Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cell transplantation for delayed encephalopathy after carbon monoxide intoxication

Stem cell transplantation is one of the potential treatments for neurological disorders. Since human umbilical cord stem cells have been shown to provide neuroprotection and promote neural regeneration, we have attempted to transplant the human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells (hUCB-MNCs) to treat patients with delayed encephalopathy after carbon monoxide intoxication (DEACOI). The hUCB-MNCs were isolated from fresh umbilical cord blood and were given to patients subarachnoidally. Physical examinations, mini-mental state examination scores, and computed tomography scans were used to evaluate the improvement of symptoms, signs, and pathological changes of the patient's brain before and after hUCB- MNC transplantation. A total of 12 patients with DEACOI were treated with hUCB-MNCs in this study. We found that most of the patients have shown significant improvements in movement, behavior, and cognitive function, and improved brain images in 1-4 months from the first transplantation of hUCB-MNCs. None of these patients have been observed to have any severe adverse effects. Our study suggests that the hUCB-MNC transplantation may be a safe and effective treatment for DEACOI. Further studies and clinical trials with more cases, using more systematic scoring methods, are needed to evaluate brain structural and functional
Development of parallelism for circuit simulation by tearing

A hierarchical clustering with min-cut exchange method for parallel circuit simulation is presented. Partitioning into subcircuits is near optimum in terms of distribution of computational cost and does not sacrifice the sparsity of the entire matrix. In order to compute the arising dense interconnection matrix in parallel, multilevel and distributed row-base dissection algorithms are used. A processing speed up of 28 with 64 processors was achieved in large scale DRAM simulations. <<ETX>>
Dynamically Stepping Over Large Obstacle utilizing PSO Optimization in the B4LC System

This paper proposes a control structure to resolve the issue of dynamically stepping over large obstacles in the B4LC control system. We reform the local control units LegSwing, LockHip and KneeF lexion respectively. The optimization module with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) method is employed to tune the parameters of those controllers by formulating locomotion stability. The optimization process and further validation are conducted on a 3-dimensional simulated bipedal robot. The simulation results reveal that the suggested approach enables robot to dynamically step over a large obstacle with 20cm height by 15cm width in a short time duration.
Intra-Household Gender Disparity in School Choice: Evidence from Private Schooling in India

Abstract This paper explores gender inequality within households in the decision of private versus government school choice in India. Using a three-period longitudinal dataset on rural households from Uttar Pradesh, a northern state of India, this paper estimates a household fixed effects model and finds that there is an intra-household gender bias of 6 percentage points in private school enrolment among children aged 6–16 years. Contrary to the trend in overall enrolment, the gender gap in private school choice is rising over time, and is more pronounced in villages with a larger cost difference between private and government schooling. This finding remains robust even after controlling for average school quality and considering potential endogeneity of the cost variables.
Genetic Diversity Study of Seed Proteins in Rice Drought Tolerant Donor Accessions

Twenty four rice genotypes were analyzed under drought stress for seed proteins by SDS-PAGE to estimate their genetic diversity for the purpose of genetic improving under drought condition. The storage protein profiling banding pattern was scored based on the number and intensity of bands. A total of 90 poly peptide bands were harvested from twenty four individuals ranging from 14.3 kD to 99.0 kD. According to UPGMA dendrogram, 100% genetic similarities of protein profiling were exhibited between Basmati 370, Mahulata, Naveen and CR 143-2-2. The banding profile revealed that studied genotypes varies from each other either for total number or molecular weight or intensity of protein bands except the genotypes Naveen and CR 143-2-2. This electrophoretically detectable protein polymorphism in rice grain can be used in further breeding proposes and variety development. Our results suggest that, screening of these genotypes on the basis of variation in seed protein profile using SDS-PAGE could be highly effective tool to identify drought tolerant donors with good seed storage under drought stress.
“Conservative” surgical treatment for anterior knee pain

This article provides a common sense, logical, biologically sound and minimally invasive surgical approach to treating specific recalcitrant causes of anterior knee pain (patellofemoral pain). Accurate diagnosis by careful history, physical examination and judicious imaging followed by focused surgical intervention and rehabilitation within the patient’s envelope of function can result in excellent patient outcomes in the majority of cases.
Finite mixture model for the application in forestry

Finite mixture model (FMM) has been used extensively to fit such distribution in different study fields including medicine, biology, fisheries, forestry, environmental science, engineering, and economics. This study compares three diameter distribution models to fit mixed-species forest stands using four example plots with two or three species components in Daxing’an Mountain P.R. China. Our results indicated that the FMM models are more flexible to describe highly skewed and irregular diameter distributions for the whole plot, as well as provide the acceptable estimation for each species component and the mixing proportions. Thus, the FMM models can be a useful tool for effectively managing mixedspecies forest stands.
The Dark Side of the Generalized System of Preferences

