Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Quality of life and psycho-emotional wellbeing in bladder cancer patients and their caregivers: a comparative analysis between urostomy versus ileal orthotopic neobladder

Background The impact of neobladder and urostomy on bladder cancer patient’s health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) is controversial and many issues currently remain under-investigated. Initial studies pointed out that the emotional responses of caregivers might be ‘contagious’, influencing emotional reactions in bladder cancer patients undergoing radical cystectomy. Methods Three hundred and eighty-two bladder cancer patients (aged M = 67.29 years; SD = 9.23) (16.9% (65) were female and 82.9% (319) were male) and their caregivers were enrolled. Data were collected prospectively: at T0 (1 month before the surgery), at T1 (2 weeks after the surgery, at patient discharge from the hospital) and at T2 (6-month follow-up). At each time point (T0, T1 and T2), a set of questionnaires (EORT QLQ-C30 and emotion thermometer) were given to patients and their caregivers. Results All patients reported a general improvement in the HR-QoL and global health status/QoL from T0 to T2 (p < 0.001). No significant differences were observed between neobladder and urostomy. At T0, the emotional thermometer total scoring in caregivers was positive in relation to HR-QoL (p < 0.001) and negative in relation to the patient’s perception of QoL (p < 0.001) and global health (p < 0.001). Similar trends were observed at T1 and T2. Conclusions These results suggest that patients and their caregiver’s emotional reactions to cancer are deep-rooted and strongly interconnected, and they provide innovative insights for the clinical management of bladder cancer patients.
Hacia un nuevo enfoque de TCP para un aumento del throughput en redes inalámbricas / Towards a new approach of TCP for increasing throughput in wireless networks

Uno de los protocolos mas importantes para el correcto funcionamiento de las redes de Internet es el protocolo TCP, el cual asegura la comunicacion entre transmisor y emisor mediante un control de la tasa de transmision en funcion de la congestion. Sin embargo, con la nueva tendencia de las comunicaciones inalambricas, TCP enfrenta un nuevo desafio para el cual no estaba originalmente disenado. Siendo el PL debido al medio de transmision motivo de la ineficiencia de TCP en medios inalambricos, se han desarrollado propuestas como el empleo de notificaciones de perdida explicita y mejores gestiones de la ventana de congestion con el fin de adaptar TCP a tal medio de transmision. Dichas propuestas evidencian un mejor desempeno, aunque en su gran mayoria se limitan a evaluar su funcionamiento en programas de simulacion como Network Simulator o similares. En este contexto, el objetivo del presente trabajo es implementar un protocolo TCP adaptado a escenarios inalambricos en el sistema operativo Linux, considerando un acuse de recibo negativo NACK, el cual ocupa un pequeno segmento del protocolo TCP. TCP-NACK es capaz de diferenciar entre perdidas por congestion y perdidas por el medio de transmision, y produce una mejora en throughput de 182 % bajo un escenario emulado en comparacion con TCP Reno.
Fast Track: Synchronized Behavior Detection in Streaming Tensors

How can we track synchronized behavior in a stream of timestamped tuples, such as mobile devices installing and uninstalling applications in the lockstep, to boost their ranks in the app store? We model such tuples as entries in a streaming tensor, which augments attribute sizes in its modes over time. Synchronized behavior tends to form dense blocks (i.e. subtensors) in such a tensor, signaling anomalous behavior, or interesting communities. However, existing dense block detection methods are either based on a static tensor, or lack an efficient algorithm in a streaming setting. Therefore, we propose a fast streaming algorithm, AUGSPLICING, which can detect the top dense blocks by incrementally splicing the previous detection with the incoming ones in new tuples, avoiding re-runs over all the history data at every tracking time step. AUGSPLICING is based on a splicing condition that guides the algorithm (Section 4). Compared to the state-of-the-art methods, our method is (1) effective to detect fraudulent behavior in installing data of real-world apps and find a synchronized group of students with interesting features in campus Wi-Fi data; (2) robust with splicing theory for dense block detection; (3) streaming and faster than the existing streaming algorithm, with closely comparable accuracy.
ASSESSING THE TECHNOLOGICAL, PEDAGOGICAL, AND CONTENT KNOWLEDGE OF PRE-SERVICE MATHEMATICS TEACHERS: BASIS FOR DESIGNING A TRAINING PROGRAM

