Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Measures of Verification of Field Geometric for Simulator and Radiotherapy Portal Film using Image Processing

Radiotherapy verification is the process that enables us to be certain in treating the tumor volume as planned. to ensuring that accurate radiation dose has been given to the correct region, so measures of geometric verification were done, this study was carried out in radiation and isotopes center of Khartoum (RICK) including 57 patients were female 30 represented (52.6%) and male 27 represented (47.4%). using Interactive Data Language IDL software to measure the dimension and length of each axis for all images. The results show that the mean of simulator in X-axis 9.68±4.64 and for treatment film X-axis was 9.64±4.52, and for Y-axis for simulator 9±3.45 and for treatment film 8.96±3.25. Using paired sample t-test show there is no significant differences between simulator and treatment film for X-axis, and between simulator and treatment film for Y-axis. The association between simulator and treatment film for X-axis was 0.96 mm/mm, and for Y-axis was 0.94 mm/mm. Linear regression results showed that the rate of association for the simulator (X-Axis) and Treatment film (X-Axis) increases by 0.313 mm, and the rate of association between simulator (Y-Axis) and Treatment film (Y-Axis) increases by 0.437 mm.
Isolation and Characterization of Nitrifying Bacteria from the Rhizospere Soil of Bt and NBt Cotton Cultivating Fields

Rhizosperic soil samples were collected from the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) and non-Bt (NBt) cotton cultivated fields for 10-12 consecutive years as a mono crop from Khammam district of Telangana. These soil sample and were used as a source material for isolation and screening of nitrifying bacteria. A total of 27 isolates, sixteen (16) from NBt and eleven (11) from Bt were isolated and were evaluated for the production of nitrites and nitrates by the primary screening. It was identified that four isolates (two from Bt and two from NBt) were common in showing a positive reaction for the production of both nitrite and nitrate and selected for the secondary screening. Out of the micro titer method there were two best (one from Bt (BtRs8) and one from NBt (NBtRs2)) nitrifying bacteria were isolated according to the highest most probable number (MPN) values. Based on the morphological, biochemical and physiological tests performed for the isolate from Bt (BtRs8) and isolate from NBt (NBtRs2), were identified as Bacillus cereus and Bacillus subtilis. The Bt isolate (BtRs8) was further sent to the IMTECH, Chandigarh for molecular characterization and gene sequence which were submitted to NCBI.
Lipoxygenase activity in walnuts and almonds

The objective of this experiment was to investigate lipoxygenase (LOX) activity in walnut or almond homogenates. Walnut or almond kernels were heated with hot air at 55 1C for 2 or 10min, or 60 1C for 2 or 10min. The homogenates of untreated or heat treated walnut kernels exhibited greater LOX activity than the homogenates of untreated or heat treated almond kernels. Short-time heat treatments of 55 1C for 2min or greater reduce LOX activity, retard the development of oxidative rancidity, and extend the shelf-life of walnuts and almonds during distribution and storage. Short-time heat treatments of walnut or almond kernels designed to control insect pests for international trade did not promote rancidity when compared to untreated walnuts or almonds. r 2006 Swiss Society of Food Science and Technology. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authenticated Encryption with Nonce Misuse and Physical Leakages : Definitions , Separation Results , and Leveled Constructions

We propose definitions and constructions of authenticated encryption (AE) schemes that offer security guarantees even in the presence of nonce misuse and side-channel leakages. This is part of an important ongoing effort to make AE more robust, while preserving appealing efficiency properties. Our definitions consider an adversary enhanced with the leakages of all the computations of an AE scheme, together with the possibility to misuse nonces, be it during all queries (in the spirit of misuseresistance), or only during training queries (in the spirit of misuse-resilience recently introduced by Ashur et al.). These new definitions offer various insights on the effect of leakages in the security landscape. In particular, we show that, in contrast with the black-box setting, leaking variants of INT-CTXT and IND-CPA security do not imply a leaking variant IND-CCA security, and that leaking variants of INT-PTXT and IND-CCA do not imply a leaking variant of INT-CTXT. Eventually, we propose first instances of modes of operations that satisfy our definitions. In order to optimize their efficiency, we aim at modes that support “leveled implementations” such that the encryption and decryption operations require the use of a small constant number of evaluations of an expensive and heavily protected component, while the bulk of the computations can be performed by cheap and weakly protected block cipher implementations.
COLLABORATION WITH A 4 PL PROVIDER FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF INFORMATION AND INVENTORY FLOWS IN THE TRANSPORTATION PROCESS

