Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Business Intelligence for Cardiovascular Disease Assessment

The healthcare industry has historically generated large amounts of data for various reasons, from simple record keeping to improving patient care with foreknowledge of the subject's own medical history, not to mention the in-formation required for the organizations day-to-day operations in order to follow its' own compliance and regulatory requirements. This project primarily consists in the development of a Data Warehouse in order to transform the abundant and heterogeneous clinical data in a single multidimensional structure capable of responding promptly to the information consulting needs with no redundancy. The data being treated contains information about patients hospitalized in Cardiovascular Accidents' unit in 2016 for having suffered a cardiovascular accident. The final goal of this project is the construction of indicators using interactive data visualization BI tools through Power BI. With these indicators, it was made an analysis of multidimensional data interactively from multiple perspectives and a comparison between that data and statistics obtained from different studies.
Molecular Regulation of Trypanosoma congolense-Induced Nitric Oxide Production in Macrophages

BALB/c mice are highly susceptible while C57BL/6 mice are relatively resistant to experimental Trypanosoma congolense infection. Several reports show that an early interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) response in infected mice is critically important for resistance via the activation of macrophages and production of nitric oxide (NO). NO is a pivotal effector molecule and possesses both cytostatic and cytolytic properties for the parasite. However, the molecular mechanisms leading to T. congolense (TC)-induced NO release from macrophages are not known. In this study, we investigated the signaling pathways induced by trypanosomes in immortalized macrophage cell lines from the highly susceptible BALB/c (BALB.BM) and relatively resistant C57Bl/6 (ANA-1) mice. We found that T. congolense whole cell extract (TC-WCE) induces significantly higher levels of NO production in IFN-γ-primed ANA-1 than BALB.BM cells, which was further confirmed in primary bone marrow-derived macrophage (BMDM) cultures. NO production was dependent on mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK, including p38, Erk1/2, and JNK) phosphorylation and was significantly inhibited by specific MAPK inhibitors in BALB.BM, but not in ANA-1 cells. In addition, T. congolense- and IFN-γ-induced NO production in ANA-1 and BALB.BM cells was dependent on STAT1 phosphorylation and was totally suppressed by the use of fludarabine (a specific STAT1 inhibitor). We further show that T. congolense induces differential iNOS transcriptional promoter activation in IFN-γ-primed cells, which is dependent on the activation of both GAS1 and GAS2 transcription factors in BALB.BM but only on GAS1 in ANA-1 cells. Taken together, our findings show the existence of differential signalling events that lead to NO production in macrophages from the highly susceptible and relatively resistant mice following treatment with IFN-γ and T. congolense. Understanding these pathways may help identify immunomodulatory mechanisms that regulate the outcome of infection during Trypanosome infections.
Tapping into the router's unutilized processing power

The growing demand for network programmability has led to the introduction of complex packet processing features that are increasingly hard to provide at full line rates. In this paper, we introduce a novel load-balancing approach that provides more processing power to congested linecards by tapping into the processing power of underutilized linecards. Using different switch-fabric models, we introduce algorithms that aim at minimizing the total average delay and maximizing the capacity region. Our simulations with real-life traces then confirm that our algorithms outperform current algorithms as well as simple alternative load-balancing algorithms. Finally, we discuss the implementation issues involved in this new way of sharing the router processing power.
Heavy Downpour Event over upper Sindh in September, 2012

This study mainly focuses on the phenomenon of heavy downpour rainfall event which stuck up in the upper Sindh in September, 2012. High resolution regional model (HRM), developed by DWD (National Meteorological Service of Germany), output and NationalCenterfor Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Reanalysis data along with satellite imagery are used for the post analysis of this downpour. The analysis illustrates that the heavy rainfall occurred over the upper parts of Sindh was due to the orientation of monsoon currents. The monsoon currents penetrated deeper in latitude than normal due to variation in Tibetan high, Somalia’s Jet and local prevailing condition in upper Sindh and Balochistan. A very prolonged hot condition of the region caused the maximum temperature to reach to 5° C as there was no precipitation for last three months over upper parts of Sindh. Comparatively more drier and hot condition than normal intensified a seasonal low than its normal intensity. A low pressure system developed over Bay of Bengal (BoB) passed over central Indiaand entered in Pakistanon 9 th September, 2012, afterwards the seasonal low over Balochistan helped it in intensifying and a strongSomalia’s Jet acted as source of moisture supply fromBay of Bengal. This study has also concentrated on most of the phenomenon that are very influential and plays a major role in varying the intensity and orientation of the Monsoon weather system.
For Duplication Expression and Impression

