Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Adaptive Thermal-Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Network

The recent advancement in information technology and evolving of the (IoT) shifted the traditional medical approach to patient-oriented approach (e.g., Telemedicine/Telemonitoring). IoT permits several services including sensing, processing and communicating information with physical and bio-medical constraints. Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) handles the issues pertaining to the medical purposes in the form of sensor nodes and connected network. The WBAN takes human physiological data as an input to subsequently monitor the patient conditions that are transferred to other IoT components for analysis. Such monitoring and analysis demand a cohesive routing approach to ensure the safe and in-time transfer of data. The temperature rise of bio-medical sensor nodes makes the entire routing operation very crucial because the temperature of implanted nodes rises and ultimately damages body tissues. This needs dispersion in data transmission among different nodes by opting various available routes while avoiding temperature rise. In this paper, we present Adaptive Thermal-Aware Routing algorithm for WBAN. The ATAR is designed to overcome the temperature rise issue of implanted bio-medical sensors nodes. The new protocol is based on Multi-Ring Routing approach to find an alternative route in the case of increasing temperature. The simulation results indicate that proposed protocol is more efficient in terms of temperature rise and throughput than existing approaches.
Speech perception for neurophonetics

This is an attempt to gather thoughts on speech perception, for myself and for the new or experienced phonetician, in order to suggest what might be necessary to consider for research on perception in the field of neurophonetics. There will be a mix of different findings and different standpoints, and I will try to argue for the necessity of considering sociophonetic as well as iconic aspects of language.
ASSESSMENT OF THE QUALITY OF NURSING CARE IN AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL ZARIA: PATIENTS’ PERSPECTIVE

This survey attempted to assess the quality of nursing care in Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital based on the patients’ opinion. The population of study included patients who were 18 years and above and have spent at least 3 nights in the hospital. A total of one hundred and eight (108) patients were selected for the survey. The results revealed that 81.5% of the respondent had attended at least primary school, 44.5% had spent 15 days and more in the hospital. Some areas specifically assessed by respondents among others include care and treatment received from Nurses, Nurses knowledge and ability. The patients overall assessment of nursing care reveals that 82.7% were satisfied and feels that nursing care was good. The need to continually measure, monitor and improve nursing care as well as encouraging professional specialization and organizing orientation programs/update courses, workshop etc on a regular basis among others were made, as recommendations.
Breast Cancer Cells Attracts Effector T Cells Radiation-Induced CXCL16 Release by

Recruitment of effector T cells to inﬂamed peripheral tissues is regulated by chemokines and their receptors, but the factors regulating recruitment to tumors remain largely undeﬁned. Ionizing radiation (IR) therapy is a common treatment modality for breast and other cancers. Used as a cytocidal agent for proliferating cancer cells, IR in combination with immunotherapy has been shown to promote immune-mediated tumor destruction in preclinical studies. In this study we demonstrate that IR markedly enhanced the secretion by mouse and human breast cancer cells of CXCL16, a chemokine that binds to CXCR6 on Th1 and activated CD8 effector T cells, and plays an important role in their recruitment to sites of inﬂammation. Using a poorly immunogenic mouse model of breast cancer, we found that irradiation increased the migration of CD8 (cid:1) CXCR6 (cid:1) activated T cells to tumors in vitro and in vivo. CXCR6-deﬁcient mice showed reduced inﬁltration of tumors by activated CD8 T cells and impaired tumor regression following treatment with local IR to the tumor and Abs blocking the negative regulator of T cell activation, CTLA-4. These results provide the ﬁrst evidence that IR can induce the secretion by cancer cells of proinﬂammatory chemotactic factors that recruit antitumor effector T cells. The ability of IR to convert tumors into “inﬂamed” peripheral tissues could be exploited to overcome obstacles at the effector phase of the antitumor immune response and improve the therapeutic efﬁcacy of immunotherapy. The Journal of Immunology, 2008, 181: 3099–3107.
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT Intellectual Capital and Sustainable Competitive Advantage of Deposit Money Banks in South-South Nigeria

