Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multiobjective Optimization with Even Pareto Filter

Engineering problems are dealing with conflict objectives. The problem is multi-objective optimization. The solutions of this problem are solution set. The methods use to solve this problem base on genetic algorithm, GA. The methods generate the solutions first and choose later. After studying multiobjective GA method, it is obvious that this method did not give even Pareto solution set, so the designer hardly decides to choose it. The purposes of the research are to improve distribution of the solution set with using even Pareto filter and to propose the method that be measures distribution of Pareto solution set, with using distribution evenness factor. The results of this research bring to be better even Pareto solution set and the method uses to measure distribution evenness factor that is one way to present distribution of Pareto solution set.
Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Applied Before and After Split-Thickness Skin Graft Helps Healing of Fournier Gangrene

AbstractFournier gangrene is a rare but highly infectious disease characterized by fulminant necrotizing fasciitis involving the genital and perineal regions. Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT; KCI USA Inc, San Antonio, TX) is a widely adopted technique in many clinical settings. Nevertheless, its application and effect in the treatment of Fournier gangrene are unclear.A 47-year-old male patient was admitted with an anal abscess followed by a spread of the infection to the scrotum, which was caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. NPWT was applied on the surface of the scrotal area and continued for 10 days. A split-thickness skin graft from the scalp was then grafted to the wound, after which, NPWT utilizing gauze sealed with an occlusive dressing and connected to a wall suction was employed for 7 days to secure the skin graft.At discharge, the percentage of the grafted skin alive on the scrotum was 98%. The wound beside the anus had decreased to 4 × 0.5 cm with a depth of 1 cm. Follow-up at the clinic 1 month later showed that both wounds had healed. The patient did not complain of any pain or bleeding, and was satisfied with the outcome.NPWT before and after split-thickness skin grafts is safe, well tolerated, and efficacious in the treatment of Fournier gangrene.
Managing Foreign Workers in Southeast Asian Countries

Countries such as Philippine and Indonesia are not only become the contributors in foreign workers in South east Asia region but to the other parts of the world. For that, government s of both countries are always encouraging their citizen to migrate to anot her country in order to stabilize the economy by reducing the unemployment and remittance send by their citizen that working at overseas. Malaysi a and Thailand are among main importers of semi skilled and unskilled foreign workers especially from regional countries. Meanwhile, Sin gapore is more on importing skilled workers and put on high requireme nt in engaging semi skilled or unskilled workers. This paper will look through the phenomenon of foreign workers in Southeast Asia cou ntries such as Indonesia, Philippine, Malaysia, Thailand and Singa pore especially in administrative and regulation aspect on those count ries.
Nanoparticulate systems as drug carriers: the need

Abstract: Development of nanoparticles for drug delivery has progressed by leaps and bounds over the last few decades, facilitating the possibility of an efficacious therapy for some fatal diseases. This development has stemmed from either the unsuitable physicochemical characteristics of the existing drug molecules, such as limited solubility and hence poor bioavailability, or the inadequacy of the conventional delivery systems to provide safe and efficient delivery. This chapter focuses on the precise need for the development of these novel nanoparticulate drug carriers and reasons for their popularity with the drug delivery scientists. The text also discusses the various strategies, including different formulation and targeting approaches, which have been adopted to overcome the challenges presented by the inherent properties of the drug molecules. Examples of nanoparticulate drug delivery systems which have already gained market approval have been cited in the discussion, wherever applicable.
A longitudinal examination of athletes' emotional and cognitive responses to anterior cruciate ligament injury.

OBJECTIVE To determine the emotional and cognitive impact of injury and surgery on physical recovery in injured athletes. DESIGN A prospective longitudinal study comparing the psychosocial and physical recovery of competitive and recreational athletes. SETTING Tertiary-care sports medicine center. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-seven athletes (15 men and 12 women) who required anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery. INTERVENTIONS A repeated-measures design used to compare the psychosocial and physical changes for 6 months after ACL surgery. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Emotional (mood) and cognitive (coping) functions and physical recovery (range of motion, physician-rated level of recovery, and physician permission to return to sport). RESULTS There was a significant time-effect difference in mood, with a greater mood disturbance and recovery rate for competitive athletes than recreational athletes. Differences in mood and pain coping were significant at 2 weeks and 2 months after surgery. CONCLUSION Athletes experience significant mood changes throughout rehabilitation, which may hinder rehabilitation early in the process. Longer-term rehabilitation was not impacted by mood or pain coping. Future studies might focus on examining the process over a longer time period (1-2 years after surgery). Physicians should be aware of these findings and appropriately counsel and motivate athletes toward more favorable positive psychological and physical outcomes.
Flawed Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Medication Comparison

