Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Scaffold Materials Based on Fluorocarbon Composites Modified with RF Magnetron Sputtering

A bone is a remarkable organ, which plays the key role in performing of such critical functions in human physiology, as protection, movement and support of other organs, blood production, accumulation and homeostasis of minerals, regulation of blood pH, and location of many cells – progenitors (mesenchimal and hemopoetic). The importance of a bone becomes clear in the case of such diseases, as osteogenesis imperfecta, osteoarthritis, osteomielitis and osteoporosis when a bone is not functioned by proper way. These diseases together with traumatic injuries, orthopaedic operations (total joint replacement, spine arthrodesis, implant fixation and other) and the first tumor resection lead to formation of bone defects. Clinical and economical aspects, accompanying treatment of bone defects are bemusing (Porter et al., 2009). For example, quantity of total joint arthroplastics (TJA) and revision operation only in USA increased from 700 000 in 1998 up to over 1.1 million in 2005 (American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Web Site). According to estimations of specialists medical expenses connected with fractures, reimplantations, and replacement of hip and knee joints to 2003 exceeded $ 20 billions and to 2015 will exceed $ 74 billions (American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Web Site; Kurtz et al., 2007). Traumatic bone fracture caused about 8.5 million doctor’s appointments and led to about 1 million hospitalizing (American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Web Site). Also, in 2005 there were performed more than 3000 pediatric hospitalizations connected with cancer with cost more than $ 70 million (US Department of Health and Human Services, Web Site). In the cases of non-union or defects of critic sizes it is necessary to use replacing materials for filling of bone defects. Actual gold standard of treatment of bone defects of critical sizes is transplantation of autogenous bone. At such treatment the host bone is removed from other part (usually from pelvis or ilium crest) and used to fill the defect. However, complication rates at transplantation of autogenous bone exceeds 30 % and can include morbidness of a donor site, pain, parestesie, long hospitalization and rehabilitation, higher danger of depth infection, heamatoma, inflammation and limited legal capacity (Silber et al., 2003). Other rational version for patients and surgeons is use of bone tissue of other people (usually cadavers) named allograft which can be obtained both from viable and sterilized nonviable sources. During last years many orthopaedic procedures connected with use of allografts have been performed in various countries. Success of autograft and allograft
Multiple Myeloma and Thromboembolism in the Perspective of Age and Performance

Introduction: The relation with cancer and thromboembolism (TE) are well documented. Within cancer types, hematological malignancies, especially Multiple Myeloma (MM) show a propensity towards TE with its disease biology, disease burden and treatments. We aimed to evaluate the risk factors of TE and MM with a perspective of age and clinical performance. Methods: Data regarding Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) and Karnofsky performance scores, patient, disease and treatment related properties of patients with MM between 2010 and 2016 were recorded. Results: Of the 125 MM patients, 60 were female (48%) while 65 were male (52%). Median age was 65 years. TE was observed in 28 patients (22.4%). In patients <65 years, poor ECOG and Karnofsky scores were strongly related with TE (p values 0.003 and 0.000). Polypharmacy and LDH elevation were observed to be risk factors in all ages (p values 0.002 and 0.000). In patients with poor ECOG (p=0.005 and 0.037) and Karnofsky performance (p=0.002 and 0.003) while radiotherapy and pneumonia during TE episodes were observed to be risk factors for TE regardless of age and performance (p values 0.016 and 0.000). Antimicrobial use during TE episode was observed to be a risk factor in younger patients (p=0.000) who are fit by both scales while bed rest and presence of fractures were observed as risk factors in younger patients with poor performance scores. Conclusion: Performance assessment should be considered as fundamental for TE evaluation and adequate prophylactic treatment for TE should be commenced in frail young patients.
Levels of Participation of the School Stakeholders to the Different School-Initiated Activities and the Implementation of School-Based Management

This study aimed to evaluate the levels of participation of the school stakeholders to the different school-initiated activities and the implementation of school-based management (SBM) in selected schools in the Division of Davao del Sur for the school year 2014-2015 using a descriptive-correlational survey research design. A researcher-restructured questionnaire was answered by the 13 school heads, 56 teachers, and 50 stakeholders who formed part as respondents of this study. The data were statistically analyzed using mean, analysis of variance (F test), t-test for independent sample, Pearson r and t-test for the significance of r as statistical tools. In terms of the level of participation of the school stakeholders to the different schoolinitiated activities, a moderate descriptive rating was found. The level of SBM implementation was found to be at Exceeding the Minimum Standard. The level of participation of the school stakeholders to the different school-initiated activities can be significantly affected by the level of SBM implementation.
Black Holes in f(R) theories

