Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Midtrimester preterm prelabour rupture of membranes ( PPROM )

Background: Babies born after midtrimester preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (PPROM) are at risk to develop neonatal pulmonary hypoplasia. Perinatal mortality and morbidity after this complication is high. Oligohydramnios in the midtrimester following PPROM is considered to cause a delay in lung development. Repeated transabdominal amnioinfusion with the objective to alleviate oligohydramnios might prevent this complication and might improve neonatal outcome. Methods/Design: Women with PPROM and persisting oligohydramnios between 16 and 24 weeks gestational age will be asked to participate in a multi-centre randomised controlled trial. Intervention: random allocation to (repeated) abdominal amnioinfusion (intervention) or expectant management (control). The primary outcome is perinatal mortality. Secondary outcomes are lethal pulmonary hypoplasia, non-lethal pulmonary hypoplasia, survival till discharge from NICU, neonatal mortality, chronic lung disease (CLD), number of days ventilatory support, necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), periventricular leucomalacia (PVL) more than grade I, severe intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) more than grade II, proven neonatal sepsis, gestational age at delivery, time to delivery, indication for delivery, successful amnioinfusion, placental abruption, cord prolapse, chorioamnionitis, fetal trauma due to puncture. The study will be evaluated according to intention to treat. To show a decrease in perinatal mortality from 70% to 35%, we need to randomise two groups of 28 women (two sided test, β-error 0.2 and α-error 0.05). Discussion: This study will answer the question if (repeated) abdominal amnioinfusion after midtrimester PPROM with associated oligohydramnios improves perinatal survival and prevents pulmonary hypoplasia and other neonatal morbidities. Moreover, it will assess the risks associated with this procedure. Trial registration: NTR3492 Dutch Trial Register (www.trialregister.nl).
ffi cient Algorithms for Graph Regularized PLSA

Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) is a popular data analysis method with the objective to discover the underlying semantic structure of input data. In this work, we describe a method for probabilistic topic analysis in image and text based on a new representation of graph-regularized PLSA (GPLSA). In GPLSA, data entities are mapped to an undirected graph, where similarities between topic compositions on the graph are measured by the divergence between discrete probabilities. Such divergence is essentially incorporated as a graph-regularizer that augments the original PLSA algorithm. Furthermore, we extend the GPLSA algorithms to multiple data modalities based on the connections between data entities of each modality. We propose efficient multiplicative iterative algorithms for GPLSA with three popular regularizers, namely `1, `2 and symmetric KL divergences. In each case, we derive simple efficient numerical solutions that require only matrix arithmetic operations during the optimization. The performance of proposed algorithms was evaluated on three applications: (1) image clustering as a single-modality topic analysis, (2) the text/image cross-modal retrieval, and (3) multi-lingual topic analysis as a multi-modality topic analysis. Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of GPLSA over state-of-the-art methods in these applications. c © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Dynamic Systems and Applications 16 ( 2007 ) 379-392 ITERATIVE APPROXIMATIONS OF SOLUTIONS FOR SYSTEMS OF NONLINEAR OPERATOR EQUATIONS IN BANACH SPACES

In this paper, by virtue of the Mann iterative technique, we introduce and study a class of systems of nonlinear equations without any mixed monotone property and continuity, and prove the existence, uniqueness and Mann iterative approximation theorems of solutions for systems of nonlinear operator equations. The results presented in this paper improve and generalize the corresponding results of the earlier and recent works.
Isolation and genetic structure of the AvaU isoschizomeric restriction-modification system HgiBl from Herpetosiphon giganteus Hpg 5 : M . HgiBl reveals high homology to

