Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PYTHON API FOR ALTAIR INSPIRE STUDIO WITH FUNCTIONALITY OF CAPTURING 3D MODELS FROM RGBD SENSORS

The use of 3D modeling software is more and more important for the industry. It offers new approaches to the design tasks and new perspectives to look at projects, in a more realistic and easier way than 2D. During the years, several software suites have been developed; some have specialized for particular purposes, whereas some others have remained generic, and offer a way to provide specific features, or to integrate with the rest of productive process, through plugins. This thesis shows how we implemented the Python support to write plugins and to interact with Altair Inspire Studio, in addition to the C++ sdk they have been offering for years. Then, the thesis shows how we used this novel api to develop a plugin to capture 3D models from reality, using rgbd sensors.
Do Preferences for Private Labels Respond to Supermarket Loyalty Programs?

Abstract This paper examines the effects of supermarket loyalty programs (LPs) on the demand for private labels (PLs). Using transaction level data on grocery purchases and individual level information on the membership of loyalty programs, I estimate a model of demand in which membership may affect the consumers’ valuation for PLs, their sensitivity to price changes and have spillover effects on both named brands (NBs) and rivals’ PLs. My identification strategy of the membership effect exploits observed variation in shopping patterns at the consumer level over time and includes a control function using LP characteristics as instrumental variables to account for a potential selection bias related to unobserved factors of the membership decision. I find a significant effect of LPs on consumer preferences for PLs. Compared to non-members, membership reduces consumers’ price sensitivity for the products sold by the supermarket they are members of, but increases it for products sold by supermarkets they are not members of. These effects are weaker for households that are members of the LPS of multiple supermarkets. Further, I use my demand model along with a supply model to simulate counterfactual scenarios in which supermarkets unilaterally modify their LPs to make it more difficult for customers to benefit from them. I find a considerable decrease in the demand for PLs and an increase in the demand for NBs. In response, supermakets decrease PLs’ prices and increase NBs prices in order to partially offset the impact on PLs’ demand.
Research on Two-Level Price-Fluctuation Supply Chain Ordering Strategy Problem

Uncertainties from retail price-fluctuation sales as well as constraints from suppliers make it difficult for retailers to place accurate orders, which have a great impact on the whole supply chain. Thus, this paper studies a supply chain ordering problem for two-level price-fluctuation sales and establishes a bilevel programming model by Copula function measuring the correlation between price and demand. The optimal order quantity is derived by transforming the bilevel programming model into a single-level model. An algorithm is given for solving the approximate optimal order quantity for the discrete model, and the convergence of the algorithm is proved. The results show that the approximate optimal order quantity decreases with the increase in the uncertainties of price and demand. Supply chain members should sell more products at the normal level, thereby increasing profits of each member in the supply chain under two-level price-fluctuation sales.
Paleofluid Fingerprint as an Independent Paleogeographic Correlation Tool: An Example from Pennsylvanian Sandstones and Neighboring Crystalline Rocks (Tisia Composite Terrane, S Hungary)

In the basement areas of the southern Pannonian Basin, Central Europe (Tisia Composite Terrane, Hungary), Variscan blocks are essential components. The existing paleogeographic reconstructions, however, are often unclear and contradictory. This paper attempts to give a contribution for paleogeographic correlation of the Tisia using paleohydrological features (e.g., vein mineralization types, inclusion fluid composition and origin) of the Pennsylvanian continental succession and neighboring crystalline complexes. Vein-type mineralization in the studied samples dominantly forms blocky morphological types with inclusion-rich quartz and carbonate crystals. The evolution of hydrothermal mineralization and host rock alteration in the study area comprises three major stages. The first one is characterized by chloritization, epidotization, and sericitization of metamorphic rocks together with subsequent formation of Ca-Al-silicate and quartz-sulfide veins (clinopyroxene-dominant and epidote-dominant mineralization). The related fluid inclusion record consists of high-temperature and low-salinity aqueous inclusions, corresponding to a reduced retrograde-metamorphic fluid phase during the Late Westphalian (~310 Ma). The next mineralization stage can be related to a generally oxidized alkaline fluid phase with a cross-formational character (hematite-rich alkali feldspar-dominant and quartz-dolomite veins). High-salinity primary aqueous inclusions probably were originated from the Upper Permian playa fluids of the region. The parent fluid of the third event (ankerite-hosted inclusions) was derived from a more reductive and low-salinity environment and can represent a post-Variscan fluid system. Fluid evolution data presented in this paper support that the W Tisia (Mecsek–Villany area) belonged to the Central European Variscan belt close to the Bohemian Massif up to the Early Alpine orogenic phases. Its original position is presumably to the northeast from the Bohemian Massif at the Late Paleozoic, north to the Moravo-Silesian Zone. The presented paleofluid evolution refines previous models of the paleogeographic position of the Tisia and puts constraints on the evolution of the Variscan Europe.
Sucrose and Xylitol-Induced Streptococcus mutans Biofilm Adherence

