Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The evaluation of the localization and the extent of lymphathic dissection in central neck dissection

: The evaluation of the localization and the extent of lymphathic dissection in central neck dissection Objectives: The central neck dissection (CND) for thyroid cancer is applied prophylactically or therapeutically. Although it’s reported that minimum 8 lymph nodes should be resected in bilateral central dissection and minimum 4 in unilateral for proper staging, the extent of the applied central neck dissections are not clear yet. We aimed to evaluate the localizations and the number of the lymph nodes resected in central neck dissection in this study. Material and Method: The number of the lymph nodes and their anatomical localisations of the patients whom underwent standard unilaterally or bilaterally central neck dissection in addition to total thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid carcinoma by the same surgeon were evaluated. Chi-square and Fisher’s exact test were used for statistics. Results: The mean age of 43 patients who underwent central neck dissection prophylactically or therapeutically for differentiated thyroid cancer was 45.7 ± 15.1. Bilateral and unilateral central neck dissections were applied to 32 patients and 11 patients, respectively. The unilaterally resected number of lymph nodes was 9 ± 6 (2-23), and bilaterally 14 ± 6 (5-30), which was higher in the bilaterally dissected group (p < 0.05). The number of prelaryngeal, pretracheal, right paratracheal and left paratracheal lymph nodes were 3 ± 3, 2 ± 3, 5 ± 2, 5 ± 4, respectively. The number of right paratracheal (p=0.001) and left paratracheal (p > 0.01) lymph nodes were significantly higher than pretracheal. Additionally the number of right paratracheal lymph nodes was significantly higher (p=0.001) than prelaryngeal. Conclusions: Although the average number of the resected lymph nodes was adequate and higher than the advised, it was seen that the number of resected lymph nodes was in a wide range, between 2-30. Although the 2/3 of the lymph nodes of the central neck area were located in the pretracheal region in cadaveric studies, the important part of the lymph nodes were in paratracheal region in the central neck dissection specimen. Central neck dissection should be applied according to anatomical borders of the regions and the lymph nodes of paratracheal region should not be excluded. Notably, the tissue behind the recurrent laryngeal nerve is important for the complete dissection of the right paratracheal area.
MICROBIOLOGICAL MONITORING OF MASTITIS PATHOGENS IN THE CONTROL OF UDDER HEALTH IN DAIRY COWS

Importance of systematic mastitis control in dairy herds is described through the presentation of data concerning mastitis occurrence and mastitis significance in modern milk production. The research was carried out by farm visits and by taking quarter samples from all lactating cows at the time of visit. Samples were taken before evening milking. Each quarter sample was tested by Zagreb mastitis test (ZMT). Furthermore, each sample was examined bacteriologically by inoculation on aesculin blood agar. Identification of grown colonies was carried out using internationally accepted methodology. Obtained results were statistically analyzed using Stata 13.1 statistical package. Quarter samples from 385 cows were analyzed. ZMT -positive reactions were noticed in 13.7% of all quarters. Mastitis pathogens were isolated from 175 (13%) of quarter samples. 145 out of 385 cows (37.3%) included in research had at least one ZMT positive quarter or permanently lost (dried off) quarter. From 106 out of 363 cows (29.8%) with all four functional quarters some of mastitis pathogens were isolated. The most frequently isolated pathogens were Staphylococcus aureus , streptococci, Trueperella (Arcanobacterium) pyogenes and Corynebacterium bovis . There was no statistical difference in mastitis occurrence between front and rear mammary quarters. ZMT results and microbiological examination were moderately correlated (Kappa index = 0.4662).
ROLE OF MOLECULAR MARKERS IN SILKWORM IMPROVEMENT

