Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Sonological Profile of Patients with Plantar Fasciitis-an Observational Study

Background: Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of chronic heel pain in adults. Plantar fasciitis is caused by biomechanical overuse from prolonged standing or running. Purpose: To compare the plantar fascia thickness and compressibility index of symptomatic foot and asymptomatic foot with sonography in patients diagnosed with unilateral plantar fasciitis. To document the consistent sonological findings in patients with clinically diagnosed plantar fasciitis. Methods: 60 Patients who were diagnosed clinically with plantar fasciitis of single heel were taken in the study. A lateral radiograph of the involved heel, blood tests, body mass index in kg/m2 were analyzed and subjected to sonography of bilateral heel to check the plantar fascia thickness, heel pad thickness, and compressibility index. Results: In our study, sonologically mean plantar fascia thickness on the symptomatic side was 4.03 mm and on the asymptomatic side, it was 2.78 mm. P value (0.001) was statistically significant therefore increased the thickness of fascia is associated with plantar fasciitis. Most common ultra-sonographic feature observed in our study was increased plantar fascia thickness and hypoechoic changes compared to the opposite heel. Conclusion: Sonography of bilateral heel could be used as an initial imaging modality for the investigation of plantar fasciitis. As it can help in assessing the plantar fascia thickness and texture of the plantar fascia which cannot be assessed on X-rays which is the common modality of investigation for this condition. Increased plantar fascia thickness and hypoechogenicity are a consistent ultra-sonographic finding of plantar fasciitis. There is a negative correlation between plantar fascia thickness, heel pad thickness and also compressibility index in assessing the severity of plantar fasciitis.
Treatability of lodgepole pine laminated veneer lumber

Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) is a relatively new component of the wood construction market. Although structural LVL is currently manufactured from Douglas-fir in the Pacific Northwest, other species may offer a way for the forest products industry to expand its resource base. Lodgepole pine is relatively abundant, and LVL made from this species has been shown to exhibit good strength characteristics. Little information exists on the treatability of LVL manufactured from lodgepole pine, a species that, as solid lumber, is considered difficult to treat. Preservative retention levels and absorption paths in samples of lodgepole pine LVL treated with pentachlorophenol were investigated (.)
EFFECTS OF FUCOIDAN EXTRACTED FROM BROWN SEA WEED ON LIPID PEROXIDATION IN MICE

Objective: To investigate the effects of fucoidan on the production of lipid peroxide (LPO) in mice. Methods: (1) Fucoidan was orally administered to mice at doses of 10, 50, 150, and 300 mg/kg·d for 7 days. Then all mice were injected intravenously with 70 mg/kg alloxan, 4 days later, LPO content in serum, liver, and spleen was determined. (2) Different doses of fucoidan were orally administered to alloxan-induced diabetic mice for 7 days, and LPO level was assayed. (3) In vitro, 0.05%, 0 25%, 0.75%, and 1.5% fucoidan solution only or with Cys/FeSO 4 together were added into liver or spleen homogenates, and LPO was determined. Results: Those groups administered with fucoidan prior to alloxan injection had remarkable low LPO values, as compared with experimental control. Fucoidan (po 50 mg/kg·d) prevented the increase of LPO in serum, liver and spleen of diabetic mice by 32 7% (P0 001), 22.7% and 20.0% (P0.01), respectively. It also obviously reduced LPO levels in serum, liver and spleen of diabetic mice by 34.1%, 29.3%, and 30.3%, respectively. No statistical differences were found in LPO levels between liver or spleen homogenates added with fucoidan only or with Cys/FeSO 4 together. Conclusion: Fucoidan (po 50 mg/kg·d) can prevent the increase of LPO in serum, liver and spleen of diabetic mice obviously. However, no inhibition effect was found on both spontaneous lipid peroxidation of homogenates and that induced by Cys/FeSO 4 in vitro.
Tryptophan provision by dietary supplementation of a Bacillus subtilis mutant strain in piglets

