Technology Organization Revolution and Evolution of IT Information Technology Organizational Functions Describing the IT Professional Information Technology Infrastructure External Support Considerations Exhibits: Skill Descriptions for IT Professionals Exercise: IT Professionals Vision and Mission Setting Role Information Technology Plays Identifying Technology Ground Rules Common IT Roles Identifying the IT Customers Technical Strategic Planning Business Management and Technology Interaction Information Architecture Communication Summary Overview of Total Quality What Is Total Quality Total Quality as a System History of Total Quality Article: The Deming Prize vs. The Baldrige Award The House of Quality Systems and Total Quality The Pillars of Quality The Foundations and Cornerstones Strategic and Quality Planning Strategy Management Policy Management Voice of the Customer Voice of the Business Objectives Formation Project Teams and Methodology Team Building Various Team Types Defining Preliminary Project Criteria Project Development Methodology Cycle Phases Measuring and Estimating Methods What Causes Projects to Fail Summary Exercise: Four Steps for Developing Effective Teams "How-to" Techniques and Tools Definition of Techniques and Tools Considerations When Using Techniques and Tools Various Techniques and Tools Periodicals and Newspapers Electronic Data Interchange What Is Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) EDI Users and Type Activities Where Does Information Technology Fit In What Is Needed to Implement EDI International Considerations Is EDI For You Exhibits: 1. EDI Organizations 2. EDI Sources by Industry Case Studies: Horror Stories and How to Avoid Them The Software Selection "Overkill" Everyone Has It-High Tech to Be High Tech Business End-Users Not Involved A Question of Size and Upgrading Reengineering Information Systems The Magic Software Solution The Software Purchase Glossary of Terms Index
Social Media Platforms Listening Study on Atopic Dermatitis: Quantitative and Qualitative Findings

Background Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic, pruritic, inflammatory disease that occurs most frequently in children but also affects many adults. Social media have become key tools for finding and disseminating medical information. Objective The aims of this study were to identify the main themes of discussion, the difficulties encountered by patients with respect to AD, the impact of the pathology on quality of life (QoL; physical, psychological, social, or financial), and to study the perception of patients regarding their treatment. Methods A retrospective study was carried out by collecting social media posts in French language written by internet users mentioning their experience with AD, their QoL, and their treatments. Messages related to AD discomfort posted between July 1, 2010, and October 23, 2020, were extracted from French-speaking publicly available online forums. Automatic and manual extractions were implemented to create a general corpus and 2 subcorpuses depending on the level of control of the disease. Results A total of 33,115 messages associated with AD were included in the analysis corpus after extraction and cleaning. These messages were posted by 15,857 separate web users, most of them being women younger than 40 years. Tips to manage AD and everyday hygiene/treatments were among the most discussed topics for controlled AD subcorpus, while baby-related topics and therapeutic failure were among the most discussed topics for insufficiently controlled AD subcorpus. QoL was discussed in both subcorpuses with a higher proportion in the controlled AD subcorpus. Treatments and their perception were also discussed by web users. Conclusions More than just emotional or peer support, patients with AD turn to online forums to discuss their health. Our findings show the need for an intersection between social media and health care and the importance of developing new approaches such as the Atopic Dermatitis Control Tool, which is a patient-related disease severity assessment tool focused on patients with AD.
The effects of rocker sole profiles on gait: Implications for claudicants

Intermittent claudication (1C) is a vascular condition which limits the distance subjects can walk before experiencing pain in the lower limb calf muscles due to limitation of vascular supply. Orthotic intervention evidenced in the literature has previously included the use of rocker profiles or raised heels to increase the pain-free walking distance, but variable results have been demonstrated. This study aims to design a rocker profile with the specific objectives of increasing the pain free walking distance demonstrated by claudicants and reducing their calf pain once claudicating. Method Twelve volunteer healthy subjects, age range 25 to 54 years (mean: 32.7 +/- 11.3), initially undertook separate walking trials in gait laboratory conditions with shoes adapted with three different rocker sole profiles; the one-curve toe-only profile, the two-curve profile and the three-curve profile, plus a shoe adapted with a moderate (12mm) heel raise. Measurements and comparisons of gait kinetics and kinematics (Qualysis, Sweden), and the electromyographical (EMG) activity (Noraxon, USA) of the medial and lateral gastrocnemius muscles, plus that of soleus and tibialis anterior, were undertaken. The most effective condition compared to a baseline un-adapted shoe was then tested during walking trials with claudicants (n=8, mean age 66 +/- 9 years) to ascertain its efficacy in reducing the pain-free walking distance to claudication and the severity of the pain once claudicating. Results All changes from the baseline shoe were set at a level of significance of p<0.05 The three-curve rocker profile placed the ankle joint into a relatively plantarflexed position compared to baseline at loading response (/? =0.00), mid stance (p=0.00) and terminal stance (/? =0.00), and significantly reduced total sagittal plane ankle range of motion compared to baseline (/7=0.00). The moderate heel raise also induced ankle plantarflexion at loading response (p=0.00) but increased ankle range of motion during second rotational phase of gait (/? =0.00) compared to baseline. The one-curve rocker profile induced a sagittal plane dorsiflexion shift at the ankle during mid stance (/? =0.00). The three-curve rocker profile was the most effective test condition in reducing both the externally-applied ankle dorsiflexion moment (/? =0.00) and ankle power generation (p=0.00) during stance phase of gait compared to baseline. Changes to muscle EMG values by all the test conditions were not statistically significant. Claudicant walking trials when wearing the three curve rocker profile demonstrated a statistically significant increase in pain-free walking distance to claudication (/? =0.00) and a reduction in claudication pain once claudicating (/? =0.00). Conclusion This study demonstrates that a specifically-designed rocker profile can significantly alter gait kinetics and kinematics and produce a statistically different increase in the pain-free walking distance of claudicants whilst also significantly reducing their pain levels once claudicating.
Classification of Churn,Upselling and Appetency for KDD Cup 2009