Bombyx mori L. (silkworm) is of high commercial importance as a silk producer and is also widely used for implementation of basic and applied research. Silkworm are distributed both in temperate and tropical countries. The tropical genotypes (non diapausing) are hardy and can withstand adverse eco-climatic conditions but produce very small quantities of silk of poor quality while the genotypes of temperate origin (diapausing) produce higher quantities of good quality silk. Evaluation of genetic resources is an essential prerequisite for their effective utilization. The presently available linkage map is based on morphological and bio-chemical markers. Biochemical markers resulted in the identification of only one enzyme -amylase. The development of molecular markers will be extremely useful in silkworm improvement programme. The molecular markers such as RFLP, RAPD, SSR, ISSR and AFLP have been successfully used for identification and genetic diversity in silkworm.
Dynamics of Information Communication Technology on Implementation of Strategic Plans in Public Secondary Schools, in Kenya

: Effective communication is a fundamental requirement for any effective strategic plan implementation; organizational communication plays an important role in training, knowledge acquisition and retention during the process of strategic plan implementation. This study examined dynamics of information communication technology on implementation of strategic plans in public secondary schools in Kenya. The study was anchored on goal setting theory. The study was guided by a mixed method Research design. The study sample comprised of 9 sub-county education officials, 85 chairs Board of management, 85 principals and 85 senior teachers. The study employed both probability and non-probability sampling designs. Quantitative data was collected through questionnaire while qualitative data using interview. Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive, for inferential statistics was through theme and narration. The findings of this study revealed that information communication technology have a significant relationship on implementation of strategic plan in public secondary schools. The study concluded that information communication technology is an essential requires all levels, and all functions in the school should be generated through communication, involvement and commitment of people in school The study recommended that the management on public secondary schools should consider adopting training programmes during strategic plans implementation, this will help the institutions to gather valuable information that will provide valuable insights in the strategic plans implementation. This study will be useful in formulating and developing network that would enable the schools to improve on strategic planning process.
An investigation of grading margin violation in coordinating overcurrent relay / Chan Kok Wai

In a radial distribution network, overcurrent protection is commonly used to protect against faults. The overcurrent protection is achievable with the installation of a circuit breaker and an overcurrent relay with an associated current transformer at the infeed of each feeder. The overcurrent relay protection grading scheme is widely being discussed among the power system protection engineers to ensure fast yet reliable fault detection and clearance. There are currently two overcurrent relay grading methods that have been practiced in the industry to provide discrimination between the main and backup relay. One of the relay grading methods is proposed by (Hall Stephens, 1998) and the other grading method is proposed by (Ravindranath & Chander, 1977). In this research work, the two different relay grading methods practiced in the industry are presented and successfully applied for the grading of the main-backup relay pairs. The grading margin for the two methods of overcurrent relay grading methods has been investigated under the various power system dynamic scenarios such as change in load size, fault resistance, fault location, and distribution cable length. Through the short-circuit simulation in Simulink under the various power system dynamic scenarios, it was found that when using Hall’s Method to grade the relays, there are 28 cases (17.28%) in which the grading margin is below 0.3s indicating that relay grading margin is jeopardized. In contrast, when using Ravindranath’s Method to grade the relays, all calculated grading margin are 0.3 seconds and above for all the 162 cases (100%), which proved that the integrity of grading margin is secured. The theoretical findings through the simulation has been validated through real-time Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) experiment using OPAL-RT simulator. Through the HIL experiment, the generated results are similar to the results obtained from the Simulink simulation for all the main and backup relay pairs, R3-R2 and R2-R1 which are tabled in Appendix A.
Adversarial Texture Optimization From RGB-D Scans

Realistic color texture generation is an important step in RGB-D surface reconstruction, but remains challenging in practice due to inaccuracies in reconstructed geometry, misaligned camera poses, and view-dependent imaging artifacts. In this work, we present a novel approach for color texture generation using a conditional adversarial loss obtained from weakly-supervised views. Specifically, we propose an approach to produce photorealistic textures for approximate surfaces, even from misaligned images, by learning an objective function that is robust to these errors. The key idea of our approach is to learn a patch-based conditional discriminator which guides the texture optimization to be tolerant to misalignments. Our discriminator takes a synthesized view and a real image, and evaluates whether the synthesized one is realistic, under a broadened definition of realism. We train the discriminator by providing as `real' examples pairs of input views and their misaligned versions -- so that the learned adversarial loss will tolerate errors from the scans. Experiments on synthetic and real data under quantitative or qualitative evaluation demonstrate the advantage of our approach in comparison to state of the art.
MOLECULAR SIMULATION STUDY OF DIFFUSION OF METHANE IN A SERIES OF POROUS MATERIALS

