Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Context Aware Similarity Measure Selection: Mining of Wearable Implantable Body Sensor Network Data with Logical Reasoning

: Wireless sensor networks monitor the environment with various types of sensors. Environment in its broader terms can be the geographic environment or it can be our human body. One such type of network is Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Network (WIBSN). This paper focuses on processing of data generated from WIBSN. WIBSN includes a network of sensors that generate different type of values. This paper treats each sensor as a dimension in the whole dataset. In this case, data may have both continuous and discrete values. Hence; proposed work can be applicable for both of those data values. By identifying nature of the sensor data model, underlying similarity or dissimilarity measure is selected. A novel Crisp clustering technique is used to simulate the proposed work.
Cellular immunotherapy of EBV-associated lymphomas

We have administered donor-derived EBV-specific CTL lines to patients at high risk of developing EBV lymphoma after a T cell depleted transplant from a matched unrelated donor or mismatched family member. CTL infusion produced a virus-specific immune response to EBV that persisted for up to three years. None of 50 patients who received prophylactic CTLs have developed EBV-LPD, compared with a cumulative risk of 11% in patients who did not receive this treatment. Two patients who were treated for clinically evident EBV-LPD attained prolonged remission after CTL infusion and in situ hybridization and semiquantitative PCR showed that the gene marked CTL had selectively accumulated at disease sites. We conclude that EBV-specific CTLs are safe and effective prophylaxis for EBV lymphoma and can also eradicate established disease. This approach is now being extended to other viruses that produce post-transplant morbidity and to other EBV-associated malignancies. In other EBV-associated primary malignancies, tumor cells may be less susceptible to immunotherapeutic approaches because they express a more restricted array of subdominant EBV-encoded antigens. We have treated five patients with relapsed EBV genome positive Hodgkin disease with polyclonal EBV specific CTLs and the infused cells have persisted in peripheral blood for up to 12 weeks and in one patient were detected in a malignant pleural effusion.
Free Vibration Analysis of Laminated Composite Cylindrical Panels

Free vibration analysis of laminated composite cylindrical panels on a rectangular base has been investigated in this paper. An eight nodded isoparametric element is used for the discretisationof the proposed model. The effects of various parameters such as radius to side ratio, side to thickness ratio and different laminations onvibration responses are discussed for different boundary conditions. Convergence and comparison studies have been carried out with the commercially available software ANSYS 13.0. The results are compared with the available published literature.
A LITERATURE REVIEW ON MATERNAL MIGRATION: CASES OF CHINA, SRI LANKA, GUATEMALA, PHILIPPINES, AND POLAND

The increasing and enhanced migration over borders amplified the interdependency between countries making it as one of globalization’s greatest indicator. The study of migration and its patterns involves analyzing different forces at play, in particular, the causes and impacts on the sending and receiving countries. Anchored on a qualitative research design, the data from secondary sources were gathered through desk research, and organized and analyzed using thematic analysis. This study takes an in-depth discussion and analysis of the degree and impacts of maternal labor migration, specifically in the countries of China, Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Philippines and Poland. Findings demonstrate that the increase of ‘feminization’ of labor emigration has brought about concerns over the ‘crisis of care' when women and mothers leave. The focus on the impact of mother’s migration is in relation to the perception that although maternal migration has positive effects, i.e. improved livelihood income due to remittances, it could also present complex negative impacts to the welfare of families and children left behind.
Mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis C virus : a European epidemiological collaboration

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major public health problem worldwide yet little is known about mother-to-child transmission of HCV. This thesis aims to investigate mechanisms of mother-to-child transmission of HCV and the consequences for children born to HCV infected women and is based on data from the European Paediatric HCV Network (EPHN) prospective study. Since 1999, over 1800 HCV infected pregnant women have been enrolled at 33 EPHN clinical centres in 7 countries. Their children were followed up every 3-6 months until 18 months of age and thereafter infected children were seen at least every six months, with clinical and laboratory information collected at each visit as per protocol. The overall risk of mother-to-child transmission of HCV was 6.2% (95% CI 5.0 - 7.5%). Girls were twice as likely to be infected as boys but neither mode of delivery or breastfeeding were associated with the risk of transmission. Among 266 vertically infected children (aged up to 15 years) the prevalence of clinical signs and symptoms was low hepatomegaly was reported in 10% (25), frequently with abnormal alanine aminotransferase results. An estimated 21% (95% CI 15 - 29%) of infected children had evidence of HCV-RNA clearance. Lymphocyte levels up to age 2 years were significantly higher in HCV infected children, girls and children born to HCV/HIV co- infected women. In a survey of parents/carers of children enrolled in the EPHN, a major shortfall in provision of information was identified. The preferred option for long-term follow-up of infected children was to continue visiting the paediatrician regularly and later transfer to adult care, rather than postal or telephone contact or data linkage. This work will inform the clinical management of HCV infected women and their children and provides evidence regarding the most appropriate approach to monitor the long-term consequences of vertically acquired HCV infection.
A Secure Model for Detecting Provenance Forgery and Packet Drop Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