In the context of f(R) theories of gravity, we address the problem of finding static and spherically symmetric black hole solutions. Several aspects of constant curvature solutions with and without electric charge are discussed. We also study the general case (without imposing constant curvature). Following a perturbative approach around the Einstein-Hilbert action, it is found that only solutions of the Schwarzschild-(anti) de Sitter type are present up to second order in perturbations. Explicit expressions for the effective cosmological constant are obtained in terms of the f(R) function. Finally, we have considered the thermodynamics of black holes in anti-de Sitter space-time and found that this kind of solution can only exist provided the theory satisfies R{sub 0}+f(R{sub 0})<0. Interestingly, this expression is related to the condition which guarantees the positivity of the effective Newton's constant in this type of theories. In addition, it also ensures that the thermodynamical properties in f(R) gravities are qualitatively similar to those of standard general relativity.
FFTLab : Genome Resequencing Pipeline using Signal Processing for Alignment & GraphLab for Assembly ( Project Report for Big Data , Small Languages , Scalable Systems )

In this project report, we present a new approach to the problem of genome resequencing. We approach the problem of aligning short DNA sequences, or reads, to a complete genome reference as a signal processing problem, and use GraphLab, a big data processing framework, to merge and assemble these alignments into a complete genome sequence.
The Application of Deverbalisation in Interpreting Notes

According to the interpretive theory of French interpretive school, translators should strive to break away from the original language form and pay attention to the thought or connotation of the original language. Therefore, in the training of interpreting notes, the trainer should strive to break away from the original language form to understand the communicative meaning of the original utterance in context, remember or record the thought or information of original utterance, and perform interpretation training more effectively. During the process of interpretation, especially the consecutive interpretation, notes is one of the most important skills. This article is an exploration of the interpreting practice of the “deverbalisation” hypothesis in interpretation theory. Starting from the commonly used skills and principles of interpreting notes, this paper analyzes some of the skills and principles commonly used in notes to explore the application of the “deverbalisation” hypothesis in interpreting notes.
Multi-scale modelling of pulsed nanosecond dielectric barrier plasma discharges in plane-to-plane geometry

An integrated theoretical and numerical framework is developed to study the dynamics of energy coupling, gas heating and generation of active species by repetitively pulsed nanosecond dielectric barrier discharges (NS DBDs) in air. The work represents one of the first attempts to simulate, in a self-consistent manner, multiple (more than 100) nanosecond pulses. Detailed information is obtained about the electric-field transients during each voltage pulse, and accumulation of plasma generated species and gas heating over ms timescales. The plasma is modelled using a two-temperature, detailed chemistry scheme, with ions and neutral species in thermal equilibrium at the gas temperature, and electrons in thermal nonequilibrium. The analysis is conducted with pressures and pulsing frequency in the range 40–100 Torr and 1–105 Hz, respectively. The input electrical energy is directly proportional to the number density, and remains fairly constant on a per molecule basis from pulse to pulse. Repetitive pulsing results in uniform production of atomic oxygen in the discharge volume via electron-impact dissociation during voltage pulses, and through quenching of excited nitrogen molecules in the afterglow. The ion Joule effect causes rapid gas heating of ∼40 K/pulse in the cathode sheath and generates weak acoustic waves. Conductive heat loss to the walls during the time interval between voltage pulses prevents overheating of the cathode layer and development of ionization instabilities. A uniform ‘hat-shaped’ temperature profile develops in the discharge volume after multiple pulses, due to chemical heat release from quenching of excited species. This finding may explain experimentally observed volumetric ignition (as opposed to hot-spot ignition) in fuel–air mixtures subject to NS DBD.
Climate System Response to External Forcings and Climate Change Projections in CCSM4

AbstractResults are presented from experiments performed with the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4) for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5). These include multiple ensemble members of twentieth-century climate with anthropogenic and natural forcings as well as single-forcing runs, sensitivity experiments with sulfate aerosol forcing, twenty-first-century representative concentration pathway (RCP) mitigation scenarios, and extensions for those scenarios beyond 2100–2300. Equilibrium climate sensitivity of CCSM4 is 3.20°C, and the transient climate response is 1.73°C. Global surface temperatures averaged for the last 20 years of the twenty-first century compared to the 1986–2005 reference period for six-member ensembles from CCSM4 are +0.85°, +1.64°, +2.09°, and +3.53°C for RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP6.0, and RCP8.5, respectively. The ocean meridional overturning circulation (MOC) in the Atlantic, which weakens during the twentieth century in the model, nearly recovers to early.
U-Net On Biomedical Images