The complete type II restriction-modification system HgiB\ of Herpetosiphon giganteus strain Hpg5 recognizing the Avail specific DNA sequence GGWCC has been cloned and expressed functionally active in Escherichla coll. A considerable acceleration in cloning could be acchleved by preparing a size restricted library after application of a related hybridization probe. Both methyltransferase (437 codons) and restriction endonuclease gene (274 codons) were found to be encoded on a 3.6 kilobases Cla\/Hinc\\ fragment in the same transcriptional orientation separated by one triplett only. Protein sequence comparisons revealed a close resemblance of M.Wg/BI to the group of m 5 ^ methyltransferases, especially to M.Sanl from Bacillus aneurinolytlcus with the related recognition sequence GGYRCC. In contrast, no significant similarities have been observed for the associated endonuclease R.Hg/BI with any other restriction enzyme described so far, even not with the isoschizomeric R.S/nl from Salmonella infantls, or with R.Sanl.
Methods The model : Hybrid 6 . 5

The likely future increase in atmospheric CO2 and associated changes in climate will affect global patterns of plant production. Models integrate understanding of the influence of the environment on plant physiological processes and so enable estimates of future changes to be made. Moreover, they allow us to assess the consequences of different assumptions for predictions and so stimulate further research. This paper is a review of the sensitivities of one such model, Hybrid6.5, a detailed mechanistic model of terrestrial primary production. This model is typical of its type, and the sensitivities of the global distribution of predicted production to model assumptions and possible future CO2 levels and climate are assessed. Sensitivity tests show that leaf phenology has large effects on mean C3 crop and needleleaved cold deciduous tree production, reducing potential net primary production (NPP) from that obtained using constant maximum annual leaf area index by 32.9% and 41.6%, respectively. Generalized Plant Type (GPT) specific parameterizations, particularly photosynthetic capacity per unit leaf N, affect mean predicted NPP of higher C3 plants by –22.3% to 27.9%, depending on the GPT, compared to NPP predictions obtained using mean parameter values. An increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations from current values to 720 ppm by the end of this century, with associated effects on climate from a typical climate model, is predicted to increase global NPP by 37.3%. Mean increases range from 43.9–52.9% across different C3 GPTs, whereas the mean NPP of C4 grass and crop increases by 5.9%. Significant uncertainties concern the extent to which acclimative processes may reduce any potential future increase in primary production and the degree to which any gains are transferred to durable, and especially edible, biomass. Experimentalists and modellers need to work closely together to reduce these uncertainties. A number of research priorities are suggested. ‘The green leaf or, to be more precise, the microscopic green grain of chlorophyll, is the focus, the point in the world to which solar energy flows on one side while all the manifestations of life on earth take their source on the other side. ’ Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev The conclusions of a century of plant physiology, speech at Moscow University, 12 January 1901
C O ] 2 7 O ct 2 01 8 Anticoncentration for subgraph statistics

Consider integers k, l such that 0 ≤ l ≤ ( k 2 ) . Given a large graph G, what is the fraction of k-vertex subsets of G which span exactly l edges? When G is empty or complete, and l is zero or ( k 2 ) , this fraction can be exactly 1. On the other hand, if l is far from these extreme values, one might expect that this fraction is substantially smaller than 1. This was recently proved by Alon, Hefetz, Krivelevich and Tyomkyn who intiated the systematic study of this question and proposed several natural conjectures. Let l∗ = min{l, ( k 2 ) − l}. Our main result is that for any k and l, the fraction of k-vertex subsets that span l edges is at most log(l∗/k) √ k/l, which is best-possible up to the logarithmic factor. This improves on multiple results of Alon, Hefetz, Krivelevich and Tyomkyn, and resolves one of their conjectures. In addition, we also make some first steps towards some analogous questions for hypergraphs. Our proofs involve some Ramsey-type arguments, and a number of different probabilistic tools, such as polynomial anticoncentration inequalities, hypercontractivity, and a coupling trick for random variables defined on a “slice” of the Boolean hypercube.
Graph Database Document Database Timeseries Database Data Storage Payload Logging Store Model Metrics Store Data Access ModelOps Core Domain Metamodel Pipeline Task Catalog Orchestration Engine Execution Deployment & Experimentation Quality Gates Monitoring & Event Processing Analytics Engine Runtim

