Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Influence of photoperiod and ovaries on seasonal reproductive activity in mares.

A study was done of the influence of length of photoperiod (control vs 16 h fixed photoperiod) and season (month) On: 1) changes in concentrations of plasma gonadotropins in ovariectomized (OVX) mares and 2) changes in plasma concentrations of gonadotropins and diameters of ovarian follicles preceding the onset of the ovulatory season in ovarian intact mares. In ovarian intact groups, intervals from start of project (January 6) to the first day of the ovulatory estrus, first appearance of a 30 mm follicle and onset of the ovulatory season (first ovulation) were shorter for the light-treated than for the control group. The changes in gonadotropmn concentrations and follicular development preceding the onset of the ovulatory season (Day 0 = day of first ovulation) were not significantly different between light-treated and control groups. Mean plasma FSH levels fluctuated between Day -60 and Day -20 and then declined reaching a significant drop by Day -8. Mean plasma LH levels remained low until Day -8 and then increased reaching a maximum on the last day examined. The mean number of follicles 15-25 mm appeared to increase gradually from Day -60 to Day -20, remained elevated between Day -20 and Day -8 and then declined rapidly to a minimum on Day -1. The mean diameter of the largest follicle appeared to increase gradually from Day -60 to Day -8 and then increased rapidly between Day -8 and Day -1. The decline in FSH appeared to precede the decline in number of follicles 15-25 mm and the rise in LH. The rise in LH was temporally associated with the final growth and maturation of the preovulatory follicle. The ovulatory LH profile at the onset of the ovulatory season was similar in shape but lower in magnitude than the ovulatory LH profile during the middle of the ovulatory season. Removal of the ovaries during the anovulatory season did not evoke a postovariectomy rise in gonadotropin levels. However, there was a seasonal pattern of LH and FSH in ovariectomized mares and the LH levels increased approximately 2 months earlier in the light-treated group than in the control group. The rise in LH in the OVX groups occurred at approximately the same time as the onset of the ovulatory season in the intact groups.
On the use of a schema-based framework to improve relevance and discourse coherence in blog summarization

L’utilisation de schemas de discours pour ameliorer la pertinence et la coherence discursive dans le cadre du resume automatique de blogsLes problemes de pertinence et de coherence discursive sont des enjeux importants et usuels dans le cadre du resume automatique a partir de documents multiples, en particulier, lorsque les documents sources sont informels et sont fondes sur des opinions plutot que des faits. Pour faire face a ces problemes, nous proposons une approche pour le resume automatique a partir de requetes (query-based summarisation) qui utilise les relations de discours intra-phrastiques jumelees a des schemas textuels. Nous avons developpe une approche generique et independante du domaine qui selectionne le schema textuel le plus approprie pour repondre a certains types de questions. Les schemas definissent le contenu et l’organisation des resumes en se basant sur les relations de discours presentes dans les phrases candidates. Pour selectionner quelles phrases devraient etre incluses dans le resume et ou, chaque phrase est automatiquement etiquetee par les relations rhetoriques qu’elle contient permettant ainsi de remplir des positions specifiques dans le schema textuel. Finalement, des heuristiques postschema œuvrant au niveau inter-phrastique sont utilisees pour ameliorer la coherence.Pour valider notre approche, nous avons developpe un systeme nomme BlogSum et avons evalue ses performances vis-a-vis de la pertinence et de la coherence textuelle en utilisant deux types de documents : des blogs et des critiques. Les scores ROUGE demontrent que notre approche est efficace pour reduire les phrases non pertinentes et une evaluation manuelle demontre une nette amelioration de la pertinence et de la coherence textuelle compare a la liste des phrases candidates originale. Ces resultats indiquent que l’utilisation de relations discursives combinees a des schemas textuels peut ameliorer la pertinence et la coherence des resumes meme dans le cas de documents informels et critiques.DOI:10.3166/DN.15. 2.91-120 © 2012 Lavoisier
2 INNOVATION AND RELATIONSHIPS IN AN ORGANIZED INDUTRIAL DISTRICT : ANKARA SINCAN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT 1

Organized Industrial Districts are important regional development tools that have been extensively utilized by the Turkish authorities as part of Turkish industrialization program, with varying degrees of success. The empirical part of the study is carried out in Ankara, Sincan Industrial district. The study investigates the intraand inter-firm relationships, and its possible implications for firm level innovation activity. In the first stage of this study, the purpose is to explore vertical I/O (input-output) interfirm links and social relations. For this end, a survey is employed to 86 firms engaging in machinery and equipment sector. 79 firms reported innovation activity. In the second stage, the target is to reveal the determinants of innovative activities. Two general findings are noteworthy. First, the existing interfirm relations and other social relations are not well-established for achieving successful innovations rather they hinder the possibilities for success. Second, the determinants of product and process innovations are different as envisaged at the beginning of the study.
ARCOJP: Uma Arquitetura para Comparação de Junções Paralelas