In this paper, the complexity of supply chains is highlighted, due to the existence and interactions of multiple supply chain partners. A supply chain collaboration pattern is created, based on literature review, according to which, collaborative relationships must be cultivated among channel partners, in order to optimize the flow of accurate and on time information, thereby enabling the lean flow of inventory, through reduction of the transportation cycle time. To achieve this purpose, the existence of a supply chain integrator, namely a Fourth Party Logistics Provider (4PL), is imminent, in order to handle the complexity of the chain. This need is demonstrated through the analysis of indicative supply chain constructs, displaying the interaction points with intermediaries, and how these are simplified, through collaboration with the 4PL provider to effectively coordinate the end-to-end transportation process. Finally, the supply chain structures are demonstrated through a model.
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPOSITE DEPTH SECTIONS FOR SITES 844 THROUGH 854 1

A primary objective of Leg 138 was the acquisition of high-resolution records of Neogene climatic change in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Coincident with this objective was the importance of recovery of a continuous record. If properly done, drilling multiple adjacent holes at a given site helps assure recovery of a continuous record. In the past, confirmation of recovery of a continuous section only occurred after drilling had been completed and even then was difficult. During Leg 138, records from multiple holes were processed and examined during drilling at each site using continuously measured lithologic parameters. This process helped to ensure the recovery of a nearly complete stratigraphic sequence at each site and allowed for changes in drilling plans in real time. Although much of the final analysis of Leg 138 data is here discussed in terms of time, we found it essential that the stratigraphic sections cored were first expressed with a useful depth scale. After being documented during several DSDP and ODP cruises (e.g., Legs 85, 86, 94, 108, 111, 115, 117, and 121), scientists now know that between successive APC cores in a given hole, part of the sedimentary sequence is often not recovered. To piece together a continuous sedimentary section at the Leg 138 sites, we developed a composite depth section. This depth section was formed by splicing together cores from adjacent holes at a given site. The purpose of the composite section was to describe the entire sedimentary sequence at a given site by referencing each hole to a common depth scale. By identifying the missing parts of the sedimentary sequence from each hole and by patching in from adjacent holes, a continuous record could be sampled. The construction of a complete composite section also provided an initial stratigraphic framework for the site, which allowed us to reference magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic events observed in different holes to a common depth scale.
Persuasive Faces : Generating Faces in Advertisements ( Supplementary Material )

We strongly encourage readers to view the supplementary qualitative results we include in the 17_way and 5_way folders. In this document, we present several supplementary results to our main text. We first present an analysis of what objects appear in different types of advertisements. We find, for example, that bottles occur in beverage ads. We then study the visual distinctiveness of objects across ad topics. We seek to identify objects which have a unique visual presentation in a certain type of ad, which is not present in ads on the whole. We observe, for example, that cars in car ads appear different from cars in other ad types. Based on our object analysis, we narrowed our focus to faces because they were the most common object detected in the dataset. We performed face detection on ads and then predicted the facial attributes and expressions of those faces. We found, for example, that faces from beauty ads tended to score highly for attractive, heavy makeup, and wearing lipstick. We found facial expressions mattered as well, with domestic violence faces exhibiting the most fearful and sad faces. We also include three additional quantitative results from our human study. These results verify that humans did well at discriminating ad faces, show which types of ads our methods work best on, and finally rank methods by visual quality. We then discuss the qualitative results which we include with this supplementary. Finally, we include examples of real bottles we detected in ads to complement Fig. 5 in the main text.
Restaurant’s Atmospheric Elements: What the customer wants