This paper proposes a cloud-based framework and platform for end-to-end development and lifecycle management of artificial intelligence (AI) applications. We build on our previous work on platform-level support for cloud-managed deep learning services, and show how the principles of software lifecycle management can be leveraged and extended to enable automation, trust, reliability, traceability, quality control, and reproducibility of AI pipelines. Based on a discussion of use cases and current challenges, we describe a framework for managing AI application lifecycles and its key components. We also show concrete examples that illustrate how this framework enables managing and executing model training and continuous learning pipelines while infusing trusted AI principles.
Wave digital filters with minimum multiplier for discrete Hilbert transformer realization

This paper describes the design of wave digital filters for discrete Hilbert transformer realization. A method for designing real and complex half-band wave digital filters (WDFs) with a minimum number of multipliers is afforded where the multiplier coefficients for the adaptors are calculated directly from the digital domain transfer functions. This technique uses the equations derived for a class of infinite impulse response (IIR) filter and hence avoids the conventional technique of synthesizing a WDF from an analogue reference filter. The selection of the adaptor configuration is determined from the multiplier coefficient values. A minimum multiplier realization of real half-band WDFs can be obtained to meet the lowpass digital filter magnitude specifications. By applying a transformation equation, a complex half-band WDF suitable for the realization of the discrete Hilbert transformer with a minimum number of multiplier is obtained. r 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Practice of Epidemiology Methods for Pooling Results of Epidemiologic Studies The Pooling Project of Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer

Stephanie A. Smith-Warner, Donna Spiegelman, John Ritz, Demetrius Albanes, W. Lawrence Beeson, Leslie Bernstein, Franco Berrino, Piet A. van den Brandt, Julie E. Buring, Eunyoung Cho, Graham A. Colditz, Aaron R. Folsom, Jo L. Freudenheim, Edward Giovannucci, R. Alexandra Goldbohm, Saxon Graham, Lisa Harnack, Pamela L. HornRoss, Vittorio Krogh, Michael F. Leitzmann, Marjorie L. McCullough, Anthony B. Miller, Carmen Rodriguez, Thomas E. Rohan, Arthur Schatzkin, Roy Shore, Mikko Virtanen, Walter C. Willett, Alicja Wolk, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Shumin M. Zhang, and David J. Hunter
Oral Findings in Children with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Treated with Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy : an Institutional Study in Indonesia

The oral findings among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected children in Indonesia especially treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) have never been reported. This study aimed to identify the oral manifestations, dental and oral health status of Indonesian children with HIV infection treated with HAART. The cross sectional study was conducted at Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (CMH) in Jakarta, Indonesia. The children in-patients (aged 1 to 12 years) confirmed to be HIV-positive by Department of Pediatrics were recruited. The sociodemographic data, oral mucosal condition, DMFT, deft, OHIS score, use of HAART and immune status were recorded. Seventy children who were undergoing HAART were included in this study. This study found low prevalence of oral mucosal lesion related to HIV infection. Gingivitis was the most common oral condition found in 48 (68.6%) children followed by aphthous ulcers, pseudomembrane candidiasis, herpes infection, angular cheilitis, ecchymosis and oral wart lesion. A high caries prevalence were seen in this study with mean score of deft and DMFT were 8.2 + 6.7 and 0.9 + 1.9 respectively and the mean OHIS score was 1.35 + 0.6. Clinical article (J Int Dent Med Res 2016; 9: (Special Issue), pp. 306-311)
An Efficient System Verification based-on Check-points

—Recently, model checking has played an important role in design of embedded systems, complex systems, and other critical systems. However, it is inefﬁciency to verify the entire systems. This article considers the case where designers of systems can extract check-points easily in model checking of formal veriﬁcation. Moreover, we propose a method by which temporal formulas can be obtained inductively for speciﬁcations in model checking. Finally, we demonstrate veriﬁcation results for some arbitration modules by NuSMV model checking tool.
in Quantitative Logistics Optimizing cargo flow for tramp and industrial shipping