socioeconomic development and involves education, health, labor and jobs, and women's issues. Investing in human capital is therefore important because it aims to ensure that the nation's human resource endowment is competent, qualified, active, and safe, allowing for the most efficient exploitation and use of other resources to promote growth and development. Relational resources, according to Rodriguez-Castellanos, Garcia-Merino, and Garcia-Zambrano (2010), is the array of tacit and explicit information about the form of a company's relationships with its local agents (customers). Structural capital is a set of useful elements that aid in the development of intellectual capital, such as structure, processes, information technology, skills, community, empowerment, and service quality.Since it offers the mechanisms and architecture for maintaining, packaging, reinforcing, and moving expertise through business operations, structural capital can be thought of as an organization's supporting structure and adhesive (Cabrita&Bontis, 2008). Scholars such as Cabrita and Bontis (2008) study on Portuguese banks. It also calculated intellectual capital using individual, relational, and institutional capital, but with a limited number of products. However, there is a paucity of Abstract: The study investigated the relationship between Intellectual Capital and Sustainable Competitive Advantage. The population for the study consists of 819Managers, particularly Branch, Operations and Customer Relationship Managers of Tier One Deposit Money Banks in South-South, Nigeria. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used to validate the instrument, and preliminary analysis was performed to check normality, linearity and equality of variance. Using the Krejcie and Morgan’s sample size determination formula, copies of questionnaire were administered to a sample size of 262managers. Data obtained from 250 retrieved and usable copies of the questionnaire were analyzed by means of the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20.0 and Analysis and Moments of Structures (AMOS) version 24.0. The results revealed that human, relational and structural capital have positive significant relationship with organizational responsiveness. The study recommended that standards should be created for human resources identification and measurement. This will enhance valuation of human capital, ensure a higher degree of utility to stakeholders and show a reliable comparison of human capital values. South-South and as the of structural equation to evaluate the correlation (AkwaIbom,
Food for Thought Becoming an ocean scientist: learning from surprise

Food for Thought articles are essays in which the author provides their perspective on a research area, topic, or issue. They are intended to provide contributors with a forum through which to air their own views and experiences, with few of the constraints that govern standard research articles. This Food for Thought article is one in a series solicited from leading ﬁgures in the ﬁsheries and aquatic sciences community. The objective is to oﬀer lessons and insights from their careers in an accessible and pedagogical form from which the community, and particularly early career scientists, will beneﬁt. The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and Oxford University Press are pleased to make these Food for Thought articles immediately available as free access documents. Schneider, access publication  October . An invitation to write a thought piece is an opportunity to reﬂect on one’s early career, when events and choices shaped what we became. Because I teach at a university, I wrote a narrative for those thinking of becoming an ocean scientist, and are now encountering the research literature. It is a chronicle of episodes, each a discovery or surprising event and what I learned. It moves from early memories of the natural world to ﬁrst attempts at science. A near-fatal surprise led to a course in environmental policy, to a commitment to public good science, and to learning benthic ecology in Woods Hole. Failure at publishing an original ﬁnding from a thesis spurred me to self-directed practice in writing scientiﬁc prose. Skill at running statistical analyses resulted in a post-doc on a topic where I had no other expertise. Publication success led to a second post-doc and a faculty position in Canada, where I funded three decades of student-oriented research, taught statistics, and wrote a book on ecological scaling from the point of view of an oceanographer. Teaching statistics came with surprises, which I list as openanditiswisetoexcelatoneofthem:thefirstistobecomeanexperton some group of organisms that excites you…. Second, you [could] become very good at the most popular current techniques at the highest technical level you can imagine. In contrast, you can take the third, and most dan-gerous, path. You can strenuously avoid doing what everyone else is doing and search for new ideas and new tests for old
Analysis of Single Phase Quasi-Z Source Cascaded Multi Level Inverter

: - Recently, power electronics converter plays an energetic role in medium and high power applications due to increasing penetration of renewable energy such as solar, wind and demand requirements in terms of efficiency and reliability. Initially conventional inverter converts a dc input voltage to a symmetric ac output voltage of desired magnitude and frequency. The waveform of conventional inverter is non- sinusoidal and contains certain harmonics. To overcome the drawbacks of conventional inverter multilevel inverter has been introduced. than conventional inverter THD value. The QZSCMI boost a voltage and it also operates in shoot through state. The results confirmed that the proposed system is more reliable and cost effective than the conventional multilevel inverter, which reduces the output distortion and produces a better output waveform. The hardware results also confirm
Ionic Mechanism of Ibutilide in Human Atrium: Evidence for a Drug-Induced Na 1 Current Through a Nifedipine Inhibited Inward Channel

