Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Healthcare information retrieval: A survey of user needs, tasks and requirements.

RÉSUMÉ . Les connaissances médicales se développent si rapidement qu'il est difficile pour les professionnels de la santé de se tenir au courant. À mesure que le volume des études publiées augmente chaque année, l'écart entre les connaissances en recherche et les pratiques professionnelles augmente de plus en plus. Les professionnels de l'information en soins de santé jouent un rôle essentiel dans la réduction de cet écart en synthétisant les résultats de la recherche biomédicale sous la forme de revues systématiques de la littérature. Ce faisant, ils abordent systématiquement certains des problèmes les plus difficiles d'extraction de l'information (IR) de n'importe quelle profession, mais les outils les outils sur lesquels ils s’appuient sont insufficiants à bien des égards. Cet article présente les résultats d'une enquête sur les pratiques et les besoins en matière de recherche d'informations concernant les systèmes et applications IR. ABSTRACT . Medical knowledge is growing so rapidly that it is difficult for healthcare professionals to keep up. As the volume of published studies increases each year, the gap between research knowledge and professional practice grows ever wider. Healthcare information professionals play a vital role in closing this gap by synthesizing the findings of biomedical research in the form of systematic literature reviews. In so doing, they routinely address some of the most challenging information retrieval (IR) problems of any profession, but the tools they rely on fall short in many respects. This paper presents the results of a survey investigating their information seeking practices and needs regarding IR systems and applications.
Secure Sharing of Patient's Sensitive Informationusing Cloud Computing

To maintain patient’s sensitive health record in secure manner software is developed. Patient’s information are stored in an online and retrieved for the purpose when needed. The software is very efficient but little bit lagging in security. Hence the software with security is developed, here for security reasons the patient’s health and personal information’s are encrypted and stored. If the information for the particular person is needed, the data are decrypted using a key and viewed by the doctors. For encryption and decryption, Attribute Based encryption algorithms are used.
Program Theory Evaluation of a Lifestyle Intervention Program for the Prevention and Treatment of Metabolic Syndrome

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the program theory of a lifestyle intervention program for the prevention and treatment of metabolic syndrome. Methods: The program evaluated is a tailored intervention for multiple health behavior associated with metabolic syndrome which is informed by theoretical constructs from the Intervention Mapping and Transtheoretical model. The program components include one-to-one health counseling, a self-management handbook, and a health diary. To evaluate program impact theory we examined the logic of program goals and objectives, intervention methods and strategies, and the theoretical constructs of program materials through document review and matrix building. Results: This evaluation has found that the intervention program applied social cognitive theory constructs to design intervention methods and strategies in addition to the Transtheoretical model: self-monitoring for goal setting and monitoring skill, outcome expectation for the benefits of health behavior change, and interaction with environment for observational learning through modeling. While the intervention addresses multiple determinants and behaviors, it is limited to an individual level and lacks social and environmental approaches. Following the Transtheoretical framework, the contents of the intervention materials were developed utilizing consciousness raising as a main strategy for earlier stages of change, and counterconditioning and stimulus control for later stages of change. Conclusion: Program theory evaluation can be a process of enhancing program validity. It would also be necessary for providing basis for efficient program implementation. When comparisons of program theory between similar programs are possible, program theory and validity will be strengthened when comparisons of program theories between similar programs are possible.
A permutation test for partial regression coefficients on first-order autocorrelation

Title of Dissertation A Permutation Test for Partial Regression Coefficients on FirstOrder Autocorrelation Author Mrs. Pradthana Minsan Degree Doctor of Philosophy (Statistics) Year 2010 This dissertation proposes a permutation test ( ) P F and a permutation procedure for testing on partial regression coefficients from a multiple linear regression with first-order autocorrelation where the distribution of the error terms is not necessarily normal. The proposed permutation procedure can be directly conducted in the test without having to fit back to the model, which is not the same procedure as in previous permutation tests, and a proposed permutation test is considered based on a random permutation test. In addition, the asymptotic analysis of the proposed test can be obtained when errors are i.i. d. with mean zero and finite variance. The asymptotic distribution of P F , called the asymptotic chi-squared test, can be used to perform a significance test of partial regression coefficients. It was found that, for a small sample size (T=12), the proposed permutation method has the same type I error rate as the partial F-statistic and is not significantly different from the significance level α , and has a higher power when compare with the other methods in the case where autocorrelation approached 1 ± . However, with a moderate sample size (T=16, 20), the asymptotic chi-squared test is preferred (in terms of type I error and power of the test).
Gefährdung und Verletzbarkeit moderner Gesellschaften - am Beispiel eines großräumigen und langandauernden Ausfalls der Stromversorgung

