Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Chryseobacterium Meningosepticum Meningitis in A Neurosurgical Patient Bir Nöroflirürji Hastas›nda Kriseobakterium Meningoseptikum Menenjiti

Chryseobacterium meningosepticum is a gram-negative bacillus that is known to cause meningitis in premature neonates, and a variety of infections in immunocompromised adults. Reports have also identified this agent as a cause of postoperative meningitis in immunocompetent adults. We present the case of a patient with head injury and cerebrospinal rhinorrhea who developed C. meningosepticum meningitis after external ventricular drain placement. It is important that clinicians consider C. meningosepticum as a cause of meningitis in any case that includes blood-brain barrier disturbance and a history of prolonged antibiotic therapy. Keeping a high index of suspicion is the key to rapid diagnosis and prompt treatment of this potentially fatal infection.
Correlation of Power Consumption of Double Impeller Based on Impeller Spacing in Laminar Region

Power consumption is an important parameter for the design of mixing equipment. The aim of this study is to develop a new correlation of the power consumption of a double impeller. The effect of impeller spacing on the double-impeller flow pattern and power consumption was investigated in the laminar region. As a result, the effect of impeller spacing on the flow pattern was described based on the ratio of impeller spacing to the impeller blade height. Moreover, the power consumption of a double impeller could be correlated with the same ratio.
Design of an apparatus to measure the unsteady temperature distribution around straight and u-shaped heated cylinders buried vertically in an infinite medium (application to ground source heat pumps)

A major task of designing a ground source heat pump system (GSHP) is sizing of its ground heat exchanger (GHE; usually a run of straight or coiled or U-shaped pipe buried in the ground vertically or horizontally). The sizing of a GHE and prediction of its performance is complicated by many factors such as: the transient nature of the heat exchange; the accumulative effect and the history of heat exchange; the depth dependency of the ground’s undisturbed temperature and thermal properties, and the presence of ground water. This paper presents the design of a laboratory apparatus to study GHE responses under controlled and specified conditions; as well as to introduce fundamental aspects of GHE to engineering students.
PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF GRAPE SEEDS POWDER AND OIL AGAINST HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA IN RATS

The aim of present study was to evaluate the antihyperlipidemic effect of grape seeds powder (GSP) and oil (GSO) on lipid profile of hypercholesterolemic rats. The chemical properties of grape seed powder (GSP) and grape seed oil (GSO) were determined. Total phenolic compounds of GSP were determined and fractionated . Results showed that grape seeds are considered to be rich source of natural antioxidants and have bioactive compounds that play a great role to protect human body. Biological evaluation also conducted on hypercholesterolemic rats feed on diets supplemented with GSP and GSO at levels of (4, 5%). The supplementation of GSP and GSO decreased markedly serum TC, TG and LDLC. GSO also significantly reduced liver enzymes levels ALT, AST and ALP, and increased the glutathione content of the liver. The histological examination revealed a potent protective action of GSO rather than GSP, on heart, aorta, and liver. Therefore, use of GSP (mainly) and GSO as supplements caused significant improvement in biochemical parameters in favor of hypocholesterolemia in all rats groups and could be protect against hypercholesterolemia and can be also used as effective natural antioxidants.
Fundraising Behaviors of Listed Companies in Vietnam: An Estimation of the Influence of Government Ownership

This study investigates the capital structure and investment activities of listed companies on the Hanoi Securities Exchange and the Ho Chi Minh Securities Exchange in Vietnam. Estimation analysis using panel data covering the four-year period 2006-2009 revealed the following results. (1) Standard corporate financing theories such as trade-off theory and agency cost theory could be appropriate for explaining the capital structure of listed companies in Vietnam. (2) Compared to the fundraising activities of the companies analyzed by Nguyen (2006) and Biger et al. (2008), the fundraising activities of the listed companies were better explained by standard agency cost theory. (3) There are differences between the determinants of long-term fundraising and short-term fundraising of listed companies in Vietnam. (4) The fundraising determinants of state-controlled companies are different from those of other companies; state-controlled companies have an advantage in tapping external debt funds, and their incentive to reduce their tax payments by debt financing is weaker. (5) The companies listed on the Ho Chi Minh Securities Exchange depended less on debt financing than those listed on the Hanoi Securities Exchange. (6) Listed companies in Vietnam face weak incentives to reduce their tax payments by debt financing because the effective corporate tax rate is low. These results imply that the economic reforms (“Doi Moi”) implemented by the Vietnamese government, which aims to create an economic system based on market mechanisms, have achieved some of their goals in terms of fund mobilization and corporate financing. However, our estimation study illustrates several limitations of economic reforms, such as the opaque relationship between state-controlled companies and government banks, financial restrictions on investment activities, and inactive investment of companies that are state-controlled or listed on the Ho Chi Minh Securities Exchange.
Empirical Evidence on the Asymmetric Relationship between Bond and REIT Returns

