Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Preparation and Evaluation of Gelatin-Chitosan-Nanobioglass 3D Porous Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering

The aim of the present study was to prepare and characterize bioglass-natural biopolymer based composite scaffold and evaluate its bone regeneration ability. Bioactive glass nanoparticles (58S) in the size range of 20–30 nm were synthesized using sol-gel method. Porous scaffolds with varying bioglass composition from 10 to 30 wt% in chitosan, gelatin matrix were fabricated using the method of freeze drying of its slurry at 40 wt% solids loading. Samples were cross-linked with glutaraldehyde to obtain interconnected porous 3D microstructure with improved mechanical strength. The prepared scaffolds exhibited >80% porosity with a mean pore size range between 100 and 300 microns. Scaffold containing 30 wt% bioglass (GCB 30) showed a maximum compressive strength of 2.2 ± 0.1 MPa. Swelling and degradation studies showed that the scaffold had excellent properties of hydrophilicity and biodegradability. GCB 30 scaffold was shown to be noncytotoxic and supported mesenchymal stem cell attachment, proliferation, and differentiation as indicated by MTT assay and RUNX-2 expression. Higher cellular activity was observed in GCB 30 scaffold as compared to GCB 0 scaffold suggesting the fact that 58S bioglass nanoparticles addition into the scaffold promoted better cell adhesion, proliferation, and differentiation. Thus, the study showed that the developed composite scaffolds are potential candidates for regenerating damaged bone tissue.
The Transformation of The Information Wave Into Virtual Civilization and the Ethical Questions It Raises

The purpose of this investigation is to define the main contents and issues of the impact of informing systems on the rise and development of Virtual Civilization. The methodology is based on an interdisciplinary big-picture view of the elements of development of virtual civilization and their interdependency. Among the findings are the following: Virtual Civilization has infrastructural characteristics, a world-wide unlimited, socially constructed work and leisure space in cyberspace, and it can last centuries/millennia—as long as informing systems are operational. Practical implications: The mission of Virtual Civilization is to control the public policies of real civilizations in order to secure the common good in real societies. Social implications: The quest for the common good by virtual society may limit or even replace representative democracy by direct democracy which, while solving some problems in a positive way, may eventually trigger permanent political chaos in real civilizations. Originality: This investigation defines the question of ethics regarding the role of informing systems in the development of Virtual Civilization by providing an interdisciplinary and civilizational approach at the big-picture level.
In the public interest? Planning in the Peak District National Park

The recent history of the public interest is one of misappropriation. Practitioners have been found to value the concept but have struggled to articulate how it guides day-to-day planning practice. It has been used to portray a homogeneous public, furthering the interests of the powerful at the expense of recognising social diversity, and leading to calls for the concept’s abandonment. Yet this article starts from the argument that the public interest remains the justification that fundamentally underpins planning activities, in light of a continuing need to address collective concerns. To this end, the article adopts the typology put forward by Campbell and Marshall, outlining different ways in which the public interest may practically be addressed. Alongside this, Dewey’s work is used to understand how the extent of the public may vary, leading to the use of scale as a way of recognising when different conceptualisations of the public interest might be practically drawn upon. Following this approach, the typology is brought together with scale, as a lens for understanding the extent of a public with a common interest, to form a framework for analysing practice. This framework is used to analyse how the interests of different publics are addressed in a case study of the Peak District, a national park in England. From the case, conclusions are drawn around the need to pay greater attention to the extent of different publics with a common interest and, in turn, how the interests of different publics can be reconciled.
Do babies resemble their fathers more than their mothers ? A failure to replicate Christenfeld & Hill

Contrary to Christenfeld & Hill (1995), we find that children aged 1, 3, and 5 do not appear to resemble their fathers significantly more than their mothers. We provide an explanation as to why this should be. In addition, we note that any father-child resemblance that does exist, while indeed better than chance, is far from overwhelming.
Candida Bloodstream Infections in Italy: Changing Epidemiology during 16 Years of Surveillance