The purpose of the study is to examine youth customer behaviour due to the restaurant’s atmospheric element environment. It also explores the environment of the restaurant and the use of atmospherics by the restaurateurs through the reactions of the customers. The dimensions of colour, design, lighting, and restaurant layout, among others, were measured. Qualitative data taken from 300 youth customers were analyzed, and interpretations of the relationships were made. It was found that atmospheric elements contributed significantly in each representation of customer behaviour. Keywords: Restaurant atmosphere, customer behaviour, youth © 2017 The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.
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Milk and dairy products are important nutrients for all age groups. However, the use of antibiotics for the treatment of food-producing animals generates the risk to human health, as these compounds and their metabolites can be transferred into milk. Rapid testing of the presence of antibiotics in raw milk to grant its quality has become a major task for farmers and dairy industry. The conventional analytical methods are either too slow or do not enable quantitative detection of antibiotic residues, so alternative methods that are rapid, cost effective, and easy to perform should be considered. The present chapter gives an overview of the recent developments and issues of the construction of different biosensors for the detection of antibiotic residues in milk.
ASpli : An integrative R package for analysing alternative splicing using RNA-seq

4.4 Integrative reports . 17 4.4. 1 splicingReport: bin and junction signals integration . 17 4.4. 2 integrateSignals(): Region specific summarization of differential usage signals. 18 4.4. 3 exportSplicingReport: Export splicing reports in HTML pages. 20 4.4.4 exportIntegratedSignals(): Export integrated signals into HTML pages. 22
Y-chromosome STRs DYS 385 , DYS 19 , DYS 389-I and II , DYS 390 , DYS 391 , DYS 392 and DYS 393 in five African populations

Background: The Y chromosome has been used to compare the relationship between populations, representing a rich source of potential information to trace paternal lineages and providing a record of our relatedness. Among different population groups, African populations seem to be very interesting to study, considering the theory of the origin of modern humans and the ethnic variability usually existing. Methods: Five male populations from Angola (n= 48), Cap Verde (n = 47), GuineaBissau (n = 32), Mozambique (n = 36) and S. Tome and Prince (n = 30) were studied for Ychromosome Short Tandem Repeats (STRs) DYS385, in addition to DYS19, DYS389-I and II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392 and DYS393 previously searched. Results: The high DYS385 polymorphism confers a considerable variability to the Y-chromosome haplotype. Conclusions: The comparisons between the African populations and other data, namely from a Portuguese population, showed an interesting location of insular populations, with an intermediate position between Caucasoid and African continental populations, probably due to the European presence in the colonization of those islands. D 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
014-A Comparison of Two Different Methods to Predict Meat Quality and Prediction Possibility Using Digital Image Analysis

[1] This study was presented at Annual Meeting of EAAP 2007 Congress in Ireland and the abstract was published in book of abstracts No: 13 pp. 139 of EAAP (European Association for Animal Production) [2] It was Financed by Suleyman Demirel University Research Fund (Project No: 1033-m-05) * Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Suleyman Demirel University, 32260, Isparta TURKEY ** Department of Food Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Suleyman Demirel University, 32260, Isparta TURKEY
Analysis of BrO measurements from the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment

The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME), launched on the ESA ERS‐2 satellite in April 1995, measures solar back scatter spectra from which atmospheric BrO columns may be derived globally with high precision (slant column uncertainties of ±3×1013 cm−2 or less). Obtaining such precision requires additional characterization of GOME spectra, reference spectra that are well calibrated in wavelength, and a fitting method capable of reproducing measurements to several parts in 104. This paper describes these elements of the data processing and gives examples of BrO distributions in the stratosphere and enhanced tropospheric BrO in the polar springtime.
The quantum chiral Minkowski and conformal superspaces