• Katastrophenmanagement in Deutschland • Folgen eines langandauernden und großflächigen Stromausfalls • Verhalten • Rechtliche Aspekte der Katastrophenbewältigung • Private Sicherheitspartner • Vernetzte Katastrophenbewältigung Kommunikation und Koordination • Krisenkommunikation mit der Bevölkerung • Versorgung mit Treibstoff und Notstrom • Robuste Stromversorgung nach einem Stromausfall Inselnetze als Option • Information und Sensibilisierung der Bevölkerung • Fazit
Soil organic matter turnover is governed by accessibility not recalcitrance

Mechanisms to mitigate global climate change by sequestering carbon (C) in different ‘sinks' have been proposed as at least temporary measures. Of the major global C pools, terrestrial ecosystems hold the potential to capture and store substantially increased volumes of C in soil organic matter (SOM) through changes in management that are also of benefit to the multitude of ecosystem services that soils provide. This potential can only be realized by determining the amount of SOM stored in soils now, with subsequent quantification of how this is affected by management strategies intended to increase SOM concentrations, and used in soil C models for the prediction of the roles of soils in future climate change. An apparently obvious method to increase C stocks in soils is to augment the soil C pools with the longest mean residence times (MRT). Computer simulation models of soil C dynamics, e.g. RothC and Century, partition these refractory constituents into slow and passive pools with MRTs of centuries to millennia. This partitioning is assumed to reflect: (i) the average biomolecular properties of SOM in the pools with reference to their source in plant litter, (ii) the accessibility of the SOM to decomposer organisms or catalytic enzymes, or (iii) constraints imposed on decomposition by environmental conditions, including soil moisture and temperature. However, contemporary analytical approaches suggest that the chemical composition of these pools is not necessarily predictable because, despite considerable progress with understanding decomposition processes and the role of decomposer organisms, along with refinements in simulation models, little progress has been made in reconciling biochemical properties with the kinetically defined pools. In this review, we will explore how advances in quantitative analytical techniques have redefined the new understanding of SOM dynamics and how this is affecting the development and application of new modelling approaches to soil C.
Phylogeny of Carex subg. Vignea (Cyperaceae) Based on Non-coding nrDNA Sequence Data

Abstract Carex subg. Vignea is characterized by sessile bisexual spikes, distigmatic flowers, and the lack of cladoprophylls. Phylogenies reconstructed using nrDNA internal and external transcribed spacer (ITS and ETS 1f) sequences for 100 vignean taxa support this subgenus as monophyletic. The atypical C. gibba is sister to all remaining taxa. Many clades in the remainder of the subgenus do not correspond to easily defined morphological groups, with species representative of several disparate sections frequently contained within a single clade. Many traditionally recognized sections are not supported, although others such as sects. Ovales, Stellulatae, and Glareosae are monophyletic. Tree topologies indicate that gynaecandry has evolved multiple times in subg. Vignea. Species of uncertain subgeneric affinity are variously placed in our analysis. Carex fecunda, previously linked to subg. Vignea, is positioned within the outgroup composed of species traditionally placed in subg. Carex and Vigneastra. While species with highly compound inflorescences are often regarded as ancestral in Carex, our results indicate that this inflorescence type has evolved multiple times and is derived within subg. Vignea.
İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTELERİNDE EKONOMİK ETKİNLİK

