Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects Of Different PUFA Supplementation On Inflammatory Response Markers In Young Soccer Players

Abstract Considering the limited knowledge regarding the effects of n-3 and n-6 PUFAs on the inflammatory response during physical activity, we aimed to evaluate the level of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines in young soccer players before and after a maximal physical load test at the beginning and end of a two-month training process. The study included 75 young footballers from Football School “Kragujevac,” who were followed during the two-month training programme. The subjects were divided into the following groups: 1) control group (consumed a standard diet); 2) group that consumed fish oil (2500 mg of n-3 PUFAs per day); 3) group that consumed nutritional sunflower oil (2500 mg of n-6 PUFAs daily). The maximal progressive exercise test was performed using a treadmill belt. Venous blood samples were drawn 4 times for the determination of cytokine levels (IL-6 and TNF-α): before and after the exercise load test before the two-month training programme (initial measurement) and immediately before and after the exercise load test after the two-month training programme (control measurement). Supplementation with fish oil (n-3) has been associated with reduced levels of IL-6 compared with the initial values. After an acute bout of exercise, n-3 PUFAs did not show a significant effect on inflammatory marker dynamics, whereas n-6 PUFAs slightly stimulated the production of TNF-α.
Long-term prognostic value of macrophage migration inhibitory factor in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients with metabolic syndrome after percutaneous coronary intervention

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and negatively affecting the prognosis of patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a multipotent cytokine involved in various cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases. In this prospective study, we investigate the value of MIF in the long-term prognosis of STEMI combined with MetS after emergency PCI. Circulating MIF levels were measured at admission, and major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) were monitored during the follow-up period of 4.9 (3.9–5.8) years. MACCE occurred in 92 patients (22.9%), which was significantly higher in MetS (69/255, 27.1%) than in the non-MS subgroup (23/146, 15.8%, P < 0.05). Patients with MetS developed MACCE had the highest admission MIF level. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis using the cutoff value of admission MIF (143 ng/ml) showed that patients with a higher MIF level had a greater incidence of MACCE than those with lower MIF levels in both the MetS (P < 0.0001) and non-MetS groups (P = 0.016). After adjustment for clinical variables, the value of MIF ≥ 143 ng/ml still had the predictive power for the MetS group [HR 9.56, 95% CI (5.397–16.944),P < 0.001]; nevertheless, it was not the case in the non-MetS group. Our findings indicated that MetS is a critical risk factor for adverse clinical outcomes in patients with STEMI, and a high admission MIF level has predictive power for the long-term MACCE, which is superior in STEMI patients with MetS and better than other traditional predictors.
Ambitions and Destinations: the Careers and Retrospective Views of Art and Design Graduates and Postgraduates

What do art and design graduates and postgraduates do once they have completed their courses, and how well do they feel those courses have equipped them to realise their career ambitions? This paper firstly examines the available data on the career paths of art and design graduates, and considers to what extent this data is able to represent their success. It would appear that much of the national data presents a pessimistic view of the career prospects of these graduates and postgraduates. Secondly, the methodology and results of the Ambitions and Destinations project are outlined. The purpose of the project was to determine the career paths of graduates from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, and to discover the retrospective views about the courses on which they had studied, in the light of their subsequent careers. A postal questionnaire was used to survey all those who had graduated from a cross-section of undergraduate and postgraduate courses 1991–1995 inclusive. The career outcomes of the first-degree respondents are compared with those of the postgraduates, including their respective participation in the areas of paid employment, further study, self employment and unemployment. Respondents’ propensities to remain involved with art and design, and the likelihood of their entering teaching or lecturing are also examined. Some of the key points which emerged from respondents’ comments about the career usefulness of their courses are presented. Finally, the extent to which the career paths of these BIAD graduates and postgraduates are consistent with those obtained from national data is considered.
Approche conceptuelle d’un dispositif d’évaluation pédagogique du patient

Contexte : Dans le cadre de l’education therapeutique du patient atteint de maladie chronique, il n’existe pas, a notre connaissance, de dispositif d’evaluation pedagogique permettant d’apprecier dans un meme temps chez un patient plusieurs competences et capacites. But : Cet article propose sur la base d’une argumentation conceptuelle et methodologique, un dispositif d’evaluation permettant de visualiser l’evolution pedagogique du patient. Resultats : Par le choix d’evaluer certaines competences d’ordre cognitif, metacognitif et conatif, nous inferons qu’il est possible de rendre compte de leur evolution au patient et d’engager avec lui un dialogue sur leur mise en lien. Cette procedure peut susciter chez le patient un processus reflexif a l’origine de decisions concernant le maintien de sa sante. Conclusion : Le dispositif d’evaluation propose nous conduit pour sa validation a envisager deux axes de recherche et de developpement : l’un plus fondamental consistant a etudier l’interdependance entre les differentes competences ; l’autre plus pragmatique pour apprecier la perception d’utilite chez les patients et les soignants de ce dispositif dans leur relation educative.
SURVEY OF WEB CRAWLING ALGORITHMS