Abstract Supplementing Bacillus (B.) subtilis mutants selected to overproduce a specific amino acid (AA) may be an alternative method to provide essential AA in pig diets. Two experiments on a B. subtilis strain selected to overproduce Trp were conducted using 8-kg pigs fed Trp-deficient diets for 20 d. B. subtilis were supplied in a low or high dose in Experiments 1 and 2, respectively. The Trp-deficient diet (0.15 SID Trp:Lys) reduced (p < .05) both gain and feed intake of piglets compared to the positive control diet (0.17 SID Trp:Lys). Supplementation of the B. subtilis strain was not able to counterbalance the Trp deficiency in any of the two experiments. No effect of B. subtilis supplementation to piglet diets was observed on the plasma AA profile. In conclusion, this mutant strain of B. subtilis was not able to compensate a Trp deficiency in the tested doses.
Live sperm from post-mortem preserved indian catfish

In the 240-day post-mortem preserved (at -20°C) specimens of Heteropneustes fossilis, live, fertile sperm are present. Motility and initiation of development were adduced as evidence for surveval and fertility of the cadaveric sperm. Of the normal eggs that were fertilized by the cadaveric sperm, 97% underwent cortical reactions, 95% first few cell divisions, 40% blastulation, 3% gastrulation and 2% alone successfully hatched.
Influence of Type and Age of Primary Somatic Embryo on Secondary and Cyclic Somatic Embryogenesis of Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz).

This study investigated the influence of age of the cotyledons, cut from primary somatic embryos (PSE) developed from shoot meristems (SM) or immature leaf lobes (LL), on secondary somatic (SSE) and cyclic (CSE) embryogenesis of two cassava cultivars at th e Central Biotech Laboratory, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, between 2006 and 2010. A completely randomized design with three replicates was used for the study. Only PSE at the age of 4 weeks recorded significant (P<0.05) d ifferences in SSE frequency and efficiency between the SM and LL sources. CSE production was highest using 0 to 4 weeks old SSE cotyledons, and significant (P<0.05) differences were only recorded between the SM and LL sources when the age of the SSE cotyle dons was older than 6 weeks. The CSE frequencies from the SM source were significantly greater than that from the LL source when 8 and 10 week -old SSE cotyledons were used. The OriginalResearch Article
Isolation and Molecular Identification of Endophytic Bacteria from the Arils of Durian (Durio zibethinus Murr.) var. Matahari

Endophytes are plant-associated microorganisms able to form colonies in internal tissue and considered as an important component of biodiversity. However, information about the of naturally fruits-associated existence endophytic bacteria at different life-history stages of hosts is very limited. Durian (Durio zibethinus Murr.) is an exotic tropical fruits with a high economical value, but the occurrence and functional role of associated endophytes remains unexplored. A total of sixteen endophytic bacterial isolates were identified by 16S rRNA sequence analysis from ripe and unripe stages of durian fruits var. Matahari. These isolates belonged to the genus Staphylococcus, Bacillus, Enterobacter, Moraxella, Gordonia, Salmonella, Rhizobium, Brachybacterium, Kocuria, and Klebsiella. This is the first report of an endophytic bacterial spesies residing in durian arils. This research also indicated potency of culturable endophytes from durian fruits in plant growth promotion.
A new class of tobacco chitinases homologous to bacterial exo-chitinases displays antifungal activity

Summary A novel chitinese gene of tobacco was isolated and characterized by DNA sequence analysis of a genomic clone and a cDNA clone. Comparative sequence analysis of both clones showed an identity of 94%. The proteins encoded by these sequences do not correspond to any of the previously characterized plant chitinases of classes I-IV and are designated as class V chitinaeas. Comparison of the chitinese class V paptide sequence with sequences in the Swiss Protein databank revealed significant sequence similarity with bacterial exo-chitinases from Bacillus circulans, Serratla marcescens and Streptomyces plicatus. It was demonstrated that class V chitinase gene expression is Induced after treatment of tobacco with different forms of stress, like TMV-infection, ethylene treatment, wounding or ultraviolet irradiation. Two related chitinsse class V proteins of 41 and 43 kDa were purified from Samsun NN tobacco leaves inoculated with tobacco mosaic virus. The proteins were purified by Chelating Suparose chromatography and gel filtration. In vitro assays demonstrated that class V chitinaeas have endo-chitinase activity and exhibit antifungal activity toward Trichoderma viride and Alternaria radicina. In addition, it was shown that class V chitlnase acts synergistically with tobacco class I 1~-l,3-glucanase agalnat Fusarlum solani germlings.
Microsurgical thumb reconstruction with toe transfer: selection of various techniques.