The performance comparison of parallel join strategies is hard, particularly due to all different environments where these strategies are usually implemented. We propose in this work an architecture for comparing joins in parallel (ARCOJP), that considers the main functionalities of the existing strategies, makes use of a local DBMS at each processing node and is well adapted to shared-nothing parallel machines. We show that ARCOJP is able to instantiate most of the known parallel join strategies. We give also preliminary practical results that enable comparisons and performance analysis of some selected strategies.
契约式设计之你——Bertrand Meyer访谈

Bertramd Meyer是同时活跃于学术和商业二界的软件先驱。 他目前担任瑞士理工学院的软件工程协会主席。 他撰写了数量浩繁的论文和书籍，如经典的《面向对象软件构造》（Prentice出版社，1994，2000）。 1985年，他创立了交互软件工程公司。 公司目前已经更名为Eiffel软件公司，提供基于Eiffel语言的软件工具、培训和咨询业务。
Testing of the Incontinence Impact Questionnaire (IIQ‐7) With Men After Radical Prostatectomy

ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to test the validity and reliability of the Incontinence Impact Questionnaire (IIQ-7), a 7-item self-report instrument designed to assess the impact of urinary incontinence (UI), in men. SubjectsFifty-eight men with incontinence after radical prostatectomy were the subjects of the study. MethodsContent validity was assessed by a panel of experts. Construct and criterion validity were examined with 3 groups of men who had UI in a randomized controlled trial comparing pelvic muscle exercises with pelvic muscle exercises plus electrical stimulation. Internal consistency and stability coefficients for the IIQ-7 were determined. ResultsThe content validity index was 0.88. Four items were below the designated content validity index level. A 2-factor analysis solution (factor I—impact on daily activities; factor II—emotional impact) explained 84.94% of the variance. No significant group differences were recorded on impact of UI (F = 0.37, P = .70), nor were any differences among subjects found over time (F = 0.90, P = .50). A positive relationship was found between grams of urine loss on a 24-hour pad test and IIQ-7 scores (r = 0.34, P = .003 to .51, P = .001). When the IIQ-7 score decreased, self-reported quality of life improved as measured by the European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Version 2 (r = −0.57, P = .0001 to −.49, P = .001). A strong relationship was found between responses to the question “Does leakage affect your life? ” and the IIQ-7 scores. Internal consistency ranged between 0.88 and 0.92. IIQ-7 scores were consistent when urine loss was stabilized between 16 and 24 weeks after entry into the study (r = 0.89, P = .0001). ConclusionThe IIQ-7 is a reliable measure of the impact of UI; however, the scale requires additional testing regarding construct validity in men. (J WOCN 2000;27:304–12.)
Sparse decoding of multiple spike trains for brain–machine interfaces

Brain–machine interfaces (BMIs) rely on decoding neuronal activity from a large number of electrodes. The implantation procedures, however, do not guarantee that all recorded units encode task-relevant information: selection of task-relevant neurons is critical to performance but is typically performed based on heuristics. Here, we describe an algorithm for decoding/classification of volitional actions from multiple spike trains, which automatically selects the relevant neurons. The method is based on sparse decomposition of the high-dimensional neuronal feature space, projecting it onto a low-dimensional space of codes serving as unique class labels. The new method is tested against a range of existing methods using simulations and recordings of the activity of 1592 neurons in 23 neurosurgical patients who performed motor or speech tasks. The parameter estimation algorithm is orders of magnitude faster than existing methods and achieves significantly higher accuracies for both simulations and human data, rendering sparse decoding highly attractive for BMIs.
Antihyperglycaemic And Anti‐Oxidant Properties Of Andrographis Paniculata In Normal And Diabetic Rats

1. Oxidative stress is believed to be a pathogenetic factor in the development of diabetic complications. In the present study, we investigated the ethanolic extract of the aerial parts of Andrographis paniculata for antihyperglycaemic and anti‐ oxidant effects in normal and streptozotocin‐induced type I diabetic rats.
STATE OF ART ON TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION ( TAVI ) FOR THE TREATMENT OF AORTIC STENOSIS