This study examined the ionic mechanism of ibutilide, a class III antiarrhythmic in clinical use, on freshly isolated human atrial cells. Cells had resting potentials of 2 71.4 6 2.4 mV, action potentials with overshoot of 36.8 6 1.8 mV, duration of 265 6 89 msec at 90% repolarization and slow repolarization ( n 5 16). Ibutilide, at 10 2 7 M, markedly increased action potential duration. Four types of outward currents were detected: I to , I so , a delayed rectifier and I K1 . Ibutilide had no inhibitory effect on these outward currents at 10 2 7 M ( n 5 28). In K 1 -free solutions and 2 40 mV holding potential, mean peak inward current at 20 mV was 2 1478 6 103 pA ( n 5 12). Ibutilide increased this current to 2 2347 6 75 pA at 10 2 7 M, with half maximal effect ( K d ) of 0.1 to 0.9 nM between 2 10 and 1 40 mV ( n 5 21). At similar concentrations, the drug increased APD, with K d of 0.7 and 0.23 nM at 70 and 90% repolarization, respectively ( n 5 8). Ibutilide shifted the mid-point of the steady-state inactivation curve from 2 21 to 2 12.2 mV ( n 5 6), and reduced current decline during repetitive depolarization ( n 5 5). The drug induced inward current was carried by Na 1 o through a nifedipine inhibited inward channel because Na 1 o removal eliminated the effect, and nifedipine abolished the inward current and the drug induced APD prolongation. We propose that a Na 1 current through the L-type Ca 11 channel mediates ibutilide’s potent clinical class
Sequential decisions in digital agriculture - A cybernet-ICS perspective

As digital technology starts to disrupt the agricultural sector and it becomes feasible to generate appropriate data, there is a great opportunity for developing and deploying novel decision and system-theory tools to assist with the management of agricultural processes as well as whole food-production systems. Agricultural Cybernetics takes a system view of agricultural production for the analysis and design of management strategies to control, optimise, and make crop behaviours of agricultural production systems robust while exploiting the intrinsic feedback information-exchanging mechanisms that these systems exhibit. Feedback is a powerful tool, but it is also subject to fundamental limitations, which when poorly understood can lead to underwhelming results as well as wasting time and resources. Cybernetics provides proven tools and processes to answer fundamental system-related questions that are directly applicable to agriculture: Can we achieve desired crop system behaviours given particular means to act on the system? Is it possible to extract the required information from the data collected? Conversely, what is the adequate infrastructure for data generation given the information requirements related to management? Is the management strategy robust to different sources of uncertainty associated with data, mathematical models and knowledge used in the analytics? The key to answering these questions lies in understanding concepts related to the characterisation of uncertainty, information, decision problems, and how system-feedback structures process information. This paper points to key system concepts applicable to in-season management of crops whereby a sequence of decisions have to be made as part of the management strategy. This relates, for example, to activities such as irrigation, nutrition, and pest-and-disease management. It discusses the potential use of cybernetics tools for analysing and solving these management problems. The material presented has a bearing on the choice and design of infrastructure for data generation, the adoption of data analytics, the formulation of decision problems, and the potential effectiveness and robustness of management strategies, and their return on investment.
Antioxidant role of origanum vulgare aqueous extract against reproductive toxicity assessment of fenugreek in female mice