Microsurgical toe transfer is an established method for reconstruction of missing thumbs. However, there is little agreement on which of the various techniques represents the ideal transfer. Basically, selection of technique requires balancing the patient's functional needs, appearance of the reconstructed thumb, and donor-site cosmesis. Based on our experience with 103 toe-to-thumb transfers performed over the past 9 years, this paper attempts to provide guidelines for appropriate selection among the four most commonly employed toe transfer techniques (e.g., second toe, total great toe, great toe wrap-around, trimmed great toe) so that optimal results and patient's acceptance can both be achieved
Internal Clock and Memory Processes in Animal Timing

Temporal control of behavior was investigated within the framework of an internal clock model. Pigeons were exposed to signaled fixed-interval 30-s trials mixed with extended unreinforced (baseline) trials. On unreinforced break trials, the signal was interrupted for a period of time after trial onset. In Experiment 1, comparisons between the peak time obtained on baseline and on break trials produced peak time shifts that were longer than those expected if the clock had stopped during the break but shorter than if the clock had reset. In Experiment 2, systematic manipulations of duration and location of breaks produced peak time shifts that were nonlinear functions of break duration and that varied linearly with break location. The obtained peak times were more consistent with a continuous memory decay model than with the stop-retain or the reset hypotheses. Current research on animal timing has been guided by a model known as the "internal clock" (Church, 1978; Treisman, 1963). According to the clock model proposed by Gibbon and Church (e.g., Church, 1984; Gibbon & Church, 1984; Gibbon, Church, & Meek, 1984), the onset of the signal on a discrete fixed-interval (FI) trial closes a switch that gates pulses to an accumulator. At the time of reinforcement, the accumulated pulses are stored in reference memory, establishing a distribution of values related to the reinforced duration. On subsequent trials the signal causes retrieval of a value from reference memory. Responding is based on a discrepancy rule and a decision threshold. The difference between the current accumulated time (working memory) and the reference memory value is constantly updated. Responding occurs when the ratio of that difference to the reference memory value falls below the decision threshold. As trial time elapses, the relative difference decreases and the probability of responding increases. However, if reinforcement is omitted and the trial signal remains on beyond the expected time of reinforcement , the relative discrepancy grows and responding decreases again. This account suggests that the temporal locus of maximum rate (peak time) should be close to the reinforced duration and that peak time may
How quickly can we predict trimethoprim resistance using alchemical free energy methods?

The emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens modern medicine and necessitates more personalised treatment of bacterial infections. Sequencing the whole genome of the pathogen(s) in a clinical sample offers one way to improve clinical microbiology diagnostic services, and has already been adopted for tuberculosis in some countries. A key weakness of a genetics clinical microbiology is it cannot return a result for rare or novel genetic variants and therefore predictive methods are required. Non-synonymous mutations in the S. aureus dfrB gene can be successfully classified as either conferring resistance (or not) by calculating their effect on the binding free energy of the antibiotic, trimethoprim. The underlying approach, alchemical free energy methods, requires large numbers of molecular dynamics simulations to be run. We show that a large number (N=15) of binding free energies calculated from a series of very short (50 ps) molecular dynamics simulations are able to satisfactorily classify all seven mutations in our clinically-derived testset. A result for a single mutation could therefore be returned in less than an hour, thereby demonstrating that this or similar methods are now sufficiently fast and reproducible for clinical use.
Homology Modeling Studies, Compounds Targeting the CXCR4 Protein of Using Molecular Docking