The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) was established to promote the exports of low-income countries to industrialized countries in order to support their economic growth and development. However, the design of these schemes is rather complex and the effects of GSP have been found to be controversial. While previous studies solely analyzed preferential agreements of individual granting countries separately, implying a one-sided perspective, we take a general view and investigate the overall and dynamic effects common to the various GSP schemes in order to provide generalized recommendations for economic policy. In our empirical analysis, based on an extensive dataset covering most of world trade, we find that GSP tends to foster developing countries' exports in the short-run, but hampers them in the long-run. Also, GSP granting countries are able to promote their own exports initially, while in the long-run their exports decrease. Economically advanced GSP recipients 1 are more likely to benefit from GSP than less advanced countries. Taken together, GSP does not seem to be a suitable instrument to promote sustainable economic growth and development of low-income countries.
INVESTIGATING THE PERFORMANCE OF AMINE-GRAFTED SILICA-BASE ADSORBENTS IN CO2 REMOVAL FROM A NATURAL GAS STREAM USING A DIFFUSION BASED MATHEMATICAL MODEL

In this study adiffusion based mathematical model was developed to compare the performance of amine-grafted adsorbents with that of 13X zeolite in a fixed-bed adsorption tower which is used to capture CO 2 from both humid and dry nitrogen stream under industrial conditions. The results show that the performance of amine-grafted adsorbent and 13X zeolite is almost the same in the dry conditions. However, amine grafted adsorbents show better outcome when the gas stream is humid. Using amine-grafted adsorbents can reduce the expenses as a result of eliminating the pre-drying unit. Also the results of this simulation indicate that the economical breakthrough time is less than 30 minutes. This breakthrough time indicates that traditional TSA (Thermal Swing Adsorption) processes are uneconomical for regeneration of the adsorbents. Thus, a modified version of TSA process with lower regeneration time, i.e. RTSA (Rapid Thermal Swing Adsorption), must be employed for this case.
Geographic variation in body and ovipositor sizes in the leaf beetle Plateumaris constricticollis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and its association with climatic conditions and host plants

Plateumaris constricticollis is a donaciine leaf beetle endemic to Japan, which lives in wetlands and uses Cyperaceae and Poaceae as larval hosts. We analyzed geographic variation in body size and ovipositor dimensions in three subspecies (constricticol- lis, babai, and toyamensis) in different climatic conditions and on different host plants. In addition, the genetic differentiation among subspecies was assessed using nuclear 28S rRNA gene sequences. The body size of subspecies toyamensis is smaller than that of the other subspecies; mean body size tended to increase towards the northeast. Ovipositor length and width are smaller in subspecies toyamensis than in the other subspecies. Although these dimensions depend on body size, ovipositor length still differed significantly between toyamensis and constricticollis-babai after the effect of body size was removed. Multiple regression analyses revealed that body size and ovipositor size are significantly correlated with the depth of snow, but not temperature or rainfall; sizes were larger in places where the snowfall was greatest. Haplotypes of the 28S rRNA gene sequence were not shared among the subspecies. Subspe- cies constricticollis and babai each had a unique haplotype, whereas subspecies toyamensis had four haplotypes, indicating differen- tiation among local populations within toyamensis. The evolution of body and ovipositor size in relation to habitat conditions and host plants is discussed.
The green side of protectionism: Environmental concerns and three facets of trade policy preferences

ABSTRACT A large literature in international political economy views individuals’ trade policy preferences as a function of the income effects of economic openness. We argue that the expected environmental consequences of free trade play a noteworthy role for protectionist attitudes that has not been noted so far. We use unique Swiss survey data that contain measures of individuals’ environmental concerns and different aspects of trade policy preferences to examine whether those who are more concerned about the environment also hold more protectionist trade policy preferences. Our results support this expectation. Individuals who are more concerned about the environment tend to think that globalization has more negative than positive effects, more strongly support jobs-related protectionism, and place more emphasis on aspects that go beyond price and quality when evaluating foreign products. Our results suggest that also the expected environmental consequences of free trade matter for trade policy preferences and not just the potential effects on the domestic wage distribution.
Probabilistic spectral envelope modeling of musical instruments within the non-negative matrix factorization framework for mixed music analysis

