Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of Blood agar micro-titer plates for culturing Leishmania parasites to titrate the parasite burden in spleen and peripheral blood of VL patients

Serial dilutions of blood and spleen biopsy specimen, plated on NNN-blood agar using micro-titer culture plates is a sensitive and reproducible method for detection and growth of Leishmania parasites. Plates could easily be monitored and growth rapidly detected. Moreover, parasite number may be estimated using this technique. Key wordsvisceral leishmaniasis, peripheral blood, splenic biopsies, microtiter culture,
A Constant Switching Frequency-Based Direct Torque Control Method for Interior Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives

Direct torque control (DTC) is known to be a promising candidate for interior permanent-magnet synchronous motor drives. It provides fast dynamic response and good immunity to parameter variations. However, except for its merits, DTC also suffers from two major problems of variable switching frequency and large torque ripples. Research proposals have been published to solve these problems. Nonetheless, most of the proposals present very complex control algorithms. This paper proposes a constant switching frequency-based DTC algorithm for IPMSM drives. It consists of only one PI regulator and one triangular-wave carrier. The proposed algorithm reduces the torque ripples to a noticeable extent. In-depth analysis and design guidelines of the proposed controller are given. Simulation and experiment results are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.
An IgM paraprotein causing a falsely low result in an enzymatic assay for acetaminophen.

Since the development of enzymatic assays for acetaminophen in the early 1980s, their use has rapidly become widespread (1). Their advantages of speed and ready automation have ensured that >95% of laboratories submitting to a external quality assessment scheme now use this method (M.A. Thomas, personal communication). Given this fact and the absolute dependence on the laboratory result for clinical decision making, it is important to be aware of any possible discrepancies associated with this technique. I therefore report here a case of a man with an IgM monoclonal gammopathy who ingested acetaminophen and whose subsequent serum acetaminophen concentration was falsely low on enzymatic assay. When we were investigating a 77-year-old man who was admitted after a cerebrovascular accident in 1990, we noted that he had an IgMκ monoclonal component of 5 g/L. In the absence of any other clinical or laboratory evidence of a hematological dyscrasia, a diagnosis of monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance (MGUS) was made. On a subsequent occasion, he was admitted to the Accident and Emergency …
Modeling and Simulation of Ant Colony's Labor Division with Constraints for Task Allocation of Resilient Supply Chains

Emergency incidents increase the uncertainty of supply chain environment, and also make the supply chain vulnerability expose. Creating resilient supply chain is an effective way to overcome the supply chain vulnerability. The supply chain characteristics of self-adaptation and self-coordination are consistent with the self-organization feature of ant colony's labor division. In this paper, a generalized ant colony's labor division model with constraints is provided, which is used to construct the ant colony's labor division model with constraints of resilient supply chain to solve task allocation of resilient supply chains. The simulation principle and algorithm of resilient supply chain are provided based on the proposed model and task allocation of the supply chain is analyzed from the five aspects, that is, task allocation status, supply chain coordination, emergency incidents' impact to task allocation, task allocation rate and the influence of different incidents for task allocation. The simulation results show that, with the proposed model, it is effective to allocate resilient supply chain tasks and has excellent performance, such as faster response and robustness.
Electronic government equals sustainable development for Guyana

Electronic government (e-government) equals sustainable development for Guyana. This is the thesis illustrated by this paper along with the possible constraints involved in implementing e-government. These constraints range from the mindsets of the public servant, the private sector employee, and the citizen to the economics of changing from the present situation where a hotchpotch of business is carried out in a timeconsuming manner with lots of paper and perhaps a few computers thrown in for good measure but with no real connection or relation to what the work of the office/department actually requires. While the cost of procuring hardware, training staff, educating the citizenry in e-government is no small feat, it is achievable through effective planning.
[Identification and in vitro antifungal susceptibility of vaginal Candida spp. isolates to fluconazole, clotrimazole and nystatin].

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify and determine the in vitro antifungal susceptibility testing to clotrimazole, fluconazole, and nystatin of 145 clinical isolates of Candida spp. METHODS M27-A3 microdilution method was used to determine minimal inhibitory concentrations (MIC) and partial MICs (MIC50 and MIC90) of drugs. A total of 145 isolates were studied, 126 were C. albicans, 16 C. glabrata, 2 C. parapsilosis y 1 C. tropicalis. RESULTS MIC50 and MIC90 for FLZ against C. albicans were 0.25 mg/L and 1 mg/L respectively and for C. glabrata was achieved at 8 mg/L and 16 mg/L for fluconazole. Five isolates of C. albicans and one isolate of C. tropicalis were in vitro resistant to fluconazole (M27-S4). In C. albicans MIC50 and MIC90 for clotrimazole were of 0.03 mg/L and 0.06 mg/L, respectively. These values for C. glabrata were 0.25 mg/L and 1 mg/L, respectively. Five C. glabrata and 1 C. tropicalis were in vitro resistant to clotrimazole. MIC50 and MIC90 of nystatin were of 1 mg/L and 2 mg/L, respectively for C. albicans and C. glabrata. CONCLUSIONS In this study, C. albicans is the most frequently isolated yeast, followed by C. glabrata. The antifungals tested were found to be in vitro active for the isolates, except for 6 isolates for fluconazole and 6 to clotrimazole.
Sequencing Batch Reactor in Indusrial Wastewater Treatment : A Review