The World Wide Web is the largest collection of data today and it continues increasing day by day. A web crawler is a program from the huge downloading of web pages from World Wide Web and this process is called Web crawling. To collect the web pages from www a search engine uses web crawler and the web crawler collects this by web crawling. Due to limitations of network bandwidth, time-consuming and hardware's a Web crawler cannot download all the pages, it is important to select the most important ones as early as possible during the crawling process and avoid downloading and visiting many irrelevant pages. This paper reviews help the researches on web crawling methods used for searching.
A Hybrid Query Approach for Radiology Education: Integrating Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval and Text-Based Information Retrieval

Abstract This article proposes a hybrid query approach to assist and enhance radiology education. The integration of query methods from both content-based medical image retrieval systems and text-based information retrieval systems gives radiology students a richer learning environment than traditional curricula can provide. This hybrid query approach integrates (1) knowledge-based modelling for a physician's perceptual categories; (2) a content-based medical image retrieval system; (3) a text-based relational database for patient's demographic information; and (4) a Java- and Web-based learning tool. This unique approach offers a great extensibility for applying heterogeneous healthcare-related databases to distance learning in radiology education.
A self-tuning control scheme for multimachine power system

A new approach of a self-tuning control scheme to enhancement the stability of multimachine power systems is presented in this paper. The dynamic performance of each synchronous machine in the multimachine power system is described by a discrete time model for the purpose of self-tuning stabiliser design. The stabiliser is designed using parameters of this model that are estimated every sampling period depending on the input-output data of the each machine in the power system. In the proposed approach, the performance index for each machine consists of the machine output, its first derivative and its second derivative and the machine input. The performance of every machine controlled with self tuning stabilisers in multimachine power systems is investigated under violent faulted conditions.
Bisection Subspace Pursuit Algorithm for Compressive Sensing

A novel greedy algorithm for blind CS recovery without prior knowledge of sparsity, called the Bisection Subspace Pursuit (BiSP) is introduced. The most outstanding feature of the BiSP is that it adopts the bisection method to adaptively estimate the sparsity of target signal, which means that no prior knowledge of sparsity is needed. Simulation results demonstrate that the BiSP not only retains comparable recovery accuracy with CoSaMP, SP and SAMP, but also outperforms the SAMP in terms of complexity when sparsity of signal is large. This makes the BiSP a competitive candidate for many practical situations.
Kilohertz ultrasound as a potential therapy for dental repair

Biological effects are known to occur with ultrasound energy at kilohertz frequencies. This has led to research into its use as a non-invasive tool for tissue healing and repair. The aim of this research is to investigate the in vitro application of kilohertz ultrasound and to measure the biological responses using models of dental pulp cells which play an important role in dental repair. Ultrasound emitted from a longwave therapy instrument (DuoSon, SRA Developments Ltd) was characterised and measured identifying the range and intensity of the field. These measurements, coupled with biological data, identified the difficulties when conducting research with kilohertz ultrasound in vitro and indicated that the use of multi-well culture plates is not appropriate when investigating the effects of kilohertz ultrasound in cell culture. An improved method for in vitro kilohertz ultrasound application was devised enabling the investigation of non-thermal ultrasound effects on primary human dental cells. Cell proliferation, viability and gene expression, including the dental-related and biomechanically-responsive gene, dentine matrix protein-1, responded in a dose-dependent manner with respect to the duration of ultrasound application. These findings highlight the complexity of the biophysical interaction of kilohertz ultrasound with cells and demonstrate the need for further clarification of specific ultrasound settings for optimal therapeutic application. This study has demonstrated a positive effect of kilohertz ultrasound on human dental pulp cells and has identified methods to improve in vitro cell culture models to capture robust data to develop a novel therapy for dental repair.
Interference suppression in DSSS communication systems using instantaneous frequency estimation

In this paper, we consider broadband jammer suppression in direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) communication systems. The transmitted signal in DSSS systems occupies a bandwidth much wider than the bandwidth necessary to send the information. Hence these systems are inherently immune to outside interferences or jammers. The performance of DSSS systems can be further improved in terms of immunity to interferences by suppressing the interference prior to despreading and demodulation. Here, we use a time-varying filter that adapts to the instantaneous frequency of the interference signal to suppress broadband jammers in DSSS systems. The IF of the received signal is estimated from an evolutionary spectrum. The performance of our IF estimation and jammer suppression algorithms are presented by means of examples.
Une adaptation française du Questionnaire de Régulation Émotionnelle à la situation d’apprentissage