This report describes our participation in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2009 cup compe-tition . The competition is a set of three separate binary classiﬁcation problems, based on a large marketingdatabase of Orange Telecom. The problems are churn, appetency and upselling. We tried variations of threealternate techniques to tackle the problem - Naive bayesian , Decision Trees and Support Vector Machines.Section 2 describes the problems posed in further detail and Section 3 gives the evaluation criteria. In Sec-tion 4 we discuss the three approaches and the variations and Section 5 provides a discussion on the results.We propose future directions for our work in Section 6.
A Method for Detecting Surface Defects in Railhead by Magnetic Flux Leakage

With the rapid development of the world’s railways, rail is vital to ensure the safety of rail transit. This article focuses on the magnetic flux leakage (MFL) non-destructive detection technology of the surface defects in railhead. A Multi-sensors method is proposed. The main sensor and four auxiliary sensors are arranged in the detection direction. Firstly, the root mean square (RMS) of the x-component of the main sensor signal is calculated. In the data more significant than the threshold, the defects are determined by the relative values of the sensors signal. The optimal distances among these sensors are calculated to the size of a defect and the lift-off. From the finite element simulation and physical experiments, it is shown that this method can effectively suppress vibration interference and improve the detection accuracy of defects.
Bio security using face recognition for industrial use

Current systems for face recognition techniques often use either SVM or adaboost techniques for face detection part and use PCA for face recognition part. In this paper, we offer a novel method for not only a powerful face detection system based on Six-segment-filters((SSR) and adaboost learning algorithms but also for a face recognition system. A new exclusive face detection algorithm has been developed and connected with the recognition algorithm. As a result of it, we obtained an overall high-system performance compared with current systems. The proposed algorithm was tested on CMU, FERET, UNIBE, MIT face databases and significiant performance has obtained.
Comparative analysis of biophysical parameters of oral fluid depending on the condition of dental hard tissue

The pH, buffer capacity, salivation rate, impedance, micellarity and mineralizing ability of the oral fluid have been determined by the indices of the dispersion coefficient. The dispersion coefficients impedance of oral fluid in patients with a wedge-shaped defect and precervical caries were significantly lower than in patients with intact hard tissues (p=0,004). The greatest steepness of dispersion coefficient was typical for the oral fluid of individuals without any precervical pathology, which corresponds to a high degree of its liquid crystal phase, greater dispersion and micellarity. The strong indirect correlation between impedance and pH and buffer capacity has been revealed and the vivid direct correlation with salivation rate and dispersion coefficient has been found. The interconnections between biophysical parameters of oral fluid require further research in order to diagnose precervical pathology and monitor the effectiveness of preventive measures.
Engineering-Scale Demonstration of DuraLith and Ceramicrete Waste Forms

To support the selection of a waste form for the liquid secondary wastes from the Hanford Waste Immobilization and Treatment Plant, Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) has initiated secondary waste form testing on four candidate waste forms. Two of the candidate waste forms have not been developed to scale as the more mature waste forms. This work describes engineering-scale demonstrations conducted on Ceramicrete and DuraLith candidate waste forms. Both candidate waste forms were successfully demonstrated at an engineering scale. A preliminary conceptual design could be prepared for full-scale production of the candidate waste forms. However, both waste forms are still too immature to support a detailed design. Formulations for each candidate waste form need to be developed so that the material has a longer working time after mixing the liquid and solid constituents together. Formulations optimized based on previous lab studies did not have sufficient working time to support large-scale testing. The engineering-scale testing was successfully completed using modified formulations. Further lab development and parametric studies are needed to optimize formulations with adequate working time and assess the effects of changes in raw materials and process parameters on the final product performance. Studies on effects of mixing intensity on themore » initial set time of the waste forms are also needed. « less
2019 X Southern Conference on Programmable Logic (SPL)

El trabajo presenta el desarrollo e implementación de un generador de baud rate basado en un divisor fraccional, con el objetivo de resolver un problema especı́fico: disponer de UARTs con tasas iguales o superiores a 230400 bps, y un reloj de sistema que no es múltiplo entero de éstas velocidades. Bajo estas condiciones, el error que genera un divisor de frecuencia digital simple excede lo tolerable en una comunicación serie ası́ncrona. Se presenta la teorı́a del divisor fraccional, las consideraciones de diseño, el proceso de desarrollo, los resultados de la implementación del generador sobre una FPGA, y las ventajas de uso del divisor fraccional.