ecently, research in creating friendly humaninterfaces has flourished. Such interfacesprovide smooth communication between acomputerandahuman.Onestyleistohaveavirtual human, or avatar [3], [4] appear on the computerterminal. Such an entity should be able to understand andexpressnotonlylinguisticinformationbutalsononverbalinformation. This is similar to human-to-human commu-nication with a face-to-face style [5]. Averyimportantfactorinmakinganavatarlookrealis-tic or alive depends on how precisely an avatar can dupli-cate a real human facial expression and impression on afaceprecisely.Especiallyinthecaseofcommunicationap-plicationsusingavatars,real-timeprocessingwithlowde-lay is essential.Our final goal is to generate a virtual space close to thereal communication environment between network usersorbetweenhumansandmachines.Thereshouldbeanav-atar in cyberspace that projects the features of each userwith a realistic texture-mapped face to generate facial ex-pression and action controlled by a multimodal input sig-nal. Users can also get a view in cyberspace through theavatar’seyes,sotheycancommunicatewitheachotherbygaze crossing.In the first section, the face fitting tool from multiviewcamera images is introduced to make a realistic three-di-mensional (3-D) face model with texture and geometryvery close to the original. This fitting tool is a GUI-basedsystemusingeasymouseoperationtopickupeachfeaturepoint on a face contour and the face parts, which can en-able easy construction of a 3-D personal face model.When an avatar is speaking, the voice signal is essentialin determining the mouth shape feature. Therefore, areal-time mouth shape control mechanism is proposed byusinganeuralnetworktoconvertspeechparameterstolipshape parameters. This neural network can realize an in-terpolation between specific mouth shapes given as learn-ing data [1], [2]. The emotional factor can sometimes becaptured by speech parameters. This media conversionmechanism is described in the second section.For dynamic modeling of facial expression, a musclestructure constraint is introduced for making a facial ex-pression naturally with few parameters. We also tried toobtain muscle parameters automatically from a local mo-tion vector on the face calculated by the optical flow in avideosequence.Accordingly,3-Dfacialexpressiontransi-tion is duplicated from actual people by analysis of videoimages captured by a two-dimensional (2-D) camera
Biochemical markers of contamination in fish toxicity tests

Biochemical markers of contamination in fish toxicity tests Markers of xenobiotic metabolization (cytochrome P450, ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase, glutathione and glutathione-S-transferase) were investigated in the liver of the common carp Cyprinus carpio after 28-day exposure to different pesticide formulations. The fish exposed to herbicide Sencor 70 WG (metribuzin 700 g/kg) of 0.25 and 2.5 mg/l showed no change in cytochrome P450 and activity of ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase when compared to control. Successor 600 (pethoxamid 600 g/l) of 0.06; 0.22 and 0.60 mg/l did not affect either cytochrome P450 or the activity of ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase. However, in fish exposed to Successor 600 of 0.22 and 0.60 mg/l, there was a rise in glutathione and in the activity of glutathione-S-transferase (p<0.05), with Spearman's correlation r = 0.23 at p<0.05. Spartakus (prochloraz 450 g/l) of 0.36 and 1.08 mg/l induced cytochrome P450 and ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (p<0.05), with Spearman's correlation r = 0.49 at p<0.01. Glutathione increased in fish exposed to 1.08 mg/l (p<0.05), the activity of glutathione-Stransferase rose (p<0.05) in all concentrations tested (0.108; 0.36 and 1.08 mg/l). Spearman's correlation between glutathione and GST was r = 0.38; p<0.01). The obtained data contribute to a better understanding of detoxification of the selected xenobitics in fish. Although biomarkers of the first phase of metabolization are considered to be more sensitive, our results indicate higher sensitivity of the second phase biomarkers.
Preserved‐traveltime smoothing