: Communication is present in almost all aspects for military operations. It is important in securely transmitting the distribution of commands and ensures distribution of logistic information, intelligence and data from sensors. Military communications, by any means, must be maintained in the area and time. Hence, Large-scale sensor networks are deployed in the battlfield and the decision in critical situations are taken from the data. multiple sources collect data through intermediate processing nodes that aggregate information. A malicious adversary may add additional nodes in network or they may compromise the existing ones. Hence, assuring high data trustworthiness is crucial for correct decision making.Data provenance represents a key factor in evaluating the trustworthiness of sensor data. Therefore, we propose a novel lightweight scheme to securely transmit provenance for sensor data. The proposed technique relies on in-packet Bloom filters to encode provenance. The efficient mechanism for provenance verification and reconstruction at the base station was introduced. In addition, we extend the secure provenance scheme to detect packet drop attacks staged by malicious data forwarding nodes.
Effects of methanolic marker enzymes and gonadotrophic hormones in cadmium

1Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria. 2Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ileife, Nigeria. 3Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ileife, Nigeria. A b s t r a c t To investigate pre induced gonad toxicity in male rats. Thirty male wistar rats weighing 200 divided into three groups (A, B and C) of ten rats each. Group B was treated with 2.5mg/kg bwt cad administered with 300mg/kg bwt 2.5 mg/kg bwt. Animals were treated every other day for six weeks. Serum testosterone, luteinizing hormone (LH) and follic alkaline phosphatase (ALP), acid phosphatase (ACP), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and glucose testis and accessory organs of 0.05) decrease in serum testosterone, LH, ALP, LDH and G cadmium. Histology showed varying degree of cellular degeneration in the testis and accessory organs of extract of MC improved testosterone, LH, ALP, LDH and G leaves of testicu
AUTOMATED VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FOR HUMAN MOTION DETECTION

: This paper presents a survey of various techniques related to video surveillance system. The aim of this paper is to review of various methods for motion detection as well as face detection. This paper focuses on moving object detection and then it will identify the human entity in the video sequence. The basic task of surveillance system is detecting and tracking moving object in the video sequence. Video surveillance is an important security asset to control theft, trespassing or traffic monitoring, banks, department stores, highways, crowded public places and borders.
Chatbot : Artificially Intelligent Conversational Agent

: A chatbot is a humanlike conversational character. It is a computer program which conducts a conversation through auditory or textual methods. It often acts as a virtual assistant and it can have its own virtualization. Its conversational skills and other humanlike behavior is simulated through arti ﬁcial intelligence. Nowadays chat-oriented dialogue systems are gaining popularity as they attempt to get into daily life and achieve some commercial success. There are different kinds of chat-bots with the aim of realizing natural human-computer interaction. As the chat-bots use various features, much handwork is needed to build the feature data. We expect that through the years every conversational chatbot will grow into a real virtual human.This paper proposes Architecture of chatbot system designed for college purpose. Students and teachers can access and use chatbot system anywhere and anytime to get required information.
Context Aware Mobile Learning and Various Notions to Understand

Mobile learning has been on the rage these days around the world in the research community. It has been observed that the wide applicability and understandability of this term and its related aspects are interesting to research fraternity. This paper brings forward various aspects of mobile learning along with different perceptions, understanding and issues circulating in the research circles and papers. This paper attempts to bring in the understanding of Mobile Learning, Some Design Issues in the literature, few projects of mobile learning, technological aspect of mobile learning and consequences of mobile learning in higher education and its applicability as said by many.
The Effect of Initial Defects on Overall Mechanical Properties of Concrete Material

Considering the fact that the initial defects, like the imperfect interfacial transition zones (ITZ) and the micro voids in mortar matrix, weaken the mechanical properties of concrete, this study develops corresponding constitutive models for ITZ and matrix, and simulates the concrete failure with finite element methods. Specifically, an elastic-damage traction-separation model for ITZ is constructed, and an anisotropic plastic-damage model distinguishing the strength-difference under tension and compression for mortar matrix is proposed as well. In this anisotropic plastic-damage model, the weakening effect of micro voids is reflected by introducing initial isotropic damage, the distinct characteristic of tension and compression which described by decomposing damage tensor into tensile and compressive components, and the plastic yield surface which established on the effective stress space. Furthermore, by tracking the damage evolution of concrete specimens suffering uniaxial tension and compression, the effects of imperfect status of ITZ and volume fraction of initial voids on the concrete mechanical properties are investigated.
An Efficient Distributed Congestion Control Protocol with Stability and Fairness

