Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparison of Behavioral Activation-Inhibition Systems and Sense of Coherence in Bodybuilders with and Without Use of Anabolic- Androgenic Steroids

Introduction: Anabolic-androgenic steroids are one of the powerful drugs that cause long-term hormonal and psychological changes that can have a wide range of side effects for the athletes. Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the Behavioral Activation-Inhibition Systems and Sense of Coherence in Bodybuilders with and without Use Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids. Materials and Methods: The method of this research is descriptive comparative. The statistical population consisted of all bodybuilders with and without taking anabolic-androgenic steroids in Rasht in 2019, of which 140 individuals (70 natural bodybuilders and 70 steroids bodybuilders) were selected purposefully and included questionnaires of Carver & White (1994) behavioral activation-inhibition systems and sense of coherence Antonovsky (1993) responded by the participants. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance by SPSS 24. Results: The findings of the present study showed that there was a significant difference between the two groups in the activation/inhibition system and the sense of coherence (P<0.01). Compared with natural bodybuilders, steroid bodybuilders had less behavioral inhibition (15.95) and sense of coherence (18.87) and more behavioral activation systems (37.77). Conclusion: According to the results, we suggest that bodybuilders who have used steroids derivatives have many irreversible problems in their cognitive and physical functions. Therefore, coaches need to pay more attention to the psychological problems of the athletes and examine them before competitions. Conflict of interest: non declared
Medicine Delivery Drone

— In this study we are implementing a medicine drone delivery system using CC3D flight controller which is configured using Open pilot Ground Control Station software. The drone is optimized to deliver the medicine in rural areas, its location can be tracked using GPS together with the Blynk software. The location tracker have been carried out using NodeMCU. This drone can be of great use in certain regions where the geographical terrain is uneven and not fit for proper transportation, also in the areas where there is still lack of proper transportation services available.
Effects of Noisy Multiobjective Test Functions Applied to Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms

In this paper we study the effects of noise in multiobjective optimization problems. We consider a test function, which may be affected by noise with different strength and frequency of occurrence. To simplify the analysis, the noise is applied to only one of the objective functions, i.e. one of the objective functions is affected by additional random influences. Three different evolutionary algorithms for multiobjective problems are analyzed in this way: the Covariance Matrix Adaption Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES), the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic AlgorithmII (NSGA-II), and the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). The results are presented and analyzed with respect to the resulting Pareto fronts and with respect to the distribution of variable values during the algorithm run. It can be observed that all three algorithms are basically able to derive suitable results. However, only PSO leads to a sparse Pareto front in case of noisy and non-noisy situations while CMA and NSGA-II perform similarly well. In some situations for NSGA-II and more clearly for CMA-ES specific patterns for the variable values (denoted as striae in this paper) can be observed which appear to be partly caused by the noise.
Energy based Control Barrier Functions for Robotic Systems

Control barrier function (CBF) based Quadratic Programs (QPs) were introduced in early 2014 as a means to guarantee safety in affine control systems in conjunction with stability/tracking. However, due to the presence of model-based terms, they fail to provide guarantees under model perturbations. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new class of CBFs for robotic systems that augment kinetic energy with the traditional forms. We show that with torque limits permitting, and with the kinematic models accurately known, forward invariance of safe sets generated by kinematic constraints (position and velocity) can be guaranteed. The proposed methodology is motivated by the control Lyapunov function (CLF) based QPs that use the kinetic energy function. By the property of CBF-QPs, we show that the pointwise min-norm control laws obtained are feasible and Lipschitz continuous, and can be derived analytically via the KKT conditions. In order to include stability with safety, we also augment CLF based constraints in the CBF-QPs to realize a unified control law that allows tracking with safety irrespective of the inertial parameters of the robot. We will demonstrate the robustness of this class of CBF-QPs in two robotic platforms: a 1-DOF and a 2-DOF manipulator, by scaling the masses by up to 100, and then simulating the resulting dynamics.
Quasi point-symmetry models based on f-divergence and decomposition of point-symmetry for multi-way contingency tables