Cet article presente deux etudes de validation de l’Emotion Regulation Question - naire (Gross & John, 2003) traduit en francais et adapte a la situation de preparation d’un examen universitaire. Cet outil mesure l’utilisation de deux strategies de regulation emotionnelle : la reevaluation cognitive (changer sa facon de penser une situation emotionnelle) et la suppression expressive (inhiber l’expression de l’emotion dans une situation emotionnelle). La premiere etude (1) confirme les qualites psychometriques de l’instrument et (2) explore les correlations entre le score obtenu au test et les emotions academiques ressenties par les etudiants. La seconde etude (1) confirme les qualites psychometriques de l’instrument chez les deux sexes et (2) investigue les differences de genre dans les scores obtenus au test. L’adaptation de cet outil est prometteuse pour la communaute des chercheurs en education soucieuse d’approfondir la question de la regulation emotionnelle en situation d’apprentissage.
Analyse comparative des représentations sociales du sport en France et au Maroc : valeurs modernes et post-modernes chez des étudiants en sciences du sport

Cette recherche vise, par la comparaison de deux populations relevant de pays differents du point de vue de leur developpement socio-economique, a mettre en evidence comment la representation sociale, supportee par un sous-groupe dans chacune de ces societes, joue un role de filtre face aux evolutions impulsees par les dynamiques macro-sociales. A partir de l’analyse de l’implantation du sport au Maroc et en France ainsi que des ideologies qui lui sont associees, nous avons pu schematiser le contexte social et ideologique a travers les notions de sport moderne/post-moderne, de maniere a verifier la relation entre ces effets de contexte et les representations sociales des sous groupes etudies, a savoir des etudiants sportifs des deux pays. Une analyse de representation est menee a partir d’une tâche d’associations verbales. Les resultats permettent de souligner la prise en compte, dans les deux pays, des valeurs modernes et post-modernes, meme s’il apparait des specificites interpretees en termes d’appropriation differente des valeurs.
Assessing Sentence Simplification Methods Applied to Text Summarization

Automatic text summarization is proving itself useful to sieve relevant content from the Internet and digital libraries with reduced human effort. Nevertheless, extractive summarization approaches have limitations, possibly not fully capturing the informativeness of a text. A potential strategy to address this problem is the adoption of sentence simplification methods. This work focuses on the evaluation of sentence simplification methods as a preprocessing step for extractive text summarization in order to answer the question of whether sentence simplification increases the informativeness of extractive summaries. Four different sentence simplification methods, two being simple filters and the other two performing rule-based transformations, are assessed here in order to point out the best method for such a purpose. Fifteen sentence scoring methods for summarization are applied in combination with the simplification methods to a corpus of 1,038 news articles in English. The results suggest that the transformation approaches, which take into account linguistic features and grammaticality, achieve the best performance.
A modified technique for the lightweight backing of mosaics

AbstractA modification of an existing technique for the lightweight backing of mosaics has been developed. The technique can be used for mosaics of any size, and enables large mosaics to be broken down into sections which are more easily handlable. This facilitates the moving, storage and display of mosaics within a museum, since the mosaic can be mounted either horizontally or vertically on a suitable frame. This method was successfully applied to a mosaic which had been mounted in a traditional manner on a plaster backing many years ago.
Automated segmentation of colorectal liver metastasis and liver ablation on contrast-enhanced CT images

Objectives Colorectal cancer (CRC), the third most common cancer in the USA, is a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Up to 60% of patients develop liver metastasis (CRLM). Treatments like radiation and ablation therapies require disease segmentation for planning and therapy delivery. For ablation, ablation-zone segmentation is required to evaluate disease coverage. We hypothesize that fully convolutional (FC) neural networks, trained using novel methods, will provide rapid and accurate identification and segmentation of CRLM and ablation zones. Methods Four FC model styles were investigated: Standard 3D-UNet, Residual 3D-UNet, Dense 3D-UNet, and Hybrid-WNet. Models were trained on 92 patients from the liver tumor segmentation (LiTS) challenge. For the evaluation, we acquired 15 patients from the 3D-IRCADb database, 18 patients from our institution (CRLM = 24, ablation-zone = 19), and those submitted to the LiTS challenge (n = 70). Qualitative evaluations of our institutional data were performed by two board-certified radiologists (interventional and diagnostic) and a radiology-trained physician fellow, using a Likert scale of 1–5. Results The most accurate model was the Hybrid-WNet. On a patient-by-patient basis in the 3D-IRCADb dataset, the median (min–max) Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) was 0.73 (0.41–0.88), the median surface distance was 1.75 mm (0.57–7.63 mm), and the number of false positives was 1 (0–4). In the LiTS challenge (n = 70), the global DSC was 0.810. The model sensitivity was 98% (47/48) for sites ≥15 mm in diameter. Qualitatively, 100% (24/24; minority vote) of the CRLM and 84% (16/19; majority vote) of the ablation zones had Likert scores ≥4. Conclusion The Hybrid-WNet model provided fast (<30 s) and accurate segmentations of CRLM and ablation zones on contrast-enhanced CT scans, with positive physician reviews.
Combined linear-nonlinear chronobiologic windows by least squares resolving neighboring components in a physiologic rhythm spectrum.