This paper considers a class of deterministic cargo ship routing and scheduling problems with time windows, for several shipping types. To solve these problems, this paper provides an Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search heuristic. This heuristic is evaluated against the CPLEX method that uses a marginal integer program provided in this paper. The heuristic provides high quality solutions on the field of efficiency for all the instances used, with some optimal solution for smaller instances. Furthermore, this paper discusses several methods in cost assignment among customers. Afterwards we compares these methods for several characteristics with each other and give our findings on every methods performances per characteristic.
Neonatal Infrared Thermography Image Processing

The temperature changes inside incubator affect the newborns, who are the most delicate patients. The project proposes an innovative method to monitor the skin temperature of the neonates. The temperature monitoring is carried out by a virtual sensor. This virtual sensor is based in an infrared thermal camera that is placed outside the incubator. In order to obtain the infrared radiation through the incubator Plexiglas, an infrared transparent window is required. The experiment carried out was focused on obtaining the transparent properties in the infrared spectral range measurement of this window. On the other hand, the thermal imaging processing is necessary to obtain the thermal information from the infrared imager and to be able to track the region of interest throughout the field of view.
OF GEOPHAGIC CLAYEY SOILS FROM BOTSWANA

This study focused on determining the minerals composition and particle morphology of geophagic clayey soils from Botswana in order to infer on how they could influence human health. Six representative geophagic clayey soils from Botswana were mineralogically characterized using X-ray powder diffractometry (XRPD), optical microscopy, and environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM). Results of identified mineral phases revealed quartz (SiO2) as the most dominant in all samples constituting close to 70 wt %; followed by goethite (FeO.OH) having a mean concentration of 9 wt%, and kaolinite (Al2Si2O5(OH)4) with a mean concentration of 8 wt%. Other minerals present were smectite ((Na,Ca)(Al,Mg)6(Si4O10)3(OH)6-n(H2O)), mica (AB2-3(Al,Si)Si3O10)(F,OH)2), feldspar (Na/K(AlSi3O8)) and hematite (Fe2O3). The quartz particles were generally coarse; and angular to very angular in morphology. Due to ions present in goethite, kaolinite, and smectite, these minerals impact positively on properties of geophagic clayey soils and could possibly influence human health when consumed. The quartz particles could negatively affect dental enamel as a result of mastication; and cause abrasion of the walls of the gastro-intestinal tract which may lead to rupturing. Although the studied clayey soils could have potential to provide medicinal benefits to the consumer, there is need for beneficiation exercise to be conducted to reduce the coarse angular particles contained in them. It is therefore necessary for constructive efforts to be directed at beneficiating geophagic materials which will render them safe for human consumption.
Formulation and Evaluation of Medicated Nail Patches for the Treatment of Onychomycosis

The oral therapies encounter side effects and topical therapies for nail diseases are limited by poor permeability of nail plate. An optimal penetration enhancer would improve drug delivery through nail plate facilitating new possibilities for treating neighboring target sites if the systemic circulation is reached. The present investigation aims to formulate and evaluate of medicated nail patches for the treatment of diseases like Onychomycosis (fungal infection of nail) and psoriasis, Yellow nail syndrome, Paronychia and many others. The objective of study to explore the difficulties in penetration of drug across nail patches and to enhance bioavailability of antifungal drugs. Nail drug delivery system is used to reduce such a hazardous systemic effects and provides longer contact time at a site of action. Many formulation of clotrimazole were prepared by using optimized formula which shows better diffusion and permeation. These are evaluated for various parameters including in-vitro release (Diffusion) studies in 7.4 pH phosphate buffers. Effects of varying concentration of various excipients were studied. The evaluation of that patches is carried out by drug excipient interactions subjecting to FTIR Spectral analysis, in-vitro diffusion studies, drug content analysis, NDDS is used to achieve maximum therapeutic effect along with improve patient’s compliance.
BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BASED ON SYNCHRONOUS NON-INVERTING BUCK-BOOST DC-DC CONVERTER