For two-way contingency tables, Tomizawa (1985) considered the quasi point-symmetry (QP) model and the marginal point-symmetry (MP) model, and gave the theorem that the point-symmetry (PS) model holds if and only if both the QP and MP models hold. Tahata and Tomizawa (2008) provided similar theorems for multi-way tables. For multi-way tables, the present paper proposes the quasi point-symmetry (QP[f ]) model based on f -divergence. The QP[f ] model includes the QP model in a special case. It also gives the theorem that the PS model holds if and only if both the QP[f ] and MP models hold, and the theorem that the test statistic for goodness-of-fit of the PS model is asymptotically equivalent to the sum of those for the decomposed models under the PS model. AMS 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 62H17.
LASER CLASSIFICATION OF OLIVE FRUITS DURING MATURITY ACCORDING TO OPTICAL PROPERTIES

The aim of this study was measuring and determination of the optical properties of olive maturity stages (Arbquina variety) using visible laser with 543.5 nm with power 4 mW. The obtained results were as follows: a) The intensity reflection percentages 1.36, 1.0 and 0.51% or absorption percentages 98.64, 99 and 99.49% not accepted for stages 1,2 and 3 respectively. Also, reflection percentage of 0.42% or absorption percentage of 99.58% for stage 5 was refused, b) The intensity reflection percentage 0.47% or the absorption percentage 99.53% was indicator to the best maturity index (2.65) of olive variety. This is considering optical properties instead of ideal maturity index to determine harvesting time. , d) Stage 1 was high reflection intensity percentage or low absorption intensity percentage followed with high moisture content and low oil content percentages. Meanwhile, stage 5 with low reflection intensity percentage or high absorption intensity percentage was of low moisture content and high oil content percentages. So, the stage 4 was considered suitable for oil extracting, because of low moisture content 40.41 % and high oil content 19.22 %. It was standard to identify olive maturity stages to get high oil percentage according to optical properties.
Evaluation of biokinetics and dosimetry in [I]-NaI therapies: quantification of whole body images versus thigh region

This study evaluate the possibility of restricting the current image quantification (ROI) from the whole body to a small area in thigh for therapy planning. Whole body planar images were obtained from 13 patients after the administration of I tracer dose, and OLINDA/EXM software was used for internal dose calculation. The average value of half-life time was 16.46 ± 3.45 h in whole body quantification, compared to 14.07 ± 2.89 h in thigh. The average absorbed dose in bone marrow from the whole body quantification was 0.0519 ± 0.0250 mGy/MBq, whilst the absorbed dose provided by the thigh quantification represented 87% of this value, with up to 95% in time reduction for dose calculation. Such doses become similar when a correction factor of 1.13 is applied in thigh dose results (p=0.67), which is within the variation coefficient assumed to internal dosimetry (20%). This study shows the possibility of a significant time reduction in internal dose calculation applied to therapy planning.
The joint effect of board independence and CSR committee on CSR disclosure: Evidence from Italian listed companies

Sustainability has become one of the key hubs around which the actions conducted by international economic operators revolve. This new perspective, perhaps better defined as “requirement”, given its specific weight in the global context, needs analysis of firms’ behaviours with regard to sustainability disclosure and the corporate governance (CG) mechanisms influencing the information released. Board of directors and CSR committee are critical CG mechanisms in that sense. This paper aims at investigating the relationship between specifics board characteristics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure. More specifically, the study investigates the relation between board independence and CSR disclosure, and how this relationship is moderated by the presence of a CSR committee. The analysis has been conducted on a sample of 119 Italian non-financial listed companies. The results obtained, using OLS regression method, show the existence of a positive and significant relationship between board independence and CSR disclosure. Moreover, the findings reveal that the presence of a CSR committee positively moderates the previous relationship, showing the complementary role played by board independence and CSR committee. These results have critical implications for boards, managers, regulators, and policymakers operating to define better corporate governance mechanisms, highlighting the importance of the joint effect of board independence and CSR committee in improving firms’ CSR disclosure practices. Our study also has relevant implications for researchers, evidencing the need to study the complementary effects of different CG mechanisms, rather than the single effect, on influencing CSR disclosure.
Insolvency analysis of the food manufacturing industry in Cuenca