Sequencing batch reactor (SBR) is a viable alternative in the treatment of industrial wastewater such as dairy, textile, paper, piggery, brewery, tannery, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, shrimp aquaculture and other industrial wastewaters. SBR is found to be low cost, efficient and flexible technology in treating different industrial wastewater, mainly because of its single-tank design and ease of automation. This review includes relevant experiments carried out for industrial wastewater treatment by using the laboratory, pilot-plant and industrial scales-SBR.
Abciximab inhibits the migration and invasion potential of human coronary artery smooth muscle cells.

In the EPIC trial, high-risk patients received the integrin receptor antagonist abciximab v placebo during and for 12 h following percutaneous coronary intervention with a significant 23% decrease of repeat revascularisation at 6 months. However, EPILOG and CAPTURE trials could not confirm these promising long-term results. Recently presented data from the EPISTENT trial suggested a beneficial effect of abciximab on restenosis in patients with diabetes. Based on these divergent results the aim of this study was to test whether alpha v beta 3 receptor blockade by abciximab could cause inhibition of human coronary smooth muscle cell (hcSMC) proliferation, migration, and invasion which represent crucial steps during restenosis development. In contrast to quiescent hcSMCs, proliferating cells were capable to migrate towards chemoattractive stimuli and even capable to invade through a basement membrane equivalent. Abciximab and LM609, an alpha v beta 3 specific inhibiting antibody, caused only a modest dose-dependent inhibition of hcSMC proliferation. On the contrary, the chemotactic and invasive potential of hcSMCs was significantly inhibited by abciximab administration 24 h prior to and during migration. (IC(50)=33.0 microg/ml for chemotaxis and IC(50)=0.5 microg/ml for invasion). For LM609 similar results were obtained. Administration of the drugs just during migration without pretreatment inhibited migration equally but invasion to a lower extent (abciximab: IC(50)=32.6 microg/ml for chemotaxis and IC(50)=44.9 microg/ml for invasion; LM609 IC(50)=3.1 microg/ml for chemotaxis and IC(50)=2.0 microg/ml for invasion). The attachment to the extracellular matrix proteins collagen I, collagen IV, laminin and vitronectin was not influenced. Pretreatment for 24 h with abciximab or LM609 did not cause a downregulation of the alpha v beta 3-integrin receptor. The results of this study indicate that the alpha v beta 3 antagonist abciximab is a potent inhibitor of hcSMC migration and invasion which could explain the observed lower reintervention rate after PTCA and stent implantation.
Analysis and design of single-phase T-type transformerless inverter for PV applications

In this paper, a Common Mode Voltage (CMV) analysis as well as efficiency analysis for T-type transformerless inverter is performed. In the CMV analysis, a modulation scheme is implemented which is suitable to keep the ground leakage current at zero. The efficiency analysis of the T-type inverter is performed with real models of the semiconductor devices using PSIM software. Based on the simulation results it is possible to demonstrate that the implemented modulation scheme achieves high efficiency, while the conduction and commutation losses of the bi-directional switches are kept in low values. Also, the implementation of a single-phase T-type transformer-less inverter for photovoltaic (PV) applications is presented in an experimental setup designed for 1.5 kW.
Screening of Bioflocculant-Producing Strains and Study on the Production and Oily Wastewater Flocculation Characteristics

A flocculant-producing bacterial strain, named KL3-5 was screened by means of the pyridine screening from 10 soil samples. The flocculating rate of bioflocculant produced by KL3-5 strain was 94.6%. The strain KL3-5 was identified as proteusbacillus vulgaris of Enterobacter family according to its morphological, physiological, biochemical, and 16S rDNA sequence characteristics. It was indicated that all of the content of bioflocculant was polysaccharides by the qualitative analysis of sugar and protein. When flocculant addition was 0.05mL, the removal rate of COD and oil could get to 32% and 67%, and the removal efficiencies were better than the PAC which was 61% and 30%, respectively. The flocculation sediment from KL3-5 was only 0.6g·L-1.
Use of a group-reactive and other monoclonal antibodies in an enzyme immunodot assay for identification and presumptive serotyping of aquatic birnaviruses

A panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) was prepared and used to develop an enzyme immunodot assay for the rapid identification and presumptive serotyping of aquatic birnaviruses. Comparison of the reaction patterns of these MAbs with representative virus isolates indicated that one MAb recognizes a serogroup-reactive epitope and can therefore be used for identification of all serogroup A aquatic birnaviruses, the predominant serotype worldwide. Other MAbs exhibited more restrictive specificities, permitting the presumptive serotyping of viruses of the three recognized serotypes and the identification of some individual strains. This assay, in which MAbs are used, is more efficient in terms of time, cost, and case of performance and provides significant advantages in specificity and standardization compared with currently used tests.
Thought disorder in mid-childhood as a predictor of adulthood diagnostic outcome: findings from the New York High-Risk Project

Background Thought disorder has been proposed as an indicator of schizotypy, which is considered to be necessary but not sufficient for the development of schizophrenia. It is unclear whether thought disorder is an indicator of susceptibility (i.e. an endophenotype) for schizophrenia. The goal of the present study was to elucidate the role of thought disorder in relation to schizotypy by examining its presence in high-risk individuals during mid-childhood. Method The sample consisted of 265 subjects drawn from the New York High-Risk Project. Individuals at high risk for schizophrenia (i.e. offspring of parents with schizophrenia) were compared with individuals at low risk for schizophrenia (i.e. offspring of parents with affective disorder or offspring of psychiatrically normal parents). Videotaped interviews were rated for thought disorder using the Scale for the Assessment of Thought, Language, and Communication (TLC). The same subjects were administered diagnostic interviews in late adolescence/early adulthood. Results Although positive thought disorder was equally present in subjects with affective and non-affective psychoses, negative thought disorder (namely, poverty of speech and poverty of content of speech) was elevated only in subjects with schizophrenia-related psychosis. Logistic regression analyses revealed that negative thought disorder added to the prediction of schizophrenia-related psychosis outcomes over and above positive thought disorder. Conclusions These findings suggest that negative thought disorder may have a specific association with schizotypy, rather than a more general association with psychosis. The findings also support consideration of negative thought disorder as an endophenotypic indicator of a schizophrenia diathesis.
Capgras Syndrome: a disorder of kin recognition

Capgras Syndrome is a psychotic condition characterized by the delusion that someone has been replaced by an imposter. It is named after an early twentieth century French psychiatrist, Joseph Capgras, who himself referred to the condition as “l’illusion de sosies”, i.e. the illusion of doubles (Capgras and Reboul-Lachaux 1923). Although cases involving ‘doppelgänger’ doctors, household staff, neighbors, pets and inanimate belongings have all been reported, typically the targets of the delusion are close relatives of the subject (Ellis, Luauté and Retterstøl 1994, Wallis 1986). Some of the earliest attempts to explain the condition sought psychodynamic causes in the social and emotional tensions experienced by the subject in their formative years; by contrast, since the 1970s, there has been greater interest in identifying the physical basis of the disorder (Berson 1983, de Pauw 1994, Edelstyn and Oyebode 1999). A third of reported cases are accompanied by some form of cerebral damage (Ellis and de Pauw 1994, Signer 1987, 1994).
The Genus Atoxoplasma (Garnham 1950) as a Junior Objective Synonym of the Genus Isospora (Schneider 1881) Species Infecting Birds and Resurrection of Cystoisospora (Frenkel 1977) as the Correct Genus for Isospora Species Infecting Mammals

Molecular and morphological data permit a rational subdivision of the paraphyletic Isospora into 2 apparently monophyletic groups of parasites, i.e., Isospora and Cystoisospora. Atoxoplasma was determined to be a junior objective synonym for Isospora. Tetrasporozoic, diplosporocystic oocysts possessing Stieda bodies in their sporocysts belong to Isospora (Eimeriidae) and have been described principally from the feces of birds. Tetrasporozoic, diplosporocystic oocysts without Stieda bodies in their sporocysts belong to Cystoisospora (Sarcocystidae).
Pretrauma problems, prior stressor exposure, and gender as predictors of change in posttraumatic stress symptoms among physically injured children and adolescents.

OBJECTIVE This study addressed predictors of change in posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) among youths who had experienced physical injuries. The influences of pretrauma internalizing and externalizing problems, prior stressor exposure, and gender were investigated. Additionally, gender was examined as a moderator of the associations between internalizing problems and PTSS, externalizing problems and PTSS, and prior stressor exposure and PTSS. METHOD Participants were 157 children and adolescents (75% male; age M = 13.30 years, SD = 3.60; 44% Caucasian, 39% African American, 13% Hispanic, and 4% other) admitted to 2 hospitals for physical injuries. Youths and their parents completed measures of PTSS (Child Posttraumatic Stress Reaction Index), internalizing and externalizing problems (Child Behavior Checklist), and prior stressor exposure (Coddington Life Events Scale, Child) during the hospital stay; youths completed up to 3 additional PTSS assessments targeted at 3, 6, and 12 months postinjury. RESULTS Multilevel regression analyses revealed a significant average decline in PTSS over time (p < .05) that followed a curvilinear trajectory. Externalizing problems, prior stressor exposure, and female gender predicted higher initial PTSS levels (p < .05). Gender moderated the influence of internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and prior stressor exposure on decline in PTSS over time (p < .05). Patterns of recovery for those with high and low levels of each characteristic differed for girls and boys. CONCLUSIONS Findings suggest targets for clinical consideration, both with respect to identifying subgroups of children and adolescents that may warrant early assessment and monitoring and timing of more directed PTSS treatment intervention.
Spatial multiplexing and diversity techniques for multiple-element optical wireless links