This paper examines the asymmetric relationship between bonds and REITs using monthly data from January 1972 through October 2014. In particular, the paper uses the nonlinear Granger causality test developed by Diks and Panchenko to underpin the dynamic interactions between bond yields and REIT returns. The results from the various unit root tests indicate that bond and REIT returns are level stationary. The results from the linear Granger causality test indicate that bond and REIT returns are not causally related. However, the results from the nonlinear Granger causality test results suggest that both bond and REIT returns have causal influence on each other. The results of this study suggest that diversification benefits cannot be attained by combining either all REITs or equity REITs in a portfolio with bonds. However, after the establishment of the 1992 Revenue Reconciliation Act, the results reveal that it is possible for investors to reduce their portfolio risks by combining bonds and mortgage REITs in their portfolios.
In vitro sensitivity of Fusarium graminearum, F. avenaceum and F. verticillioides to carbendazim, tebuconazole, flutriafol, metconazole and prochloraz

Growth of 13 F. graminearum isolates, 6 F. avenaceum isolates and 6 F. verticillioides isolates was analysed on potato-dextrose agar amended with 0.1, 0.33, 1, 3.3 and 10 mg l-1 of carbendazim, tebuconazole, flutriafol, metconazole, and prochloraz. Average concentration which reduced mycelial growth by 50% comparing it to control (EC50) was calculated for each isolate. Among fungicides tested, prochloraz was shown to be the most effective in growth inhibition of all three species, while flutirafol was proven to be the least effective. Metocnazole was more efficient in comparison with carbendazim and tebuconazole. EC50 values of all isolates on prochloraz were lower than 0.1 mg l-1, while on flutirafol they ranged between 1.66 and 8.51 mg l-1 for 18 isolates, or were higher than 10 mg l-1 for 7 isolates. EC50 values on carbendazim were 0.39-1.41 mg l-1 for F. graminearum isolates, 0.91-1.35 mg l-1 for F. avenaceum, and 0.47-0.6 mg l-1 for F. verticillioides. EC50 values on tebuconazole were 0.85- 2.57 mg l-1 for F. graminearum, 0.85-1.58 mg l-1 for F. avenaceum and 0.22-0.85 mg l-1 for F. verticillioides, while on metconazole EC50 values ranged between less than 0.1 mg l-1 to 1.66, 0.56, and 0.17 mg l-1 for F. graminearum, F. avenaceum and F. verticillioides, respectively. Average growth inhibitions of different Fusarium species and all Fusarium isolates together on different concentrations of fungicides tested were significantly different. Significant differences in growth were not determined among isolates of the same species on neither one of fungicides tested, indicating that no decreased sensitivity to the fungicides exists among isolates included in the study.
QUANTIFYING ALUMINUM SCRAP GENERATION FROM SEVEN END-USE SECTORS TO SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA

Nowadays, the domestic mineral resources are short, and the ecological environment is becoming worse and worse. Besides, the trade protectionism is on the rise, and the international trade environment is uncertain and unsafe. This paper simulates the potential old scrap generated from actual aluminum products consumption of seven end-use sectors during 1996-2017 on the basis of Weibull distribution. The object is to facilitate the exploitation and cyclic utilization of old scrap and “urban mines”. During this period, the building and construction (B&C) and transportation (T) sectors are still the most and second consumers, accounting for 30% and 17% of the total consumption. Most aluminum products haven’t entered into the scrapping stage yet, and only one fifth of consumed aluminum (about 52 Mt) became old scrap. In the in-use reservoir, B&C and T sectors take up about 60% due to their longer lifetime intervals. If the potential old scrap will be recycled efficiently, then the secondary aluminum produced by the scrap can meet around nine years’ consumption demands at current consumption level. Therefore, the cyclic utilization of old scrap prompts resources saving, energy conservation, emission reduction and may remove the impacts of international trade instability.
DEPTH SPATIAL PYRAMID: A POOLING METHOD FOR 3D-OBJECT RECOGNITION

Recently introduced high-accuracy RGB-D cameras are capable of providing high-quality three-dimension information (color and depth information) easily. The overall shape of the object can be understood by acquiring depth information. However, conventional methods using such cameras use depth information only to extract the local features. To deal with this problem, in our proposed method, the overall object shape is expressed by the depth spatial pyramid based on depth information. Specifically, multiple features within each sub-region of the depth spatial pyramid are pooled. As a result, the feature representation (including the depth topological information) is constructed, where we use the histogram of oriented normal vectors (HONV) as 3D local features and apply locality-constrained linear coding (LLC) to the HONV. Experimental results confirm that the proposed method improves the recognition accuracy compared with conventional methods.
The study of stakeholder management as way to understand the consequences of economic crisis in the banking sector