Pre-service teaching is a major requirement for the teacher education course that prepares students to become professional teachers in the future. This paper aimed to look into the technological, pedagogical and content knowledge of the twenty (20) pre-service teachers teaching Mathematics utilizing a descriptive-survey method with the aid of a standardized test and the modified observation tool in gathering the needed information. The study revealed that the pre-service teachers were average in content knowledge and outstanding in pedagogical knowledge. However, they were found unsatisfactory in technological knowledge. It was disclosed further that a significant difference existed between the pedagogical and content knowledge, and between the pedagogical and technological knowledge while content and technological knowledge of the respondents did not significantly differ. This study concluded that the respondents were not ready in terms of content having insufficient knowledge in most topics with lowest in Geometry 1, very ready in terms of pedagogical knowledge having a very high level of readiness when it comes to the different strategies of teaching content and how these knowledge could be appropriately transferred to the learners, and less ready in technological knowledge lacking skills in handling technological devices especially on the process that are necessary for discussion and lack extension of discussion with the use of multi-media, social media, schoology, google classroom and others. Hence, this study recommended the instructors of SUCs to provide adequate learning experiences to their students in handling technological devices such as the use of multi-media, social media, schoology, google classroom and others. They may provide review classes to students to help recall mathematical concepts which could fortify mastery on solving mathematical problems. Further, a seminar and training workshop for the pre-service teachers on the use of ICT in classroom instruction was recommended.
Using Zone-Sampling Based Trace Back Algorithm and Modified Echo State Networks to Detect and Prevent Denial-of-Service Attacks in MANETs

Denial-of-Service Attack effect of MANETs by consume resources that prevent the rightful users to access to their services, this paper use (ZSBT) algorithm it will be trace the malicious node, when each a node in network by using this algorithm will give packet zone ID with a probability and then this packets forward. After these packets will be receiving, then using modified echo state neural (ESN) to prevent malicious node from sending data to destination by determine node that consumer more resource, packets lose or the victim could reset the path between the attacker and itself. the simulation applying by using matlab2016 and the result showed in proposed method with 200 node, 10 second average time (0.132273) compare with other method PSO algorithm (20.569) and multilayer neural network (MLP) (1.137473), drop packed in proposed method (0.0), PSO algorithm(1.776604) and MLP (9.390808), accuracy in proposed method with (10) malicious node (96.96) compare with another method.so the suggestion method reduce packed drop and jitter, delay and choosing optimal path from source node to destination node.
CARCASS YIELD AND QUALITY OF BREAST MEAT FROM FREE-RANGE CHICKEN FED WITH COTTONSEED CAKE

The food used in the rearing of free-range chicken represent the potential for finding results related to their growth and the quality of their meat. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the carcass yield and physicochemical parameters of the meat of the free-range chicken breast of the naked neck lineage by replacing the protein of soybean meal for the protein of the cottonseed cake. For this purpose, the experiments were conducted in a completely randomized design, with five treatments (0, 10, 20, 30 and 40% replacement), six replicates and fifteen birds per repetition. Therefore, the relative weight of the carcass, the noble cuts (breast, drumstick leg and thigh), the edible viscera, the small intestine, and the length of the small intestine were evaluated. Results showed that there was no influence of the diet on the evaluated parameters, except for the chemical composition in which there was a linear reduction in the fat content of the free-range chicken breast meat as the level of replacement of soybean meal protein by cottonseed cake protein increased. Thus, the results of the variables of relative weight and the physicochemical composition of breast meat revealed the possibility of replacing up to 40% of soybean meal protein for cottonseed cake protein for the rearing of free-range chicken.
Children's Mercy Kansas City