Was the year 2002, when Cribier, in France, performed the first transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Since then, in a period of just over ten years, TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation), has become a reality in the clinical practice of the interventional cardiologists of all the world. Patients with severe aortic valvular stenosis at high surgical risk, which until not many years ago were treated by medication or by the simple aortic valvuloplasty, letting the disease follows to run its natural course, currently they have the chance of a targeted therapy for the elimination of aortic stenosis with an acceptable periprocedural risk. PARTNER studies have explained, respectively, that a) the TAVI confers a significant improved outcomes in patients who are not candidates to traditional surgery and that b) the 2-year mortality in patients at high surgical risk (EuroSCORE logistic> 20) does not differ from that of replacement aortic valve surgically. The indications for TAVI were recently drafted from the European Society of Cardiology/European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines in 2012 and 2014, respectively. Acta Medica Mediterranea, 2015, 31: 1303
Automated Experiments for Deriving Performance-relevant Properties of Software Execution Environments

The software execution environment can play a crucial role when analyzing the performance of a software system. In this book, a novel approach for the automated detection of performance-relevant properties of the execution environment is presented. The properties are detected using predefined experiments and integrated into performance prediction tools. The approach is applied to experiments for detecting different CPU, OS, and virtualization properties, and validated in different case studies.
Virtual Community Presence in Internet Relay Chatting

This article presents a method based on Jones' “virtual settlement” theory for testing empirically for the presence of virtual community in Internet Relay Chatting (IRC), The conditions for virtual community proposed by Jones are related to the technological context of IRC and formulated as conceptual hypotheses. The author argues that sustained level of co-appearance and nickname stability should be included in testing. Interactivity analysis should include both verbal exchanges and action-simulating messages. Analysis of message references should be done in terms of message content as well as message syntax. Major issues related to research design and implementation are discussed in depth.
Model-driven customizing of ERP systems: a case study

Customizing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems can require implementing new modules adding support for processes not considered by the ERP vendor. Since customizing can account for a large portion of the budget in ERP introduction projects, in this work, we aim at increasing programming productivity in this area. As case study, we introduce a model-driven approach to developing ERP modules for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (BC) based on our Domain-Specific Language (DSL) modAL. Besides the DSL, we present accompanying development tools allowing to generate runnable modules from modAL specifications. We evaluate our approach based on a usability test conducted among BC developers. The results suggest that our model-driven approach is beneficial.
A Monte Carlo model for mean glandular dose evaluation in spot compression mammography

Purpose To characterize the dependence of normalized glandular dose (DgN) on various breast model and image acquisition parameters during spot compression mammography and other partial breast irradiation conditions, and evaluate alternative previously proposed dose‐related metrics for this breast imaging modality. Methods Using Monte Carlo simulations with both simple homogeneous breast models and patient‐specific breasts, three different dose‐related metrics for spot compression mammography were compared: the standard DgN, the normalized glandular dose to only the directly irradiated portion of the breast (DgNv), and the DgN obtained by the product of the DgN for full field irradiation and the ratio of the mid‐height area of the irradiated breast to the entire breast area (DgNM). How these metrics vary with field‐of‐view size, spot area thickness, x‐ray energy, spot area and position, breast shape and size, and system geometry was characterized for the simple breast model and a comparison of the simple model results to those with patient‐specific breasts was also performed. Results The DgN in spot compression mammography can vary considerably with breast area. However, the difference in breast thickness between the spot compressed area and the uncompressed area does not introduce a variation in DgN. As long as the spot compressed area is completely within the breast area and only the compressed breast portion is directly irradiated, its position and size does not introduce a variation in DgN for the homogeneous breast model. As expected, DgN is lower than DgNv for all partial breast irradiation areas, especially when considering spot compression areas within the clinically used range. DgNM underestimates DgN by 6.7% for a W/Rh spectrum at 28 kVp and for a 9 × 9 cm2 compression paddle. Conclusion As part of the development of a new breast dosimetry model, a task undertaken by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the European Federation of Organizations of Medical Physics, these results provide insight on how DgN and two alternative dose metrics behave with various image acquisition and model parameters.
Subclinical anorexia nervosa

SYNOPSIS The Eating Attitudes Test (Garner & Garfinkel, 1979) was administered to 578 students (446 females and 132 males) at a College of Technology and to 14 ‘control’ subjects fulfilling diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa. Although no male students scored highly, a total of 28 female students (6·3% of the female student sample) scored in the ‘anorexic’ range. These ‘high scorers’, together with a random control group of 28 ‘non-high scorers’, were subsequently Interviewed. Interview revealed that the symptoms of anorexia nervosa were common in the high scoring group but virtually absent in the student control group. It is concluded that a substantial proportion of post-pubertal females (approximately 5%) develop a subclinical form of anorexia nervosa. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to the aetiology, prevention and treatment of disturbances in eating behaviour.
The effect of IAA producing Bacillus sp. Q3 strain on marshmallow seed germination