Battery and load management on a stand-alone electric generator from renewable energy sources manages the process of battery charging and discharging. This study discusses design, simulation and implementation of Synchronous Non-Inverting Buck-Boost (SNIBB) using four-switch H-bridge to control current and voltage of multi-stage charging lead acid battery. When the voltage is under 2.4 V/cell, the charging current of battery is kept constant using constant-current (CC) mode, then the voltage is kept constant on constant-voltage (CV) mode until the charging current reaches 5% and it is switched to float-charge mode with set point voltage 2.25 V/cell. Controlling battery charging/discharging and load is using two switches with the parameters, such as power electric source, battery capacity, and load. The implementation of the design is using microcontroller ATMega 16 with PI controller. As on CV and CC mode, SNIBB circuit is able to keep voltage and current appropriate to the set point with the changes of input voltage. On CC mode, when the set point of current is increased, the charging time is faster. The result shows that the battery management designed is able to control charging and discharging the battery to the load.
Evaluation of c hanges in s tereophonic i magery during p rogressive o ptimization of l oudspeaker c onfiguration in c ritical l istening r ooms

While simple approaches to the configuration of loudspeakers in critical listening rooms are well known, there is no standardized practice for optimising loudspeaker positions that is based upon improvements in the perceived quality of the stereophonic imagery associated with adjustments to the loudspeaker positions. As the influence of the acoustical response of the reproduction space on stereophonic imagery is not so simple to predict, a pragmatic solution to this problem has been developed and is growing in popularity, particularly among recording engineers. This method utilising changes in stereophonic image quality that occur when moving either the listening position or loudspeaker positions in an effort to find an optimum configuration within a listening room. While the method gives good practical results, there is as yet no explanation as to how or why the method works, and no consensus regarding the characterisation of changes in auditory imagery to which listeners must attend. To provide a more scientific foundation for explaining this method, the steps involved in optimisation were documented for a test case, and the changes in the binaural responses during the adjustment of loudspeaker positions were analysed in relation to loudspeaker configurations that were preferred by a group of ten listeners.
Evolving Regular Expression Features for Text Classification with Genetic Programming

Text classification algorithms often rely on vocabulary counters like bag-of-words or character ngrams to represent text as a vector appropriate for use in machine learning algorithms. In this work, automatically generated regular expressions are proposed as an alternative feature set. The proposed algorithm uses genetic programming to evolve a set of regular expression features based on labeled text data and train a classifier in an end-to-end fashion. Though a comparison of the generated features and traditional text features indicates a classifier using generated features is not able to make better predictions, the generated features are able to capture patterns that cannot be found with the traditional features. As a result, a classifier combining traditional methods with generated features is able to improve significantly.
EOARD Grant [ FA 8655-12-1-2103 ] Final report Tunable shape-shifting structures for military applications Version 1 . 00 Status :

NURBS-based isogeometric analysis was first extended to thin shell/membrane structures which allows for finite membrane stretching as well as large deflection and bending strain. The assumed non-linear kinematics employs the Kirchhoff-Love shell theory to describe the mechanical behaviour of thin to ultra-thin structures. The displacement fields are interpolated from the displacements of control points only, and no rotational degrees of freedom are used at control points. Due to the high order Ck (k ≥ 1) continuity of NURBS shape functions the Kirchhoff-Love theory can be seamlessly implemented. An explicit time integration scheme is used to compute the transient response of membrane structures to time-domain excitations, and a dynamic relaxation method is employed to obtain steady-state solutions. The versatility and good performance of the present formulation is demonstrated with the aid of a number of test cases, including a square membrane strip under static pressure, the inflation of a spherical shell under internal pressure, the inflation of a square airbag and the inflation of a rubber balloon. The mechanical contribution of the bending stiffness is also evaluated. MANUSCRIPT REMOVED FOR PUBLIC DTIC VERSION OF THIS REPORT. SEE JOURNAL OR CONTACT AFOSR/EOARD FOR MORE INFO. Distribution A: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.