The risk of insolvency is related to failure or business closure, for this reason the analysis and management of this type of risk is important. The insolvency risk was applied to the food manufacturing industry in Cuenca in the period 2013-2017, which allowed to determine the bankruptcy risk existing in the companies analyzed, as well as trends of the indicator in relation to the business size. Two models were applied: the business insolvency prediction model of Altman and the logistic model using the maximum likelihood method proposed by Ohlson. Altman’s model showed that companies in the 5 years analyzed are in “Safe Zone” (3,187 points in 2013 and 3,448 in 2017). Similarly, the Ohlson model, showed that in 2013 there was a 20,7% risk of insolvency in the sector, compared to 17,7% in 2017. The results of the analysis indicate that insolvency risk shows a decreasing trend in the analyzed period, which take us to the conclusion that the sector is financially healthy. However, due to the current changing environment and the internal operative management, it is very likely that the values suffer changes. Analyzing the risk of insolvency is fundamental for companies, considering that it will allow them to know the level of bankruptcy risk they have, and based on this, take measures to reduce the risk. Key words: Altman model; food sector in Cuenca; insolvency risk; Ohlson model.
A Comprehensive Review On Herbal Drug Standardization

Now days more importance has been given to use medicinal plant products in healthcare system.it fulfills worldwide need of alternative medicine so traditional systems of medicine becomes more and more popular. It involves Proper combination of modern scientific techniques and traditional knowledge. The quality of herbal products is checked through stability testing studies which depends on various factors, such as temperature, humidity, light, oxygen, moisture, other ingredient , microbial contamination, trace metal contamination, leaching from the container, etc. Therefore such studies involves various types of evaluation such as chemical, physical, microbiological, therapeutic and toxicological studies can serve as an important tool in stability studies. Standardization of herbal drugs means confirmation of its identity, Quality and purity. The present study includes review of various standardization parameters with their effectivity towards the quality herbal drugs. Present article also overviews various well-designed methodologies, techniques such as Chromatography, Spectroscopic tech. for the standardization of herbal raw materials and herbal formulations.
The 2017 KIT IWSLT Speech-to-Text Systems for English and German

This paper describes our German and English Speech-to-Text (STT) systems for the 2017 IWSLT evaluation campaign. The campaign focuses on the transcription of unsegmented lecture talks. Our setup includes systems using both the Janus and Kaldi frameworks. We combined the outputs using both ROVER [1] and confusion network combination (CNC) [2] to achieve a good overall performance. The individual subsystems are built by using different speaker-adaptive feature combination (e.g., lMEL with i-vector or bottleneck speaker vector), acoustic models (GMM or DNN) and speaker adaptation (MLLR or fMLLR). Decoding is performed in two stages, where the GMM and DNN systems are adapted on the combination of the first stage outputs using MLLR, and fMLLR. The combination setup produces a final hypothesis that has a significantly lower WER than any of the individual sub-systems. For the English lecture task, our best combination system has a WER of 8.3% on the tst2015 development set while our other combinations gained 25.7% WER for German lecture tasks.
Price Impact of ESG Scores: Evidence from Korean Retail Firms*,**