Treating herbl medicines, based on their long-term widespread use as anti-fertility agents, conversely it`s possible to have herbs that are effective for improving fertility. Endometrium of the uterus undergoes enormous renovation in response to systemic changes in reproductive hormones (progesterone and estradiol) during each reproductive cycle). Twenty five health mature female mice (aged 8 weeks) divided into five groups (5/each) were participants in the current to investigate the fertility effects of Origanum vulgare against the reproductive toxicity induced by Fenugreek. These effects examine by measuring the number of ovarian follicles, thickness of the uterus and steroid hormone levels (estrogen & progesterone) in serum. The results showed no significant differences (p>0.05) in number of ovarian follicales, steroid hormones level, and lower in thikness layers of uterus tissus the experimental treated groups with Fenugreek (250 mg/kg and O.vulgare (90,180,270) mg/kg respectively. Depending on these outcomes, the hot aqueous of O. vulgare has enhancement reproductive system in female albino mice, and these results give additional scientific support to maybe use O. vulgare as an alternative for problems of fertility.
Role of ubiquitin-proteasome degradation pathway in biogenesis efﬁciency of (cid:1) -cell ATP-sensitive potassium channels

Role of ubiquitin-proteasome degradation pathway in biogenesis efﬁciency of (cid:1) -cell ATP-sensitive potassium channels. potassium (K ATP ) channels of pancreatic (cid:1) -cells mediate glucose-in-duced insulin secretion by linking glucose metabolism to membrane excitability. The number of plasma membrane K ATP channels deter- mines the sensitivity of (cid:1) -cells to glucose stimulation. The K ATP channel is formed in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) on coassembly of four inwardly rectifying potassium channel Kir6.2 subunits and four sulfonylurea receptor 1 (SUR1) subunits. Little is known about the cellular events that govern the channel’s biogenesis efﬁciency and expression. Recent studies have implicated the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in modulating surface expression of several ion channels. In this work, we investigated whether the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway plays a role in the biogenesis efﬁciency and surface expression of K ATP channels. We provide evidence that, when expressed in COS cells, both Kir6.2 and SUR1 undergo ER-associated degradation via the ubiquitin-proteasome system. Moreover, treatment of cells with proteasome inhibitors MG132 or lactacystin leads to increased surface expression of K ATP channels by increasing the efﬁciency of channel biogenesis. Importantly, inhibition of proteasome function in a pancreatic (cid:1) -cell line, INS-1, that express endogenous K ATP channels also results in increased channel number at the cell surface, as assessed by surface biotinylation and whole cell patch-clamp recordings. Our results support a role of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in the biogenesis efﬁciency and surface expression of (cid:1) -cell K ATP channels. Importantly, inhibition of proteasome function leads to an increase in the number of surface K ATP channels, both in COS cells and in a rat pancreatic (cid:1) -cell line, INS-1, that expresses endogenous K ATP channels. Our results suggest that degradation of nascent K ATP channel subunits by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway plays a role in setting the biogenesis efﬁciency, and thereby the level of surface expression, of K ATP channels in pancreatic (cid:1) -cells.
Isolation, identification, and impact on intestinal barrier integrity of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum from fresh tea leaves ( Camellia sinensis ) EFFECT OF FRESH TEA LEAF L. PLANTARUM ON INTESTINAL BARRIER

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are safe microorganisms that have been used in the processing of fermented food for centuries. The aim of this study was to isolate Lactobacillus from fresh tea leaves and examine the impact of an isolated strain on intestinal barrier integrity. First, the presence of Lactobacillus strains was investigated in fresh tea leaves from Kagoshima, Japan. Strains were isolated by growing on De Man, Rogosa and Sharpe (MRS) agar medium containing sodium carbonate, followed by the identification of one strain by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and pheS sequence analysis, with the strain identified as Lactiplantibacillus plantarum and named L. plantarum LOC1. Second, the impact of strain LOC1 in its heat-inactivated form on intestinal barrier integrity was investigated. Strain LOC1, but not L. plantarum ATCC 14917 T or L. plantarum ATCC 8014, significantly suppressed dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced decreases in transepithelial electrical resistance values of Caco-2:HT29-MTX 100:0 and 90:10 co-cultures. Moreover, in Caco-2:HT29-MTX co-cultures (90:10 and 75:25), levels of occludin mRNA were significantly increased by strain LOC1 compared with untreated co-cultures, and strain LOC1 had higher mRNA levels of MUC2 and MUC4 mucins than L. plantarum ATCC 14917 T and L. plantarum YT9. These results indicate that L. plantarum LOC1 may be used as a safe probiotic with beneficial effects on the intestinal barrier, suggesting that fresh tea leaves could be utilized as a safe source for isolating probiotics.
Resource-aware and resilient control : with applications to cooperative driving