Objective: To study the adherence of Streptococcus mutans biofilm after induction with sucrose and xylitol. Material and Methods: Laboratory experimental study incorporating posttest-only control group design. S. mutans biofilm was generated for 24 hours at a temperature of 37°C using BHIB with 5% sucrose and BHIB with 1% xylitol. An adherence assay was conducted in accordance with the method applied previously. The quantity of adhered bacteria was measured by means of a spectrophotometer at 570 nm. The data were presented as mean and standard deviation. Results: A biofilm induced with sucrose has a higher adherence level (0.9294 ± 0.0431) compared with one induced with xylitol (0.5095 ± 0.0392). Sucrose induces adherence levels by increasing glucan binding protein and glucosyltransferase of the bacteria, whereas xylitol will inhibit the glycolysis process of the bacteria. Conclusion: The adherence of sucrose-induced S. mutans biofilm is higher than that of xylitol-induced S. mutans biofilm.
Implementation of tidal parameterization in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model

In this study, the Noah land surface model with a tidal parameterization was implemented in the WRF model. Newly added inputs included gridded tidal data that indicated the presence of a tidal flat, and a time varying water layer thickness over the tidal flat. Two simulations were performed in an online mode, namely, a simulation without tidal effects (CNTL) and simulation with tidal effects (TIDE). A comparison between the simulations and observations at flux tower showed that the surface heat and momentum fluxes were well reproduced in the TIDE simulation both in the magnitude and variation. In spite of better surface flux simulations, the air temperatures were slightly better simulated in the TIDE simulation than in the CNTL simulation during nighttime only. The 10 m wind speed was slightly overestimated in the TIDE compared to the CNTL simulation. The mean differences in the field variables between the TIDE and CNTL simulations were examined for four cases during the simulation period (inundation and exposed conditions at night and inundation and exposed conditions during the day). Tidal grids were classified into two groups depending on the land use type in the CNTL simulation as either the land to tide (LT) group or the water to tide (WT) group. The magnitude of the 2 m air temperature difference between the two simulations was generally larger on LT group than on WT group. During the day, both the 2 m air temperature and the planetary boundary layer height (PBLH) decreased under inundation conditions over LT group. The impact of the tidal flat on 10 m wind and PBLH extended inland beyond the tidal flats during the daytime inundation period. Article history: Received 21 September 2018
Title: Ecological mechanisms explaining interactions within plant-hummingbird networks

In mutualistic networks, interactions between species are constrained by an array of ecological mechanisms, such as morphological matching, phenological overlap and species’ abundances. It remains poorly understood how these mechanisms change in ability to explain interaction frequencies across environmental gradients. Consequently, there is also limited knowledge on how the mechanisms affect geographical patterns in network structure, such as resource specialization. Here, we investigated the degree to which morphological matching, phenological overlap and species’ abundances explain interactions between hummingbirds and plants. For 24 quantitative networks sampled across the Americas, we found an increased tendency for species to interact with morphologically matching partners towards low latitudes and areas with low temperature seasonality. Moreover, species’ morphologies and phenologies generally performed better than abundance at explaining interaction frequencies. However, only the tendency for species to interact with morphological matching partners correlated positively with network structure, i.e. resource specialization. These findings reveal insights into the ecological mechanisms that underlie geographical patterns in network structure. Our results suggest that morphological constraints on interactions could be an important explanation for increasing resource specialization towards
Beyond Gateways: Towns and Regional Development

The key question that an economist must ask of any public policy measure is whether it makes people better off or worse off. Take, for instance, statements about towns like, ‘Boyle has seen better days’ or ‘Belmullet is booming’. To an economist these statements are as meaningless as ‘My kitchen table is sad’ or The Shannon is doing well today’. Only people can be better off or worse off, it is people who concern us and towns are not people. They are means not ends. It is important to keep this point in mind when we try to assess the outcomes of, say, the last few years of growth and prosperity. Most towns have experienced a great deal of physical development under the policy environment of the last number of years but from an economic welfare point of view, if we are trying to evaluate this stuff we do need to weigh the costs and benefits carefully. It is not clear, for example, whether constructing many buildings or making places look better is the same as making people better off. And the economist also has to indicate which groups of people might be the beneficiaries from these measures. Finding ways to identify the linkages between growth/change and wellbeing is difficult. Some case studies e.g. quality-of-life investigations, would be welcome as a way of providing some discussion and suggestions for important variables and hypotheses around this topic.
Testicular Antioxidants and Serum Lipid Effects of the Fruit of Solanum Melongena on Wistar Rats

