Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Massage Using Camel Hump Oil Compared to Olive Oil on Muscle Tone of Children with Spastic Diplegia: Single Participant Design

Introduction: The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of massage with camel hump oil on muscle tone in the lower limb compared with olive oil on children with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy. Materials and Methods : The study was performed using a single subject design. Six children were selected based on available sampling. The study lasted 10 weeks for each person, which includes five phases: 1-baseline (two weeks), 2-massage with olive oil (two weeks), 3- baseline (two weeks), 4- massage with camel hump oil (two weeks), and 5- baseline (two weeks). At each stage, muscle tones of Hamstring, hip adductors, and calf muscles were evaluated using the Modified Ashworth Scale. The visual analysis and Mann-whitney U test were used to evaluate differences between phases. Results: A significant difference was observed between the adductor (in 4 cases), hamstrings (in 4 cases), and calf muscles tone (in two cases) ( P <0.05), demonstrating the higher effect of massage with camel hump oil compared to that with olive oil. Conclusion : It seems that camel hump oil may be more effective in some cases than olive oil in reducing muscle tone, but the overall conclusion requires further studies. Keywords: Camel hump oil; Massage; Muscle tone; Spastic diplegia
Linear Optimization through the Differential Privacy Lens

We develop a simple and powerful analysis technique for perturbation style online learning algorithms, based on privacy-preserving randomization, that exhibits a suite of novel results. In particular, this work highlights the valuable addition of differential privacy methods to the toolkit used to design and undestand online linear optimization tasks. This work describes the minimax optimal algorithm for the k-sparse online PCA problem and the best known perturbation algorithm for the dense version. Similar tools lead to new algorithms with first-order regret bounds for the adversarial multi-armed bandit problem.
Composition and biomass of phytoplankton assemblages in coastal Antarctic waters: a comparison of chemotaxonomic and microscopic analyses

We describe the distribution of phytoplanktonic community composition and biomass from the Western Antarctic Peninsula coast (between 64° and 68° S) using 2 analytical techniques: microscopy and HPLC of photosynthetic pigments. Phytoplankton biomass was estimated as chlorophyll a (chl a) by HPLC and chemotaxonomic quantification of microalgae biomass was performed by multiple regression analysis of pigment concentrations. For the estimation of chl a:diagnostic pigment ratios, it was found of primary importance to differentiate between phytoplankton assemblages within the study area. Three assemblages were differentiated according to their total standing stock and analyzed independently. Phytoplankton biomass was also estimated as carbon (C) concentration by microscopic analysis of cell abundance and biovolumes. Microscopy and chemotaxonomy give a high level of agreement for phyto- plankton characterization, showing an on/offshore gradient, with high diatom and cryptophyte biomass in coastal waters, and a mixed assemblage with low biomass in open waters. This gradient was not ob- served in total cell abundance, indicating that the biomass gradient is controlled by cell size. Microscopy also showed shifts in diatom species throughout the area. C and chl a biomass estimates for the individual microalgae groups were strongly correlated for cryptophytes, chlorophytes and most diatoms, but did poorly for dinoflagellates, prymnesiophytes and chrysophytes. From this study, we conclude that both microscopy and chemotaxonomy can be used to accurately characterize phytoplankton assemblages, but some limitations are present in both techniques. Based on phytoplankton C concentrations, we estimated an average in situ growth rate of 0.28 d -1 . In situ cell C:chl a ratios had high variability (from 40 to 220) and were non-linearly related to sample growth rates. Significant differences were found among aver- age C:chl a ratios of low ( 1 µg chl a l -1 ), with values of 112 and 74 µg C µg -1 chl a, respectively. In addition, our results support the hypothesis that C quotas
Communities of Song: Collective Musical Participation and Group Singing Experiences In Victoria, BC