Most ray‐based migration and tomography methods require a certain degree of smoothness of the depth velocity model. Since smoothing changes the velocity model, it is generally impossible to preserve the traveltime between all pairs of points in the model. Using conventional smoothing, the traveltime errors are particularly large at discontinuities in the velocity model. These errors are offset‐dependent and they cause errors in both the depth and residual moveout (RMO) of depth migrated images. Here we propose a new method, Preserved‐Traveltime Smoothing (PTS) with an objective of preserving traveltimes (and hence depths) at these discontinuities. This is accomplished by smoothing of velocity moments for anisotropic models using a specific cross‐correlation filter with the desired smoothness properties. The method is valid for isotropic, transversely isotropic with vertical symmetry axis (VTI) and structural transverse isotropic (STI) models. The variations of the model parameters perpendicular to the symmetry axis of the anisotropy are assumed to be small.
A PF Scheduling with Low Complexity for Downlink Multi-User MIMO Systems

In downlink multi-user multiple-input/multiple- output (MU-MIMO) systems with BD where there are a lot of users, selecting a user set supported by a base station (BS) is very critical to maximize the total throughput. The optimal user selection algorithm, which requires exhaustive search, is computationally prohibitive in real systems. In this paper, we propose a user selection algorithm with low complexity, where the product of eigenvalues of effective channels is utilized as a selection metric. We adopt the concept of principal angles between subspaces to obtain the product of eigenvalues of effective channel matrix at each iteration. Contrary to conventional low complex user selection algorithms, the proposed algorithm is straightforward to apply to PF scheduling because the proposed selection metric indicates data rate in high SNR regime. Computational complexity analysis and simulation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves almost the same the system throughput of capacity-based algorithm in high SNR regime with considerable reduction in complexity.
A Research Roadmap for Healthcare IT Security Inspired by the PCAST Health Information Technology Report

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) recently proposed a set of recommendations for improving the state of Health Information Technology [4]. The report, delivered in December, 2010, comes at a time when the government is spending billions of dollars to modernize the health information technology infrastructure. There is an aggressive push to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) for doctors, hospitals and medical laboratories. The PCAST report identifies many of the challenges posed by widespread EHR adoption. There is a chapter devoted to technology issues as well as a chapter specifically addressing security and privacy. The PCAST report contains several recommendations that we believe provide a useful blueprint for security researchers. While some of the PCAST security and privacy recommendations can be addressed immediately, others are not as straightforward and will require research. The purpose of our paper is to detail and in some cases expand upon the security and privacy recommendations in the PCAST report and to identify research problems inspired by these recommendations. We hope that our work will provide the security and privacy research community with direction and open problems needing attention, and that it will be a useful resource to US funding agencies when setting their agendas for healthcare information technology.
Risk Factors for Falls in Older Korean Adults: The 2011 Community Health Survey

Falls are a major health problem for elderly populations worldwide. We analyzed data from the 2011 Korean Community Health Survey to identify potential risk factors for falls in a representative population-based sample of community-dwelling older Korean adults. Risk factors for falls were assessed by multivariate survey logistic regression models. The prevalence of falls was 36.5% in males and 63.5% in females. Age and female sex were associated with a higher risk of falls. Similarly, living alone, living in an urban area, poor self-rated health, and high stress were associated with a high risk of falls. Subjects with diabetes mellitus, stroke, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, urinary incontinence, cataracts, or depression had a high risk of falls. However, subjects with hypertension were at low risk for falls. In conclusion, age, female sex, marital status, residence location, self-rated health, stress, and several chronic conditions were significantly associated with the risk for falls in the older Korean adults. Our findings suggest that these risk factors should be addressed in public health policies for preventing falls. Graphical Abstract
Controllability of pushing

This paper addresses the question "Can the object be pushed from here to there? " The authors characterize the set of objects that are controllable (can be positioned arbitrarily), with and without obstacles, for the cases of point and line pushing contact. For the case of line contact, the authors find a set of pushing directions that keep the object fixed to the pusher and they use these pushing directions to find sensorless plans to reposition the object among obstacles.
Changes of tracer distributions in the doubled CO2 climate

