Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
BILATERAL ILIOINGUINAL AND ILIOHYPOGASTRIC NERVE BLOCK WITH 0.5% ROPIVACAINE VS 0.5% ROPIVACAINE WITH 50µg DEXMEDETOMIDINE FOR POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA IN LOWER ABDOMEN SURGERY

Background: More than 80% of surgery patients experience immediate postoperative pain, which can have a detrimental impact on their quality of life, function, and functional recovery. The purpose of this study is to compare bilateral ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerve blocks with 0.5% ropivacaine vs 0.5% ropivacaine with dexmedetomidine for postoperative analgesia in lower abdomen surgery, as well as investigate their postoperative adverse effects. Materials and Methods: From January 2023 to June 2023, 60 adult patients were studied in the Department of Anesthesiology at Srinivasan Medical College and Hospital. A thorough general physical examination was performed, including an airway assessment and a spine and systemic examination. The following tests were performed: complete blood count, bleeding and clotting times, blood group and typing, Rh typing, HIV I and II, HBsAg, blood glucose, BUN and serum creatine, and ECG. Results: More patients were age group of 26 to 35 years, and more patients were height group of 151 to 160 cm. More patients were weight group of 56 to 65 kg, and more were in the LSCS category. The age, height, weight, and surgery between the groups were insignificant; hence, both groups were comparable. Significant differences in heart rate, systolic blood pressure, and diastolic blood pressure. Duration of postoperative analgesia was prolonged in Group RD when compared with Group R, and there is a significant difference in duration of analgesia and VAS score between groups. Conclusion: Adjuvant dexmedetomidine improves postoperative analgesia in lower abdomen surgeries without adverse events.
RMLVQA: A Margin Loss Approach For Visual Question Answering with Language Biases

Visual Question Answering models have been shown to suffer from language biases, where the model learns a correlation between the question and the answer, ignoring the image. While early works attempted to use question-only models or data augmentations to reduce this bias, we propose an adaptive margin loss approach having two components. The first component considers the frequency of answers within a question type in the training data, which addresses the concern of the class-imbalance causing the language biases. However, it does not take into account the answering difficulty of the samples, which impacts their learning. We address this through the second component, where instance-specific margins are learnt, allowing the model to distinguish between samples of varying complexity. We introduce a bias-injecting component to our model, and compute the instance-specific margins from the confidence of this component. We combine these with the estimated margins to consider both answer-frequency and task-complexity in the training loss. We show that, while the margin loss is effective for out-of-distribution (ood) data, the bias-injecting component is essential for generalising to in-distribution (id) data. Our proposed approach, Robust Margin Loss for Visual Question Answering (RMLVQA) 11Code available at https://github.com/val-iisc/RMLVQA improves upon the existing state-of-the-art results when compared to augmentation-free methods on benchmark VQA datasets suffering from language biases, while maintaining competitive performance on id data, making our method the most robust one among all comparable methods.
Status of the coral reefs in Micronesia and American Samoa

This report on the status of Micronesian coral reef ecosystems has been summarised from more detailed reports in ‘The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2004’, which will be available at www.nccos. nos.noaa. gov in February 2005. Previous summary details are also contained in ‘Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2002’ on www.reefbase. org.
PREDICTION OF BANK CUSTOMER’S BEHAVIOUR USING ENSEMBLE TECHNIQUES

: The prediction of bank performance is very critical because wrong prediction can create serious problems for the bank and society. The objective of the study is to develop a predictive model to predict which customer will deposit longterm in a bank. In this study, we propose ensemble learning techniques to construct a prediction model using three classifiers, namely, adaboostM1, bagging, and dagging. Further, the most important features are selected using six rank based feature selection methods namely, one-R, symmetrical uncertainty (SU), gain ratio, information gain, chi-squared evaluator, and relief-F. After feature selection normalization procedure applied on the bank marketing dataset. Performance of different combinations of classifiers and feature selection methods are compared using the evaluation criteria Accuracy, FPR, Specificity, NPV, FNR, Error rate, and ROC.
Moving obstacle segmentation using MMW radar and image sequence

Sensor fusion of millimeter-wave (MMW) radar and a camera is beneficial for advanced driver assistance functions such as obstacle avoidance and StopG the motion segmentation technique is applied toward the tracks that drop in the region. Note that an obstacle's position detected by MMW radar is remarkably rough because MMW radar has low directional resolution. Nevertheless, the position contributes to rapid and robust estimation for satisfactory image boundaries. We demonstrate the validity of the proposed method through experiments using sensors that are mounted on a vehicle.
PAIRING HALO EFFECT From Halo to Conditioning and Back Again: Exploring the Links Between Impression Formation and Learning

