Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE PROTEIN METABOLISM BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS AND ELECTROLYTES LEVELS IN THE BLOOD OF PATIENTS WITH ISCHEMIC STROKE COMPLICATED BY TYPE TWO DIABETES

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Principal series representations of special unitary groups over local fields

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The effect of packing constraints on optimal investment in offspring

Problem: In some taxa, females retain their entire clutch internally and face a packing constraint, which may lead to a correlation between egg size and total allocation (egg size × clutch size). Hypotheses: In species with packing constraints (e.g. turtles and copepods), linear measures of egg size will be negatively correlated with total reproductive allocation, but egg volume will be positively correlated with total reproductive allocation. By contrast, in species without packing constraints (e.g. passerine birds), the correlations, if present, can be either positive or negative. However, both will be in the same direction. Data: Egg length, egg width, egg volume, clutch size and body size in turtles, copepods and North American passerine bird species. Methods: We calculated independent contrasts separately for each taxonomic group, using composite phylogenies and ignoring branch lengths. We used Smith and Fretwell’s (1974) optimality model of egg size. We modified it by assuming a correlation between total reproductive investment and investment in individual offspring. Conclusions: The data agreed with the hypotheses. Suppose that total reproductive investment increases rapidly with increases in investment in individual offspring. Then, optimal investment in offspring increases greatly.
Comparison of efficacy and safety of sequential combined spinal epidural anaesthesia versus spinal anaesthesia in high risk geriatric patients.

Context: With sequential combined spinal epidural anaesthesia the advantages of both spinal and epidural anaesthesia can be obtained avoiding many of the side effects of spinal anaesthesia. Aim of study: To compare efficacy and safety of sequential combined spinal epidural anaesthesia versus spinal anaesthesia in high risk geriatric patients undergoing major orthopaedic procedure. Material and methods: The study was a prospective, randomized comparative one conducted in 60 patients aged 65 to 80 years of ASA III and IV, posted for major orthopedic surgical procedures. Group A received sequential combined spinal epidural anaesthesia with 1 ml of 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine and 25 μ fentanyl spinally. Group B received spinal anaesthesia with 2 ml of 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine and 25μ fentanyl. In group A, 1.5-2 ml of 0.5% isobaric bupivacaine was given for every unblocked segment through epidural route to extend block to T10. In group B if after 10 to 15 min the block did not reach T10 sensory level, supplementation with general anaesthesia was given. Motor block of lower limbs was assessed bilaterally using Bromage Scale. Results: Onset of block(8.8±1.7 vs 10.4±1.7 min) and time to achieve Bromage I block (11.6±1.6 vs 12.9±1.8 min) were longer in CSEA group than spinal group. Level of block achieved was higher in spinal group compared to CSEA ( T6 vs T10). No significant difference was observed with duration of analgesia. There was significant fall in MAP in the spinal group in the initial 30 min. Conclusion: Sequential combined spinal epidural technique is effective and safe, with stable haemodynamics and prolonged analgesia compared to spinal anaesthesia in geriatric patients undergoing major orthopaedic surgery.
Consensus of Multiagent Networks with Intermittent Interaction and Directed Topology

Intermittent interaction control is introduced to solve the consensus problem for second-order multiagent networks due to the limited sensing abilities and environmental changes periodically. And, we get some sufficient conditions for the agents to reach consensus with linear protocol from the theoretical findings by using the Lyapunov control approach. Finally, the validity of the theoretical results is validated through the numerical example.
Molecular Screening of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin Type A Encoding Gene from MRS Clinical Isolates

Antibiotic resistance is a great problem in Egyptian hospitals and clinical centers. The aim of this study was the characterize of different clinical isolates of antibiotic resistant especially methicillin resistant staphylococci (MRS) on the basis of their production of enterotoxin A. Eighty four samples of bacteria were isolated from wound pus, throat, sputum, conjunctiva, urine and stool of patients in the Egyptian National Centre for Clinical and Environmental Toxicology. Sixty-two isolates had the typical biochemical characteristics of the Staphylococcus aureus, while two isolates were identified as Staphylococcus epidermidis. Forty two of the isolates were methicillin resistant, all were showed multidrug resistant to thirteen antibiotic. Twenty isolates encoded ent A gene (nineteen were Staphylococcus aureus and one was Staphylococcus epidermidis). Only twelve out of twenty ent A gene carriers can produce ent A protein which detected by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Also, all carried mec A gene isolates were resistant to vancomycin. These findings prove that the staphylococcal clinical infections can cause food borne illness and vice versa.
Refinement of ARC Alignment between Two Straight Sections for Injector Linac of SuperKEKB