not caused by CNS injuries due to abusive head trauma. Elevated prothrombin time/partial thromboplastin time and anemia have both been described in shaken infants.10 Case 3 had humeral periosteal new bone and tibial cortical irregularity. Osseous abnormalities are not reported in the HLH literature. These unexplained findings in a nonambulatory infant are suspicious for inflicted injury. A forensic investigation would have determined whether the abnormalities were HLH. We agree with the authors that clinicians need to be diligent and informed when considering child abuse as a diagnosis. They must be equally diligent and informed in distinguishing between natural disease and inflicted injury. Children with chronic diseases are at increased risk for abuse,11 and infants with CNS manifestations of HLH may be fussy and difficult to care for.12 Careful consideration of the HLH disease process indicates that this disease will rarely if ever be a confounder for abusive head trauma.
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN CARBON SOURCES, BIOMASS, FOSSILS, BIOFUELS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY REVIEW ARTICLE

Since early human history and existence energy rich plants, wood and forest cellulosic material have been used for fire, light, heating, cooking and other daily activities. Fossil energy was the foundation of our modern society and industrialization since last two centuries, while exploration and exploitation of oil reserves and petrochemistry have largely shaped 20th century. Increasing concerns on environmental pollution, accelerated global warming, and global climate changes, continuing world's crude oil (fossil fuels) consumption and depletion, as well as energy security and energy crisis caused by daily burning large amounts of fossil fuels, led to the attraction, search and development of renewable, carbon-neutral, economically viable alternative energy sources, such as biofuels, slowly displacing petroleum fuels. In continuously growing human population reaching about 10 billion in 2050, various renewable energy sources are promoted and developed, to ensure rising energy demands in a world running out of fossil energy sources. Biofuels are produced from any kind of available biomass and categorized based on utilized carbon resources into first-, second- and third-generation. Nevertheless, biofuels’ future outlook is though beset by uncertainty. Hereby, various issues and concerns related to fossils and renewable biofuels are described and analyzed in present review article.
Performance Evaluation of NoSQL Systems using YCSB in a Resource Austere Environment

NoSQL is a database used to store high volume of data. NoSQL databases are horizontally scalable, distributed, open source and non-relational. High performance is a major concern for practically every data-driven system. NoSQL databases claim to deliver faster performance than the popular Relational database systems in various use cases, most notably those involving huge data. While this is always the case, it should be understood that not all NoSQL databases are created alike where performance is concerned. This being the case, IT professionals works hard to ensure that the database they select is optimized for the success of their application use cases. Such selection can be made in-house, based on tests with academic database benchmarks. We present the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) framework, with the goal of facilitating performance comparisons of the new generation of NoSQL databases in an environment where resources are limited. Unlike many previous benchmarks that considered a cluster or distributed system that NoSQL is known for, we limit out experiment to a single PC assuming a cluster with a single node or a distributed system with a single PC. We define a core set of benchmarks and report results for four widely used systems: MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, and OrientDB implementation.
Physiological Ecology of Rocky Intertidal Organisms: A Synergy of Concepts1

Abstract The rocky intertidal zone is among the most physically harsh environments on earth. Marine invertebrates and algae living in this habitat are alternatively pounded by waves and exposed to thermal extremes during low tide periods (Denny and Wethey, 2001). Additionally, they must deal with strong selective pressures related to predation and competition for space (Connell, 1961). As a result, the steep physical gradient and spatially condensed community has made the rocky intertidal zone an ideal “natural laboratory” to study the coupled role of physical and biological factors in determining the abundance and distribution of organisms in nature (Connell, 1961; Paine, 1966, 1994).
Indicators of the Legal Security of Indigenous and Community Lands. Data file from LandMark: The Global Platform of Indigenous and Community Lands.

This document outlines the methods that analysts use to conduct research, establish scores and document the findings for the indicators of the legal security of indigenous and community land for LandMark. The Guidelines were designed to provide quality assurance and to ensure consistency in data collection, analysis, and scoring of indicators, allowing for comparative analysis – over time and across countries—of the indicator scores.
Learning With Auxiliary Less-Noisy Labels