Ozet: Bu calismada banka performansi uzerinde yonetim kurulu buyuklugunun etkisi incelenmistir. 2006–2008 yillarini kapsayan calismada Istanbul Menkul Kiymetler Borsasi’nda islem goren 12 ozel ve kamu bankasi verilerinden yararlanilmistir. Ampirik analizlerde regresyon ve korelasyon analizleri kullanilmistir. Yapilan analiz sonucunda banka karliliklari ile yonetim kurulunun buyuklugu arasinda negatif ve istatistiksel olarak anlamli sonuclar elde edilmistir. Buna karsin piyasa temelli gosterge olarak kullanilan Tobin’s q ile yonetim kurulu buyuklugu arasinda pozitif ve anlamli sonuclar gorulmektedir. Calismada elde edilen onemli bir bulgu da, bankalarin halka aciklilik orani ile karlilik arasinda pozitif buna karsin banka risklilik gostergeleri ile performans arasinda negatif bir iliskinin oldugunu ortaya koymustur. Anahtar Kelimeler: Yonetim Kurulu Buyuklugu, Banka Performansi, Buyukluk, Karlilik. Abstract: In this paper, the effect of the size of the Board of Directors is examined on bank perform. The data in the study cover 12 private and public banks traded on Istanbul Stock Exchange ranging between 2006 and 2008. The regression and correlation analysis are used in the empirical analysis. The result of the empirical test reveals that, there is a negative and statistically significant relationship between bank profitability and the size of the Board Directors. On the other hand, it is found that there is a statistically significant positive linkage between the Tobin's Q as a Proxy for market and the size of the Board Directors. One of the important findings of this study is that, whereas the relationship between the public offering rates of banks and bank profitability is statistically positive, relationship between bank risk indicators and bank performance is statistically negative. Key Words: Size of Board, Bank Performance, Size, Profitability.
Feeding and assimilation rates of Daphnia pulex fed Aphanizomenon flos‐aquae1

Feeding and filtering rates of Dophnicl pulex on the blue-green alga Aphanizomenon jlosaqzme were measured in laboratory experiments. Single filaments (broken from colonies) and small colonies of A. jlos-nqucle cl.5 mm long could be gmzcd by D. pulex at rnaximurn rates of 15,000-50,000 cclls*L)ccphnia-’ ah-‘. The filtering r;ltc increased as a function of the cube of the body length of D. pulex. Colonies >1.5 nm long were not grazed appreciably by 1). pulex. Daphnia pulex continued to feed on A. jlos-clqu~e in the presence of another alga, Ankistr-odesmus fbZcatus. Colonies ofA.fEo. r-nquae > 1.5 mm long tended to lower the feeding and filtering rates on A. fkkatus. The net assimilation efficient? (uncorrected for respiration) of D. pulex was about 11% for A. flos-clqucle and about 35% for A. jdcdus. The prcsencc in lakes of Aphanixomenon as the large colony type (A. flos-m/nm) or as single filament types may be determined by the grazing ability of D. puZcx.
Linear-Time Search in Suffix Arrays

To search a pattern P in a text, such index data structures as suffix trees and suffix arrays are widely used in diverse applications of string processing and computational biology. It is well known that searching in suffix trees is faster than suffix ways in the aspect of time complexity, i.e., it takes O() time to search P on a constant-size alphabet in a suffix tree while it takes O() time in a suffix way where n is the length of the text. In this paper we present a linear-tim8 search algorithm in suffix arrays for constant-size alphabets. For a gene.al alphabet , it takes O() time.
Particle based modeling and simulation of natural phenomena