Although considerable progress has been made in the management of patients with invasive fungal infections, Candida bloodstream infections are still widespread in hospital settings. Incidence rates vary geographically, often because of different patient populations. The aim of the present study was to describe the epidemiology of candidemia, to analyze the trend of species distribution, and to measure the in vitro susceptibility to antifungal drugs in a university Italian hospital from 1998 to 2013. The antifungal susceptibility for all Candida isolates was evaluated by broth microdilution assay (CLSI M27-A3 document). Of 394 episodes of candidemia, the average incidence was 3.06/10 000 admissions. C. albicans and non-albicans Candida species caused 44.2% and 55.8% of the episodes, respectively. C. parapsilosis (62.2%) was the most common non-albicans. C. albicans predominated in almost all departments whereas C. parapsilosis was found in adult and paediatric oncohaematology units (34.8% and 77.6%, resp.). Overall, mortality occurred in 111 (28.2%) patients. Death occurred most often in intensive care units (47.1%) and specialist surgeries (43.7%). Most of the isolates were susceptible to antifungal drugs, but there was an upward trend for azole (P < 0.05). In conclusion, this study emphasizes the importance of monitoring local epidemiologic data and the diversity of patient groups affected.
Library Anxiety and Emotion Perception Among the Undergraduate Social Sciences Students: A Relationship Study

ABSTRACT Previous research has mostly focused on the demographic and academic correlates of library anxiety. This study focused on the “library anxiety” and “emotion perception” of students, with the objective of examining the relationship between these two concepts. In total, 279 self-reporting questionnaires were used for analysis. The results confirmed the existence of the phenomenon of library anxiety, with these students being more anxious regarding the “user education” and “user knowledge” factors. They showed greater skills of emotion perception. A negatively significant relationship appeared between library anxiety and emotion perception. The results suggest that user education and emotion perception training programs should be developed to overcome students' problems.
FlowK: Information Flow Control for the Cloud

Security concerns are widely seen as an obstacle to the adoption of cloud computing solutions and although a wealth of law and regulation has emerged, the technical basis for enforcing and demonstrating compliance lags behind. Our Cloud Safety Net project aims to show that Information Flow Control (IFC) can augment existing security mechanisms and provide continuous enforcement of extended. Finer-grained application-level security policy in the cloud. We present FlowK, a loadable kernel module for Linux, as part of a proof of concept that IFC can be provided for cloud computing. Following the principle of policy-mechanism separation, IFC policy is assumed to be expressed at application level and FlowK provides mechanisms to enforce IFC policy at runtime. FlowK's design minimises the changes required to existing software when IFC is provided. To show how FlowK can be integrated with cloud software we have designed and evaluated a framework for deploying IFC-aware web applications, suitable for use in a PaaS cloud.
Theoretical Evaluation of Peek's Law

A theoretical evaluation for Peek's law which yields the corona onset gradient is made in air for positive wire/cylinder and positive point/plane geometries. The physical and geometrical parameters used in Meek's criterion take into account the variation of apparent ionization coefficient ¿1 of air with humidity, pressure, and temperature and the curvature radius R of the rod tip (or the wire diameter D). A single analytic integrable expression is introduced for ¿1/P which may be used for any value of the reduced field E/p. The results covering a wide range of parameters 10-7 m < R or D < 107 m (up to a plane/plane geometry) are compared with a variety of experimental results.
The powerful "lens" of magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of hepatic nodules in patients with cirrhosis: diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma without the need of histopathological confirmation - fact!

Radiol Bras. 2017 Jan/Fev;50(1):VII–VIII Chronic liver inflammation, which is responsible for various stages of parenchymal fibrosis and, especially end-stage liver disease (cirrhosis), is the main cause of hepatocarcinogenesis and therefore of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common primary malignant neoplasm of the liver. The causes of chronic liver inflammation include not only viral hepatitis but also chronic alcoholism, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, and several other, less common, conditions. It is extraordinary to realize that with the technological advancement of the devices—mainly those of computed tomography (CT) and, especially, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), through quantitative techniques and the various types of sequences available—radiologists have powerful noninvasive tools that function as “magnifying glasses” for the indirect study and precise evaluation of the cytoarchitecture of the organs of the body, with special attention to the liver. As detailed and demonstrated by Ramalho et al., in their article published in this issue of Radiologia Brasileira, MRI findings indirectly reproduce histopathological and hemodynamic changes, including altered hepatic morphology, fibrosis, and nodules, the spectrum of which ranges from regenerative nodules to dysplastic nodules of varying grades (from low to high) and, ultimately, HCC. The authors described the various advantages of MRI in relation to CT, including the fact that the former does not involve the use of ionizing radiation, has higher tissue resolution (which can facilitate the identification of intralesional fat components), and allows the use of extracellular and liver-specific contrast agents, as well as an excellent evaluation of the biliary tree by cholangiography. They also demonstrated the superiority of MRI over CT in the diagnosis of small HCCs, as well as in the detection of dysplastic nodules and diffuse HCC. Despite the importance of the abovementioned characteristics in the MRI sequences, the key tool for the diagnosis of HCC— and therefore for the evaluation of nodules in chronic liver diseases— is undoubtedly the study of the hemodynamic behavior against the
Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) characterization and molecular analysis for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and novel SCCmec subtype IVg isolated from bovine milk in Korea.