The cancer profile in the Indian state of Uttarakhand reveals that the breast cancer is the most prevalent type of cancers in females followed by cervical and ovarian type. Literature survey shows that the CXCR4 protein of is responsible for causing several forms of cancer in human. Therefore, it is of interest to screen CXCR4 target protein with known natural compounds using computer aided molecular modeling and docking tools. The complete structure of CXCR4 is unknown. Hence, the CXCR4 structure model was constructed using different online servers followed by molecular docking five known compounds of4-aminosalicylic acid, eugenol, gallic acid, salicylic acid,gentisic acid, and ifosfamideas reference ligandwith best CXCR4 protein model predicted by Swissmodel Server. The screening exercise shows that eugenol (with reranke score -64,68), a natural compound has the top binding properties.Thus, it is of interest to consider the compound for further validation. Instrumentation: Computational chemistry calculations using a Personal Computer with an Intel (R) processor type Core Intel Core i56400 @ 2.70 GHz with a 1000 GB Hard disk SSD 512 GB and 16 GB RAM. Programs used include Molegro Virtual Docker 6.0 (MolegroApS), Discovery Studio 2019.
Analysis of strong gravitational lenses using neural networks

The study of gravitational lenses are paramount to understanding the shortcomings of the current model of cosmology. Unfortunately, we have only observed a small number of lensed systems. With this number expected to go up by several orders of magnitude in the next generation of sky surveys [2], a method to analyze these systems will have to be fast, eﬃcient, and accurate. Using convolutional neural networks, we have made it possible to analyze about 100 images of strong gravitational lenses in a second on a single graphics processing unit. This method recovers the Einstein radius, complex x and y ellipticity, and the x and y position of the center of the lens. These values are comparable to other methods used to analyze strong gravitational lenses while being ten million times faster.
Comparison of Head Injury Criteria Based on Real-World Accident Simulations under Visual Performance Solution (VPS)

In the present study an existing, improved in-house finite element head model is used to reconstruct 70 well-documented real-world head trauma cases for the development of robust model-based brain injury criteria under Visual Performance Solution (VPS, ESI group). A combined strain and strain rate parameter, named the brain injury score (BIS), has been proposed to predict AIS2+ brain injury accurately based on statistical analysis. Further head kinematic-based Head Injury Criteria (HIC), Brain Injury Criteria (BrIC), Universal Brain Injury Criterion (UBrIC) and Convolution of Impulse response for Brain Injury Criterion (CIBIC) are computed and tissuelevel injury criteria maximum principal strain, von Mises stress and brain pressure are extracted from the simulation. The injury risk probability for each case was computed for different parameters and the delta percentage risk was calculated for comparison between these injury criteria. In addition six real-world head trauma cases were reconstructed to validate the prediction capability of BIS, HIC, BrIC, UBrIC and CIBIC. It was concluded that BIS predicts the AIS2+ brain injury more accurately when compared to the others. The HIC and BrIC typically over predict the brain injury risk.
STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS FOR HYBRID DTM GENERALIZATION

Digital Terrain Models (DTM) generalization results of great potential for cartographic and photogrammetric aplications, as well as for analysis processes in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) where the spread of DTM acquires greatest significance, due to the variation of scale when viewing, changes of resolution as well as the use of different cartographic databases, multimedia cartography, cartography on demand etc; for both consulting analysis as well as showing results. This study consists on two main objectives: the first one consists on determine optimal parameters of witch depends a hybrid DTM generalization on. And the second one consists on stablishing optimal analysis processes to evaluate the effects caused by the defined parameters on the DTM. Once these objectives have been solved DTM generalization could be automated with a high degree of accurate quantifying application ranges for each defined parameter in terms of the relief. The area selected for study is a very flat area with a mountain of highly pronounced relief, so the study of the behaviour of the generalization in widely differing gradient ranges is possible. The points cloud for generating the DTMs at two different scales has been obtained by automatic correlation processes. Generation of the DTMs at each scale will be via a regular grid (RR) structure.The break lines as well as the singular points have been captured using
Estimation of quantiles based on Fay-Herriot models