Abstract : Molecular dynamics simulations were performed to understand the diffusion of methane molecule in different Nano porous metal organic framework (MOFs). Methane is the major component of natural gas and the work presented here is in the perspective of natural gas storage at lowered pressure using sponge like material having high surface area. Diffusion plays major role in storing gas. Once the gas is inside the MOF material it needs to move to the adsorption sites. Moreover, while delivering the gas out of the MOF material at reduced pressure the gas molecules require to move out of the adsorption sites. Higher the diffusion co-efficient the efficient is the material. Diffusion coefficients were calculated at various temperatures – 220 K, 273 K, 298 K, and 350 K. All the diffusion coefficients were obtained using mean square displacement and using the Einstein’s relation. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___
CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE WORKSHOP

Booklet This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870313. Organising Committee Marine Cotte, ESRF Grenoble Pierre-Olivier Autran, ESRF Grenoble Camille Berruyer, ESRF Grenoble Nils Blanc, Institut Néel, CNRS Grenoble Catherine Dejoie, ESRF Grenoble Paul Tafforeau, ESRF Grenoble
Retrovirus mediated hematopoietic gene therapy: A European regulatory perspective with special focus on the situation in Germany

Summary Retrovirus mediated gene therapy has already proven to be more than just a theoretical option to treat patients with severe genetic defects. Clinical gene therapy trials of X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency or adenosine deaminase deficiency have demonstrated the success and potential benefit of the therapy. Never theless, the complexity of the therapeutic products and their biological origin, as well as virus-related safety concerns require the need of a strict regulatory framework in order to guarantee the quality of the individual products and safety of the patients. The aim of this review is to give an overview of the rapidly evolving regulatory framework of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products in Europe. We will summarize the most important regulatory documents to be considered before entering the clinical development phase—not only from a German but also from a European perspective.
Testing of The individual And Synergistic Effect of Adding Two Medicinal Plants to The Diet On Blood Parameters of Heat Stressed Broilers

The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of adding Capparis spinose (Cs) fruitsor Withaniasomnifera (Ws) leaves or their combinationto broiler diet in alleviating heat stress through studying their effect on blood parameters.A total of 180, day old, Ross 308 broiler chicks were distributed into 4 experimentalgroups (3 replicate/group) and submitted to high environmental temperature (29-35◦C). The experimental groups were as follows: T0=control group without any addition, T1=adding 2g Cs/kg diet. T2=adding 2gWs/kg diet and T3=adding a combination of 1g Cs+1g Ws/kg diet. Main results obtained showed that all plantsaddition treatments led to significant reduction in uric acid (p<0.05),urea (p<0.05), total cholesterol (p<0.01) and LDL-cholesterol (p<0.01) in comparison with control. The individual addition of Wsled to significant reduction in AST (p<0.01) and ALT (p<0.05). Results also showed that plantcombinationtreatment led to:significant (p<0.01) reductionin AST in comparison to control, significant (p<0.05) increasing in albumin in comparison to Cs group, significant (p<0.01) increasing in blood glucose in comparison to individual addition of Cs or Ws groups, and, significant (p<0.05) reduction in creatinine in comparison to Ws group. The individual addition of Cs or Ws reduced significantly the level of ALP while their combination didn’t affected it.We can concluded from the results of recent study that there were a synergistic effect between the bioactive compounds presented in Capparis spinose fruits and Withania somnifera leaves which led to reduce the levels of uric acid, urea, total cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol in serum of broilers submitted to high environmental temperature while the individual addition of Withania somnifera leaves reduced significantly AST and ALT.
Using Phenolic Compounds and Some Morphological Characters as Distinguishing Factors to Evaluate the Diversity of Perilla Genetic Resources