OBJECTIVES To identify the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) types of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolated from bovine milk, and examine the genetic relatedness between MRSA from bovine milk and MRSA from human isolates. METHODS Antimicrobial susceptibility tests were performed on MRSA isolated from bovine milk. PCR and sequencing analysis were performed to determine the SCCmec type of MRSA, and to confirm their toxin carriage. Genetic relatedness among the bovine isolates and between bovine and human isolates was detected with PFGE and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). RESULTS Fourteen MRSA and a silent mecA-carrying methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (smMSSA) were isolated from the milk of cows with an isolation ratio of 0.18%. SCCmec of 14 MRSA strains were designated as new subtype IVg, and one smMSSA strain was not classified. All 14 MRSA strains shared Panton-Valentine leucocidin (PVL) and staphylococcal enterotoxin D (SED), SEI and SEJ; the smMSSA strain had only PVL. All MRSA and smMSSA isolates showed no multidrug resistance and had community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) characteristics. PFGE revealed that all isolates except the smMSSA belonged to the same genetic lineage, and MLST analysis showed that they had no genetic relatedness with CA-MRSA which had caused human infection in Korea. CONCLUSIONS MRSA isolated from bovine milk harboured a unique SCCmec subtype, and they may not be correlated with the emergence of CA-MRSA in human infection in Korea.
News Headlines: What They Can Tell Us?

News headlines represent the key idea of news articles published in online news media and act as a great resource for discovering news concepts and their relationships. Moreover, the temporal information associated with the news headlines can be utilized to capture the temporal dynamics of the news concepts and their relationships which facilitates the development of many time-aware news analytics applications. Existing works on news data analytics have mostly dealt with news articles, but none of them has talked about the usefulness of news headlines in news data analytics research. In this paper, we analyze the potentiality of news headlines in inferring interesting facts of the news world. We show how news headlines can help us to capture the temporal dynamics of the news concepts and their relationships. We introduce the notion of Time-aware News Concept Graph to capture the said temporal dynamics and show how it opens the doorway of developing numerous interesting news analytics applications. The results of our analysis conform to the facts of the reality and advocate for the success of our effort.
Motion Analysis of a Modular Inspection Robot with Magnetic Wheels

A climbing inspection robot with four magnetic wheels is presented. Its structure is modular, which consists of a light manipulator module, an ultrasonic probes module and a weld testing sensors module. The robot not only can attract on the ferric and vertical wall, and but also can move to inspect the weld seam. It is driven by two DC servo motors. The motion of the robot on the vertical cylindrical vessel is analysed in detail. The position deviation and the angle deviation are adjusted and compensated with the geometric method. At last, the experiment of the motion on real vertical vessel is shown to verify the above analysis and design requirements of the inspection robot at Nanjing refinery factory in China
Oncological outcomes after endoscopic removal of malignant colorectal polyps.

OBJECTIVE malignant colorectal polyp, defined by submucosally invasive adenocarcinoma, is the earliest form of clinically relevant colorectal cancer (CRC). After endoscopic resection additional surgery may be necessary, although decision criteria remain debatable. The objective of this study was to assess oncologic outcomes in terms of locoregional disease and to identify areas of improvement that may facilitate patients' management. METHODS retrospective study of 40 patients with T1 CRC endoscopically resected between 2007 and 2012. Clinicopathological features were assessed and correlated with residual disease (RD), defined as presence of adenocarcinoma in intestinal wall and/ or lymph nodes. RESULTS thirty-one patients underwent surgery while 9 were followed-up. After surgery, RD was confirmed in 15 (48.4%) patients: 8 (53.3%) wall disease, 5 (33%) nodal metastasis, and 2 (13.3%) with both. No recurrence was detected in the follow-up group. The characteristics of the lesions that were associated with DR were sessile configuration (p = 0.03), the degree of differentiation G3 (p = 0.01) and intercepted/indeterminate margins (p = 0.01). Twenty-two patients were operated because of inadequate evaluation, mainly due to piecemeal resection, and half of them were disease free. Postoperative complications were found in 9 (30%) patients, mainly anastomotic leakage that was associated with rectum anterior resection (p = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS surgery should be considered in the presence of any risk factor for residual disease, while follow-up can be offered in low risk settings. Was also demonstrated a clear need for technical improvement in endoscopic resection and pathology evaluation in order to prevent unnecessary surgeries.
Disciplining Expectations : Survey Data on Inflation Expectations and the Sources of Inflation Persistence