Financial recessions strengthen the importance businesses give to corporate social responsibility (CSR) in order to enhance credibility and reputation. The multiple case study presented herein aims at disclosing the role of CSR in the current strategic management of banking institutions in Spain. Some of the companies in this country are world leaders and their study can help other international businesses to implement successful corporate strategies. The analysis draws on the theoretical perspective of stakeholder management theory and focuses on practical activities of different kinds of banking institutions to address how they manage their CSR policies. The findings demonstrate that a strategic approach to CSR, derived from a special significance given to customers and employees in the management of stakeholders, leads to profitable CSR policies. This idea underscores the connection between profit maximization and stakeholder management which accounts for the current robustness of banks in the marketplace. Other institutions developing CSR strategies around social stakeholders have encountered solvency and cash-flow problems which have seriously modified the national marketplace. Palabras Clave: responsabilidad social corporativa, grupos de interés, entidades bancarias, estudio de casos
Non-Dominated Bi-Objective Genetic Mining Algorithm

Process mining generates process model from event logs and used to connect data mining techniques to process modelling, analysis, simulation etc. Many process mining techniques are used to generate model all create a single model. In this work bi-objective genetic process mining algorithm has been used to generate multiple models also called as non-dominated solutions. All of these models are equally good.
The Summary of Video Denoising Method

The video remains noisy for low cost acquirement equipment at high sensitivities. The issue of removing video noise is still of acute and in fact growing very importance. In this paper, three approaches are introduced. Each method has it's merit and advantage, the comparison to each other is done, and The effectiveness of algorithm is also validated in various experiments and each method compared favorably against other state-of-art algorithms.
Early Experimental Results of Nerve Gap Bridging with Silicon Microwires

Background. The incidence of severe peripheral nerves and plexus injuries tends to grow. Autoneurografting is considered as a golden standard method of nerve gap bridging, but existing shortcomings such as additional surgery measures, denervation of other segments of the body, discordance of the neurovascular structure of the damaged nerve and autograft stipulate the development of new material and treatment methods. Objective. The current study is aimed at estimation of the impact of silicon wires on early morphological changes of the parts of the damaged peripheral nerve after nerve injury and grafting with the use of silicon wires. Methods. Study was performed on Wistar rats that were divided into groups: I (n = 10) was sham-operated, II (n = 10) with 10 mm sciatic nerve gap bridged with autoneurograft, III (n = 10) with nerve gap bridged with freeze-thaw decellularized allogenic aorta filled with 4% carboxymethylcellulose hydrogel, IV (n = 10) with nerve gap bridged with same conduit as III along with longitudinal oriented silicon wires (p-type, Boron-ligated). Parts of the sciatic nerve were harvested for histologic study: 1 week postoperatively the proximal nerve stump, proximal stump-to-graft site and graft site itself were analyzed. 3 weeks after surgery the proximal nerve-to-graft junction and graft site were analyzed. Longitudinal frozen sections were stained with nitric silver via modified Bielschowsky method. The number of nerve fibers was statistically measured and compared. Results. It is stated that 1 week after surgery rats from groups II, III, and IV demonstrated signs of nerve fibers irritation in proximal nerve stump. Proximal nerve-to-graft junction contained thin nerve fibers and moderate amount of cells in group II, but a substantial amount of cells, blood vessels and newly-formed nerve fibers in groups III and IV. Graft site contained degenerated nerve fibers in group II, homogeneous semi-transparent masses in group III and same masses with silicon wires in group IV. 3 weeks after surgery rats from group II demonstrated heterogeneous chaotic distribution of nerve fibers at the proximal nerve-tojunction site and heterogeneous distribution of nerve fibers at the graft site. Group III had proximal neuroma site that was composed of substantial amount of chaotically oriented nerve fibers. Graft site contained thin heterogeneously distributed nerve fibers inside the conduit, which were situated alongside the conduit wall or close to vessels. Group IV had proximal neuroma site that was composed of newly-formed nerve fibers that were situated in certain order and mixed with cells and vessels. At the conduit site, thin nerve fibers grow inside conduit lumen, mixed with vessels, and shift towards the silicon wires. Conclusions. It can be concluded about the possible tendency of the pro-regenerative effect of silicon wires, used as a component of the nerve graft, as evidenced by more homogeneous and complete graft site neurotization along with the possible appearance of the nerve interface "nerve fiber–silicone microwire".
Does Audit Quality able to Reduce Cost Stickiness? Evidence from Property, Real Estate and Building Construction Industry