A mathematical model for representing physiologic rhythms is present ed. The time series analysis involves combined linear-nonlinear chronob iologic windows with a combination of least squares methods. The method employs the chronogram and plexogram as classical descriptive statistical summaries and chronobiologic window serial and cosinor inferential statistical summaries based on the least squares fit of a single cosine function.
Extraction of Disparity Information Using Pixels with Integrated Apertures

In this paper, extraction of disparity information using pixels with integrated apertures is presented. In general, the aperture of a camera is located over the camera lens. However, we propose the integration of apertures on the pixels of a CMOS image sensor. The integrated apertures are designed and fabricated using a metal layer of the CMOS image sensor process and the parameters including width and offset of the integrated apertures are optimized through optical simulation. The offset of the integrated aperture is defined as the distance between the center of the pixel and the center of the integrated aperture in a unit pixel. The optical simulation is based on a finite-difference time-domain method. Based on the optical simulation, the proposed image sensor with integrated apertures was fabricated using the CMOS image sensor process. The disparity information of the images is extracted using the fabricated image sensor and the performance of this sensor is evaluated through experiments.
An Improved Method on Telemetry Data Processing

In reference to telemetry data processing, an improved method is presented, which makes use of telemetry data that the conventional method abandons. Qualitative analysis is made to show the advantage of the improved method. Simulation results indicate that the improved method can obtain 1~3dB gain, better than the conventional method.
The Emerging Web 2.0 Social Media as a Tool to Develop Engaged Audiences for Behaviour Change in Health Promotion: An Overview

Sharing of health information which is related to health becomes easier with the introduction of new technologies such as Web 2.0 social media networks. Social media networks represent a rather innovative way of online information and knowledge repositories. On the other hand, many non-communicable diseases are caused by unhealthy urban lifestyle. Hence, the practice of the healthy lifestyle behaviors should be promoted for sustainability. Besides, in order to cut down the chronic diseases, workplace is one of the key channels for the delivery of interventions among adult populations. Latest development in information and communication technologies (ICT) has given positive influences in health communication. The new technology is believed to be more engaged because it involves visual, audio and animation simultaneously, thus it is more reachable and collaborative. This paper reviews strategies to manage health promotion. Nevertheless, improvement is still needed to achieve successful health promotion. This paper also provides insights of issues and poses future topics of health promotion to consider.
An Ontology- Based Multi-Document Summarization in Apocalypse Management

With the problem of extended information resources and the remarkable evaluate of data removal, the require of having automated summarization techniques revealed up. As summarization is needed the most at present searching information on the internet, where the user moves for a specific space of passion as per his question, area centered on summaries would provide the best. Ontology based summarization system for is provided. The ontology is a subjective model, which gives the important framework for semantic representation of textual data. In our suggested system implement the hierarchical levels of ontology to even more enhance the high summary and to execute hierarchical text classification in the field of earth quake management. We signify a scientific study of different techniques in which ontology has been applied for summarization practice. Comprehensive experiments on a selection of press launch appropriate to 2011 Sikkim earth quake illustrate that ontology centered multiple documents summarization techniques outperforms other baselines with regards to the conclusion top quality. Also we are designing a Hierarchical clustering algorithm instead of K-means clustering algorithm for better precision. It is found that the greater part of the current techniques often focus on sentence scoring and less attention is given to the appropriate information content in various records.
Exploration Through a Concept: Japanese Classical Acting as a Model of Harmonic Contrasts

The Chinese concept of harmonic contrasts in the vocal expression and movement of the actor in the three styles of classical Japanese theatre — no, kyogen and kabuki — is explored. The Japanese theatre employs two pairs of contrasts: 1) essential contrast — kyo (fiction, abstract, etc.) and jitsu (reality, concrete, etc.); and 2) structural contrast — in (quiescence, feminine, etc.) and yd (movement, masculine, etc.). The vocal expression of the actor is divided into essential contradictory categories and within these categories the actor creates various structural contrasts, through which he moulds contradictory situations and moments of a single character, as well as contrasts between contradictory characters. In movement the actor creates a clear distinction between movements and quiescence and uses structural contrasts to create spatial contradictory postures and movements. The essential contrast is expressed through a mixture of mimetic and abstract movements. This is the first time that a comprehens.