Obtaining a sufficient number of accurate labels to form a training set for learning a classifier can be difficult due to the limited access to reliable label resources. Instead, in real-world applications, less-accurate labels, such as labels from nonexpert labelers, are often used. However, learning with less-accurate labels can lead to serious performance deterioration because of the high noise rate. Although several learning methods (e.g., noise-tolerant classifiers) have been advanced to increase classification performance in the presence of label noise, only a few of them take the noise rate into account and utilize both noisy but easily accessible labels and less-noisy labels, a small amount of which can be obtained with an acceptable added time cost and expense. In this brief, we propose a learning method, in which not only noisy labels but also auxiliary less-noisy labels, which are available in a small portion of the training data, are taken into account. Based on a flipping probability noise model and a logistic regression classifier, this method estimates the noise rate parameters, infers ground-truth labels, and learns the classifier simultaneously in a maximum likelihood manner. The proposed method yields three learning algorithms, which correspond to three prior knowledge states regarding the less-noisy labels. The experiments show that the proposed method is tolerant to label noise, and outperforms classifiers that do not explicitly consider the auxiliary less-noisy labels.
The Role of Shale Pores in Settlement

Waste fills resulting from the mining of coal in Appalachia should ideally consist of large, free-draining sedimentary rock fragments. The successful performance of these embankments is directly related to the strength and durability of the individual rock fragments. When shale is the predominant rock in the fills, some shale fragments will degrade into soil size particles. This degradation is the result of slaking and point load crushing. Slaking takes place when the shales absorb water. Point load crushing is the result of gravity-induced loads that the individual fragments exert on each other at their points of contact. The slaked and crushed material fill the void spaces between the intact shale fragments. This material rearrangement causes settlement. A laboratory testing program, with point load and slake durability tests, as well as thin section examinations on sixty-eight shale samples from the Appalachian region, revealed that pore microgeometry of shales has a major influence on degradation. The smaller the pores, the more the shales slaked in water. Although not generally true for all the samples, the testing program indicated that the larger the pores, the lower the crushing strength under point loads. Thus, the size of the pores in shales appears to have a direct relationship to degradation and settlement.
GORI.node garden

Gardening once was the one of art form nurtured by Zen principles. It emphasized the intentional blurring of the distinctions between natural and man-made materials. The idea is adopted into an installation project "GORI.Node Garden" in order to explore an author's alternative view of network and an idea of "Node Gardening". GORI.Node Garden has been developed as a series of network data visualization. While the earlier version of GORI.Node Garden was about nurturing a private network garden by using mobile communication data, "Gardening Two" is an open network garden where anyone on the Internet is able to participate in growing GORIs by instant messaging. This paper is a description of the second one.
Scene description for visually impaired in outdoor environment

Helping visually impaired people navigating and feeling the surrounding environment is a very important and useful task. In this paper, we propose working on visual analysis of environment surrounding the blind person. The analysis is based on GIST features extraction and k-NN method for classification. The analysis results will help blind person to understand where he is and what is happening. We have tested in real field with a pseudo blind person walking in the campus of Gent University with 6 changing scenes. The scene recognition rate is about 85% which make us a confidence to build description systems for blind people in reality.
Influence of Liposome Size on Accumulation in Tumor and Therapeutic Efficiency of Liposomal Near-IR Photosensitizer for PDT based on Aluminum hydroxide tetra-3-phenylthiophthalocyanine

Size of nanoparticles is one of main factors determining the efficiency of nanostructural antitumor drugs. This work was performed to estimate the influence of liposome size on level and selectivity of photosensitiz er accumulation in tumor and efficiency of photodynamic treatment (PDT) using photosensitizer Tiosens (liposomal form of (PhS)4PcAlOH) with absorption maximum at 720 nm. It was shown that administration of Tiosens dispersions with liposome size range of 75-130 nm results in level and selectivity of photosensitizer accumulation in tumor noticeably higher in comparison to the ones with 180-450 nm size. Liposomes of size less than 50-60 nm show high accumulation both in tumor and normal tissue resulting in less selectivity of accumulation and prolonged retain in normal tissue. PDT using Tiosens dispersion of size below 150 nm causes efficient tumor growth inhibition (TGI) achieving 80%, while use of dispersion of larger liposome size gives only moderate TGI of about 53%.
Spelunking: Experiences using the DIVE System on CAVE-like Platforms

The Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment (DIVE) system is a mature toolkit that has been used for prototyping many collaborative virtual environment (CVE) applications [3]. Until recently, support for immersive systems has been limited to custom support for specific installations and the emphasis has been on broad support for desktop interfaces. Recently we have ported DIVE to the CAVElibTM environment and this paper describes application programming support for immersive users and our experience in using wide-area distributed applications involving immersive projection technologies. The resulting toolkit provides a very flexible system with which to build distributed VE applications involving a variety of platforms and interfaces.
Labelled silhouettes for human pose estimation

This paper proposes a new method of using foreground silhouette images for human pose estimation. Labels are introduced to the silhouette images, providing an extra layer of information that can be used in the model fitting process. The pixels in the silhouettes are labelled according to the corresponding body part in the model of the current fit, with the labels propagated into the silhouette of the next frame to be used in the fitting for the next frame. Both single and multi-view implementations are detailed, with results showing performance improvements over only using standard unlabelled silhouettes.
Continuous reinforcement learning algorithm for skills learning in an autonomous mobile robot