The objectives of this study were to evaluate total phenolic content (TPC) and individual phenolic compounds in leaves of perilla genetic resources, assess whether they could be used as distinguishing factor among germplasms, and evaluate their relationship with some quantitative and qualitative morphological characters. TPC and individual phenolic compounds were determined using Folin-Ciocalteu method and UPLC-PDA system, respectively. Wide variations in TPC (7.99 to 133.70 mgGAE/g DE), rosmarinic acid (ND to 21.05 mg/g DE), caffeic acid (ND to 1.17 mg/g DE), apigenin7-O-diglucuronide (ND to 2.21 mg luteolin equivalent (mgLUE)/g DE), scutellarein-7-O-glucuronide (ND to 5.25 mg LUE/g DE), and apigenin-7-O-glucuronide (ND to 2.81 mg LUE/g DE) were observed. Intensities of green pigment at abaxial and adaxial leaf surfaces were positively correlated with phenolic compounds whereas leaf length and width had negative correlation. Purple pigmented accessions were shorter in leaf length and width but exhibited higher amount of phenolic compounds compared to green pigmented accessions in most cases. Leaf shape was not related with content of phenolic compounds, color of leaves, and length/width of leaves. TPC and individual phenolic compounds along with morphological characters could be useful distinguishing factors for perilla genetic resources.
Genetic Modification of Trehalose Metabolism in Cereal Crops to Improve Grain Yield

Rice and maize are the most important cereal crops in the world and are the primary source of food energy for more than half of humanity. Drought and salinity are the major environmental stresses reducing agricultural productivity worldwide. Efforts to improve crop performance under abiotic stress conditions have met with limited success because the fundamental mechanisms of stress tolerance in plants are still not well understood. Fortunately, it is now possible to use transgenic approaches to improve abiotic stress tolerance and grain yield in agriculturally important crops with far fewer target traits than had been previously anticipated. Trehalose is a non-reducing disaccharide of glucose that functions as a compatible solute and in the stabilization of biological structures under abiotic stress in bacteria, fungi and invertebrates. With the notable exception of the desiccation-tolerant “resurrection plants”, trehalose does not accumulate to significant levels in the vast majority of plants, in spite of the proliferation of plant trehalose pathway genes. Phylogenetic analyses of protein sequences derived from the corresponding DNA sequences from the completely annotated genomes of a monocot (rice) and a dicot (Arabidopsis) plant species showed the presence of gene families for both trehalose-6-phosphate synthase (TPS) and trehalose-6phosphate phosphatase (TPP), indicating the genomic complexity of trehalose biosynthetic genes in plants. Also, very recent studies have shown that trehalose metabolism is of immense importance in numerous plant processes and its manipulation has great potential in crop improvement. Here, we report our results on the regulated overexpression of a trehalose biosynthetic fusion gene in cereal crops (rice and maize) for the purposes of improving abiotic stress tolerance and other agronomic traits. The expression of the transgene was under the control of lightinducible or stress-dependent promoters. Compared with non-transgenic plants, several independent transgenic lines showed higher levels of trehalose accumulation and total soluble carbohydrates, increased photosynthetic capacity, exhibited sustained plant growth and improved grain yield under non-optimal conditions. These results demonstrate the potential of manipulating trehalose metabolism in cereal crops to improve abiotic stress tolerance and yield
Performance of Urban Infrastructure: Road User Satisfaction Index in Satellite City