Changes in tracer distributions in the troposphere and stratosphere are calculated from a control and doubled CO2 climate simulation run with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies Global Climate Middle Atmosphere Model. Transport changes are assessed using seven on-line tracers. Results show that interhemispheric transport is reduced by 5% along with a reduction in the Hadley circulation. Tropical transport from the troposphere into the stratosphere increases by some 30% associated with an increase in the stratospheric subtropical residual circulation. The tropical pipe becomes significantly more leaky, and greater transport into the lowermost stratosphere in the subtropics appears to be occurring, possibly in conjunction with a poleward shift in wave energy convergences. An increase in the high-latitude lower stratosphere residual circulation reduces the stratospheric residence time of extratropical injections such as bomb 14C by 11%. Vertical mixing within the troposphere by convection increases, reducing low level concentrations of tracers. The Hadley cell change is affected by the latitudinal gradient of tropical warming. The high-latitude lower stratosphere residual circulation change depends on the latitudinal gradient of the extratropical warming. Increased penetrating convection to the upper troposphere and the intensified residual circulation in the tropical upper troposphere/lower stratosphere appear to be the most robust of these results, with a magnitude that depends upon the degree of tropical warming. The consequence of this circulation change is to increase trace gas concentrations in the stratosphere and to decrease them in the troposphere for those species that have tropospheric sources.
THE VALUE OF INDIGENOUS FRUIT-BEARING TREES IN MIOMBO WOODLAND AREAS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL AFRICA

A detailed study by Campbell (1987) of three areas in the Zimbabwean Communal Lands, shows considerable differences between these areas in terms of land tenure and human and tree population densities. However, from the small-scale commercial farming area of Ziyambe, where population pressure is least, to the more densely populated Chiweshe Communal area, the frequency of wild fruit consumption is the same. The most widely used species are: Diospyros mespiliformis, Strychnos cocculoides and Azanza garckeana. In the Mbozi area of south western Tanzania, Knight (1974:76) identifies a distinct land type which he calls Parinari curatellifolia woodland. In this area, Uapaca kirkiana and P. curatellifolia have been spared by farmers whilst converting woodland to farmland. Over time these have become, along with introduced mango, the only trees left in an otherwise intensively cultivated and populated area.
Mechanical and psychosocial factors predict new onset shoulder pain: a prospective cohort study of newly employed workers

Aim: To test the hypothesis that work related mechanical and psychosocial factors predict new onset shoulder pain in newly employed workers. Methods: Two year prospective study of newly employed workers from 12 diverse occupational settings. At baseline, 1081 subjects provided information on work related mechanical and psychosocial risk factors, and current pain status. Results: In all, 803 (74%) subjects were free from shoulder pain at baseline. Of those, 638 (79%) responded at 12 months and 476 (88%) at 24 months. New onset shoulder pain was reported by 93 (15%) and 73 (15%) subjects respectively. An increased risk of symptom onset was found in subjects reporting mechanical exposures involving heavy weights including lifting with one or two hands, carrying on one shoulder, lifting at or above shoulder level, and pushing or pulling. Working with hands above shoulder level was also predictive of new onset shoulder pain. Of the psychosocial factors examined, the strongest predictor was monotonous work. Those individuals with any other previous pain also had an increased risk of new onset shoulder pain at follow up. In multivariate analysis, lifting heavy weights with one or two hands, pushing or pulling heavy weights, working with hands above shoulder level, and monotonous work were independently associated with new onset shoulder pain. Conclusions: This study supports the hypothesised relation between mechanical risk factors and shoulder pain. In general, work related psychosocial factors were modestly associated with new onset shoulder pain. However, monotonous work was a strong risk factor for new onset shoulder pain.
Relief Mapping on Cubic Cell Complexes