This research investigates the social processes and effects of participation in two community-oriented choirs in Victoria, BC, and seeks to identify the way in which social cohesion is experienced during group singing practices. Interviews with ten choristers and two conductors reveal the feelings of community that can arise among participants and provide data for exploring how this phenomenon occurs. Results indicate that social bonding in the choral setting manifests itself in various ways. The key factors of a common goal, shared values, a safe environment, community interaction, and social infrastructure facilitate feelings of collective participation, lead to increased levels of trust, equality, connection, and mutual caring. Participant exceptions also emerge, evidence of the group’s heterogeneous approach to sociality. Analysis of both the processes and outcomes indicates that this example of social interconnection is consistent with Victor Turner’s anthropological definition of communitas, or intense communal bonding.
Improving Routing Performance and Resource Allocation of Overlay Routing Relay Nodes

In this paper we rigorously study the optimization problem and TCP throughput. In this paper, we rigorously study this optimization problem. We show that it is NP-hard and derive a nontrivial approximation algorithm for it, where the approximation ratio depends on specific properties of the problem at hand. We examine the practical aspects of the scheme by evaluating the gain one can get over several real scenarios. The first one is BGP routing, and we show, using up-to-date data reflecting the current BGP routing policy in the Internet, that a relative small number of less than 100 relay servers is sufficient to enable routing over shortest paths from a single source to all autonomous systems (ASs), reducing the average path length of inflated paths by 40%. Keywords:
The summatory function of $q$-additive functions on pseudo-polynomial sequences

The present paper deals with the summatory function of functions acting on the digits of an q-ary expansion. In Manuscrit reçu le 20 septembre 2010. Supported by the Austrian Research Foundation (FWF), Project S9603, that is part of the Austrian Research Network “Analytic Combinatorics and Probabilistic Number Theory”. Mots clefs. q additive function, pseudo-polynomial. Classification math. 11N37 11A63.
PM 701 a Highly Selective Anti Cancerous Agent Against L1210 Leukemic Cells: In Vivo Clinical and Histopathological Study

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Efficient and Secure Allocation of Virtual Machines Using Resource Allocation Policies in Cloud Computing

Apart from providing numerous benefits such as On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, Measured service, Scalability, Availability, Secure access etc. through virtualization, Cloud computing introduces a number of new security risks. Virtualization means multiple VM machine on single physical machine. In Cloud computing allocation of virtual machine is an issue that has been addressed in many computing area such as operating systems, grid computing, and datacenter management. The huge amount of data on Cloud naturally becomes targets for attackers. We aim to address one of such attacks, co-residence or co-location attack, where malicious users may co-locate their infected virtual machines(VMs) with the normal working VMs on the same server. Using this, attackers may sneak into user’s confidential data using side channel attack. In our research, we intend to achieve efficient allocation of virtual machine in a secure way for Cloud environment. In connection to this, we try to minimize the probability of VM co-location which aim to results into improvement of coverage rate.
An integrated approach to study the biomarker responses in marine gastropod Nerita chamaeleon environmentally exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Ecological risk assessment using multiple biomarkers produce a large amount of data that is hard to interpret and the result are often contradictory. In this context, Integrated Biomarker Response (IBR) index was used to integrate the biomarkers effects to assess the impact of environmental contaminants in marine gastropod Nerita chamaeleon from Goa, India. Genotoxic (DNA damage as measured by comet assay and alkaline unwinding assay) and biochemical [superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione S-transferase, lipid peroxidation and acetylcholinesterase] biomarkers were measured in snails collected from different sites (Arambol, Anjuna, Sinquerim, Dona Paula, Velsao, Betul and Palolem). Total polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in snail tissue were in the range from 5.29 - 12.14 μg/g wet weight. Standardized values of biomarker response were visualized using star plots, which show unique patterns for different biomarkers. The mean IBR value was found to be highest at Dona Paula (8.07 ± 0.91) followed by Sinquerim (6.95 ± 0.91), Velsao (4.48 ± 0.68), Anjuna (3.28 ± 1.05), Palolem (2.53 ± 0.73), Arambol (1.81 ± 0.21) and Betul (0.88 ± 0.77). Additionally, the IBR values were found to be positively correlated with PAH concentration in snail tissues. These results suggest that integration of biomarkers effects using IBR along with chemical analysis can be a useful tool for the assessment of environmental pollution and to identify spatial patterns of contamination in the aquatic ecosystem.
Morphological properties of flocs under turbulent break‐up and restructuring processes