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) has been one of the most useful techniques for musical signal analysis in recent years. In particular, supervised NMF, in which a large number of instrumental samples are used for the analysis, is garnering much attention with respect to analytical accuracy and speed. The accuracy, however, deteriorates if the system does not have enough samples. Therefore, in principle, such methods require as many samples as possible in order for the analysis to be accurate. In this paper, we propose an analysis method that 1) does not require the collection of a large number of training samples, and 2) combines the NMF and probabilistic approaches. In this approach, it is assumed that each instrumental category has a model-invariant feature, called a probabilistic spectral envelope (PSE). As an extension of a spectral envelope, this feature represents the probabilities of spectral envelopes belonging to the instrumental category in a two-dimensional (frequency-amplitude) space. The analysis of an input musical signal is carried out using a supervised NMF framework, where the basis matrix contains the optimum spectra that have been generated from pretrained PSEs.
Rewards and Risks in P2P Content Delivery

The ever increasing speed of access to the Internet has enabled sharing of data on an unprecedented scale. Data of all forms and shapes is becoming easily accessible: large multi-media files are being routinely downloaded onto a plethora of end user devices. Peer-topeer content delivery approaches enable massive scale in the amount of data volume that can be efficiently delivered. The openness of delivery demands adaptive and robust management of intellectual property rights. In this paper we describe a framework and its implementation to address the central issues in content delivery: a scalable peer-topeer-based content delivery model, paired with an access control model that balances trust in end users with a risk analysis to the data provider. Our framework enables data providers to extract the maximum amount of return, i.e. value, from making their original content available. Our implementation architecture provides a protocol to leverage the greatest amount of reward from the intellectual property that is released to the Internet. Keywords-broadband file sharing; peer-to-peer content delivery; intellectual property rights for multi media
Study on Keratinophilic and Keratinolytic Fungi Isolated from Birds’ Feathers and Animal Hairs

A total of 75 bird feathers and 22 animal hair samples (97 samples) were processed for invitro degradation of keratin. Both keratinophilic and keratinolytic fungi were identified and among them, 22 fungal genera were isolated which represented about 27 different species. All the 27 isolates were keratinophilic and among them 12 were found to have keratinolytic activity. Hen feather samples showed a high incidence of about 55 fungal isolates, followed by kaadai (Wild chicken) samples with 27 isolates, rabbit hair samples with 19, turkey and pigeon each with 18 isolates, 12 isolates were obtained from the goat hair samples, cow hair samples with 5 isolates and cat and dog hair with 2 isolates respectively. Among the 158 isolated fungal species, the genus Aspergillus was the found to be predominant. Among them, Aspergillus niger was predominant with 38 isolates followed by Fusarium spp. with 19 isolates and Scopulariopsis spp. was found to be in 11 isolates.
Low cost stacked type NOR MRAM with 1 MOSFET/1 MTJ cell structure and shared source line (SL) scheme

In this paper stacked type NOR MRAM with 1 MOSFET/1 MTJ cell structure has been newly proposed. For realizing this structure new process steps for formation of MTJ has been introduced. Furthermore, for reducing bit cost novel shared source line (SL) scheme with VDD/2 precharge during write operation has been described. Estimated bit cost for stacked type NOR MRAM is very small, 0.03-0.31, compared with that of 1 layered NAND flash memory. This shows that not only NAND structure but also proposed scheme is promising candidate for realizing ultra low bit cost non-volatile memory. For the further reduction of bit cost the reduction of memory cell area is key issue.
The Determinants of Food Security among Households in Rangpur City, Bangladesh: A Logistic Regression Approach

The study endeavors to estimate the food security status and identify the determinants of food security among households in Rangpur City Corporation of Rangpur Division, Bangla desh. It was found that about 6 5 per cent of the households are food insecure; u tilizing expenditure method of estimating food security status. Further analysis utilizing the binary logistic regression method identified income and age of household head as consequential determinants of food security. They impact positively on food secu rity, implicatively insinuating that gainfully employed and older household heads incline to be food secure. Policies that can engender good business environment for the Rangpur City Corporation poor are recommended, among others.
Synchrotron tomography on zinc and aluminium foams

Synchrotron radiation tomography as one of the most sophisticated non-destructive imaging methods has been shown to be perfectly suited for investigating metallic foams [1]. High resolution studies can be performed on foams in early and late expansion stages. Using monochromatic radiation one can collect information not only about the mass distribution within the sample, but also about the element distribution.
The Application of PLS & SEM in Determining the Antecedents of Supplier-Manufacturer Relationship

The purpose of this study was to examine the antecedent to supplier manufacturer relationship.There are three dimensions of antecedents of a relational oriented exchange which are dependence, trust, and communication behavior that has been measured the impact on strategic relationship.This study used the partial least squares (PLS) and structural equation modeling (SEM) tool to test the hypotheses.The result indicated that dependence and communication behavior were positively related to the strategic relationship.This study also found that communication behavior was the most significant predictor of extent of strategic relationship followed by dependence.
Role of Agricultural Research and Extension in Enhancing Agricultural Productivity in Punjab, Pakistan

