Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Implementation of Algorithms of Image Analysis in the Software Package ColourUnique PRO with the Aim of Increasing the Accuracy of Classification Types Individuals

This paper consider the possibilities and prospects of the ColorUnique Pro software complex as a tool for automating the "Associative color space"© method of professional orientation testing and improving the accuracy of classification of test forms representing color images. The authors provided the data of verification and testing of the methodology, reflect the relevance of the study and justify the need to translate the testing into the format of the software package. In the process of implementation of the program complex, has been identified a problems, proposed solutions and prospects for the development of the program. Now, the authors have successfully optimized the test form, significantly reduced the time of testing, created a color palette that facilitates evaluation and classification of the final color images.
Risk factors, survival and impact of invasive treatment in symptomatic chronic lower limb ischemia

Background: To compare the extent of angiographically detected stenoses in different segments of the lower leg arteries in diabetics and nondiabetics. Methods: The study group consisted of 60 nondiabetic and 38 diabetic patients with lower extremity disease and no previous vascular interventions. Arterial lesions were analysed by digital subtraction angiography (DSA). The patients were evaluated by walking distance and ankle-brachial index (ABI) and the reason for hospitalization was recorded. Results: Statistically significantly fewer stenoses were found in the superficial femoral artery in diabetics than in nondiabetics. Although a tendency to more diffuse changes in crural arteries was found, no statistically significant difference were found in other segments of the lower leg arteries apart from the femoral arteries. Conclusions: Judging from the present results there are fewer angiographically detectable stenoses in the superficial arteries in diabetics than nondiabetics.
In the Shadow of Goitein : Text Mining the Cairo Genizah

the collection, it is clear that discovery – the act of directing researchers to a particular manuscript that will answer a given information need – remains a key challenge. This is largely due to the sheer size of the collection coupled with the lack of any substantive metadata describing the content of individual manuscripts. The inability to navigate the collection by content presents a substantial roadblock to the diverse group of scholars looking to exploit this unique source of information about the history of the Mediterranean and Near East. The following catalogue entry describes fragment T-S 24.64 (see fig. 1), which aptly demonstrates the full extent of the problem:
EFFECTS OF ULTRASOUND-ASSISTED EXTRACTION CONDITIONS ON THE RECOVERY OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS AND IN VITRO ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF JUJUBE (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) LEAVES

The optimum conditions for the Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction (UAE) of total phenolics and antioxidant activity from jujube leaves were studied. The effect of the solvent nature (acetone, methanol, ethanol and water), solvent concentration (25-100%; v/v), ultrasound intensity (25-100%), solid/solvent ratio (1/50-1/300; w/v) and extraction time (1-15 min) were also determined. The total phenolic content was used to determine the phenolic compounds. Ferric-reducing power and 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) were used to evaluate the antioxidant activity. All the ultrasound-assisted extraction parameters that were investigated had from a statistically point of view significant effects (p<0.05) upon the phenolic compound extraction and antioxidant activity. The best extraction conditions were obtained by using methanol 60 %, a sonication intensity of 75 %with a solid/solvent ratio of 1/200(w/v), for 10 min. As such, the obtained values were 6.0g gallic acid equivalents/100g for total phenolic content, 3.886 g ascorbic acid equivalents/100g for free radical scavenging activity and 2.587 g ascorbic acid equivalents/100g for ferric reducing power. The phenolic content was positively correlated with the antioxidant activities.
Drug use and its associated factors among pregnant women in Bahir Dar city administration, northwest Ethiopia

Background: The use of drugs during pregnancy calls for special attention because the health and life of unborn child has great value in addition to the mother. The drugs given to pregnant mothers for therapeutic purposes may cause serious structural and functional adverse effects in the developing child. The aim of this study was to assess drug use and its associated factors among pregnant women in Bahir Dar city administration.
Development of a Fall Risk Asessment Tool Using Gait Analysis

DEVELOPMENT OF A FALL RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL USING GAIT ANALYSIS Imran Reza Ananta, BSc. Marquette University, 2019 In the United States, falls are one of the leading causes of fatal and non-fatal injuries for people of all ages. Current clinical methods to assess fall risk are impractical, and often do not use individuals’ actual performance. With current technological advances, and the Internet of Things (IoT), the tools are available to create a digital system that can take into account an individual’s actual performance in making a fall risk assessment. A digital insole based sensory computing system can collect and analyze human gait patterns to develop a fall risk assessment platform with great accuracy. The presented research considers current clinical methods and describes a computerized self-service platform that successfully addresses different gait variables and metrics critical to accurate fall risk assessment. The system incorporates a shoe insole with pressure sensors, and an accelerometer. Collected foot data are transferred to an analytics visualization platform. A wide range of gait pattern recognition metrics, and gait data analyses features are then displayed on the platform enabling specific fall risk assessment.
TechCare: mobile assessment