Bentonite flocculation was performed in a Taylor–Couette reactor coupled with an in situ method of image acquisition and analysis. A hydrodynamic sequencing is imposed to perform successive cycles of flocculation and breakage. Depending on the shear rate applied during the breakage step, one or two cycles are needed after the first flocculation step to recover a full reversibility on both size and shape factors. The breakup step produces flocculi that are the building blocks for the next. The re‐flocculation steps produce smaller sizes and more regular shapes than the initial growth step. The floc size is calibrated by the turbulence as the radius of gyration is close to the Kolmogorov microscale whereas the floc structure is determined by flocculi aggregates. An analysis of the change of the flocs morphology, despite of their diversity, can also be achieved thanks to some relevant moments of the distributions.
Bank-based investing RoSCA for Islamic finance: a new alternative to drain households savings and reduce financial exclusion

On the arrival of the new banking law in Morocco, in august 2015, conventional banks and their foreign rivals will finally have the possibility to create their subsidiaries dedicated to microcredit, participative finance and payment, and hence, supply the market with new Islamic financial solutions for money saving and financing. In order to drain the substantial households savings escaping to classic banks, and consequently, gain ground among these latter, we think that those new Islamic finance operators should target, in almost equal proportions, people with no access to formal financing and those with religious convictions about interest rate prohibition in Islam. For this purpose, we conceptualized an innovative bank based model of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations that allows its members to invest their savings by means of the bank, and raise freeinterest rate loans with no application and management fees. In fact, The conception of this model relied on the results of a survey questionnaire we administered among 725 subjects from different social categories in Morocco to comprehend the inherent features of this informal practice (RoSCA) locally called "Daret". The first part of the answers gave us a basic data we used, by means of the two-way ANOVA (Analysis of the variance), to determine which social characteristics interact together to motivate a person to join a RoSCA. As for the second part of the answers, it gave us insights into the functioning of traditional RoSCAs in Morocco and their members preferences and perceptions on different scales. After all, we based on these findings to conceptualize the model taking into account both equity between members and sustainability of the operation. Additionally, unlike the traditional types of RoSCAs that rely on confidence and social links between members, this bank-based investing RoSCA allows people with no prior cognition to be gathered. This by introducing the bank as a guarantor and withdrawing, temporarily, a deposit for default risk to estimate by means of a risk-rating matrix we proposed. The model is, also, found to be more attractive regarding its real economy promotion through investment, risk sharing process, and integration of financially excluded households.
Fertilization and stocking of unmanaged ponds through temporal plankton community structure map (PCSM): A nascent concept in aquaculture planning

24 Background: This paper deals with a non-conventional approach called PCSM model. It was 25 developed to aid in horizontal expansion of aquaculture through utilization of unmanaged 26 ponds for modified extensive aquaculture. This model applies to small lentic water bodies 27 like ponds (<10 ha area) where plankton count and limnological parameters are naturally 28 within permissible range for fish culture or survival. It can only help in – ‘modified extensive 29 aquaculture’ by increasing the abundance of plankton groups that are most preferred. This is 30 only applicable for culturing planktophagus fishes. 31 Methods: PCSM incorporates annual plankton community dynamics (data) of some 32 representative ‘unmanaged’ ponds of the region. Only the dynamics of top two highly 33 palatable and highly preferable Phytoplankton (Chlorophyceae & Bacillariophyceae) and 34 Zooplankton (Rotifera & Copepoda) groups for Indian Major Carps were focused upon. The 35 monthly composition of each plankton group in each pond of the region was averaged and 36 plotted into a graphical model called Multiple Spline Curve with 5% padding using 37 SigmaPlot. 38 Results: The model here has been developed in reference to pond based polyculture of 3 39 Indian Major Carps (Catla catla, Labeo rohita and Cirrhinus mrigala), which is still a 40 dominant practice in the unmanaged freshwater ponds in India. The model can help in 41 deciding two things – Fertilization timing (PCSM: Fertilization Module) and Stocking time 42 (PCSM: Stocking Module). It is region specific and presently developed for Raipur district of 43 Chhattisgarh, India. 44 Discussions: Through PCSM, effective pond fertilization period is 7 months out of 12 (April, 45 June, August, September, October, December and February). Moreover, year round multiple 46 stocking multiple harvesting based fish culture can be ensured in unmanaged pond through 47 PCSM guided stocking schedule (June, August, November and December). 48
Nanoindentation Investigation on Chitosan Thin Films with Different Types of Nano Fillers