In this study long run relationship between agricultural research and TFP (total factor productivity) is estimated by using Cointegration technique for 1970-2005. The results of the long run relationship between TFP and agricultural research indicate that agricultural research has a significant and positive impact on TFP. The estimated coefficient of research is 0.571 and it is significant at 1 percent level of significance. Granger-causality tests show a bidirectional relationship between research and productivity. The estimate of marginal internal rate of return (MIRR) to research is found to be 73 percent, indicating that Punjab agricultural research system remained productive.
InterrelatIonshIp between body condItIon score at dIfferent physIologIcal statuses and some economIc traIts In the caucasIan sheep breed

STAYKOVA, G. , P. PENCHEV and N. STANCHEVA, 2013. Interrelationship between body condition score at different physiological statuses and some economic traits in the Caucasian sheep breed. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 19: 1105-1111 Subject of the study were 241 primiparous Caucasian Merino ewes born in 2009 and bred on the state farm “Kabiuk”. In correspondence to the physiological status, three sessions of body condition score (BCS) assessment were accomplished using the five-rank system: during first lactation month, prior to artificial insemination, and during first gestation half. It was established that BCS was affected significantly by physiological status (P<0.001), the average estimates being higher in early pregnancy (2.89) and before insemination (2.75) compared to post-partum period (2.37), all three just within lower recommended limit for adult ewes. BCS constitutes relatively low portion of the variation of live weight, expressed in directly proportional change of up to 4 kg per BCS-unit (P≤0.001) and in phenotypic correlations ranging from rP=0.446 to rP=0.523 (P≤0.001). Wool yield in first lactation month is significantly improved by 550 g with each unit increase in BCS (P≤0.01, P≤0.001), the correlation coefficient being rP=0.371 (P≤0.001). In terms of biological prolificacy, the ewes with BCS of 2.5 to 3.5 tend to be in most optimal breeding condition before the insemination campaign (P>0.05), while conception rates are highest in those with low BCS. Most obese body condition during pregnancy is associated with lowest incidence of abortions and still-births.
Current differential line protection using a pattern recognition method

This paper presents a new approach to a numerical current differential protection for the transmission lines. The current differential algorithm uses a pattern recognition method. First the acquired current signals are transformed into “dqo” components by applying the Park transformation. The transformed currents will originate typical patterns according the fault type. Using a pattern recognition algorithm the different faulty conditions are identified. Several tests under different fault conditions were performed. The obtained results allow verifying the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Effects of Child Marriages in Bangladesh

Marrying off daughters at a young age is a strong social norm in many countries of the developing world. By parents it is considered a means to secure their daughters' future financially and socially. However, these child marriages are often associated with poor social and physical outcomes – as these women tend to bear children at very young ages and quit their education. Bangladesh is a country with one of the highest rates of child marriages in the developing world. This thesis examined the determinants of child marriages and their effects on poor child health outcomes (stunting and child mortality) in infants and children under the age of five in Bangladesh. Hence it utilized the nationally representative 2011 Demographic and Health Survey. The studied sample comprised of ever-married women aged 12 to 49, and children born in the five years preceding the survey. A multinomial logistic regression was used to study the determinants of child marriages, while for studying the effects on child health, binary logistic regressions were used. As for studying the socioeconomic inequality in child health, a decomposition method was applied. The findings suggest that both our outcomes are improving. In other words, the age at marriage has been increasing and the prevalence of stunting and child mortality has been declining over the past two decades. The results of the analyses showed that socioeconomic status (wealth status, education, place of residence) and religion are important predictors of age at marriage. Further, the predictors of poor child health outcomes were found to be socioeconomic status, as well, and the woman’s age at birth and access to maternal care. Results also showed that there is no socioeconomic inequality present in the age at marriage, which therefore cannot explain the socioeconomic inequality that is present in the child health outcome of stunting.
MUCH: Multi-Criteria Cluster Head Delegation Based on Fuzzy Logic

WSNs are composed of limited-power sensors. Replacing or recharging sensors, especially when deployed in places where human intervention is risky, is an important challenge. Therefore, and since communication is the major energy consuming operation [1], ensuring an energy efficient usage is a major concern. Clustering is one of the techniques used for this purpose [2]. It decreases the number of sensors which take part in transmission thereby assist in power consumption [3]. The sensors are organized into clusters. Each Cluster has a Cluster Head (CH) to which only other cluster members send data. CHs gather information and send it to a base station for processing. We propose an method for CH selection based on multiple criteria (distance to base station, distance to cluster members, energy cost and number of rounds) using fuzzy logic. Simulation results show that MUCH decreases the energy consumption comparing to LEACH thus increases the network lifetime.