Increased fluid flow shear stress (FFSS) in solitary kidney alters podocyte function in vivo. FFSS-treated cultured podocytes show upregulated AKT-GSK3β-β-catenin signaling. The present study was undertaken to confirm (i) the activation of β-catenin signaling in podocytes in vivo using unilaterally nephrectomized (UNX) TOPGAL mice with the β-galactosidase reporter gene for β-catenin activation, (ii) β-catenin translocation in FFSS-treated mouse podocytes, and (iii) β-catenin signaling using publicly available data from UNX mice. The UNX of TOPGAL mice resulted in glomerular hypertrophy and increased the mesangial matrix consistent with hemodynamic adaptation. Uninephrectomized TOPGAL mice showed an increased β-galactosidase expression at 4 weeks but not at 12 weeks, as assessed using immunofluorescence microscopy (p < 0.001 at 4 weeks; p = 0.16 at 12 weeks) and X-gal staining (p = 0.008 at 4 weeks; p = 0.65 at 12 weeks). Immunofluorescence microscopy showed a significant increase in phospho-β-catenin (Ser552, p = 0.005) at 4 weeks but not at 12 weeks (p = 0.935) following UNX, and the levels of phospho-β-catenin (Ser675) did not change. In vitro FFSS caused a sustained increase in the nuclear translocation of phospho-β-catenin (Ser552) but not phospho-β-catenin (Ser675) in podocytes. The bioinformatic analysis of the GEO dataset, #GSE53996, also identified β-catenin as a key upstream regulator. We conclude that transcription factor β-catenin mediates FFSS-induced podocyte (glomerular) injury in solitary kidney. Cells 2021, 10, 1253. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10051253 https://www.mdpi. com/journal/cells Cells 2021, 10, 1253 2 of 25
TOPOLOGICAL REVERSIBLE MODEL OF THREE-PHASE FIVE-LIMB TRANSFORMER

ZIRKA S. E. Professor of the Department of physics and technology of the National University of Dnipro, Dnipro, Ukraine, e-mail: zirka@email.dp. ua; MOROZ Y. I. Ph.D., Associate professor of the Department of physics and technology of the National University of Dnipro, Dnipro, Ukraine, e-mail: yuriy_moroz@i.ua; ARTURI C. M. Professor of the Department of electronics, information and bioengineering of the Politechnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, e-mail: cesaremario.arturi@polimi.it; ELOVAARA. J. Ph.D., Fingrid Oyj, Helsinki, Finland, e-mail: jarmo.elovaara@fingrid.fi; LAHTINEN M. Ph.D., Fingrid Oyj, Helsinki, Finland, e-mail: matti.2. lahtinen@gmail.com. Purpose. The paper continues the authors’ studies devoted to transients in three-phase five-limb transformers. The main purpose of the work is to propose a method of evaluating model parameters, which cover transformer operations in saturation. This purpose is achieved by using the concept of the model reversibility. Methodology. The method of obtaining model parameters employs magnetic transformer model and is based on the idea of the model reversibility. The solution is found by equating input reluctances seen from the terminals of the innermost and outermost windings to the reluctances of the corresponding windings on air. Findings. The modeling of GIC events represented in the paper is the most accurate ever obtained for threephase, five-leg transformers. The model is validated by close agreement of the predicted values and waveforms of the phase currents and reactive power with those measured in tests performed on two 400 MVA transformers connected back-to-back and to a 400 kV power network. The validity of the model was verified at 75 and 200 A dc currents in the transformer neutral. It is shown that the model is a reliable tool in evaluating inrush currents. Originality. The originality and advantage of the method proposed is its ability to determine the model parameters without fitting to experimental data obtained in regimes with highly saturated core. The method ensures the reversibility of the three-winding transformer model that is its correct behavior regardless of which winding is energized. Practical value. The practical value and significance of the paper is caused by the fact that the model proposed is a simple and reliable tool for power system studies. As a practically important example, time domain response of transformer subjected to geomagnetically induced currents (GIC) is analyzed and compared with results of a comprehensive field experiment.
Entrapment and Psychological Pain as Proximal Variables of Suicidal Ideation: Study of Moderation