Spatial degrees of freedom in optical wireless channels can be exploited to multiplex data or to improve reliability. A short-range MIMO optical wireless system is presented which combines spatial discrete multitone modulation with digital halftoning to produce binary-level transmit images. An experimental prototype pixelated wireless optical channel is constructed and a rate of 450 Mbps is predicted for a 1 m link with 0.5 megapixel arrays at a frame rate of 7 kiloframes/sec. In long-range turbulent links, a novel receiver based on digital micro-mirror devices (DMD) is presented to provide spatial diversity by estimating the focal-plane signal distribution due to atmospheric turbulence. The performance of the DMD receiver is analyzed on a time-varying channel model rather than the “frozen atmosphere” model conventionally used. Symbol-error rates are simulated for a photon counting channel and show an improvement of about 3 dBo over a single-detector receiver.
A finite-state approach to shallow parsing and grammatical functions annotation of German

Chapter 2 gives an introduction to the nature and architecture of our parser. Section 2.1 presents finite-state automata (FSAs) as a parsing model and illustrates the motivation for using this very model for the parser at hand. Section 2.2 explains the motivation for and the main features of the parsing approach used in the dissertation at hand, namely the annotation of constituent structures and grammatical functions with hand-crafted rules. Section 2.3 introduces and illustrates principles spanning the annotation of all linguistic phenomena (i.e. robustness, modularity and underspecification) and, thus, all components of the parser. Section 2.4 shows how the FSAs are implemented with the help of the tool fsgmatch by giving illustrative examples of typical linguistic phenomena. 2.1 FSAs as a Parsing Model A parser is the implementation of an abstract automaton. In the thesis at hand, we use finite-state automata (FSAs) as the abstract automaton which serves as the basis of our parser because FSAs are very effective formalisms for parsing. The reason for this is that FSAs can be described by regular grammars, which are the most restricted and, thus, least powerful type of grammar in the Chomsky Hierarchy (Chomsky, 1956). Since the power of the formalism is restricted, for example it cannot deal with recursive structures, it is considerably faster than other approaches as Abney (1996c) has shown.
Refocusing from a plenoptic camera within seconds on a mobile phone

Refocusing a plenoptic image by digital means and after the exposure has been thoroughly studied in the last years, but few efforts have been made in the direction of real time implementation in a constrained environment such as that provided by current mobile phones and tablets. In this work we address the aforementioned challenge demonstrating that a complete focal stack, comprising 31 refocused planes from a (256ff16)2 plenoptic image, can be achieved within seconds by a current SoC mobile phone platform. The election of an appropriate algorithm is the key to success. In a previous work we developed an algorithm, the fast approximate 4D:3D discrete Radon transform, that performs this task with linear time complexity where others obtain quadratic or linearithmic time complexity. Moreover, that algorithm does not requires complex number transforms, trigonometric calculus nor even multiplications nor oat numbers. Our algorithm has been ported to a multi core ARM chip on an off-the-shelf tablet running Android. A careful implementation exploiting parallelism at several levels has been necessary. The final implementation takes advantage of multi-threading in native code and NEON SIMD instructions. As a result our current implementation completes the refocusing task within seconds for a 16 megapixels image, much faster than previous attempts running on powerful PC platforms or dedicated hardware. The times consumed by the different stages of the digital refocusing are given and the strategies to achieve this result are discussed. Time results are given for a variety of environments within Android ecosystem, from the weaker/cheaper SoCs to the top of the line for 2013.
1H‐1,2,4‐Triazol‐3‐yl‐anilines: Novel Potent Inhibitors of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptors 1 and 2

Novel derivatives of 1,2,4‐triazoles are described as potent ATP‐competitive inhibitors of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors I and II (VEGFR‐1/2). A number of compounds display VEGFR‐2 inhibitory activity comparable to that of VatalanibTM and VandetanibTM in both homogenous time‐resolved fluorescence enzymatic and cellular assays. Several active molecules feature high intrinsic permeability (>30 × 10−5 cm/min) across Caco‐2 cell monolayer.