The beam line of the KEKB injector linac is under realignment as the restoration after the big Earthquake in 2011, but with the refinement for the SuperKEKB in mind. The linac consists of two straight sections connected by a 180 degree ARC. Precise alignment of the ARC magnets is one of the key issues for the emittance preservation of the electron beam. The ARC beam line was defined by measuring these two straight lines. Then, the misalignment of the ARC magnets were reduced from 3 mm maximum down to 0.1mm in the errors perpendicular to the beam direction. This paper describes how we defined the ARC beam line and performed the alignment. The connection method of the laser tracker data needed for the definition of the ARC was also studied and described.
Vortex-lift modeling provides reliable force predictions for flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicles

Ve rtical and horizontal force of a flapping-wing micro air vehicle (MAV) has been measured in slowspeed forward flight using a force balance. Detailed information on kinematics was used to estimate forces using a blade-element analysis. Input variables for this analysis are lift and drag coefficients. These coefficients are usually derived from steady-state measurements of a wing in translational flow. Previous studies on insect flight have shown that this method underestimates forces in flapping flight, mainly because it cannot account for additional lift created by unsteady phenomena. We therefore derived lift and drag coefficients using a concept for delta-wings with stably attached leading edge vortices. Resulting lift coefficients appeared to be a factor of 2.5 higher than steady-flow coefficients, and match the results from previous (numerical) studies on instantaneous lift coefficients in flapping flight. The present study confirms that a blade-element analysis using force coefficients derived from steady-state wind tunnel measurements underestimates vertical force by a factor of two. The equivalent analysis, using “vortex-lift” enhanced coefficients from a delta-wing analogue, yields very good agreement with force balance measurements, and hence seems to be a good approximation for lift-enhancing flow phenomena when modeling flapping flight.
Information Content of Analysts' Stock Ratings and Earnings Forecasts in the Presence of Management Earnings Forecasts

This paper evaluates the informativeness of analysts’ ratings and earnings forecast information contained in analyst reports beyond what is publicly provided by management earnings forecasts. Using only analyst reports that have been released practically simultaneously with management forecasts, I find that both analysts’ ratings and earnings forecasts have incremental information content conditional on management forecasts. Further analysis also reveals that analysts’ earnings forecasts are significantly more accurate than concurrently-announced management earnings forecasts. Overall, the findings in this paper present strong evidence that analysts offer informational value to the market beyond information that is provided by company management.
Paying Out-of-Pocket for Health Care in Asia: Catastrophic and Poverty Impact

Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care throughout much of Asia. The paper describe the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in 14 countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population. The focus is on expenditures that may be considered catastrophic, in the sense that they absorb a large fraction of household resources, and on the impoverishing effect of payments. Catastrophic impact is measured by the prevalence and intensity of high shares of OOP in total spending and in non-food expenditure. Impoverishment is measured by comparing poverty headcounts and gaps before and after OOP health payments. Presented here is the first cross-country comparisons of the impoverishing effect of OOP payments measured against the international poverty standards of $1 and $2 per person per day. [Equitap WP 2]
Ethical Climate in Multidisciplinary Teams: Development of the TECS

One way to empirically evaluate team ethics is through ethical climate, which is defined as the procedures, policies, and practices in regard to moral or ethical concerns seen in the workplace. Peers and supervisors may influence individuals’ perceptions of ethics and moral situations, which will lead to a shared understanding of how the group should think about moral situations. The current researchers adapted the concept of ethical climate and brought it to interdisciplinary student teams. Teams on lengthy projects often face ethical problems, and the researchers developed a tool to address some of the unique considerations for ethics in interdisciplinary teams. Researchers developed the Team Ethical Climate Survey (TECS) to measure student team ethical climate. This instrument was adapted in part from the Ethical Climate Questionnaire, which includes scales of team interest, laws and codes, personal morality, rules and procedures, and self-interest scales. Authors also included care, interdisciplinary professional ethics, dealing with adversity, and shared decision-making scales. This paper presents the results of research to date on the ethics component of a collaborative effort involving team-based project programs at four universities funded by NSF under a Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science (TUES) Phase 2 grant. The following paper discusses the development of the TECS scale for interdisciplinary teams. More specifically, it focuses on an exploratory factor analysis conducted on TECS data in order to determine if the developed test scales emerged as factors with the student data. The data were collected for 521 undergraduate students involved with long-term (semester length or longer) interdisciplinary team projects. The TECS was administered at the midpoint of the semester. Results indicated that five factors emerged: team interest (alpha=.91), self-interest (alpha=.79), personal morality (alpha=.55), discussion of issues (alpha=.74), and differences in values (alpha=.71). The authors suggest future developments for the TECS and its use in the classroom. Additional findings and insights of interest are explored, and implications for engineering faculty and professionals are provided.
Ideal Cavitation Erosion Process and Characteristic Erosion Curves