Solanum Melongena is a highly nutritive medicinal plant which is cultivated in many countries including Nigeria where it is mainly grown in the northern part of the country.The plant is also applied in folklore remedies in the treatment of different ailments.The present study was carried out to investigate the testicular antioxidant and lipid effects of the fruit of Solanum Melongena on male wistar rats. The rats were divided into three (3) groups of six (6) rats each. Group one (1) served as control and received distilled water. Group two (2) and group three (3) were treated with 200mg/kg bw and 400mg/kg bw of the hydromethanol (20:80) extract of Solanum Melongena respectively. Extract was administered orally as single daily dose for a period of 30 days. The results obtained showed that the extract caused significant increase in the superoxide dismutase and catalase enzyme activities and also signicantly reduced malondialdehyde level. The serum concentrations of total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels were significantly reduced but the serum concentrations of the high density lipoprotein cholesterol was increased. This study have shown that extract of Solanum Melongena inhibit lipid peroxidation and may reduce the risk of coronary artery disease in male wistar rats.
Trends in the Scientific Literature on Sudden Hearing Loss: A Bibliometric Study

Objective: To analyze the scientific publications, from a bibliometric approach, on the sudden hearing loss since the first documents appear (1966) until the year 2017. Methods: The Scopus database was used to carry out the study, and the descriptors "sudden hearing loss", “sudden sensorineural hearing loss" and "sudden sensorial hearing loss" were used, limited to the title, keywords and summary field. The most common bibliometric indicators were applied for the selected publications. Results: A total of 2,509 original articles were recovered between1966-2017. The growth of the publications was adapting better to a linear adjustment (r = 0.84). The time of duplication is 10.4 years. Bradford's core (most productive journals) formed by thirteen journals, some of the most productive are Otology and Neurotology, Acta Oto-Laryngologica and Laryngoscope, with an Impact Factor of 2.024, 2.471 and 1.116, respectively. Regarding geographical distribution, the United States, Japan and Germany present the highest production. Conclusions: The scientific production on the sudden hearing loss follows a linear growth, without evidence that should have reached a saturation point. In this case, the postulates of the Law of growth of Price's science are not fulfilled. In addition, a high index of transience exists.
Assessment of Hematological Scoring System (HSS) in Early Diagnosis of Neonatal Sepsis in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Although there have been several advancements in the diagnosis of neonatal sepsis, it still remains a major challenge, as there is no specific and sensitive marker for the timely diagnosis. Frequent incidence of noninfectious conditions that resemble to the clinical picture of neonatal sepsis, primarily in very low birth weight preterm infants, that complicates the identification of neonatal sepsis.The present study was undertaken to assess the significance of the hematological scoring system (HSS) for early detection of neonatal sepsis in total 42 cases with blood culture proven neonatal sepsis of 102 clinically diagnosed neonates admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) in El Menoufia and El Kalyoubia governorates hospitals versus 30 age matched healthy controls. The following HSS parameters were found to be significant for the early diagnosis of neonatal sepsis; Total WBC count, Total PMN count, Immature PMN count, I:T PMN ratio and Platelet count while the most sensitive parameters was degenerative changes and toxic granulation in PMNL.
INTELLIGIBILITY OF THE KAZAKH SPEECH WHEN IT'S PROTECTED WITH COMBINED MASKING SIGNALS

The article is devoted to assessing the intelligibility of the Kazakh speech when it's masked by combined signals, including «white» noise and speech-like signals. The phonetics features of the Kazakh language have been considered taking into account the law of syngarmonism and the spectrum differences of speech in the Kazakh language and speech in the Russian language. A technique for assessing the intelligibility of the Kazakh speech when it's masked by «white» noise and speech-like signals is proposed. The aim of the work is to analyze well-known methods for speech intelligibility assessing and applying these methods to assess speech intelligibility in the Kazakh language, taking into account masking by its combined signals. Due to the fact that the use of the articulation method of assessing intelligibility for the Kazakh speech requires a dependence of intelligibility on the articulation index for this particular language (the application for the Kazakh language has not been experimentally tested), the use of the formant approach to speech intelligibility assessing will be examined in more detail. The curried out experimental studies of the spectral density of speech in the Kazakh language made it possible to obtain it's approximate dependence on the frequency and take into account the phonetic features of the Kazakh speech when assessing the security of the speech information using the formant method.
The efficacy of vitamin C infusion in reducing post-intubation sore throat