StaroviC, M. , D. JoSiC, S. PavloviC, S. DraZiC, D. PoStiC, t. PoPoviC and S. StoJanoviC, 2013. the effect of iaa producing Bacillus sp. Q3 strain on marshmallow seed germination. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 19: 572-577 Marshmallow (Althea officinalis) is one of the important medicinal plants in Serbia. one of the bigest problem in growing of marshmallow is poor seeds germination. rhyzospheric bacteria able to produced plant growth stimulating hormones can inpruve seed germinations and decreace seed infections with patogens. iaa production by Bacillus sp. Q3 strain estimate in this investigation ranged from 3.76-10.62 μgml-1. the application of soil bacteria as the antagonists to the growth of pathogenic fungi, indicated that iaa producing Bacillus sp. strain Q3 demonstrated not only a high level of antagonism towards the seed mycoflora, but significantly increased the germination rate of the marshmallow seeds. Soaking marshmarrow seeds for 24 h in the 105 CFU ml-1 of investigated strain Bacillus sp. strain Q3 increased the 55.1% germination and decreased the percentage of the seed infection by the fungus Alternaria alternata, compared to the control (32%). Strong increasing percent germination of marshmallow’s seeds from 26.9-55.1% and decreasing seed infection with phytopathogen Alternaria alternate, as predominant marshmallow seeds pathogen, can recommend this strain for seed protection and as PGPr.
Variability of Bodily Measures of Normally Dressed People Using PhotoModeler® Pro 5 *

Abstract: Photogrammetry is used in forensic science to help identify perpetrators from crime scenes by way of surveillance video, but the reproducibility of manually locating hidden body‐points such as the joints remains to be established. In this study, we quantified the inter‐ and intra‐observer variability of bodily measures of clothed individuals in two different poses and examined whether body segment lengths could be used to distinguish between people of similar stature. Stature was reproduced within ±1.5 cm in both the intra‐ and inter‐observer study. Segment lengths were best reproduced when flexion in the joints was present in the intra‐observer study, but only the length of the trunk could be used to distinguish between people of similar height. The reproducibility between the two poses was low. Other measures than stature should be used with caution and with the perpetrator and suspect in the same pose. Consistent guidelines for locating body‐points should be developed.
Fabrication of CMUT Cells with Gold Center Mass for Higher Output Pressure

For decades, high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) transducers have been developed for minimally invasive and non‐invasive therapies. Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) technology is a promising candidate for HIFU therapy as it allows the fabrication of arbitrary array geometries and is inherently magnetic resonance (MR) compatible. In this study we investigate a way to improve the output pressure of a single CMUT cell by a modification to the basic CMUT cell structure: adding a gold mass over the center of the top CMUT plate. Using the direct wafer bonding fabrication process we realized linear 1D CMUT arrays. On top of the 0.86 μm thick silicon plate, a 200‐nm thick aluminum layer and a 10‐nm thick titanium adhesion layer were deposited. A lift‐off technique was used to deposit a gold mass on top of the adhesion layer, at the center of each cell. The 1‐μm thick gold layer was deposited in multiple steps with intervening cool‐down periods to ensure low thermal‐induced stress between.
Safety and efficacy of thrombolysis in telestroke

Objective: The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of IV thrombolysis (IVT) with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) delivered through telestroke networks in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Methods: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis according to PRISMA guidelines. Literature searches on MEDLINE, Embase, and CENTRAL databases covered prospective randomized controlled and nonrandomized studies comparing telemedicine-guided IVT to IVT administered at stroke centers and were published from the earliest date available until April 1, 2015. Outcomes of interest were symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage, mortality, and functional independence (modified Rankin Scale scores 0–1) at 3 months. Random-effects meta-analysis was used to compute pooled effect estimates and the I2 statistic to assess heterogeneity. Results: Of 529 records identified, 7 studies totaling 1,863 patients fulfilled our eligibility criteria. Among these, thrombolysis was largely restricted to the 3-hour time window. Symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage rates were similar between patients subjected to telemedicine-guided IVT and those receiving tPA at stroke centers (risk ratio [RR] = 1.01, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.37–2.80; p = 0.978) with low evidence of heterogeneity (I2 = 37%; p = 0.189). There was no difference in mortality (RR = 1.04, 95% CI 0.74–1.48; p = 0.806) or in functional independence (RR = 1.11, 95% CI 0.78–1.57; p = 0.565) at 3 months between telemedicine-guided and stroke center thrombolysis. No heterogeneity was identified (I2 = 0%, p = 0.964 and I2 = 52%, p = 0.123, respectively). Conclusions: Our findings indicate that IV tPA delivery through telestroke networks is safe and effective in the 3-hour time window. Lack of prospective trials, however, emphasizes the need to further substantiate these findings in the 3- to 4.5-hour time window. PROSPERO registration information: URL: http://www.crd. york.ac. uk/PROSPERO. Unique identifier: CRD42015017232.