Purpose – This paper examines the value relevance of socially responsible activities in the Korean retail firms. Recent studies predict positive relationships between socially responsible activities and the value of corporation. Research design, data, and methodology – We use the environmental score, social score, governance score and the sum of these three scores to represent a fim’s effectiveness of socially responsible activities. These scores are published by the Korean Corporate Governance Service. This paper adopts a share price valuation model to evaluate the effect of socially responsible activities on a firm’s share price, which controls for the book value of assets and current earnings. The ordinary least square method is employed to examine the relationship. The sample of Korea retail firms is examined from 2011 to 2016. We also conduct sub-sample analysis based on the categorization of chaebol affiliates and non-chaebol affiliates. Results – The entire sample analysis finds neither negatively nor positively significant relationship between socially responsible activities and the value of a corporation. In contrast, our examinations find a significantly positive valuation effect of social score within non-chaebol retail firms. Conclusions – The results weakly support the positive valuation effect of socially responsible activities. The results are consistent with recent studies that highlight heterogeneous effects of socially responsible activities on corporate policies and valuation.
Seed Production and Mortality in a Rare Banksia Species

(1) Seed production and release by Banksia tricuspis, a small tree restricted to a 50 km2 area in south-western Australia, were assessed. Most plants in the study population flowered in the nineteenth year after fire and on average 16 500 ovules per adult were produced. (2) Most flower heads were destroyed by moth larvae and larval-seeking cockatoos. Of the 1 5 young seeds produced on average per adult, almost half aborted, apparently due to the constraints of the breeding system and limited supply of mineral nutrients. Beetle larvae destroyed a further 15% of mature seeds. (3) There was marked senescence and spontaneous release of seeds in the fourth and subsequent years. The mean value of eighty-four canopy-stored viable seeds per adult that remained were almost entirely accounted for by the size of the crops for the last 3 years. (4) All viable seeds were released in response to an autumn wildfire. Seedling establishment only occurred immediately after the fire. (5) Low seed production and rapid depletion of the canopy-stored seed bank are not sufficient in themselves to account for the rarity of B. tricuspis. Management in the wild should include conservation of cockatoos and other animals which consume the granivorous moth larvae and control of the fire regime.
Successful Management of Live Ectopic Pregnancy with High B-Hcg Titres by Systemic Methotrexate Injection: A Case Report

Background: Use of methotrexate (MTX) as a nonsurgical management of unruptured ectopic pregnancies has been well accepted. However, use of it in high serum chorionic gonadotropin concentration and in live fetus has been considered as relative contraindication for medical therapy. The aim of this report is to emphasize that these contraindications can be revisable in some situations and discuss about this fact that the success rate can be affected by the type of protocols used for medical treatment. Case presentation: A 31 years old primigravid woman was admitted to our hospital due to a sonogram's report of ectopic pregnancy with a high initial serum B-hCG concentration (26900) and presence of fetal cardiac activity. Her vital signs were stable and she did not agree with operative intervention. Two-dose protocol was scheduled but appropriate response to treatment was obtained after receiving the third dose of methotrexate. Negative serum B-hCG (< 1 mIu/ml) was achieved on day 80 without any related treatment complication on follow up. Conclusions: Use of double- dose protocols of MTX in medical treatment of ectopic pregnancy increase the chance of successful and nonsurgical treatment even in live fetus with high B-hCG titers.
Evaluation of Gas Potential in Early Cretaceous Shale Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan

The shale gas potential of the early Cretaceous Talhar shale member of the lower Goru Formation in lower Indus basin of Sanghar district, Sindh province, has been evaluated using 2D seismic and well logs data. Graphical and empirical techniques were applied to calculate various geochemical parameters for the evaluation of shale plays. Total Organic Carbon (TOC) is calculated by Passey's (∆LogR) Overlay technique and its values are about 2.44 wt. %. Vitrinite Reflectance (Ro) is estimated by graphical and empirical relation and the value lies between 0.95-1.0 which implies that the Talhar shale member is in peak oil and initial gas generation phase. Log-derived Maturity Index (LMI) is calculated by NPHI, RHOB or density log and uranium logs. The average value is about 0.55 which reflects that the formation is probably in the initial maturation phase. Kerogen Volume (Vk) is estimated by empirical relation using RHOB log as input and it is about 13 wt. % which reflects that the formation has enough potential of oil/gas expulsion. The results are compared and validated with a study of the adjacent field of the same basin. This study reveals that Talhar member of lower Goru Formation could be the future probable potential unconventional reservoir for exploration in lower Indus basin of Pakistan.
Twitter review analysis and sarcasm detection