: Recent research efforts to design better Internet transport protocols combined with scalable Active Queue Management (AQM) have led to significant advances in congestion control. One of the hottest topics in this area is the design of discrete congestion control algorithms that are asymptotically stable under heterogeneous feedback delay and whose control equations do not explicitly depend on the RTTs of end-flows. In this paper, we first prove that single-link congestion control methods with a stable radial Jacobian remain stable under arbitrary feedback delay (including heterogeneous directional delays) and that the stability condition of such methods does not involve any of the delays. We then extend this result to generic networks with fixed consistent bottleneck assignments and max-min network feedback. To demonstrate the practicality of the obtained result, we change the original controller in Kelly’s work [15] to become robust under random feedback delay and fixed constants of the control equation. We call the resulting framework Max-min Kelly Control (MKC) and show that it offers smooth sending rate, exponential convergence to efficiency, and fast convergence to fairness, all of which make it appealing for future high-speed networks
Bridging the Performance Gap between Manual and Automatic Compilers with Intent-based Compilation

In spite of years of research in automatic parallelization, progress has been slow in terms of tools that can consistently generate scalable, portable and efficient code for multiple architectures. Moreover, a substantial difference in efficiency exists between code generated automatically and code generated by an expert programmer. Although the fact that the best sequential algorithm for a problem can be very different from the best parallel algorithm is well known, the feature of algorithm substitution is absent from most tools available today. However, automatically identifying an algorithm used in code is not trivial considering the nuances in programming style, algorithmic representations and expressions. This paper presents a novel Intent Based Compilation approach that uses a rule-based Expert System Engine to identify the intent of the algorithm used in the code based on fine- and coarse-grained features extracted from code. Using this information, the most optimized algorithm for the target architecture is then substituted. Results obtained by using Amoeba, a framework that incorporates this methodology, on codes obtained from the public domain are presented.
The Effect of Dark Grape Juice Consumption on Exercise-Induced Oxidative Stress in Healthy Adults Aged 41 to 60 Years

Background: It is now well established that fruit juices are rich in antioxidants that are beneficial to our health. This study was designed to investigate the effect of dark grape juice intake rich in antioxidants on oxidative stress induced by exercise in 41 to 60 years old. Conclusion: In individuals aged 41 to 60 years oldwho exercise regularly, intake of dark grape juice have significantly increased the total phenolic and FRAP urinary levels and caused a significant decrease in one oxidative stress marker. However, for the agedmatched non-exercisers, it produced an increase in total phenolic but did not appear to have a significant effect on oxidative stress markers. Method: Subjects were split into group A (n = 12 exercisers) and group B (n = 10 non exercisers). The study was conducted using a crossover randomised single blind placebo controlled design: Week 1: 24 hour urine collection (baseline) was done and anthropometric, blood pressure and diet diaries were recorded. Week 2: volunteers consumed 1 liter of placebo (sweetened water in dark container) or 1 litre of dark grape juice per day for 1 week and followed usual exercise regime and 24 hour urine was collected at the end of the week. Week 3 was the washout and free for all participants. Week 4: the exact same format was followed as in the previous week. However, those who consumed placebo switch to grape juice and vice versa. Another 24 hour urine sample was collected. A 3-day food diary was also kept in week 2 and 3. The total phenolic content, ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and TBARS were analyzed in all urine samples using established methods that were checked using quality control samples. Results: A significant reduction in systolic BP following the DG juice in the exercisers (from 136 ± 8.7 to 132.2 ± 8.9 mmHg, p = 0.03) and the non-exercisers (from 137.7 ± 10.1to 135.2 ± 9.9 mmHg, p = 0.04), but the reduction was more marked for the exercisers. Diastolic BP was only significantly reduced in the exercisers (p = 0.05). There was no significant change in weight, BMI and heart rate. There was a significant increase in the urine total phenolics (from 400.8 ± 101.1 to 479.5 ± 107.9 mg GAE/day, p = 0.022) and FRAP (from 7.66 ± 2.97 to 9.27 ± 2.98 mmole Fe (ii)/day, p = 0.026) levels, but a decrease in TBARS levels (from 31.2 ± 9.12 to 24.4 ± 7.6 μmole/day, p = 0.028) in the exercisers group after DG juice intake. The total phenolics excretion in the non-exercising group did also increase significantly (p = 0.04), however, there was no significant increase in FRAP or decrease in TBARS (p = 0.367 and p = 0.07 respectively). No significant changes were obtained in all parameters studied following the placebo intake and between all the total 24 hour urine volumes collected from both groups.
NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF LAMINAR NANOFLUID FLOW IN MICRO CHANNEL HEAT SINKS