Central banks and politics often use robust measures like quantiles in order to describe the distribution of income or wealth in a country. However, estimates on a disaggregated level are rarely reported due to small sample sizes and following large variances. Small area estimation is one way to handle this issue but standard approaches are mainly suited for the estimation of means and totals. Recently proposed methodologies like the Empirical Best Prediction (EBP) (Molina & Rao 2010) and the World Bank method (Elbers et al. 2003) enable the estimation of complex indicators like poverty measures as well as the estimation of quantiles. However, these methods need covariate information on the unitor rather household-level (micro-level). Due to confidentiality issues, this requirement is often not given for data related to income or wealth in a country. What are the alternatives for the data analyst? Recently, Fabrizi and Trivisano (2016) discussed the estimation of the Gini coefficient based on aggregated models that can be used without the availability of census data at the micro-level. Similarly, we discuss the estimation of quantiles based on aggregated data.
Structural and Dielectric Studies of Eu3+ -Doped Li-K-Zn Fluorotellurite Glasses

Trivalent Eu -doped Li-K-Zn fluorotellurite glasses of composition (70–x)TeO2 + 10Li2O + 10K2O + 10ZnF2 + xEu2O3 with x (mol%) = 0.0, 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0, were prepared by conventional melt quenching technique and characterized for their structural and dielectric properties. The amorphous nature and thermal stability were established using X-ray diffraction technique and differential scanning calorimetry, respectively. Vibrational properties of the structural groups present in the glasses were also analyzed using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Dielectric properties of the glass samples were also investigated. Power-law and the Cole-Cole parameters were calculated and their dependence on the concentration of Eu ions was discussed.
DATA SECURITY IN CLOUD COMPUTING USING THRESHOLD CRYPTOGRAPHY

Currently cloud computing is extremely in style in giant and little scale organization because it can hold on giant amount of knowledge and supply low price service. Thus it has daily new challenges to produce secure authorization, integrity and access management. Some approaches are guaranteeing concerning security however there are some limitations to these approaches and problems. To resolve this issue we have proposed a scheme named threshold cryptography within which information from owner will be divided among its users in cluster and partial key will be shared with all users in the cluster. The partial key will be used by the user for decryption. The proposed scheme uses capability list to control the access. This proposed scheme not only provides the sturdy information confidentiality however additionally reduces the quantity of keys
Fixed-Time Flocking and Collision Avoidance Problem of a Cucker–Smale Model

Multiagent systems are used in artificial intelligence, control theory, and social sciences. In this article, we studied a Cucker–Smale model with a continuous non-Lipschitz protocol. The methodology presented in the current paper is based on the explicit construction of a Lyapunov functional. By using the fixed-time control technology, we show that the flocking can occur in fixed-time and collision avoiding when a singular communication function with a weighted sum of sign functions of the relative velocities among agents, and we can obtain the estimation of the converging time which is independent of the initial states of agents. Theoretical results are supported by numerical simulations.
ETH Zürich Proseminar in Theoretical Physics Gauge / Gravity Duality The AdS 5 / CFT 4

The introductory point consisting of a description of ’t Hooft’s large N limit and its relation with string theory, a quick jump is then made towards the exposition of Maldacena’s argument of the AdS5/CFT4 duality. The holographic principle is introduced and analysed in the context of the correspondence. Finally, correlation functions, in the context of the AdSd+1/CFTd, are studied for scalar fields and the simple examples are computed in detail.
Generating a Template Bank for use in Medium Latency PyGRB Searches

In most modern-day searches for gravitational waves a bank of template waveforms is used to find signals buried in noisy interferometer data. In this paper, we discuss generating one of these template banks for a specific search that has time limitations. By choosing the proper generation parameters, we find that in the ideal case the bank recovers over 94% of the gravitational wave signals within its generation parameters. Finally, we show that this bank functions as expected within the searches it was designed for.