Due to the increase in the number of users on the web, and the increase of the number of reviews that the user's giveaway, it becomes essential to understand and analyze this data. This paper provides a review analysis model for getting feedback from users about specific products found in tweets. This model predicts the polarity of tweet reviews. The main idea of this system is to give report with percent of positive and negative opinions about a specific product. Machine learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) approaches are used to get a preliminary determination of the polarity of a tweet by analyzing public ones published on Twitter. In addition, this proposed model uses two techniques: topic modeling and word weight as a feature engineering and three ML algorithms: support vector machine, convolutional neural network (CNN) and naïve bays. The accuracy results of the three algorithms are compared to decide which one is better when using the same data-sets As a conclusion our model aims to provide a whole feedback picture about any product on the social network, but we will use here twitter because it is one of the most popular SN.
Evaluating the Contribution of Glutamate Dehydrogenase and the Glutamate Synthase Cycle to Ammonia Assimilation by Four Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Isolates

Combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry were used to evaluate the contributions of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) and the glutamate synthase cycle in 15N-labelled ammonium assimilation by four ectomycorrhizal fungal isolates. In all four species (Elaphomyces, Amanita, Pisolithus and Gautieria), glutamine was the major product accumulated following transfer of 14-day-old nitrogen-limited cultures to fresh medium. Label was rapidly assimilated into fungal tissue, with rates of 733 nmol g-1 FW h-1 in Pisolithus, 972 nmol g-1 FW h-1 in Amanita, 2760 nmol g-1 FW h-1 in Gautieria and 6756 nmol g-1 FW h-1 in Elaphomyces sp in the first 4 h of incubation. Incorporation of [15N]ammonium was sensitive to the inhibitory effects of both methionine sulfoximine (MSX, an inhibitor of glutamine synthetase (GS)) and albizziin (an inhibitor of glutamate synthase (GOGAT)) in three species (Amanita, Gautieria and Pisolithus) and labelling patterns were consistent with the action of the glutamate synthase cycle in ammonium assimilation. In all three species glutamine synthesis was almost totally blocked by MSX and there was no continued incorporation of 15N into glutamate. Elaphomyces displayed high levels of total incorporation of labelled ammonium in mycelium even in the presence of MSX, although incorporation into glutamine was reduced by 88%. This inhibition of GS by MSX, in addition to its partial inhibition by albizziin suggests strongly the action of glutamate synthase cycle in ammonium assimilation. The reduction in label entering glutamate under the influence of albizziin is direct evidence for the inhibition of GOGAT activity. However, MSX treatment had the effect of increasing significantly the quantity of label recovered in both glutamate and alanine. In the absence of GS inhibition there is clearly competition for ammonium which under normal physiological conditions results in assimilation through the glutamate synthase cycle. However, when GS is blocked by MSX label is able to cycle through the GDH pathway. Extra keywords: ectomycorrhiza, ammonium assimilation, glutamate synthase cycle, glutamate dehydrogenase, amino acid metabolism.
Water Economy and Metabolism of Two Estrildine Finches

BE ING a closely related group of species with an extensive tropical and subtropical distribution in the Old World, Africa, southern Asia, and Australia, the estrildine finches provide an opportunity to study physiological attributes which may have become adaptively modified in various populations for specific environmental conditions within this large range. For this initial study, the zebra finch (Taeniopygia castanotis) of Australia was chosen as a xerophilous form to compare with the tropical black-rumped waxbill (Estrilda troglodytes) of Africa, because it seemed likely that these two species might reveal the maximum difference in physiological adjustments for the regulation of water to be found within the subfamily Estrildinae.