The effect of using nanofluids on heat transfer and aerodynamics characteristics in rectangular shaped micro channel heat sink (MCHS) is numerically investigated for Reynolds number range of (100-400 ) and different value of heat flux (50 , 100, 150 ) / . In this study, the MCHS performance using tow type of nanofluid ( ⁄ , ⁄ ) with volume fraction 10% was used as a coolant is examined. The three-dimensional steady, laminar flow and heat transfer governing equations are solved using The computational fluid dynamics code (FLUENT). The MCHS performance is evaluated in terms of temperature profile, heat transfer, velocity profile, pressure drop and friction factor. The results reveal that both heat transfer and pressure drop will be increasing with increasing Reynolds number, while the friction factor of the MCHS is decreased. However, heat transfer from micro channel heat sink with metal nanofluids ( ⁄ ) improves compared with that of a micro channel heat sink with oxide metal nanofluids ( ⁄ ). Only a slight increase in the pressure drop across the MCHS is found compared with the pure water-cooled MCHS. Key wards: Micro channel , Heat sink, Nanofluid, FLUENT
Diagnosis of Recurrent Pyoderma in Dogs by Traditional and Molecular Based Diagnostic Assays and Its Therapeutic Approach

Canine recurrent pyoderma is a common skin problem encountered in small animal practice and also resistant staphylococci may cause hazards in contact human. The main objective of the present investigation was to study the underlying etiologies of recurrent pyoderma and antimicrobial resistance guidelines of staphylococci on traditional and molecular basis. Also, the present workup was aimed to select satisfactory antimicrobial prescriptions for cases of recurrent pyoderma on empirical and bacteriological basis. A total number of 44 dogs were thoroughly examined for dermatological lesions and classified into 32 empirically treated dogs and 12 treated dogs based on bacteriological results. Pyoderma were classified into surface (13.6%), superficial (66%) and deep pyoderma (20.5%) with main clinical signs of pruritus, skin lesions (papules and pustules), marked alopecia (specially in superficial and deep pyoderma) and epidermal collarettes. The common recurrent pyoderma was German Shepherd pyoderma (38.6%) and the common pathogen was Staphylococcus intermedius (100%). S. intermedius was isolated alone in 58.3% and 41.7% in combination with Corynebacterium spp. and Staphylococcus aureus from skin of 12 examined dogs. The present study was recorded multidrug resistance exhibited by 75% of the 12 S. intermedius isolates. Oxacillin MIC testing revealed 6 S. intermedius isolates (50%) to be resistant, which included 2 strains with the mecA gene. The mec A (Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus intermedius, MRSI) was detected by PCR in 5 isolates (41.7%). Amoxicillin-clavulinic acid, cephalosporines and flouroquinolones were achieved magic results on empirical and antibiogram basis in treatment of idiopathic recurrent pyoderma. It was concluded that our data provided the first Egyptian guidelines in companion animals for common bacterial pathogens with antibiogram for bacterial resistance and Antimicrobial therapy with selected antibiotics and suitable period for treatment of each type of pyoderma. [Wael, M. Kelany and Husein, M. Galal. Diagnosis of Recurrent Pyoderma in Dogs by Traditional and Molecular Based Diagnostic Assays and Its Therapeutic Approach. Journal of American Science 2011;7(3):120134]. (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.americanscience. org.
The Impact of Job Engagement on Tacit Knowledge Transfer

In Knowledge-based economy, the importance of tacit knowledge is realized. In the process of tacit knowledge transfer, the learning intention of knowledge and the capacity of knowledge suppliers and knowledge recipients play an important role, which leads to the necessity to consider the role of humanity. In our study, we take job engagement into consideration, since this variable is closely linked to emotion of humanity, we hope to know whether job engagement affect tacit knowledge transfer. This article starts with summarizing previous literatures, and the concepts of tacit knowledge, job burnout and engagement are introduced. Furthermore, some latest research achievements are involved. Then we propose our research model and hypotheses based on previous studies. Afterwards, the research methodology is described and the result is given. The result of our study demonstrates the relationship between job engagement and tacit knowledge transfer, which has not been tested by other researchers. We suggest that managers who want to promote the effect of tacit knowledge transfer should increase the degree of job engagement.