Impression formation effects such as the halo effect and learning effects such as evaluative or attribute conditioning effects are often seen as separate classes of phenomena. In a recent conceptual paper, De Houwer et al. (2019) suggested that both may actually qualify as instances of feature transformation, where a source feature (e.g., attractiveness of a face; valence of an unconditioned stimulus; US) influences judgements about a target feature (e.g., social competence of a person; valence of a conditioned stimulus; CS). In halo effects, the source and target features typically differ (e.g., a person with an attractive face is judged as more socially competent) but belong to the same object. In evaluative conditioning, source and target features are the same (e.g., a neutral CS is judged as more positive after being paired with a positive US) but belong to different objects. In this paper, we highlight a phenomenon at the crossroads of the two previous effects: feature transformation where source and target features are different (as in halo studies) and belong to different objects that are paired together (as in evaluative conditioning studies). Across six pre-registered experiments (n = 1050), we obtained evidence for this phenomenon in the context of person perception (i.e., attractiveness halo) and food perception (i.e., health halo). We also show that this type of feature transformation is influenced by several known moderators of halo and conditioning effects (beliefs about traits relationship, memory of pairings, and salience of the source feature).
Polymorphism within

The human Nogo-66 receptor 1 ( NgR1 ) gene, also termed as the Nogo receptor 1 or Reticulon 4 receptor ( RTN4R ) and located within 22q11.2, inhibits axonal growth and synaptic plasticity. 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) patients show multiple changes in brain morphology, with corpus callosum (CC) abnormalities being among the most prominent and frequently reported. Thus, we hypothesized that in humans, NgR1 may be involved in CC formation. We focused on rs701428, a single nucleotide polymorphism of NgR1 , which is associated with schizophrenia. We investigated the effects of rs701428 genotype on CC structure in 50 healthy participants using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Polymorphism of rs701428 was associated with CC structural variation in healthy participants; specifically, minor A allele carriers had larger whole CC volumes and lower radial diffusivity in the central CC region compared with major G allele homozygous participants. Furthermore, we show that the NgR1 3' region, which contains rs701428, is a neuronal activity-dependent enhancer, and that the minor A allele of rs701428 is susceptible to regulation of enhancer activity by MYBL2. Our results suggest that NgR1 can influence macro-and micro-white matter structure of the human brain. (188 words)
Orthogonal Vector Interpolation for Aesthetic Image Transformations

In this paper we present and examine a general SVD-based mathematical framework for the manipulation and transformation of images for traditional operations such as image compression and super-resolution to computational photography applications, e.g., to achieve novel aesthetic effects for the rapidly growing social media demand for image filter apps. Examples are given to demonstrate how images can be perturbed from realistic toward fanciful or from airbrushed gloss toward gritty realism. A primary goal of this paper is to draw greater attention to algorithmic methods that go beyond the traditional parameters of conventional image manipulation.
Smoking-Induced Expression of the GPR 15 Gene Indicates Its Potential Role in the Chronic 77 78 79 80 81 In fl ammatory Pathologies

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 ajp.amjpathol. org 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 Smoking-Induced Expression of the GPR15 Gene Indicates Its Potential Role in the Chronic 77 78 79 80 81 Inflammatory Pathologies Gea Kõks,* Mari-Liis Uudelepp,*y Maia Limbach,* Pärt Peterson,* Ene Reimann,*z and Sulev Kõks*z
Inventing Australia: Images and Identity, 1688-1980

Acknowledgments.Introduction. 1. Terra Australis Incognita.2. Hell upon earth.3. A workingman's paradise? 4. Another America.5. The national type.6. Bohemians and the bush.7. Young, white, happy and wholesome.8. Diggers and heroes.9. Growing up.10. Everyman and his Holden.Further reading.Endnotes. Index
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy

Most climate change adaptation studies in agriculture focus on staple food crops. Few studies have examined livestock farmers in Africa and even fewer have considered small animals such as poultry. Heat stress associated with climate change is a challenge to poultry farmers due to its negative effect on chicken growth and productivity. As the poultry subsector across Africa expands to meet changing consumption patterns, understanding how farmers deal with the realities of poultry production due to climate change is critical. This study explores the level and determinants of the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among poultry farmers in Nigeria. A multivariate probit analysis reveals that poultry farmers practice climate change adaptation strategies with a clear heterogeneity of strategies at different production scales. Small farms tend to invest in traditional strategies such as the stocking of local breeds while medium and large farms adopt modern technologies such as air and water ventilation and the use of bulbs that emit less heat. Our study finds that farmers who have experienced heat related losses are more likely to adopt modern practices and more likely to adopt multiple adaptation strategies at a time.
MANUAL VERSES SPONTANEOUS REMOVAL OF PLACENTA DURING CAESAREAN SECTION ON OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS AND POST OPERATIVE ENDOMETRITIS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Background: The average blood loss in caesarean delivery is approximately 01 litre. Many techniques had been tried to reduce the intra operative blood loss. Clinicians agree that a faster closure of uterine incision will result in lesser blood loss. But that is not possible till placenta is delivered completely. Our study aimed to compare the intra op blood loss with spontaneous and manual removal of placenta during caesarean section and incidence of post operative endometritis. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital of Pune. Patients undergoing caesarean delivery were randomized into two groups by using a computer generated number table. Group 1 consists of patients in whom placenta was spontaneously and in Group 2 placenta was manually separated. Blood loss estimation was done by using quantitative method. Statistical analysis was done for various factors such as pre op hemoglobin/hematocrit, WBC, duration of surgery, intra op blood loss, factors affecting intra op blood loss; post op hemoglobin/hematocrit, WBC and hospital stay in both the groups. The association between parameters such as maternal age, parity, maternal weight, and gestational age at LSCS and its indication (elective/emergency LSCS), incidence of endometritis and association between meconeum and PROM with endometritis in both the groups. Probability value of p ≤ 0.05 was taken as the level of statistical significant. Result: A total of 840 patients (420 in each group) were included in the study. The mean duration of surgery was lesser in group 2 (32.5 min) as compared to group1 (38.5 min) and the difference was significant (p < 0.001). The blood loss was lesser in group 1 as compared to group 2 and the difference was significant (p<0.001). A total of 26 patients had endometritis and the incidence is 3.132 in our study. The cases of endometritis were 09 in group1 and 17 in group 2 with incidence of 2.16 and 17 in group 2 with incidence of 4.09. Meconeum stained liquor was clearly associated with endometritis in both groups (OR 39.56, OR 61.66). Premature rupture of membrane (PROM) was another factor having direct bearing over incidence of endometritis particularly in cases where placenta was manually removed (OR 6.04, OR 10.1). Conclusion: Manual removal of placenta was associated with reduced operative time, increased intra op blood loss, reduced post op hemoglobin and hematocrit, increased incidence of endometritis and prolonged hospital stay. In cases of meconeum stained liquor (MSL) and PROM, a manually removed placenta caused increased endometritis in post op period.
Journal of Engineering and Technology for Industrial Applications

Article History Received: January 06, 2022 Accepted: February 21, 2022 Published: February 28, 2022 Financial crises occasioned by economic turbulence and stiff competition in the construction sector have forced Quantity Surveying firms (QSFs) and construction firms into finding innovative ways of surviving and staying above completion in most developing nations. The decline in the Nigerian oil and gas production and export has made it difficult for the government who is the largest client of the construction sector to limit its spending, especially in infrastructure and development projects. QSFs now scramble for effective and efficient strategies to survive the dwindling economic construction. This study assessed the survival strategies of quantity surveying firms (QSFs) during economic turbulence in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The well-structured Quantitative Questionnaire administered using snowball sampling techniques in the study area were adopted in gathering data from the target respondents. With a sample size of 86, the gathered data were analysed using frequency, percentage, and mean item score (MIS). It was found that the most critical Survival strategy adopted by QSFs during economic turbulence are; improved networking systems to increase reach, effective management of knowledge, retaining experienced staff in the company, reduction of service charges, and improved service delivery. This study concludes that the assessed survival strategies have a high level of importance and plays a critical role in ensuring that Quantity Surveying firms survive the economic downturn and the stiff competitive market of the construction sector. It is recommended that the managers of QSFs should focus on those major strategies that will keep them above the competition, in continuous business, sustainable growth, and survival during economic turbulence.
Geochemical Studies on the Scourian Complex, N. W. Scotland

The gabbro-tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite-granite suite of the Scourian complex of northwest Scotland was studied at Scourie, Gruinard Bay and Torridon and represents highly deformed and metamorphosed plutonic igneous rocks, whose formation ca. 2900 Ma. ago represents the generation of new continental crust. Amphibolites, found predominantly in amphibolite facies gneisses at Gruinard Bay may be metavolcanic and are chemically similar to present-day island are tholeiites; they are complementary to the layered cumulitic gabbro-anorthosite complexes in granulite facies gneisses and together they represent the remnants of an early basic volcanic-plutonic suite. Tonalite was generated by the partial melting of amphibolite, similar in chemistry to that found at Gruinard Bay. Trondhjemite, granodiorite and granite evolved from tonalite by the fractional crystallisation of plagioclase and hornblende at depths of less than 60 km. Granulite facies metamorphism at Scourie depleted originally wet tonalitic and trondhjemitic magmas in LIL elements but not potassium. Relatively dry granitic magmas were not depleted during granulite facies metamorphism. There is a change in the principal magmatype from Scourie in the north (tonalite) through Gruinard Bay (trondhjemite) to Torridon in the south (granodiorite) reflecting a southerly increase in K20 across the complex. Granulite facies grieisses at Scourie show a continuum of rock types between ultramafic and granitic, but amphibolite facies gneisses show a distinct bimodality. Igneous temperatures of 1000°C to 1150°C were obtained from feldspar and ilmenite-magnetite thermometry. The peak of the granulite facies metamorphism was at 820°C and 10 kb. and was determined using plagioclase-scapolite and garnet-pyroxene equilibria. Many mineral pairs equilibrated at lower temperatures and reflect the cooling history of the complex. Water was introduced into granite sheets during cooling at about 600°C. The Archaean crust at Scourie was originally 60 km thick and the thermal history of the area suggests that the crust was magmatically thickened. The plutonic igneous and metamorphic history of these rocks invite comparison with modern Cordilleran batholiths and suggest that the Scourian complex formed in an analogous tectonic setting. I am indebted to my wife Patricia for the help, encouragement and patience she has shown during the course of this work and this thesis is dedicated to her with love.
Journal of Engineering and Technology for Industrial Applications