The purpose of this study is to determine the level of cost stickiness at SG&A cost (Sales, General, and Administrative) and test whether the level of stickiness costs can be reduced through audit quality. The study sample used property, real estate, and building construction industry listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) for the 2016-2018 period with a purposive sampling technique, so that the ﬁnal number of samples obtained was 117 sample observations. This study uses eviews version 10 analysis tool. The results of the study show that every 1% increase in net sales will increaseSG&Aby0.610%. Meanwhile,every1%decreaseinnetsaleswillreduceSG&A by (0.610043-0.071380) 0.538%. Furthermore, the research ﬁndings show that audit quality can reduce stickiness costs. The implication of this study is that policy makers can use audit quality to reduce stickiness costs.
Optical english font recognition in document images using eigenfaces

Introduction: In this paper, a system for recognizing fonts has been designed and implemented. The system is based on the Eigenfaces method. Because font recognition works in conjunction with other methods like Optical Character Recognition (OCR), we used Decapod and OCRopus software as a framework to present the method. Materials and Methods: In our experiments, text typeset with three English fonts (Comic Sans MS, DejaVu Sans Condensed,Times New Roman) have been used. Results and Discussion: The system is tested thoroughly using synthetic and degraded data. The experimental results show that Eigenfaces algorithm is very good at recognizing fonts of synthetic clean data as well as degraded data. The correct recognition rate for synthetic data for Eigenfaces is 99% based on Euclidean Distance. The overall accuracy of Eigenfaces is 97% based on 6144 degraded samples and considering Euclidean Distance performance criterion. Conclusions: It is concluded from the experimental results that the Eigenfaces method is suitable for font recognition of degraded documents. The three percentage incorrect classification can be mediated by relying on intra-word font information.
Computer Simulation and Process Improvement of CO2 Capture by Chemical Absorption

By means of computer simulation, we improved the chemical-based CO2 capture system with Monoethanolamide (MEA) absorbent on the PRO/II software platform. The research results of the capture process provides suggested optimal process parameters for large-scale flue gas CO2 capture projects, in an attempt to reduce the cost of capture, reduce energy consumption and increase the rate of CO2 recovery. The chemical-based CO2 adsorption model was established in this paper, with which we analysed the effects of various absorption solution parameters (volume flow rate, temperature, concentration, etc.) on CO2 absorption rate, obtaining optimum process parameter.
A Collaboration of Assertive Training and Physical Activities to Develop Assertive Behaviour in Students with Deafness

The purpose of this study was to obtain an overview of the development of Assertive behavior of deaf students through collaborative learning in Assertive Training and Physical Activity. The method used is an experimental method with the design of The Randomized Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design. The sample of this study was all deaf students at the Citeureup Special School in Cimahi which consists of 24 students (14 males and 10 females). Data obtained from the results of the pretest and posttest by using an assertive behavior questionnaire. The data obtained was processed using T-Paired test. The results showed that the experimental group and the control group had a significant effect on the development of assertive behavior in deaf students. The effect of collaborative learning on Assertive Training and Physical Activity of experimental group is greater than the control group, so that the more frequent collaboration learning is carried out, the more assertive behavior of deaf students is developed. Keywords—collaboration; assertive training; physical activity; asertif; deafness
Entropy production in open quantum systems: exactly solvable qubit models

We present analytical results for the time-dependent information entropy in exactly solvable two-state (qubit) models. The first model describes dephasing (decoherence) in a qubit coupled to a bath of harmonic oscillators. The entropy production for this model in the regimes of "complete" and "incomplete" decoherence is discussed. As another example, we consider the damped Jaynes-Cummings model describing a spontaneous decay of a two-level system into the field vacuum. It is shown that, for all strengths of coupling, the open system passes through the mixed state with the maximum information entropy.
Energy Efficient Spintronic Device for Neuromorphic Computation

Energy Efficient Spintronic Device for Neuromorphic Computation By Md Ali Azam, M. Sc. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2019. Major Director: Jayasimha Atulasimha, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Future computing will require significant development in new computing device paradigms. This is motivated by CMOS devices reaching their technological limits, the need for non-Von Neumann architectures as well as the energy constraints of wearable technologies and embedded processors. The first device proposal, an energy-efficient voltage-controlled domain wall device for implementing an artificial neuron and synapse is analyzed using micromagnetic modeling. By controlling the domain wall motion utilizing spin transfer or spin orbit torques in association with voltage generated strain control of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in the presence of DzyaloshinskiiMoriya interaction (DMI), different positions of the domain wall are realized in the free layer of a magnetic tunnel junction to program different synaptic weights. Additionally, an artificial neuron can be realized by combining this DW device with a CMOS buffer. The second neuromorphic device proposal is inspired by the brain. Membrane potential of many neurons oscillate in a subthreshold damped fashion and fire when excited by an input frequency that nearly equals their Eigen frequency. We investigate theoretical implementation of such “resonate-and-fire” neurons by utilizing the magnetization dynamics of a fixed magnetic skyrmion based free layer of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). Voltage control of magnetic anisotropy or voltage generated strain