Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The effect of exercise training program on indexes of adiposity in pre and post-menopausal obese women

The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of resistance exercise training on indexes of overall and central obesity in pre and post-menopausal women. Thirty obese healthy women (BMI ≥30 kg/m) were chosen. Depending on hormonal status, subjects were divided into two groups: the postmenopausal (PostM; n=20) group and premenopausal (PreM+EX; n=10) group. At the onset of the experiment, postmenopausal women were randomly divided into two subgroups: postmenopausal+ Exercise (PostM+EX; n=10) and postmenopausal+ Sedentary (PostM+SED; n=10). After fasting for at least 12 h, indexes of overall obesity including body weight (BW), body mass index(BMI), body fat percent (BF%)and body fat mass (BFM) and central obesity including waist circumference(WC) and waist to hip ratio (WHR) were measured. Exercise training program was done for 24 weeks, 3 days a week, 60-75 minutes a day. Result showed that exercise reduced WC, WHR significantly in PostM+EX and PreM+EX groups compared to PostM+SED group (p˂0.01). BF% decreased in both exercise groups compared to PostM+SED group, but it was significant only in PostM+EX (p=0.02). BW, BMI and FM remained unchanged. These results suggest that resistance training decreases central obesity without weight loss in pre and postmenopausal obese women. [Rahimeh Mehdizadeh, Reza Andam, Ardeshir Zafari, Sanaz Mirzayan Shangani, Elham Eftekhari, Mandana Gholami. The effect of exercise training program on indexes of adiposity in pre and postmenopausal obese women. Life Sci J 2013;10(2s):127-131] (ISSN: 1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com.21
AN ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION ?

Regarding religion as the foundation of civilizations is certainly not a novel or recent idea. For thousands of years religion has formed (and to a large extent still does form) the basis of an individual’s identity. Even today, roughly two-thirds of the population of a traditionally secular Islamic country say they are first Muslim and then Turkish rather than the other way around. It was roughly a millennium ago when the Crusaders risked their lives in “infidel lands” in the name of God and Jesus. After more than a thousand years, and in the same lands, Palestinian youths explode themselves almost daily without the blink of an eye, this time in name of Allah and Mohammed. Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose, as the French saying goes!
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONSUMPTION OF ELECTRICITY OF NON-RENEWABLE ORIGIN AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN TUNISIA : CAUSALITY ANALYSIS

This article addresses the issue of electricity consumption and economic growth in Tunisia. Our first objective is to investigate and analyze the causal relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Tunisia over the period from 1980 to 2010. To examine this relationship we used a multivariate approach to cointegration, an error correction model based on recent advances in time series econometrics is estimated. The empirical results showed that there are short-term relationships and a long-term relationship between GDP and electricity consumption in Tunisia. The results also indicate the existence of a unidirectional causal relationship between GDP and electricity consumption. Our empirical results support the idea that in Tunisia the current energy deficit is a huge burden on the state budget.
Comptage de solutions en exploitant la structure du graphe de contraintes

Ce papier traite du problème de comptage du nombre de solutions d’un CSP, dénoté #CSP. Ce problème très difficile a de nombreuses applications en informatique, en particulier en Intelligence Artificielle, et aussi en physique statistique. Des progrès récents ont été fait par des méthodes de recherche, telle que BTD [16], qui exploitent la structure du graphe de contraintes dans le but de résoudre des CSPs efficacement. Nous proposons d’adapter BTD pour résoudre le problème #CSP. La méthode de comptage exacte résultante a dans le pire des cas une complexité temporelle exponentielle en un paramètre graphique spécifique appelé largeur d’arbre. Pour des problèmes ayant un graphe peu dense mais une grande largeur d’arbre, nous proposons une méthode itérative qui approche le nombre de solutions en résolvant une partition de l’ensemble des contraintes en une collection de sous-graphes partiels triangulés. Sa complexité temporelle est exponentielle en la taille de la plus grande clique (aussi appelé clique number) du problème d’origine, taille qui peut être beaucoup plus petite que la largeur d’arbre. Des expérimentations sur des problèmes aléatoires CSP structurés et des benchmarks SAT montrent l’efficacité pratique de nos approches.
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Antioxidant Properties of Functional Bakery Products

The objective of our experimental studies was to evaluate the effectiveness of the antioxidant properties of functional bakery products. In the course of the experiment, we evaluated the effectiveness of antioxidant properties of functional bakery products containing antioxidants (selexen, α-tocopherol) and a number of B vitamins. Spectrophotometric methods (FRAP and DPPH) have established that the antioxidant capacity of the loaves studied is preconditioned by the presence of vitamin E. Field studies have revealed that the combined effect of selenium, which is an ingredient of selexen, and vitamins on the activation of antioxidant protection of the human body when consuming functional bakery products gives a statistically significant reduction in indicators of lipid peroxidation (LPO) in the blood of the examined volunteers within 30 days.
Measurement of physiological variables by dynamic Gd-DTPA enhanced MRI