The most used methods to estimate cavitation erosion resistance give a special attention to the velocity erosion curve, but the theoretical analytical characteristic curves of cavitation erosion near incubation period, used until now, contradict experimental data. In this paper, depending on the nature and condition of eroded materials, other kinds of the volume loss rate curve of erosion cavitations progress are proposed. The analytical model describing cavitation erosion of materials uses the differential equations. The real parameters which appear (in a natural way), inside the general solutions will be determined, fitting the erosion curves to the experimental data.
Rapid Pedestrian Detection Based On Movement Trend

This paper presents a movement trends based approach for pedestrian detection aiming at reducing the consumption of feature calculation caused by sliding windows. A new approach to predict the location of pedestrian is proposed by combining the movement trend of objects, extracted by improved background segmentation algorithm, with Kalman filter. The keypoint descriptor BRISK (Binary Robust Invariant Scalable Keypoints) is presented to verify the predicted location and make it reliable. Experiment results on PETS dataset report that the algorithm is 10.9 times faster than SVM+HOG method and keep a better accuracy at the same time.
A Measurable Approach for Access and Control Modeling in SOA

Service oriented architects (SOA) is considered as an extensible, robust and platform independent web application architect. However, problems in security guard for service access remains unresolved especially for the measurable one. we proposed a novel access control model, which we called SACM: Service Access Control Model, specially for SOA. Our model is mainly based on the role access policy, extended with trust authority transition and integration mechanism, to fulfill an extensive and measurable access control modeling approach with Crypto-CCS.
Establishment of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in Pacific basins of southern South America and its potential ecosystem implications.

Los salmonideos no son nativos del hemisferio sur, y es asi que las truchas (arcoiris y cafe) se establecieron en el sur de Sudamerica hace un siglo. La mayoria de los intentos por introducir salmones anadromos fallo hasta el establecimiento de la acuicultura en los anos ochenta. A partir de 1990, aparentemente debido a escapes de Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (salmon Chinook) de cultivo, se estan produciendo retornos reproductivos de esta especie en cuencas chilenas y argentinas al sur de los 39o S. En este trabajo se muestra la ocurrencia historica y espacial de salmon chinook en cuatro cuencas de vertiente Pacifica durante la ultima decada. Nuestro objetivo es establecer el progreso de su establecimiento al tiempo que se proyectan algunos impactos asi como alternativas de manejo. En Chile, el muestreo se realizo entre 1995 y 2005 incluyendo los rios Petrohue, Poicas, Rio Negro-Hornopiren, y el Lago Puyehue, en la X Region. En Argentina los rios muestreados incluyen al Futaleufu, Carrenleufu y Pico. En las cuencas chilenas y argentinas los Chinook reproductivos alcanzaban 73 a 130 cm de largo total encontrandose los mas pequenos en el Lago Puyehue donde la poblacion estaria encerrada. En el Rio Petrohue, los retornos variaron de ano en ano alcanzando maximos en 1996 y en el 2004 de hasta 500 kg de pescado en una extension de 100 m de rio. La distribucion temporal de juveniles sugiere que principalmente se trata del tipo chinook oceanico ya que migrarian al mar durante el primer ano de vida. Como se observa en Petrohue, poblaciones reproductivas de la especie aportarian cantidades relevantes de nutrientes de origen marino tal como ocurre en sus habitats naturales, produciendo asi una importante perturbacion a los balances y ciclos naturales en estos sitios. El establecimiento de poblaciones de Chinook en el sur de Sudamerica, genera nuevos desafios a pescadores y autoridades ya que se podria desarrollar una pesqueria de la especie en el oceano Pacifico con consecuencias sobre otros recursos pesqueros. Adicionalmente tambien se transforman en un recuso para la pesca deportiva. Por ello se hace necesario desarrollar herramientas de manejo y control sobre la poblacion para evitar perturbaciones ecologicas y ecosistemicas irreversibles
Effects on investment of the 2003 CAP reform : a household production model for Dutch dairy farms

This paper develops a non-separable household production model capable of analysing the effects of the 2003 CAP reform, and especially EU farm payments, on individual Dutch dairy farms. Model results show that the 2003 CAP reform farm payments do not fully compensate the income loss caused by the milk price decrease. This implies that savings, and therefore, investment decreases. Investment shifts away from on-farm investment to off-farm investment. On-farm investment in milk quotas falls compared to investment in capital and land because the shadow price of milk quotas decreases relatively to the shadow prices of land and capital.
Numerical modeling of hydration process and temperature evolution in early age concrete