Objectives: Technological advances in healthcare have shown promise when delivering interventions for mental health problems such as psychosis. The aim of this project is to develop a mobile phone intervention for people with psychosis and to conduct a feasibility study of the TechCare App. Methods: The TechCare App will assess participant’s symptoms and respond with a personalised guided self-help-based psychological intervention with the aim of exploring feasibility and acceptability. The project will recruit 16 service users and 8–10 health professionals from the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust Early Intervention Service. Results: In strand 1 of the study, we will invite people to discuss their experience of psychosis and give their opinions on the existing evidence-based treatment (cognitive behavioural therapy) and how the mobile app can be developed. In strand 2, we will complete a test run with a small number of participants (n = 4) to refine the mobile intervention (TechCare). Finally, in strand 3 of the study, the TechCare App will be examined in a feasibility study with 12 participants. Conclusion: It has been suggested that there is a need for a rapid increase in the efforts to develop the evidence base for the clinical effectiveness of digital technologies, considering mHealth research can potentially be helpful in addressing the demand on mental health services globally.
The relationship between impact sound and vGRF during fatigued and non-fatigued running

Running is one of the most popular physical activities around the world, as it is an efficient way to achieve and upheld physical fitness and thereby decrease all-cause and cardiovascular mortality (Lee et al., 2014). Running does, however, induce a relatively high risk of injury. A majority of injuries are located in the lower extremities, where incidence rates vary between 19.4% and 79.3% (Van Gent, 2007). Overuse injuries are the most common running-related injury, which is a result of repetitive microtrauma, caused by shock waves propagating through the lower extremities, created at the foot impact during running (Dickinson et al., 1985; Hreljac et al., 2000). Risk factors originating from running can be assigned to multiple factors, where the vertical ground reaction force (vGRF) and loading rate (VLR) are commonly used to predict and investigate overuse injuries. Greater impact forces have been reported to increase the risk of stress fractures (Davis et al., 2016; Milner et al., 2006), indicating lowering the impact forces having a potential beneficial effect on overuse injuries. Foot strike pattern (FSP) has been suggested as a risk factor for running-related injuries, as alterations of the FSP have been associated with changes in Studies have suggested that the impact sound during running contains properties, which is directly related to the running technique. Identification of these specific properties could contribute to valuable information on both performance and injury risk. The aim of present study was therefore, to investigate the relationship between impact sound and vGRF parameters, during both fatigued and nonfatigued running. Eighteen participants completed trials of over ground running during normal and quiet conditions, which was performed pre and post, separated by a treadmill fatigue protocol. During the run, vGRF measurements was collected, simultaneously, four shotgun microphones captured the impact sound. Kinematics were captured to determine the foot strike pattern of the participants. Simple linear regressions revealed a significant linear relationship between impact sound and vGRF parameters of impact peak, IVLR and AVLR, demonstrating that increase of impact sound results in increase of vGRF parameters. A Chi-square test demonstrated that participants (83.33%) changed their foot strike pattern significantly during the quiet condition. A two-way repeated measures ANOVA revealed an effect of running conditions, as both the vGRF parameters and impact sound was significantly reduced during the quiet condition. Impact sound significantly increased, when running in a fatigue state, however, the same tendencies was not observed for any vGRF parameters. Thus, indicating properties of the impact sound is a beneficial alternative measurement method to assess vGRF, and can be used to alter the running mechanics, hence the possibility of reducing the prevalence of overuse injuries.
Effect of energy sources , physical form and protein levels on nutrient digestibility and growth in Karadi lambs I . Effect of physical form , energy source and protein level on nutrient digestibility and some blood parameters

In digestibility trial twenty four yearling Karadi lambs were divided into six groups, 4 lambs each, and individually fed on one of the six rations which based mainly on whole barely ( 13% or 15% protein) ( T1&T2), ground barely (13 or 15 % protein) (T3& T4) and ground yellow corn ( 13 or 15% protein ) (T5&T6). All lambs were fed for 10 days as a pre period and 5 days for feces collection. Blood samples were taken from the jugular vein on day 15.
MOBILE SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND DIAGNOSING HEART DISEASES