Abnormal angiogenesis is characterised by the alteration of physiological variables such as capillary permeability and fractional volume of the extravascular extracellular space. The aim of the work presented in this thesis was to investigate the feasibility of non-invasive measurement of these physiological variables through quantitative analysis of dynamic Gd-DTPA enhanced MRI (DEMRI) acquired using standard imaging hardware within a clinical setting. A method for quantitative analysis of DEMRI (QDEMRI) was developed and implemented on a standard personal computer platform using a set of programs written in the C programming language. The method includes pharmacokinetic modelling of Gd-DTPA kinetics based on the modification of existing approaches and moving-window algorithms for the measurement of black-box quantifiers of DEMRI. The measurements were performed in two angiogenesis dependent diseases: breast cancer and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In a study involving QDEMRI analysis of 59 primary invasive breast carcinomas, a significant relationship between capillary permeability-related QDEMRI variables and tumour grade was found. In a randomised controlled study of early RA in metacarpophalangeal joints, a significant reduction in the QDEMRI variable which reflects fractional volume of the extravascular extracellular space was found three months after the start of therapy in 20 patients treated with methotrexate and intra-articular methylprednisolone injections, whereas it remained constant in a control group of 17 patients who were treated with slow-acting methotrexate only. A significant reduction in the permeability-related QDEMRI variable was detected in 17 patients treated with leflunomide four months after the start of treatment whilst it remained unchanged in 17 patients treated with methotrexate in a randomised controlled study of established RA of the knee joint. The results obtained in this work indicate that the proposed QDEMRI method can be used in its present form to monitor treatment-induced changes in angiogenesis dependent diseases. Further work is needed to render these measurements fully independent of DEMRI acquisition settings and allow the evaluation of individual lesions.
A Light Weight Cryptography ( LWC ) protocol for Small Scale Data in IOT Devices

In the digital world, which is currently evolving and changing at such a rapid pace, the security of information has become increasingly more important. To preserve the secrecy of the information, cryptography has specific roles to protect files from unauthorized access. In this paper, a new robust and lightweight cryptography algorithm named as LWC is suggested to increase security at a cheaper cost in the Symmetrickey producing algorithm. This algorithm ensures data stability, integration and privacy for those data files which are in size around 1 K.B to 512 K.B. Considering the lower time and power consumption and the hardware capabilities of IoT devices, this solution provides a cheap and effective alternative for them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 04-04-2019 Date of acceptance: 19-04-2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Draft 1 1 Estimating Individual Tree Aboveground Biomass of Tree Species in the 2 Western U . S . A

Journal: Canadian Journal of Forest Research Manuscript ID cjfr-2018-0361.R2 Manuscript Type: Article Date Submitted by the Author: 10-Dec-2018 Complete List of Authors: Poudel, Krishna; Mississippi State University, Department of Forestry Temesgen, Hailemariam; Oregon State University, Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management Radtke, Philip; Virginia Tech, Gray, Andrew; USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station Keyword: Biomass, Western U.S., Dirichlet Imputation, Component Ratio Method, Carbon Is the invited manuscript for consideration in a Special Issue? : Not applicable (regular submission)
Muscle performance during slow isokinetic speeds

Muscle Performance During Slow Isokinetic Speeds By Jonathan Kwantes Dr. John Mercer, Examination Committee Chair Assistant Professor o f Biomechanics University of Nevada, Las Vegas The purpose o f this study was to investigate the possible mechanism responsible for the decrease in force during the 5 °/sec velocity compared to the isometric velocity. Subjects (n=9) completed MVC knee extension exercises during eccentric speeds o f 5, 10, and 15 °/sec, as well as isometric contractions. Extensor force and average EMG (aEMG) of the vastus lateralis (VL) and biceps femoris (BF) were quantified at knee angles o f 55° and 65°. Six ANOVA (a = 0.05) tests determined a decrease in (p < 0.05) at both knee angles and a decrease in VL aEMG (p < 0.05) at 55° during 5 °/sec condition compared to the isometric condition. No change in BF aEMG was observed across speeds (p > 0.05). It was concluded that there is a controlling mechanism which is neurological in nature which reduces F-r during slow eccentric conditions.
Around the 125 GeV light Higgs boson mass in the MSSM : predictions for the W boson mass (