We give a quantum deformation of the chiral super Minkowski space in four dimensions as the big cell inside a quantum super Grassmannian. The quantization is performed in such way that the actions of the Poincar\'e and conformal quantum supergroups on the quantum Minkowski and quantum conformal superspaces are presented.
Peak horizontal acceleration and velocity from strong motion records including records from the 1979 Imperial Valley, California, earthquake

We have taken advantage of the recent increase in strong-motion data at close distances to derive new attenuation relations for peak horizontal acceleration and velocity. This new analysis uses a magnitude-independent shape, based on geometrical spreading and anelastic attenuation, for the attenuation curve. An innovation in technique is introduced that decouples the determination of the distance dependence of the data from the magnitude dependence. The resulting equations are log A = − 1.02 + 0.249 M − log r − 0.00255 r + 0.26 P r = ( d 2 + 7.3 2 ) 1 / 2 5.0 ≦ M ≦ 7.7 log V = − 0.67 + 0.489 M − log r − 0.00256 r + 0.17 S + 0.22 P r = ( d 2 + 4.0 2 ) 1 / 2 5.3 ≦ M ≦ 7.4 where A is peak horizontal acceleration in g , V is peak horizontal velocity in cm/ sec, M is moment magnitude, d is the closest distance to the surface projection of the fault rupture in km, S takes on the value of zero at rock sites and one at soil sites, and P is zero for 50 percentile values and one for 84 percentile values. We considered a magnitude-dependent shape, but we find no basis for it in the data; we have adopted the magnitude-independent shape because it requires fewer parameters.
Mergers after Cartels: How Markets React to Cartel Breakdown

This paper examines whether cartel breakdown provokes a period of intensive merger activity among the former cartelists, designed to establish tacit collusion. Using a novel application of recurrent-event survival analysis for a pooled sample of 84 European cartels, we find that mergers are indeed more frequent after cartel breakdown, especially in markets that are less concentrated. However, we caution against merely assuming that these mergers are motivated by coordinated effects—alternatively, they may be the consequence of market restructuring, necessitated by more intense competition after cartel breakdown. Further disaggregated analysis of the individual mergers shows that on average these mergers are profitable for the acquiring company and that the tacit-collusion motive is likely to be at work in a large minority of the mergers.
Communication Between Huntington’s Disease Patients, Their Support Persons and the Dental Hygienist Using Talking Mats

Communication is at the heart of any health care situation and individuals, who have difficulties describing their problems and expressing their needs, are in danger of being misunderstood or mistreated (Bartlett et al., 2008). Persons with Huntington’s Disease (HD) have cognitive, emotional and motor problems which affect their communication and they frequently need support to be able to communicate in their daily life in general and in health care situations in particular. This chapter describes an effort to enhance communicative effectiveness in a dental and oral health care situation using Talking Mats. Eleven individuals, their support persons and a dental hygienist volunteered to help in exploring the use of this method in a clinical situation.
Review of Black Carbon in the Arctic—Origin, Measurement Methods, and Observations

Current knowledge about black carbon (BC) emission estimates, state-of-the-art measurement methods, near-surface BC concentrations ([BC]), and mixing ratios in snow is consolidated for the Arctic. Since no direct method exists to measure [BC], results from modern indirect methods differ among devices. Pan-Arctic wide [BC] and changes are hard to access; monitoring often ends once national ambient air quality standards are met. Few remote sites have long records. Past measurements showed distinct differences among the various Arctic climate regions. Past and own observations in communities permit qualitative discussion of the diurnal course, response to weather, season, or different emission situations like weekdays and weekends at a given site and/or among sites. Comparison of data from collocated aethalometer indicated more similar accuracy than found in mid- and low-latitudes despite of much lower ambient temperatures and [BC]. Snow samples give an incomplete glimpse at the removal and input into ecosystems.
Effect of a moderate feed restriction on subsequent growth and body composition in pigs raised under high environmental temperatures