Heart diseases are a typical cause of death all over the world, providing the user with a novel, low cost, mobile device, capable of warning the user and medical attendant in case of a medical emergency to prevent a critical situation, is the ultimate motivation of this investigation. The main contribution of this work is the design and implementation of an intelligent mobile system for detecting and diagnosing heart diseases. The proposed system is based on a client / server approach. The user is provided with a 3G Smartphone. The client is continuously monitoring the ECG signal via Bluetooth from a device attached to the user’s body. In the server side, a web based MATLAB server program is performing all the advanced analysis regarding the use of Artificial Neural Networks for detecting and diagnosing heart diseases. If necessary, an alert is generated, otherwise, all the patient records are stored on a database. As a supervision method, ISSEMYM medical staff is attending the server alerts if needed. A collaborative medical diagnosis site has been developed for registered medical users.
Statist ics for Radiologists

Rationale and Objectives. We developed a method of comparing receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves on the basis of the utilities associated with their optimal operating points (OOPs). Methods. OOPs were computed for paired ROC curves on the basis of isocost lines in ROC space with slopes ranging from 0.1 to 3.0. For each pair of OOPs corresponding to a single isocost slope, the difference in costs and the variance of this difference was computed. A sensitivity analysis was thus obtained for the difference be tween the two curves over a range of isocost slopes. Three published data sets were evaluated using this technique, as well as by comparisons of areas under the curves and of true-positive fractions at fixed false-positive fractions. Results. The OOPs of paired ROC curves often occur at different false-positive fractions. Comparisons of ROC curves on the basis of OOPs may provide results that differ from comparisons of curves at a fixed falsepositive fraction. Conclusion. ROC curves may be compared on the basis of utilities associated with their OOPs. This comparison of the optimal performance of two diagnostic tests may differ from conventional statistical comparisons.
A Comparison of Music Input Domains for Self-Supervised Feature Learning

In music using neural networks to learn effective feature spaces, or embeddings, that capture useful characteristics has been demonstrated in the symbolic and audio domains. In this work, we compare the symbolic and audio domains, attempting to identify the benefits of each, and whether incorporating both of the representations during learning has utility. We use a self-supervising siamese network to learn a low-dimensional representation of three second music clips and evaluate the learned features on their ability to perform a variety of music tasks. We use a polyphonic pianoperformance dataset and directly compare the performance on these tasks with embeddings derived from synthesized audio and the corresponding symbolic representations.
Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of Bacteria Associated With Cnidoscolus aconitifolius (Mill.)

Cnidoscolus aconitifolius (Mill.) I. M. Johnston is an economic plant with various medicinal and food values. Little is known about the bacterial organisms associated with this plant. The use of molecular techniques in determining the bacterial composition of biological samples has proved be a more reliable method than the traditional cultural method which is based only on morphological and biochemical characteristics of isolates; in which case, misinterpretation or wrong identification of organisms may occur. In this study, the bacterial organisms associated with Cnidoscolus aconitifolius were isolated and identified using traditional cultural method, biochemical tests and basic molecular techniques. C. aconitifolius leaves and stem showing disease symptoms were collected from the three senatorial zones in Rivers State. Pure cultures of bacteria were obtained using nutrient agar and the bacterial DNA was extracted using Quick-DNA Fungal/Bacterial MiniPrep TM Kit (Zymo Research Group, California, USA). The 16S rRNA gene of the bacterial genome was amplified through polymerase chain reaction using bacterial universal primer pair; I6SF and I6SR. Three bacterial organisms; two strains of Pseudomonas putida and one strain of Pseudomonas sp. were successfully isolated and identified. A phylogenetic tree was constructed which showed the relationship between the isolates and other species on Genebank.
A PROTOTYPE ON-BOARD SHIP-DETECTION SYSTEM

The DLR is currently exploring the feasibility of an on-board ship detection system, prospectively installed on Earth observation satellites. The applications are manifold: illegal activities like piracy, unauthorized fishery, refugee shipment, illegal cleaning and ocean dumping are daily occurrences. Furthermore, such a system can support live saving by detecting dangerous situations like sinking ships and facilitate fast reaction in case of oil spills or other sea pollution. The key value for all these applications is the topicality of information. By now, near-realtime services offered by data processing centers on ground can provide information in the range of 15 minutes measured from on-ground data reception. Obviously, the bottleneck in this process is the time delay occurring between data acquisition and reception on ground. To react as fast as possible, product data like position, velocity, heading and condition of maritime objects are of interest, while high-quality image data in full spatial and spectral resolution is not obligatory in the first instance. The on-board system introduced hereafter is intended to provide the mentioned product data in real-time and independent of a direct contact to a ground station. The aim is to completely overcome the usual delay emanating from the process of data acquisition, on-board storing and downlink. Furthermore, the product data can be received on any smart device on ground independent of its locality. A prototype system will be tested in the flight experiment AMARO (Autonomous real-time detection of moving maritime objects), scheduled for 2018.
Efficient Neural Network Verification via Adaptive Refinement and Adversarial Search