PARTICLE BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION OF NATURAL PHENOMENA Serkan Bayraktar PhD in Computer Engineering Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Bülent Özgüç and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Uǧur Güdükbay August, 2010 This thesis is about modeling and simulation of fluids and cloth-like deformable objects by the physically-based simulation paradigm. Simulated objects are modeled with particles and their interaction with each other and the environment is defined by particle-to-particle forces. We propose several improvements over the existing particle simulation techniques. Neighbor search algorithms are crucial for the performance efficiency and robustness of a particle system. We present a sorting-based neighbor search method which operates on a uniform grid, and can be parallelizable. We improve upon the existing fluid surface generation methods so that our method captures surface details better since we consider the relative position of fluid particles to the fluid surface. We investigate several alternatives of particle interaction schema (i.e. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, the Discrete Element Method, and Lennard-Jones potential) for the purpose of defining fluid-fluid, fluid-cloth, fluid-boundary interaction forces. We also propose a practical way to simulate knitwear and its interaction with fluids. We employ capillary pressure–based forces to simulate the absorption of fluid particles by knitwear. We also propose a method to simulate the flow of miscible fluids. Our particle simulation system is implement to exploit parallel computing capabilities of the commodity computers. Specifically, we implemented the proposed methods on multicore CPUs and programmable graphics boards. The experiments show that our method is computationally efficient and produces realistic results.
Implementing Processing and Feature Extraction of Fundus Images under Diabetic Retinopathy

Eye is the main and most sensitive body part which is infected adversely in diabetic persons. Such people suffering from eye disease are said to be suffering from diabetic retinopathy. This happens when high blood levels of sugar cause damage to blood vessels in the retina. The blood vessels either leaks or swells. In worse case, the blood vessels can stop blood from passing through. Often abnormal new blood vessels nurture on retina. All this causes the loss of vision. This disease prevails in people with long history of uncontrolled high blood sugar levels. In initial stages there are only mild vision problems which eventually results in loss of vision [1, 2]. The common symptoms of diabetic retinopathy are abnormal blood vessels, blocked blood vessels, swelling, scarring, leaking of blood vessels, damage to the nerve tissue, changes to the lens, and retinal detachment [3, 4].
DEVELOPMENT OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES TO DOMOIC ACID FOR THE DETECTION OF DOMOIC ACID IN BLUE MUSSEL (MYTILUS EDULIS) TISSUE BY ELISA

ABSTRACT Monoclonal antibodies were developed against domoic acid (DA), an algal toxin produced by the diatom Pseudonitzschia pungens. Three murine monoclonal antibodies, 4D1D, 9B10D, and 7D6C, were obtained from hybridoma clones. They were derived by fusion of mouse myeloma cells with mouse immune spleen cells derived from animals immunised with domoic acid-KLH conjugate. The hybridoma cell line 4D1D was adjusted to serum free medium. It produced monoclonal antibodies of high selectivity and sensitivity. Mass production was carried out with two different fermenter systems. Monoclonal antibody levels up to 0.7 mg/ml were obtained. No cross-reactivities against similar chemical structures and algal toxins such as kainic acid, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, geranic acid and 2-methyl-3-butenoic acid could be detected. A detection limit of 4 µg/l DA with a test midpoint (IC50) of 10 µg/l DA was achieved with a competitive enzyme immunoassay applying a streptavidin-biotin amplification system (ABC system). Moreover this test format was well suited to detect DA in spiked mussel extracts. To protect consumers from intoxication from DA, most countries have set a regulatory level of 20 µg/g mussel tissue. This regulatory level allows a maximum 5000-fold dilution of the samples containing this DA level.
Mueller matrix polarimetry of anisotropic chiral media

Esta tesis se centra en el estudio de medios quirales mediante polarimetria de amtriz de Mueller. Opticamente los medios quirales se caracterizan por tener actividad optica, que se manifiesta en procesos dispersivos con la birefringencia circular o en procesos de absorcion mediante el cicroismo circular. Nuestro ambito de estudio han estado los anisotropos no es posible aplicar los metods convencionales de determinacion de la actividad optica ya que la descripcion de la propagacion de la luz polarizadase vuelve muho mas compleja ya que el dicroismo y la birefringencia lineales tambien estan presentes. Una parte importante del trabajo han sido el desarrollo teorico necesario para poder obtener los parametros de dicroismo circular o birefringencia circular a partir de las medidas de la Matriz de Mueller de una muestra anisotropa arbitraria. Otra parte importante del trabajo ha sido la y construccion de un polarimetro de matriz de Mueller de alta resolucion basado en el uso de dos moduladores fotoelasticos y es capaz de trabajar en dos modos de funcionamiento: espectroscopico y con resolucion espacial. Los desarrollos instrumentales teorico nos han llevado a poder realizar caracterizar muestras de diversa indole. En el ambito cristalografico hemos medido espectroscopicamente el tensor de girotropia del cuarzo i hemos mostrado la posibilidad de deistinguir dominios quirales en capas delgadas policristalinas. Otro apartado experimental fundamental ha sido la caracterizacion de procesos de induccionde quiralidad supramolecular mediante efectos hidrodinamicos en soluciones agitadas de nanoparticulas organicas de formas alargadas.
Performance and Emission Characteristics of a Kirloskar HA394 Diesel Engine Operated on Mahua Oil Methyl Ester