Networked control systems are often subject to limited communication resources. By only communicating output measurements when needed, event-triggered control is an adequate method to reduce the usage of communication resources while retaining desired closed-loop performance. In this chapter, a novel event-triggered control (ETC) strategy for a class of nonlinear feedback systems is proposed that can simultaneously guarantee a finite Lp-gain and a strictly positive lower bound on the inter-event times. The new ETC scheme can be synthesized in an output-based and/or decentralized form, takes the specific medium access protocols into account, and is robust to (variable) transmission delays by design. Interestingly, in contrast with the majority of existing event-generators that only use static conditions the newly proposed event-triggering conditions are based on dynamic elements, which has several advantages including larger average inter-event times. The developed theory leads to families of event-triggered controllers that correspond to different trade-offs between (minimum and average) inter-event times, maximum allowable delays and Lp-gains. A linear and a nonlinear numerical example will illustrate all the benefits of this new dynamic ETC scheme.
Oxybismutomicrolite, a new pyrochlore-supergroup mineral from the Malkhan pegmatite field, Central Transbaikalia, Russia

Oxybismutomicrolite, ideally [(Bi 3+ ,#) 2 ] Σ4+ Ta 2 O 6 O, (#: subordinate substituents, such as Na + , Ca 2+ , and ☐ = vacancy), is a microlite-group, pyrochlore-supergroup mineral discovered at the Solnechnaya (“Sunny”) pegmatite vein, Malkhan pegmatite field, Zabaykalskiy Kray, Central Transbaikalia, Russia. It forms rough octahedral crystals up to 1 mm across and equant grains up to 2 mm across embedded in albite–lepidolite–elbaite complex. Other associated minerals are Bi-rich fluornatromicrolite, bismutotantalite and stibiotantalite. The new mineral is black, with resinous lustre; the streak is greyish white. It is non-fluorescent under ultraviolet light. Oxybismutomicrolite is brittle, with Mohs’ hardness of ~5. Cleavage is not observed, fracture is uneven. D (meas.) = 6.98(2) g/cm 3 . D (calc.) = 7.056 g/cm 3 . The mineral is optically isotropic. The mean refractive index calculated from the Gladstone-Dale equation is 2.184. The IR spectrum shows the absence of H 2 O molecules and OH groups. The chemical composition is (electron microprobe, wt.%): Na 2 O 3.45, CaO 2.88, MnO 0.31, PbO 0.76, Bi 2 O 3 29.81, ThO 2 0.18, TiO 2 3.89, SnO 2 1.77, Nb 2 O 5 4.50, Ta 2 O 5 51.08, F 1.17, O=F –0.49, total 99.31. The empirical formula, based on 2 cations at the B site, is (Bi (O 0.52 F 0.38 ☐ 0.10 )  1.00 . The crystal structure refinement ( R = 0.019) gave the following data: cubic, Fd– 3 m , a = 10.4746(11) Å, V = 1149.2(4) Å 3 and Z = 8. The eight strongest lines of the powder X-ray diffraction pattern [ d , Å ( I , %) ( hkl )] are: 6.051 (12) (111), 3.160 (10) (311), 3.026 (100) (222), 2.621 (32) (400), 1.854 (33) (440), 1.581 (27) (622), 1.514 (7) (444), 1.203 (7) (662). Type material is deposited in the collections of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, is light grey, isotropic. No internal reflections and pleochroism are observed.
frequency values through the days of the week

This paper discusses citizen science with particular focus on traffic noise measuring. The goal is to develop an approach that would enable citizens to collect traffic noise data through crowdsensing. In the experimental part, traffic noise data was collected during period of two weeks in Serbia’s capital Belgrade, using a combination of participatory and opportunistic mobile crowdsensing. The obtained data was analyzed using statistical methods principal components analysis and cluster analysis. The obtained results identify traffic noise clusters of microlocations in the city and can be used for decision support for both citizens and city government.