According to the literature, psychological pain and entrapment are fundamental variables in the prediction of suicidal ideation. The aim of this paper is to analyse the moderating role of psychological pain in the relationship between entrapment-suicidal ideation. A sample of 620 participants between the ages of 18-35 years (51.1% women) was recruited through a quota sampling and administered an online questionnaire. Psychological pain and entrapment were significant predictors of suicidal ideation. Likewise, the interaction of both variables was also statistically significant, according to a moderating effect. These findings suggest that the use of measuring instruments that evaluate each other's constructs may improve the screening of people with suicidal ideation.
The Antioxidant defense Responses of Sea cucumber Holothuria polii Against Rickettsia-like organism (RLOs) Infection and Heavy Metal Pollution in Alexandria coast

Holothuria polii, the common black sea cucumber (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea), is abundant in the Mediterranean Sea along the Alexandria coast. This species was given great value commercially and for human consumption. The present study was objective to assess the biological effect of marine pollution on the sea cucumber, Holothuria polii collected from two locations in Alexandria coast; AboQir station as an industrial area compared with Miami station as a reference area, using the oxidative stress biomarkers approach, heavy metals bio-accumulation, and Rickettsia-like organism (RLOs) infection. Sea cucumber samples were collected from both stations in Alexandria, during two seasons; winter (January) and summer (July) 2016. Atomic absorption spectrophotometer was used to detect Zn, Mn, Pb, Cu, and Cd in the body wall of the animal as well as in water samples.
Seasonal variations in SAGE II background aerosol in the upper tro- posphere and lower stratosphere

Extinction data observed with Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) II in the upper stratosphere and lower stratosphere (UT/LS) during the period of the background level of stratospheric aerosol (1998–2004) are examined for seasonal cycle. For the data analysis, the extinction coefficient at 0.452, 0.525, and 1.02 μm, and the effective radius are used. The analyzed quantities show large seasonal amplitude in 45◦S–40◦N above 26 km, and in 15◦S-30◦N at 14–21 km. Intriguingly, the seasonal amplitude exhibits asymmetry in the distribution between the Northern Hemisphere (NH) and Southern Hemisphere (SH). That is, the amplitude of seasonal cycle at latitudes of 20–40◦ is smaller in NH than that in SH above 26 km, while it is larger in NH than that in SH between 14 and 18 km. The extinction ratio peak is at around 28–30 km over the tropics. Very small values of extinction ratio at latitudes of 20–30◦ at 10–15 km, and a steep gradient of extinction ratio and of effective radius at latitudes of 20–30◦ in the lower stratosphere are observed. The two regions are considered to correspond to the outflow from the tropical convection, and to the subtropical barriers in the lower stratosphere, respectively. These features are compared and discussed with the distribution of water vapor.
ANALYSIS OF INDIRECT AND DIFFERENTIAL CONNECTIONS AMONG PERSONAL VALUES

Science and Education, 2018, Issue 1 5 UDC: 159.9 DOI: https://doi.org/10.24195/2414-4665-2018-1-1 Liudmyla Romanyuk, Doctor of Psychology, Head of Psychology Department at Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Research-professor at Faculty of Psychology of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine Ralf Schwarzer, Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, 16-18, Kaiserswerther Str. , Berlin, Germany, Invited Professor at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw, Poland
Do Jordanian Firms Smooth their Dividends? Empirical Test of Symmetric and Asymmetric Partial Adjustment Models

The theoretical framework of dividend theories suggests the potential for exhibiting asymmetrical dividend smoothing behaviour. Therefore, this study aims at empirically investigating whether value maximizing firms follow a symmetric or asymmetric targetdividend adjustment. It also investigates whether this behaviour exits for firms with positive and negative earnings. Using data for a sample of 38 firms listed in Amman Stock Exchange (ASE), our empirical results suggests that Jordanian firms have a target dividend payout ratio with rate of adjustment, implying that these firms try to stabilize or smooth their dividend policy. Moreover, the results show dividend adjustment is not only asymmetric for upward and downward (below and above-target) dividends adjustment, but also asymmetric for below-target dividends adjustment with positive and negative earnings as well for above-target dividends adjustment with positive and negative earnings
IMPROVING PRODUCTION AND CHARACTERS OF POTATO MICROTUBERS AND MINITUBERS