Objective. Vitamin C may be a beneficial adjunct for decreasing sore throat following tracheal intubation. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of vitamin C infusion on post-intubation sore throat reduction. Methods. This double-blind randomized study was conducted on 70 patients undergoing elective laparoscopic surgery in Shahid Sadoughi Hospital. The patients were allocated into two groups (experimental and control). All patients received 2 mg midazolam and 100 microgram fentanyl citrate premedication. Thirty minutes after induction of anesthesia, 5 mg morphine was given to all patients. In the next step, the experimental group received vitamin C (2 g) mixed with normal saline for the total injection volume of 500 mL during 30 min and those in control group received normal saline without vitamin C. Results. In current study, no remarkable difference was observed between the experimental and control groups, considering age, sex and BMI (p>0.05). Significant difference was observed between the experimental and control groups in terms of postoperative sore throat at specified time including 1, 6 and 24 hours. A significant difference was noticed between experimental and control groups with respect to postoperative pain score at specified time (p<0.05). However, no difference was seen between the experimental and control groups regarding postoperative nausea, vomiting and itchy throat (p>0.05). Conclusion. According to the results of this study, the use of vitamin C reduced the incidence of sore throat and pain score in patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery. It seems that vitamin C can decrease morphine indicated for postoperative pain.
PRRSV, PCV2 and Pasteurella multocida Co-infection in Pigs

This report aims to illustrate co-infection of important pathogens in pigs and affected to herd health status of a farm located at Rachaburi province of Thailand. The farm has capacity about 700 sows with 8,000 fattening pigs. Fattening pigs in the farm showed unsatisfied growth performance as well as ununiform size appearance. To investigate the health problem occurred with the farm, blood sampling was carried out from 4 finishers in an accumulated ununiform pen. Necropsy was conducted from a dead pig of the same pen for further diagnosis by Real-Time polymerase chain reaction (Real-Time PCR) and bacterial culture. Serum was tested by Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA). The obtained results from ELISA diagnosis revealed that high antibody response to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) found in all serum samples (S/P ratio ≥ 0.4) which can be interpreted that PRRSV infection raised in this farm. The result from lymph node samples showed positive Porcine Circovirus type 2 (PCV2) detection by Real-Time PCR. Bacterial culture from lung sample found infected by Pasteurella multocida. Overall, it was determined that mix of infection between viruses and bacteria occurred in this farm, PRRSV, PCV2 and Pasteurella multocida. This report is illustrated that the mutuality of infection could breakthrough acquire immunity from vaccination, affected to health status and production of the farm.
Impact of Cardiac Rehabilitation on Functional Capacity and Physical Activity after Coronary Revascularization: A Scientific Review

Background Coronary revascularization procedures often cause lowered exercise capacity and declining physical activity levels. These outcomes are paramount in predicting morbidity and mortality after these procedures. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) focuses on incrementing cardiovascular endurance, exercise capacity, muscle strength, levels of physical activity, and quality of life through health education and lifestyle modification in post-coronary revascularization patients. Objective To review the impact of cardiac rehabilitation on functional capacity, levels of physical activity, and health related quality of life in patients following coronary revascularization. Methods A structured literature search in PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, and ProQuest for studies focused on CR and its effects on functional capacity, physical activity, and quality of life after coronary revascularization. Results A total of 2,010 studies were retrieved. Deduplication and eligibility screening included 190 studies after the application of filters. A sum of 21 studies were considered for this review. Most studies reported that exercise and physical activity programs were centre-based and home-based and via telerehabilitation. Treadmill and cycle ergometry training with callisthenics and flexibility exercises in phase 2 CR exhibited significant improvement in functional capacity and physical activity levels in patients after coronary revascularization procedures. Conclusion Although centre-based supervised CR programs do improve functional capacity after coronary revascularization, home-based or telerehabilitation-based CR programs are feasible, improve patient compliance in improving physical activity, and thereby increase functional capacity. Patient education improves levels of physical activity, health related quality of life, and adherence to home- and centre-based CR programs.
Deep Learning based, a New Model for Video Captioning

Visually impaired individuals face many difficulties in their daily lives. In this study, a video captioning system has been developed for visually impaired individuals to analyze the events through real-time images and express them in meaningful sentences. It is aimed to better understand the problems experienced by visually impaired individuals in their daily lives. For this reason, the opinions and suggestions of the disabled individuals within the Altinokta Blind Association (Turkish organization of blind people) have been collected to produce more realistic solutions to their problems. In this study, MSVD which consists of 1970 YouTube clips has been used as training dataset. First, all clips have been muted so that the sounds of the clips have not been used in the sentence extraction process. The CNN and LSTM architectures have been used to create sentence and experimental results have been compared using BLEU 4, ROUGE-L and CIDEr and METEOR.