Heat production induced by the hydration reaction and the resulting temperature evolution in the early phases of setting and hardening processes are critical phenomena, often leading to premature cracking of concrete members. However, the interest for simulating such phenomena is also related to the fundamental relationships between the nature of the main concrete components, such as aggregates and binders, and its mechanical properties. As a matter of principle, the actual efficiency of the concrete mix can be assessed by monitoring the hydration process and the latter can be directly related to the development of the relevant mechanical properties. This paper presents a numerical model for simulating the hydration process of cement and the resulting time evolution of temperature inside concrete. In general, boundary conditions ranging between isothermal and adiabatic situations can be considered. Then, the heat-flow generated throughout the hardening concrete specimen as a result of these general boundary conditions can be simulated by the proposed model with the aim to analyze its effect on the cement hydration process and the resulting concrete maturity. After the analytical formulation of the hydration and heat transfer problems, a consistent numerical solution based on the Finite Difference (FD) technique is developed. Then, the same constitutive relationships are considered within a general Finite Element (FE) procedure. The numerical results obtained through FD and FE solutions are compared with the experimental results obtained from two concrete mixes in both adiabatic and non-adiabatic conditions. The comparison between the two numerical predictions and the corresponding experimental results confirms the accuracy of the proposed model. The FD numerical solution can be easily implemented in a spreadsheet.
Expressive Speech Synthesis Using Prosodic Modification and Dynamic Time Warping

This work proposes a method for synthesizing ex- pressive speech from the given neutral speech. The neutral speech is processed by the Linear Prediction (LP) analysis to extract LP coefficients (LPCs) and LP residual. The LP residual is subjected to prosodic modification using the pitch, duration and amplitude parameters of the target expression. The LPCs of the neutral speech are replaced with that of the target expression using the Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). The synthesized speech using prosody modified LP residual and replaced LPCs sounds like the target expression speech. This can also be observed by the waveform, spectrogram and objective measures.
Variación espaciotemporal de algunos macroinvertebrados (Gastropoda, Bivalvia y Echinodermata) de fondos someros del Archipiélago Espíritu Santo, Baja California Sur, México

espanolSe realizaron cuatro muestreos (octubre de 2001 y enero, abril y junio de 2002), en nueve localidades alrededor del Archipielago Espiritu Santo, Baja California Sur, Mexico, con el objetivo de identificar patrones de variacion espaciotemporal en la estructura de la comunidad de macroinvertebrados de fondos someros, preferentemente rocosos. La abundancia del macrobentos conspicuo (gasteropodos, bivalvos y equinodermos) se estimo visualmente mediante buceo libre a una profundidad entre 4 y 6 m a lo largo de dos transectos en banda paralelos a la linea de costa. Cada transecto fue de 5 m de ancho y 50 m de largo, con una superficie total de 500 m² por localidad. Asimismo, se registro la temperatura superficial del mar, la exposicion al oleaje, la pendiente y el tipo de sustrato. Se identificaron 32 especies; el grupo mejor representado fue el de los equinodermos con 18 especies de 13 familias, seguido de los moluscos con 14 especies de 13 familias. La especie con mayores abundancia media y densidad fue Tripneustes depressus (140.25 ± 64.21 ind y 0.28 ind m¯², respectivamente). No se encontraron diferencias significativas en la diversidad, equidad y riqueza de especies entre los meses; solo hubo diferencias entre las localidades ( P EnglishFour surveys (October 2001, and January, April and June 2002) were conducted at nine sites around the Espiritu Santo Archipelago, Baja California Sur, Mexico, to identify spatiotemporal variation patterns in the structure of the rocky, shallow-bottom macroinvertebrate community. The abundance of the conspicuous macrobenthos (gastropods, bivalves and echinoderms) was estimated visually by free diving at 4–6 m depth along two band-transects parallel to the coastline. Each transect was 5 m wide and 50 m long, covering an area of 500 m² per site. Sea surface temperature, wave exposure, type of substrate and slope were also recorded. Thirty-two species were identified. The echinoderms were the best represented group, with 18 species from 13 families, followed by the molluscs, with 14 species from 13 families. The highest mean abundance and density values were recorded for Tripneustes depressus (140.25 ± 64.21 ind and 0.28 ind m¯², respectively). There were no significant differences in diversity, equitability and species richness among sampling months, though differences were found among sites ( P