We propose a novel veriﬁcation method for high-dimensional feed-forward neural networks governed by ReLU, Sig-moid and Tanh activation functions. We show that the method is complete for ReLU networks and sound for other activation functions. The technique extends symbolic interval propagation by using gradient-descent to locate counter-examples from spurious solutions generated by the associated LP problems. The approach includes a novel adaptive splitting strategy intended to reﬁne the nodes with the greatest impact on the output of the network. The resulting implementation, called V ERI N ET , achieved speed-ups of approximately one order of magnitude for safe cases and three orders of magnitude for unsafe cases on MNIST models against SoA complete methods. V ERI N ET could verify networks of over 50,000 ReLU nodes trained on the CIFAR-10 data-set; these are larger than networks that could previously veriﬁed via complete methods.
The Third International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures An Isogeometric Solid-Like Shell Element for Modelling Delamination

A main advantage of isogeometric analysis is that the functions used for the representation of the geometry are employed directly for the analysis, thereby by-passing the need for a sometimes elaborate meshing process. This important feature allows for a design-through-analysis procedure which yields a significant reduction of the time needed for preparation of the analysis model [1]. Indeed, the exact parametrization of the geometry can have benefits for the numerical simulation of shell structures, which can be very sensitive to imperfections in the geometry. Moreover, the higher-order continuity of the shape functions used in isogeometric analysis allows for a straightforward implementation of shell theories which require C continuity such as Kirchhoff-Love models [2, 3]. A Reissner-Mindlin shell formulation has been developed by Benson et al. [4] using NURBS basis functions.
Study of the performance of a kinematic constraint reconstruction of the missing momentum in partially reconstructed events in Λ 0 b → Λ + c D 0 * K − decays

The focus of this bachelor thesis is the presentation and examination of an analysis strategy for a pentaquark search in Λb → Λc (D 0* → D π0/γ) K− decays. The Λc D 0* channel in this decay is predicted to couple to the pentaquark state P+ c . The kinematic effects of a reconstruction method applied to partially reconstructed events under two hypotheses of missing particles were examined and determined. In this context, a model describing the resolution of the Dalitz plot in the variables m2 ΛcD 0(*) and m2 D 0(*) K− was found for multiple scenarios. Lastly, the applicability of the sPlot technique for background subtraction in the given decay was evaluated. It was found that the full reconstruction of the events in this decay does not allow for the sPlot technique to be used, which is why a different method of background subtraction will have to be found.
Characterization of Diffuse Groundwater Inflows into Stream Water (Part II: Quantifying Groundwater Inflows by Coupling FO-DTS and Vertical Flow Velocities)

Temperature has been used to characterize groundwater and stream water exchanges for years. One of the many methods used analyzes propagation of the atmosphere-influenced diurnal signal in sediment to infer vertical velocities. However, despite having good accuracy, the method is usually limited by its small spatial coverage. The appearance of fiber optic distributed temperature sensing (FO-DTS) provided new possibilities due to its high spatial and temporal resolution. Methods based on the heat-balance equation, however, cannot quantify diffuse groundwater inflows that do not modify stream temperature. Our research approach consists of coupling groundwater inflow mapping from a previous article (Part I) and deconvolution of thermal profiles in the sediment to obtain vertical velocities along the entire reach. Vertical flows were calculated along a 400 m long reach, and a period of 9 months (October 2016 to June 2017), by coupling a fiber optic cable buried in thalweg sediment and a few thermal lances at the water–sediment interface. When compared to predictions of hyporheic discharge by traditional methods (differential discharge between upstream and downstream of the monitored reach and the mass-balance method), those of our method agreed only for the low-flow period and the end of the high-flow period. Our method underestimated hyporheic discharge during high flow. We hypothesized that the differential discharge and mass-balance methods included lateral inflows that were not detected by the fiber optic cable buried in thalweg sediment. Increasing spatial coverage of the cable as well as automatic and continuous calculation over the reach may improve predictions during the high-flow period. Coupling groundwater inflow mapping and vertical hyporheic flow allows flow to be quantified continuously, which is of great interest for characterizing and modeling fine hyporheic processes over long periods.
Photorealistic Visualization of Fluorescence Materials with Dual Surface Scattering

We describe a simple method to extract fluorescent characteristics of a surface by combining measurements by a "usual" gonioreflectormeter GSCM-4 and fluorimeter FP-8600. The fluorescent BDF consists of three components: glossy near-specular peak which is not fluorescent and white, highly diffuse “passive” part which is also not fluorescent but colored, and fluorescent part. The latter obviates Kasha’s-Vavilov’s rule (factorization) with good accuracy. The BDFs obtained were used in rendering and shown good visual match with the natural photographs.