: This investigation was carried out during the seasons 2012 and 2013 on potato cv. Diamant at the Tissue Culture Laboratory and the greenhouse of Potato and Vegetatively Propagated Vegetables Department, Horticulture Research Institute, Dokki, Giza, Egypt. The present study aimed to study the effect of the in vitro application of chitosan, calcium chloride and the concentration of ammonium nitrate and potassium nitrate on potato tuberization. In addition, to study the effect of foliar application of chitosan, chelated calcium and potassium silicate on growth and yield of the minituber ex vitro. Results revolved that 500 mg/l chitosan gave the highest values of number of shoots and node/plantlets, number of microtuber, fresh and dry weight of shoots and microtubers fresh weight after 8 weeks from culture in vitro. Furthermore, ex vitro spraying with 500 mg/l chitosan or the mixture of 350 mg/l chelated calcium + 400 mg/l potassium silicate produced the highest values of plant length, leaves number/plant, fresh and dry weight of leaves on 75 days after planting. As well as, minituber characteristics (number of minituber /plant, minituber fresh and dry weight/plant, average minituber weight and weight of minituber /plant according to its size) after 100 days from planting recorded the highest significant values with foliar application of 500 mg/l chitosan or the mixture of 350 mg/l chelated calcium + 400 mg/l potassium silicate. It could be recommended that adding chitosan at 500 mg/l to in vitro microtuber production medium (MS + 8 mg/l BA + 80 g/l sucrose) was preferable to produce microtubers. Also, the ex vitro spraying of 500 mg/l chitosan or the mixture of 350 mg/l chelated calcium plus 400 mg/l potassium silicate could be useful for minituber production and enhancing its yield characteristics.
Proceedings of the 25th Computer Vision Winter Workshop Conference

Vehicle detection in aerial and satellite images is still challenging due to their tiny appearance in pixels compared to the overall size of remote sensing imagery. Classical methods of object detection very often fail in this scenario due to violation of implicit assumptions made such as rich texture, small to moderate ratios between image size and object size. Satellite video is a very new modality which introduces temporal consistency as inductive bias. Approaches for vehicle detection in satellite video use either background subtraction, frame differencing or subspace methods showing moderate performance (0.26 0.82 F1 score). This work proposes to apply recent work on deep learning for wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) on satellite video. We show in a first approach comparable results (0.84 F1) on Planet’s SkySat-1 LasVegas video with room for further improvement.
Mass-movement and seismic processes study using Burridge-Knopoff laboratory and mathematical models

Simple models of mass movement and seismic processes are important for understanding the mechanisms for their observed behavior. In the present paper, we analyze the dynamics of a single-block and Burridge-Knopoff model on horizontal and inclined slope with Dieterich–Ruina and Carlson friction laws. In our experiments, the slip events are distinguished by acoustic emission bursts, which are generated by slider displacement. Also acceleration was recorded on each sliding plate using attached accelerometer. In the case of the inclined slope experimental model a seismic vibrator, which produces low periodic impact (forcing) was attached to the sliding plate. This was a numerical simulation of dynamic processes occurring at one- and four-plate Burridge-Knopoff system
Minimally Supervised Relation Identification from Wikipedia Articles

Wikipedia is composed of millions of articles, each of which explains a particular entity with various languages in the real world. Since the articles are contributed and edited by a large population of diverse experts with no specific authority, Wikipedia can be seen as a naturally occurring body of human knowledge. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically identify key entities and relations in Wikipedia articles, which can be used for automatic ontology construction. Compared to previous approaches to entity and relation extraction and/or identification from text, our goal is to capture naturally occurring entities and relations from Wikipedia while minimizing artificiality often introduced at the stages of constructing training and testing data. The titles of the articles and anchored phrases in their text are regarded as entities, and their types are automatically classified with minimal training. We attempt to automatically detect and identify possible relations among the entities based on clustering without training data, as opposed to the relation extraction approach that focuses on improvement of accuracy in selecting one of the several target relations for a given pair of entities. While the relation extraction approach with supervised learning requires a significant amount of annotation efforts for a predefined set of relations, our approach attempts to discover relations as they occur naturally. Unlike other unsupervised relation identification work where evaluation of automatically identified relations is done with the correct relations determined a priori by human judges, we attempted to evaluate appropriateness of the naturally occurring clusters of relations involving person-artifact and person-organization entities and their relation names.