The rapid growth of Satellite City in South Tangerang will directly impact road infrastructure and environmental conditions. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of existing road infrastructure. The study was to gain the perception of road users regarding various elements of satellite city self-reliance in maintaining the quality of road infrastructure for the Central Business District (CBD) area. Using one of Satellite City in South Tangerang as a case, the specific research objectives are to: ascertain road users level of satisfaction with the road infrastructure such as road features, road drainage system and environment; find out problems faced by road users when using the road infrastructure; determine the most dominant factors affecting road users satisfaction; and develop a road user satisfaction index (RUSI) to measure the road performances. A questionnaire survey was conducted on road users in three selected roads in Satellite City. Through a random sampling, a total of 384 responses were collected. Data processing using SPSS software version 20.00 through Cronbach Alpha (α) statistical method and Importance Performance Matrix Analysis (IPMA) has been applied to know the level of satisfaction and importance user. Overall, the user satisfaction index for three road segments in Satellite City is still at a good level with the overall score reaching 2.851 and has not yet reached a very satisfying level (score above 4.0).
AVOIDING PRIVACY LEAKAGE TO CLOUD SERVER WITH PRIVACY PRESERVING TO SQL QUERIES

: Recent days, outsourcing database to cloud is getting popular as cloud provide services and applications which are in low cost and available even foe small scale industries. There are different schemes to provide appropriate functionality for the queries over the outsourced database. Though, presence of such schemes provide sufficient functionality, the privacy may get leaked to the cloud which is providing service due to the frequent query search over the outsourced database as it is in total control of cloud server. When we consider numerical range queries, they cannot have secure schemes which can leak there statistical properties as well as access patterns which is an important practical challenge. To avoid this privacy leakage, this paper provide a multi cloud scheme by dividing the knowledge into these clouds, which is efficient enough to provide security to outsourced database and to numeric range queries over database.
Recent biological techniques for diagnosis of Chlamydophila abortus in aborted goats

Chlamydophila abortus (C. abortus) is one of the most important causative agents of enzootic abortion which has been caused a serious economic problem in domesticated and wild ruminants world wide. This study was aimed to diagnose C. abortus infection in aborted goats in Ras Suder Research Station (South Sinai) Desert Research Center from 2004-2006. Twenty aborted cases from 130 pregnant nannies were recorded and examined serologically using complement fixation test (CFT). Eighty percent (16/20) of the aborted cases were serologically positive and 20% (4/20) randomly collected from apparently healthy pregnant nannies were also had antibodies against C. abortus. Pathological lesions were detected. Ten aborted fetal samples from serologically positive aborted nannies were subjected to diagnosis using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) showed positive results at 119 bp. According to this result, PCR proved to be feasible, reliable, specific and sensitive diagnostic tool in diagnosis of C. abortus infection.
DEPEND 2016

— Wide-spread reliance on networking in modern safety-critical control systems makes security increasingly interwoven with safety. Hence, we need novel methodologies integrating security consideration into the process of system development and safety case construction. Safety case is a structured argument justifying system safety. In this paper, we propose an approach that relies on the systems-theoretic analysis to construct security-aware safety cases. We define a number of generic patterns facilitating definition of security-aware safety cases. Our approach allows the developers to analyse the mutual interdependencies between safety and security in the design of networked control systems. It provides the engineers with a systematic top-down method for deriving constraints that should be imposed on the system and software behavior to guarantee safety in the presence of accidental and malicious faults.
Overview of Scanner Invariant Representations

Pooled imaging data from multiple sources is subject to bias from each source. Studies that do not correct for these scanner/site biases at best lose statistical power, and at worst leave spurious correlations in their data. Estimation of the bias effects is non-trivial due to the paucity of data with correspondence across sites, so called "traveling phantom" data, which is expensive to collect. Nevertheless, numerous solutions leveraging direct correspondence have been proposed. In contrast to this, Moyer et al. (2019) proposes an unsupervised solution using invariant representations, one which does not require correspondence and thus does not require paired images. By leveraging the data processing inequality, an invariant representation can then be used to create an image reconstruction that is uninformative of its original source, yet still faithful to the underlying structure. In the present abstract we provide an overview of this method.