The use of biodiesel fuels derived from vegetable oils as a substitute for conventional petroleum fuel in diesel engines is receiving an increasing amount of attention. This interest is based on a number of properties of biodiesel, including the fact that it is produced from a renewable resource, its biodegradability, and its potential to reduce exhaust emissions. Biodiesel is a non-toxic, and renewable alternative fuel that can be used with little or no engine modification An experimental investigation is conducted to evaluate the effect of using blends of mahua biodiesel with conventional diesel fuel, with 10%, 20%, 40%, 60% and 80% (by volume) mahua biodiesel, on the performance and exhaust emissions of a three cylinder naturally aspirated, air cooled, direct injection, Kirloskar HA394 engine. The tests are conducted using each of the above fuel blends, with the engine working at constant speed and five loads. Fuel consumption and exhaust regulated gas emissions such as nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide and total unburned hydrocarbons are measured. The differences in the measured performance and exhaust emissions of the mahua biodiesel-diesel fuel blends from the baseline operation of the engine, i.e. when working with neat diesel fuel, are determined and compared.
Lack of genetic heterogeneity in the Japanese eel based on a spatiotemporal sampling

To determine the population structure of the Japanese eel Anguilla japonica, both geographic and temporal genetic vari- ations in a total of 724 of newly recruited glass eels were investigated using six microsatellite loci. F-statistics found no signifi- cant genetic difference among nine localities covering the species range (FST��0.0091-0.0207, RST��0.0086-0.0207, P�0.05). No inter- or intra-annual changes in genetic variation were observed in pairwise comparisons of F-statistics (FST��0.0054-0.0108, RST��0.0143-0.0401, P�0.05) and AMOVA (F CT�0.0009, P�0.05), respectively. The results of the present study showed that the Japanese eel consists of a genetically homogeneous population in time and space. This information will be helpful for planning efficient stock management and conservation of this species.
Comparing Centralized and Rolling Horizon Approaches for Optimal Aircraft Traffic Control in Terminal Areas

This work addresses the real-time problem of managing takeoff and landing operations during traffic disturbances at a busy terminal control area (TCA). An important objective of traffic controllers is the minimization of delay propagation, which may reduce the aircraft travel time and the energy consumption. To improve the effectiveness of air traffic monitoring and control in a busy TCA, this paper presents an advanced optimization-based decision support system and compares centralized and rolling horizon approaches. The possible aircraft conflict detection and resolution actions were viewed as aircraft timing and routing decisions. The problem was modeled by an alternative graph formulation (i.e., a detailed model of air traffic flows in the TCA) and solved by scheduling and rerouting algorithms. The paper also proposes a new mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) formulation to compute (near) optimal scheduling and routing solutions. The paper compares the first-in, first-out (FIFO) rule, used as a surrogate for the dispatchers’ behavior, a truncated branch and bound algorithm for aircraft scheduling with fixed routes, a tabu search algorithm for combined aircraft scheduling and rerouting, and the MILP formulation solved via a commercial solver. Computational experiments are presented for practical-sized instances from Milano Malpensa Airport in Milan, Italy. Disturbed traffic situations were generated by simulating various sets of delayed landing and departing aircraft. A detailed analysis of the experimental results demonstrates that the solutions produced by the optimization algorithms are of a remarkably better quality compared with the FIFO rule, in relation to delay and travel time minimization.