Traditional CNN architectures have been very good at tasks such as applying a class label to an image after training on a very large example dataset. However, in many applications, a more fine grained classification is necessary. One example is for image segmentation in the biomedical field. In order to classify pixels based on only the contextual information surrounding it without a need for a large training dataset, we use an efficient and generalizable network called the U-Net. The Unetwork leverages the homogeneous nature of medical images to train on similar images very efficiently. Our network is able to classify with an F1 score of 0.96 after training on just 10% of our images, but loses precision around the edges of of said structures.
Doing Justice Locally: The North Liverpool Community Justice Centre

Doing justice locally: The North Liverpool Community Justice Centre offers the first non-government funded assessment of the flagship North Liverpool Community Justice Centre. As the first and most highly developed example of a community justice court in the UK, the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre has been a showcase for plans for community justice more broadly. Despite the considerable interest shown in the Centre both at home and abroad, published research has been limited to the first couple of years of operation since opening in 2005.
In situ measures of spawning synchrony and fertilization success in an intertidal, free-spawning invertebrate

The rocky intertidal zone has the potential to be one of the harshest environments for free-spawning organisms, but empirical data on fertilization success are scarce. Here, I report on an intertidal, solitary ascidian, Pyura stolonifera, which was observed to spawn at low tide. At a scale likely to be most important to gametes (metres, duration of tide), approximately 30% of individuals in the population were spawning synchronously. Spawned gametes remained in a viscous matrix and this appeared to minimise their dilution. Fertilization success varied greatly among individuals (0 to 92%) and was related to the distance to the nearest neighbouring spawner. Occasional wave wash facilitated the movement of sperm between spawners. Fertilization success in some individuals was limited by the scarcity of sperm whilst the experimental addition of sperm did not increase success in others.
Instrumented indentation for determination of full range stress-strain curves

One common method for the determination of full range stress-strain curves by instrumented indentation is presented and validated for an aluminium alloy. This method relates properties describing the indentation force-depth curve with those describing the uniaxial stress-strain curve as traditionally obtained from a tensile test. The first aim of this paper is to explain the basic concepts of instrumented indentation. Next, the analysis method is presented and validated. This study ends with discussing the uniqueness of the obtained solution. It is concluded that accurate determination of stress-strain behaviour can be realized, but for certain materials two indentations are needed.
Discretization of Vector Bundles and Rough Laplacian

We establish a uniform comparison between the spectrum of the rough Laplacian (acting on sections of a vector bundle of complex rank one or of harmonic curvature) with the spectrum of a discrete operator (a generalization of a discrete magnetic Laplacian added with a potential) acting on a finite dimensional space coming from a discretization process. As an application, we obtain a comparison of the first positive eigenvalue of the rough Laplacian with the holonomy.
Gibrat’s law and Jovanovic’s
learning theory

This article tests the validity of Gibrat’s Law and Jovanovic’s learning theory for growing small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) in post-conflict economy of Kosovo. Despite evolving body of evidence suggesting that Gibrat’s Law does not hold, there is a lack of empirical evidence from transitional and post-conflict economies. This study provides econometric analysis of the relationship of age, size and growth of SMEs. The article is based on pooled SME surveys conducted by Riinvest Institute (2004- 2006). Econometric findings show that Gibrat’s Law does not hold in all model specifications while support the conventional Jovanovic’s learning theory based on growth-size age model suggesting important policy implications for promotion of small firms in Kosovo.
Casualties of Social Combat

We point to group processes of status conflict and norm enforcement as fundamental elements in the development of school-based victimization. Socially vulnerable youth are frequently harassed for violating norms, but the logic of status competition implies they are not the only victims: to the extent that aggression is instrumental for social climbing, increases in status should increase risk—at least until the pinnacle of the hierarchy is reached. Victimization causes serious harm, and, we argue, at the margin these consequences will be magnified by status. We test these ideas using longitudinal network data on friendship and victimization from 19 schools. For most students, status increases the risk of victimization. However, youth at the uppermost extremes of the school hierarchy—students in the top 5 percent of centrality and those with cross-gender friendships where such friendships are rare—sit just above the fray, unlikely to fall victim to their peers. As expected, females and physically or socially vulnerable youth are victimized at particularly high rates. Victims experience psychological distress and social marginalization, and these adverse effects are magnified by status. For most students, gains in status increase the likelihood of victimization and the severity of its consequences.
Almost periodic potentials in higher dimensions