The experiment was conducted to assess the influence of a moderate feed restriction during the growth period on overall performance, corporal traits and fatty acid composition in pig backfat in pigs raised under high environmetal temperatures. A hundred Large White x (Large White x Landrace) barrows with an average initial weight of 34.5 kg were randomly distributed, in pens (10 pigs per pen). Fifty pigs were fed ad libitum for 36 days (AL pigs) and another fifty were restricted by 25% of their ad libitum consumption during the same period (R pigs). During the subsequent re-feeding period (64 days) all pigs were fed ad libitum. The only diet used contained 13.4 MJ ME kg -1 , 17% crude protein and 1.3% lysine. The minimum, maximum and mean average temperatures recorded during the feed restriction and post-restriction periods were, oC: 21.5 ± 1.2, 28.6 ± 1.3 and 25.0 ± 1.1, and 22.6 ± 0.9, 31.2 ± 1.0 and 26.9 ± 0.9, respectively. Considering the whole study period, the average daily gain and average daily feed intake were higher (P 0.05) (2.95 vs 2.95 kg . kg -1 ). At the end of experiment, no differences for dorsal fat thickness and area and for longissimus dorsi muscle depth, width and area, measured at site of the last rib by means of a real-time ultrasound device, were found between experimental groups. The linolenic acid proportions of the subcutaneous fat outer and inner layer were higher in AL than in R pigs (P<0.05), while palmitic and saturated fatty acids total proportions of the subcutaneous fat inner layer were higher in R than in AL pigs (P<0.05).
Compost effects on microbial biomass and soil P pools as affected by particle size and soil properties

Previous studies have shown that finer composts release nutrients more quickly than coarse composts, but little is known about the nutrient release from different size fractions of a compost. To assess if compost size fractions differ in their effect on microbial biomass and soil P pools, a compost from garden waste was separated by sieving into different particle size fractions (> 5 mm, 3-5 mm and 5 mm fraction and in microbial biomass C and P with the < 3 mm fraction. The size of the P pools was mainly affected by soil type, the compost fractions had similar effects on soil P pools except for a greater increase in available P concentration by the finest fraction compared to the coarser size fractions. Soil A with the highest organic matter content had the highest concentrations of Fe/Al associated P (NaOH-P) and organic P whereas Ca-associated P (HCl-P) dominated in the alkaline soil C. The size of most P pools, even the so-called stable P pools changed over time in amended and non-amended soils. It can be concluded that the size of P pools is more strongly affected by soil properties such as organic matter content, texture and pH than by the compost fractions.
Telomeric Attrition with Increasing Age in Short-( Chihuahua Dog ) and Long-( Asian Elephant ) Life Span Animals

Here, we explored the rate of telomere attrition with increasing age by real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) in a short(Chihuahua dog) and long(Asian elephant) lived species. A total of 122 Asian elephants (female = 106, male = 16) ranging from 24-840 months of age, and 89 Chihuahuas (female = 65, male = 24) 1-179 months of age were used in this study. We found that young (preand peri-pubertal) Asian elephants had a higher relative telomere length (RTL) compared to dogs. A low, but significant negative relationship between RTL and increasing age was observed in both Chihuahuas (R2=0.0490, P=0.0017) and Asian elephants (R2=0.0177, P=0.0210). The estimated rate of telomere loss for males and females of both species ranged from -0.0023 to -0.0065, with no clear differences between gender or species. Results suggest that Asian elephants may start with longer telomeres than Chihuahuas, as RTL was higher, but then the rate of telomere attrition proceeds at a similar rate in both species. Age accounted for only a small percentage of the variation in RTL in both Chihuahua dogs and Asian elephants, however. Thus, its use as a biological tool for age estimation would appear to be limited for these species.