Learning endows a mobile robot with a higher flexibility and allows it to adapt to changes occurring in the environment or in its internal state in order to improve its results. Based on this idea, this paper presents a reinforcement learning algorithm which allows the robot to learn simple skills such as go to goal and contour following. In the proposed learning algorithm the robot receives a real continuous reinforcement signal. Thus, it is not necessary to estimate an expected reward. Most of the robotic applications work with continuous variables such as velocity, position, sensors readings etc. The presented reinforcement learning algorithm is able to manage continuous input and output spaces. Finally, the robot is capable of performing the complex skill called go to go avoiding obstacles from the sequencing of previously learnt skills.
Expression pattern of Mical‐1 in the temporal neocortex of patients with intractable temporal epilepsy and pilocarpine‐induced rat model

Mical‐1 is a novel F‐actin‐disassembly factor that is critical in actin reorganization. It provides a molecular conduit through which actin reorganizes‐a hallmark of cell morphological changes, including axon navigation. However, whether Mical‐1 is involved in the epileptogenesis remains unknown. Here, we investigate Mical‐1 expression pattern in patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and pilocarpine‐induced rat model. We used double‐labeled immunoflurescence, immunohistochemistry, and Western blotting to assess the location and expression of Mical‐1 in temporal neocortex of patients with intractable TLE, and the expression pattern of Mical‐1 at different time point in the hippocampus and temporal lobe cortex of the pilocarpine‐induced rat model. Double‐labeled immunofluorescence showed that Mical‐1 was coexpressed with neuron‐specific enolase (NSE) in the cytoplasm of neurons in temporal neocortex of patients with TLE and hippocampus of rat model. Faint and scattered immunoreactivity for Mical‐1 in the neuron of temporal neocortex in TLE group, but strong immunoreactivity for Mical‐1 was shown in control subjects. To quantitatively evaluate the Mical‐1 immunoreactivity, we measured the mean optical density (OD) of Mical‐1. In the hippocampus of pilocarpine‐induced rat model, the OD values transient increased at 6 h after seizure then decreased from 1 day to 14 days, and returned to a subnormal level at 60 days. The lowest level of Mical‐1 expression occurred at 14 days after seizure in the hippocampus. In the temporal lobe cortex of rat model, the OD values decreased at all time point after kindling compared to the normal group. Furthermore, our Western blot analysis confirmed these expression patterns of Mical‐1 from latent stage to chronic stage. Our results indicate that in patients with TLE and pilocarpine‐induced rat model, the expression of Mical‐1 were followed a downtrend from the latent stage to chronic stage after seizure evoke. Thus, as an effect factor participated in F‐actin disassemble, Mical‐1 may associate with inner pathophysiological modulation in epilepsy. Synapse, 2011. © 2011 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Energy harvesting for human wearable and implantable bio-sensors

There are clear trade-offs between functionality, battery lifetime and battery volume for wearable and implantable wireless-biosensors which energy harvesting devices may be able to overcome. Reliable energy harvesting has now become a reality for machine condition monitoring and is finding applications in chemical process plants, refineries and water treatment works. However, practical miniature devices that can harvest sufficient energy from the human body to power a wireless bio-sensor are still in their infancy. This paper reviews the options for human energy harvesting in order to determine power availability for harvester-powered body sensor networks. The main competing technologies for energy harvesting from the human body are inertial kinetic energy harvesting devices and thermoelectric devices. These devices are advantageous to some other types as they can be hermetically sealed. In this paper the fundamental limit to the power output of these devices is compared as a function of generator volume when attached to a human whilst walking and running. It is shown that the kinetic energy devices have the highest fundamental power limits in both cases. However, when a comparison is made between the devices using device effectivenesses figures from previously demonstrated prototypes presented in the literature, the thermal device is competitive with the kinetic energy harvesting device when the subject is running and achieves the highest power density when the subject is walking.
Building Software Agents for Information Filtering on the Internet : A Genetic Programn ' : ting Approach *

With the e.xplosive growth of information sources on the Internet, a number of software agents or softbots have been built to help users search and retrieve electronic documents from servers around the world. Information preferences vary greatly across users and therefore softbots must be highly personalized to serve the information filtering needs . of the user. In this paper we formulate information filtering as a learning problem and develop a genetic programming approach to this problem. Given a set of sample documents, genetic programming evolves a population of agents that specialize to user interests. Our experimental results indicate that genetic programming is a promising technique for discovering and adapting to the specific interests of individual users.