This work was motivated by the paper of R. Johnson and J. Moser (see[J-M] in the references) on the one-dimensional almost periodic potentials. Here we study the operator L=−Δ/2−q, where q is an almost periodic function in R d . It is shown that some of the results of [J-M] extend to the multidimensional case (our approach includes the one-dimensional case as well). We start with the kernel k(t,x,y) of the semigroup e −tL . For fixed t>0 and u∈R d , it is known (we review the proof) that k(t,x,x+u) is almost periodic in x with frequency module not bigger than the one of q
A 2.4-GHz-band 1.8-V operation single-chip Si-CMOS T/R-MMIC front-end with a low insertion loss switch

This paper describes the design and experimental results of a 1.8-V single-chip CMOS MMIC front-end for 2.4-GHz band short-range wireless communications, such as Bluetooth and wireless LANs. The IC consists of fundamental RF building circuits-a power amplifier (PA), a low-noise amplifier (LNA), and a transmit/receive-antenna switch (SW), including almost all on-chip matching elements. The IC was fabricated using a 0.18-/spl mu/m standard bulk CMOS technology which has no extra processing steps to enhance the RF performances. Two new circuit-design techniques are introduced in the IC in order to minimize the insertion loss of the SW and realize a higher gain for the PA and LNA despite the utilization of the standard bulk CMOS technology. The first is the derivation of an optimum gate width of the SW to minimize the insertion loss based on small-signal equivalent circuit analysis. The other is the revelation of the advantages of interdigitated capacitors (IDCs) over conventional polysilicon to polysilicon capacitors and the successful use of the IDCs in the LNA and PA. The IC achieves the following sufficient characteristics for practical wireless terminals at 2.1 GHz and 1.8 V: a 5-dBm transmit power at a -1-dB gain compression, a 19-dB gain, an 18-mA current for the PA, a 1.5-dB insertion loss, more than 24-dB isolation, an 11-dBm power handling capability for the SW, a 7.5-dB gain, a 4.5-dB noise figure, and an 8-mA current for the LNA.
Overview of systems and techniques for surface display of recombinant proteins in yeast S. cerevisiae

In the past decade much effort has been devoted to the development of new expression systems and novel techniques for the surface display of heterologous proteins in yeast in order to improve their applications in biotechnology, food technology, pharmacology and medicine. Heterologous protein-encoding genes are generally fused with genes coding for yeast cell wall proteins or their fragments required for anchoring. The variety of reactions by which a protein can be displayed at the cell surface enables finding the appropriate one for each individual protein. However, it is still challenging how to improve the efficiency of display of protein complexes and increase the quantity of protein displayed on the yeast surface. Recently, synthetic protein chimeras that self-assemble into the scaffolds on the yeast surface displaying different proteins have been constructed. This review focuses on systems and techniques for display of recombinant proteins on the yeast cell surfaces and applications afforded by this technology.
Free actions of compact quantum group on unital C*-algebras

Let F be a field, G a finite group, and Map(G,F) the Hopf algebra of all set-theoretic maps G->F. If E is a finite field extension of F and G is its Galois group, the extension is Galois if and only if the canonical map resulting from viewing E as a Map(G,F)-comodule is an isomorphism. Similarly, a finite covering space is regular if and only if the analogous canonical map is an isomorphism. In this paper we extend this point of view to actions of compact quantum groups on unital C*-algebras. We prove that such an action is free if and only if the canonical map (obtained using the underlying Hopf algebra of the compact quantum group) is an isomorphism. In particular, we are able to express the freeness of a compact Hausdorff topological group action on a compact Hausdorff topological space in algebraic terms.
Methods of Teaching Matrix Programming Operations : Effects on Students ’ Achievements in IPCs

Despite the fact that introductory programming courses (IPCs) are taught at universities for more than thirty years, students still find computer programming very difficult to learn. Programming pedagogy deals with the methods and principles of teaching and learning computer programming. The programming pedagogical approaches that have been proposed to increase the efficiency of teaching and learning computer programming mostly focus on the tools, paradigms, programming languages and environments used in IPCs. To increase significantly the students’ success rates in IPCs, these approaches should be complemented with pedagogical explanation (PE) methods. This research is focused on a PE method of teaching sequential search of a matrix row (SSMR). The research was designed as experimental study with pretest-posttest control group model, involving students of Computer Engineering department Izmir University. While the experimental group was subjected to a pedagogical explanation method, a traditional explanation method was applied in the control group. To collect the research data, an achievement pretest, posttest and a questionnaire were developed and applied. The research findings showed the effectiveness of teaching SSMR by using a PE method. This method positively influenced students’ level of topic comprehension, which consequently improved their achievements. In order for students to understand better the other matrix programming operations, similar PE methods should be developed and used in IPCs. On a more general level, the results of this research suggested that PE methods should be developed and used for other topics that students usually find difficult to understand in IPCs. Using these methods can be a very important factor in significantly increasing students’ success in IPCs.