In this paper we present an algorithm for parameterizing arbitrary surfaces onto a quadrilateral domain defined by a collection of cubic cells. The parameterization inside each cell is implicit and thus requires storing no texture coordinates. Based upon this parameterization, we propose a unified representation of geometric and appearance information of complex models. The representation consists of a set of cubic cells (providing a coarse representation of the object) together with a collection of distance maps (encoding fine geometric detail inside each cell). Our new representation has similar uses than geometry images, but it requires storing a single distance value per texel instead of full vertex coordinates. When combined with color and normal maps, our representation can be used to render an approximation of the model through an output-sensitive relief mapping algorithm, thus being specially amenable for GPU raytracing.
Dynamics of Seasonal and Intraseasonal Variability in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific

Abstract Time series measurements from surface moored buoys in the eastern equatorial Pacific are analyzed for the period 1983–86. The data, collected as part of the EPOCS and TROPIC HEAT programs, consist of currents, temperatures, and winds on the equator at 110°, 124.5° and 140°W. The purpose is to examine the dynamics of seasonal and intraseasonal variability in the upper 250 m from a diagnosis of the depth integrated zonal momentum (i.e., transport) equation. The principal conclusions of this paper are that 1) there is an approximate balance between mean zonal wind stress and depth integrated pressure gradient; nonlinear advection is significantly nonzero however and leads to an enhancement of eastward transport along the equator, 2) there is an interannual change in zonal wind stress and pressure gradient in which both approximately double over the record length; 3) at the annual cycle, zonal wind stress and depth integrated pressure gradient tend to balance, though the uncertainties are large and o.
Eight dimensional flat embedding of Reissner-Nordstr\"om-AdS black hole

We obtain an eight dimensional global flat embedding of the curved RN-AdS space. Our results include the various limiting GEMS geometries of the RN, Schwarzschild-AdS in D=7, Schwarzschild in D=6, purely charged space, and universal covering space of AdS in D=5 through the successive truncation procedure of parameters in the original space.
Only Hope: Coming of Age Under China’s One-Child Policy

Table of Contents for Only Hope List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1. "The Next Few Months Will Determine Your Future": Eight Teenagers' Stories 2. Great Expectations: Singletons as the Vanguard of Modernization 3. Heavy is the Head of the "Little Emperor": Pressure, Discipline, and Competition in the Stratification System 4. "Beat Me Now and I'll Beat You When You're Old": Love, Filial Duty,s and Parental Investment in an Aging Population 5. "Spoiled": First World Youth in the Third World Conclusion: Making a Road to the First World Appendix: biographical Details of People Quoted or Mentioned in this Book Notes Works Cited Index
YÜZ İFADE ANALİZİNDE ÖZNİTELİK SEÇİMİ VE ÇOKLU SVM SINIFLANDIRICILARINA ETKİSİ

Yuz ifadeleri, insan iliskilerinde anlam butunlugunun saglanmasi icin buyuk rol oynayan, sozlu olmayan isaretlerdir. Insanoglu yuz ifadelerini kavramada herhangi bir zorluk cekmezken, bu durum makineler icin gecerli olmayip, halen guvenilir ifade tanima sistemleri uzerinde arastirmalar yapilmaktadir. Bu calismada, insanin icinde bulunabilecegi 7 ifade durumunun (ofke, igrenme, korku, mutluluk, ifadesizlik, uzuntu ve saskinlik) analizi gerceklestirilmistir. Bu amacla, her bir ifade icin alinan sabit goruntulerin oznitelikleri Gabor filtreleri kullanilarak cikartilmis ve farkli oznitelik secme algoritmalari kullanilarak ifadeleri temsil eden en iyi oznitelik kumeleri olusturulmustur. Secilen oznitelik kumelerinin coklu SVM (Support Vector Machines-Destek Vektor Makineleri) siniflandiricilari uzerindeki etkileri incelenmis ve siniflandirma dogruluklarinin kullanilan oznitelik secme algoritmalarina gore nasil degistigi karsilastirmali olarak degerlendirilmistir. Coklu siniflandirma yapilmasi amaciyla SVM, One-Vs-One, One-Vs-Rest ve MC-SVM olmak uzere 3 farkli yaklasim ile birlikte kullanilmistir. Ayrica oznitelik secimi yapilmadan alinan siniflandirma basarim sonuclari da incelendiginde, oznitelik seciminin siniflandirma dogrulugunun artmasi yonunde genel olarak buyuk etkisinin oldugu gorulmustur.