Chitosan nanocomposite thin films were fabricated using two types of chitosan natural polymer (cross-linked chitosan (CLCS) and non-cross-linked chitosan (NCLCS)), with three different weight percentages nano-fillers (Graphene (G) and fullerene (F)). Nanoindentation tests were performed to investigate the local mechanical properties of the produced nanocomposite in comparison to the unreinforced chitosan thin films. Nano hardness values (H) and indentation modulus (E) were measured using 5 and 10 µm spherical indenters. The addition of nano fillers enhanced the hardness of both types of films with the amount of hardening being directly proportional to the fraction of nano filler added(p<0.001). Crosslinking has also significantly increased the hardness (p< 0.001). The larger indentation returned a lower hardness. The use of different radii nano indenters underlined the indenter size effect due to the differing strain fields. The promising mechanical properties resulting from this research will allow using the fabricated nanocomposites for tissue engineering, biomedicine, drug delivery, electronics, energy, surface coatings and packaging applications.
Effect of variation in the proportion of solid- and liquid-associated rumen bacteria in duodenal contents on the estimation of duodenal bacterial nitrogen flow

Vlaeminck, B. , Fievez, V. , Demeyer, D. , Dewhurst, R. J. (2007). Effect of variation in the proportion of solid- and liquid-associated rumen bacteria in duodenal contents on the estimation of duodenal bacterial nitrogen flow. Journal of Animal and Feed Sciences, 16, (1), 37-42
Importance of Vaccination in Uterine Cancer Prevention in Adolescence

Traditional therapeutic approaches in uterine cancer treatment may improve survival of patients with cancer. The specificity of uterus cancer treatment could improve the specific target therapy and understanding of mechanisms of cytotoxicity in normal cells. Developing cancer vaccines seems to achieve proper creation of specialized immune memory in order to prevent the tumor progression. Preventive prophylactic vaccination of women and men seems to be promising in disease progression considering the number of HPV strains involved and available vaccines being specific for 2 strains only to help eradication of cervical cancer.
Reliability and validity of the Therapy Intensity Level (TIL) scale: analysis of clinimetric properties of a novel approach to assess management of intracranial pressure in traumatic brain injury

We aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the Therapy Intensity Level scale (TIL) for intracranial pressure (ICP) management. We reviewed the medical records of 31 patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in two European intensive care units (ICU). The ICP TIL was derived over a 4-day period for 4-hour (TIL4) and 24-hour epochs (TIL24). TIL scores were compared with historical schemes for TIL measurement, with each other, and with clinical variables. TIL24 scores in ICU TBI patients were compared to two control groups: patients with extracranial trauma requiring intensive care (Trauma_ICU; n=20) and patients with TBI not requiring ICU care (TBI_WARD; n=19), to further determine the discriminative validity of the TIL for ICP-related ICU interventions. Inter-rater and intra-observer agreement were excellent for TIL4 and TIL24 (Cohen’s κ: 0.98 -0.99; intraclass correlation coefficient: 0.99 – 1; p <0.0005). The mean + SD TIL24 in the ICU TBI cohort was significantly higher than the Trauma_ICU patients and the TBI_WARD patients (8.2±3.2 vs. 2.2±0.9 and 0.1±0.1, respectively; p<0.005 for both comparisons). Correlations between the TIL scale scores and historical TIL scores, between TIL24 and the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), and between a range of TIL metrics and summary measures of ICP over the 4-day period, were all highly significant (p < 0.01). The results were consistent with the expected direction. A linear mixed effect analysis, accounting for within-subjects repeated measures, showed strong correlation between TIL4 and 4-hourly ICP (p < 0.0000005). The TIL scale is a reliable measurement instrument with a high degree of validity for assessing the therapeutic intensity level of ICP management in patients with TBI.
Characterization of anthocyanins by GCMS.