Do survey data on inflation expectations play a role in identifying the sources of inflation persistence? In this study we address this question by using data from the Survey of Professional Forecasters to test the mechanisms of expectation formation derived under the assumptions of rational expectations (RE) and learning, and their implications for the sources of inflation persistence. We find, on the one hand, that when ignoring survey data, inflation expectations estimated under the assumption of learning capture some features of the data not related with actual expectations such as changes in the trend of inflation. On the other hand, estimates under RE require implausible high levels of nominal rigidities to match the data from surveys. Consistent results are obtained by learning models that incorporate survey data. Under this specification, learning plays a key role, explaining 30-40% of inflation persistence, while exogenous shocks are of minor importance. All the estimations are implemented using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. JEL classification: C11, D84, E30, E52
What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California's NOx Trading Program

A perceived advantage of cap-and-trade programs over more prescriptive environmental regulation is that enhanced compliance flexibility and cost effectiveness can make more stringent emissions reductions politically feasible. However, increased compliance flexibility can also result in an inequitable distribution of pollution. We investigate these issues in the context of Southern California's RECLAIM program. We match facilities in RECLAIM with similar California facilities also located in non-attainment areas. Our results indicate that emissions fell approximately 24 percent, on average, at RECLAIM facilities relative to our counterfactual. Furthermore, we find that observed changes in emissions do not vary significantly with neighborhood demographic characteristics.
Research and Application on Transaction Processing in Workflow Management System

The traditional transactional workflow is conditioned by complex information environment (collaboration of various applications, long-running transaction), because it is designed for short transaction. Thus some kinds of exception handling method will be introduced into the WfMS to resolve the exception when the workflow is running. The compensation protocol in BPEL provides the ability for flexible control of the reversal. In this paper we analyze the difference between the transaction in WfMS, traditional transaction and advanced transaction, make research on the core conception and feature of the distributed transaction, besides, it elaborates on the analysis of the advanced transactions models and BPEL’s transaction mechanism with a specific example.
Development of Optimal Photosensors Based Heart Pulse Detector

The development of heart pulse instruments rapidly fast in market since 21st century. However, the heart pulse detector is expensive due to the complicated system and it is used widely only in hospitals and clinics. The project is targeting to develop a significant photosensor to the medical fields that is easy to use and monitor their health by the user everywhere. The other target is to develop a comfortable instrument, reliable, accurate result to develop of heart pulse using low cost photosensors. This project involved both hardware and software with related to signal processing, mathematical, computational, formalisms, modeling techniques for transforming, transmitting and also for analogue or digital signal. This project also used Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC) 16F877A microcontroller as the main function to control other elements. Result showed this project functioned smoothly and successfully with overall objectives were achieved. Apart from that, this project give good services for people to monitor their heart condition form time to time. In the future, wireless connection e.g. Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and Zigbee would be developed to make the system more reliable to the current world. Furthermore, the system should be compatible to various environments such as Android based OS so that it can be controlled away from the original location.
Over-expression of Wilm's Tumor Gene 1 (WT1) in Iranian Patients with Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia

Background: The Wilm’s tumor gene 1 (WT1) encodes a zinc finger transcription factor that is inactivated in a subset of Wilm ’s tumors. It plays a crucial role in growth, proliferation and development of some embryonic and adult organs. WT1 is expressed as a tumor associated antigen (TAA) in various types of solid and hematopoietic malignancies and can be employed as a useful marker for targeted immunotherapy and monitoring of minimal residual disease (MRD). Objective: To investigate the profile of WT1 gene expression in Iranian patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia. Methods: RT-PCR method was used to determine the WT1 gene expression in bone marrow (BM) and/or peripheral blood (PB) samples from 11 patients with AML and PB samples of 36 normal subjects. Isolated cells from all patients were immunophenotyped by flow cytometry. Results: The leukemic cells from 10 patients (91%) were found moderately or strongly positive for WT1 expression whereas only 3 out of 36 normal subjects expressed WT1 at very low levels. A highly significant correlation was observed for WT1 expression between paired BM and PB samples of the AML patients. Conclusion: Our results indicate that WT1 is expressed in the majority of Iranian AML patients and may be employed for screening and monitoring of minimal residual disease in these patients.
Assessing the size and complexity of formally specified conceptual models

A number of measures are presented for the assessment of size and complexity of formally specified models of application domains. We show that formal specifications of the software problem domain can be rigorously measured using established theories like Measure Theory. The usefulness of the measures is addressed by commenting on the relationship between software measurement and software quality assurance.