Article History Received: October 31, 2021 Accepted: November 24, 2021 Published: December 15, 2021 In complex and multi-stakeholder construction projects, delays and disruption are commonplace. Delays trigger the request for Extension of time (EoT) to enable adequate time for the project to be completed. Substantiating the need for EoT is a difficult task and requires a lot of effort. The administration of EoT claims come with a lot of issues to the clients and the contractors. The purpose of this study is to assess the factors for substantiating Extension of time (EoT) claims and the common issues associated with (EoT) in complex-Multi Stakeholders' Building Construction contracts. This study adopted a wellstructured questionnaire administered on construction professionals in consulting and contracting organisations, via electronic means and using snowball sampling techniques in Abuja and Lagos state, Nigeria. With a response rate of 39.60% and an instrument reliability index of above 0.70, the gathered data were analysed using appropriate descriptive analytical tools. It was found that the major documents and records that have the level of importance for substantiating claims for extension of time are; time impact analysis showing the potential impact of the changes before carrying out the changes, change of work notices, claim register, programme updates, minutes of the daily, weekly, and meetings, and daily progress reports. The major disputed issues associated with claims for extension of time in construction contracts are concurrent delay, The absence of notice of delay by the contractor as required by the contract, eligibility of time extension claim, inadequate effort in mitigating the delay and poor demonstration of the impact of the delay event to the project schedule. Regular training and continuous professional development is required to enhance the skills and expertise of project administrators/managers for effective claim administration and management.
Scenario Simulation Enhances Creativity Education: Case Study of Negotiation Curriculum

Negotiation is the interaction between people. Understanding this person's behavioral pattern can lead to the best negotiation strategy. "If you just stick to your original personality, you won't use the theory of negotiation flexibly. In university, students like acting and expressing themselves. They also like to discuss their ideas with others. Therefore, through the role of scenario simulation, and then broke the original thinking framework in students' minds. “This study demonstrated the field experiment with the variable of "scenario simulation teaching method” and “action learning method” to achieve the goal of innovative teaching. Students separated into treatment and control group. This research conduct four phases in treatment group; (1) pre-knowledge and problems preview: practicing the five sensory discovery abilities to finding out problems between negotiating parties; (2)instructional teaching: including theoretical explanations and case descriptions with different negotiation theories; (3)scenario simulation role playing: students must simulate characters which comes from classical novel based on the results of personal orientation tests; (4) ability to take away: how to write agreement and how to formulate negotiation strategies.We expect that this innovative teaching method from scenario simulation and action learning can become an evaluation tool for higher education teaching.
Virtualization as a Strategy to Develop Sustainable Technology: Path Planning Generator Problem as a Case Study

The insufficiency of resources to satisfy the requirements of the world’s population and global circumstances that impact the availability of resources cause significant disruptions in the manufacturing industry worldwide and, consequently, the global economy. For instance, the shortage of raw materials increases production costs (e.g., the increase in the cost of microprocessors produced by the shortage of silicon). Small and medium manufacturing enterprises are more vulnerable to this problem, demonstrating their need for innovative solutions. Therefore, the authors propose expanding the virtualization concept as an alternative. In this case, the extended concept of virtualization seeks to employ devices with limited features to replace physical elements. This work presents a sustainable solution to the problem of a path generator (PG) that generates a safe path in controlled environments. PG comprises two primary modules, perception and planning, which require intensive resources to generate a real-time response. On the other hand, virtualization reduces the number of PG elements, making it feasible to run it on embedded systems with limited capabilities. Therefore, a general-purpose architecture is replaced by a virtual representation for specific use. In this proposal, the authors use a generative network to connect two uncoupled modules to suggest the best virtual path. This way, costs and implementation times are reduced, and safety is approximate to physical elements in controlled environments. Furthermore, it opens an opportunity to implement a circular economy model, such as obsolete smartphones that can be reused in manufacturing applications.