Anthocyanins (ACN) are part of a large and wide spread group of plant constituents, known collectively as flavanoids. Anthocyanins can be used as natural colorant. GCMS is the most powerful technique for determination of the molecular structure of anthocyanins. This technique provides molecular weight and mass spectral pattern for the exact structural characterization of the anthocyanins. In the present study, the colour pigments anthocyanins are extracted from fruits of Ficus racemosa. Family: Moraceae, using acidified methanol (1% HCl in methanol). The extracted anthocyanins were isolated and purified using the Amberllite–XAD4 resin. The anthocyanins isolated and purified by column chromatography were eluted in methanol and were directly injected in the GCMS system. The spectral pattern was recorded and from the m/z ratio of the daughter and the parent fragment ions, the type of anthocyanins along with its structure was identified and characterized. In the present study, anthocyanins were characterized by means of chromatographic and spectral data obtained from GCMS, TLC and UV spectroscopy. Two major pigments identified were peonidin-3-glucoside and pelargonidin-3-glucoside. Peaks for the anthocyanins, which are present in very low amount, and in less concentration, can be verified by means of commercially available external standards. The objective of the present work was to isolate and characterize the anthocyanin pigments present in the fruits of Ficus racemosa by chromatographic and spectral data.
A first genetic linkage map of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis

The blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere, from the White Sea to the Atlantic coast of southern France, and is an economically important species (1 million tons per year, FAO, 2002). At present however, little domestication has been achieved with bivalves, in contrast to agricultural crops, livestock and horticultural species like tomatoes, where selection and production is entirely controlled by man. For bivalves, despite their economic importance, no lines with selected characteristics have been taken to the production scale. There is therefore a need to make up for lost time. Our interest in genetic mapping sprang from some results showing a genetic component to some economically important traits like growth and survival. It was therefore primordial to establish a genetic linkage map in order to better understand the heritability of these traits. The genetic map will provide a framework for the localization of loci linked to the traits, so as to identify QTLs.
On the Electronic Structure of [1Fe] Fe−S Complexes from Anionic Photoelectron Spectroscopy

The electronic structure of a series of Fe−S complexes, Fe(SCN)3-, Fe(SCN)4-, Na+[Fe(SCN)42-], Fe(SCH3)3-, Fe(SCH3)4-, Na+[Fe(S2-o-xyl)22-], and Fe(S2-o-xyl)2- (where S2-o-xyl = o-xylene-α,α‘-dithiolate), was investigated in the gas phase using photodetachment photoelectron spectroscopy. Spectral features due to detachment from metal d orbitals or ligand orbitals were distinguished by comparing with the spectrum of a d0 complex, Sc(SCN)4-. A weak threshold feature was observed in the spectra of all ferrous complexes due to detachment of the minority spin Fe 3d electron [FeII (3d6) → FeIII (3d5)]. The spin majority Fe 3d electron signals were observed at much higher binding energies, revealing directly the “inverted level scheme” for these [1Fe] Fe−S complexes based on previous spin polarized calculations. The “inverted level scheme” is shown to be a general feature of the electronic structures of the [1Fe] Fe−S complexes, independent of the oxidation state and coordination number. Information about the ga.