In the present work, we shall expose a general overview of the Standard Model (SM) and a brief introduction of Supersymmetry (SUSY). With these ideas, we shall set the bases on which the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is developed. The MSSM parameter space has more than 100 free parameters but it can be constrained according to experimental evidences. In order to do so, we shall a numerical analysis of the dependence of the mass of the Higgs boson and W boson in that supersymmetric model. First, we nd ranges of free MSSM parameters that provide the mass of the light Higgs boson in the MSSM h0 about 125 GeV i.e. that are in agreement with the mass of the Higgs boson discovered by CMS and ATLAS in 2012. Afterwards, we study the e ect of these free MSSM parameters in the prediction of the W boson mass mW . In particular, large di erences between the MSSM and the SM prediction of the mass ofW boson are sought in these ranges of free parameters. Finally, in agreement with these di erences, we discuss how the MSSM parameter space could be constrained by (future) precision measurements of mW .
Association Metrics in Neural Transition-Based Dependency Parsing

Lexical preferences encoded as association metrics have been shown to improve performance on structural ambiguities that are still challenging for modern parsers. This paper introduces a mechanism to include lexical preferences into a neural transition-based dependency parser for German. We compare pointwise mutual information (PMI) and embedding-based scores. Both the PMI-based model and the embedding-based model outperform the baseline signiﬁcantly. The best model is PMI-based and increases overall performance by 0.26 LAS points over the baseline
Study of the Biological Effects of the Aqueous Extract of the Flower of Target Taraxacum officinale on Escherichia coli AB1157

The present study shows the results obtained by the disc-diffusion test, where the actions of the aqueous extract of the flower of Taraxacum officinale on the strain Escherichia coli AB1157 was evaluated and compared with the results of the aqueous extract of Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi. It can be observed that the extract of Taraxacum officinale presented greater significance in relation to inhibition of bacterial growth than the extract of Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi, suggesting to the extract of Taraxacum officinale a greater and better clinical relevance.
FIDO ECDAA Algorithm

The FIDO Basic Attestation scheme uses attestation "group" keys shared across a set of authenticators with identical characteristics in order to preserve privacy by avoiding the introduction of global correlation handles. If such an attestation key is extracted from one single authenticator, it is possible to create a "fake" authenticator using the same key and hence indistinguishable from the original authenticators by the relying party. Removing trust for registering new authenticators with the related key would affect the entire set of authenticators sharing the same "group" key. Depending on the number of authenticators, this risk might be unacceptable high. This is especially relevant when the attestation key is primarily protected against malware attacks as opposed to targeted physical attacks. An alternative approach to "group" keys is the use of individual keys combined with a Privacy-CA [TPMv1-2-Part1]. Translated to FIDO, this approach would require one Privacy-CA interaction for each Uauth key. This means relatively high load and high availability requirements for the Privacy-CA. Additionally the Privacy-CA aggregates sensitive information (i.e. knowing the relying parties the user interacts with). This might make the Privacy-CA an interesting attack target. Another alternative is the Direct Anonymous Attestation [BriCamChe2004-DAA]. Direct Anonymous Attestation is a cryptographic scheme combining privacy with security. It uses the authenticator specific secret once to communicate with a single DAA Issuer and uses the resulting DAA credential in the DAA-Sign
Prise en charge chirurgicale des infections d'arthroplastie de genou

L'infection d'une prothese totale de genou (PTG) est une complication grave. Apres revue de la litterature, nous rapportons notre experience dans une etude retrospective concernant les patients ayant eu une PTG implantee aux HCUG (1989-2005) et secondairement infectee. 21 patients, d'âge moyen de 70 ans, ont ete traites dans notre service pour 22 infections de PTG. Les prinicipaux facteurs de risque etaient le diabete, l'obesite et la reprise chirurgicale. 2/3 des infections etaient tardives. Tous avaient des signes cliniques et biologiques d'infection. 4 avaient un descellement de l'inplant. Les prelevements intra operatoires ont trouve une majorite de Staphylocoque sp. La majorite des infections tardives ou semi tardives n'ont pu etre eradiquee en cas de lavage initial. Leur prise en charge doit consister en une explantation de la PTG et a la remise en place d'un nouvel implant le plus souvent differee, associee a une antibiotherapie adaptee.
A Survey of the Hearing in the Elderly ≥ 80 Years of Age — Provided with Hearing Aids

This contribution forms part of an epidemiological study of the hearing in the elderly ≥ 80 years of age and describes some of the rehabilitative aspects. The sample is defined according to an age ≥ 80 years of age, living in the Valby district at the time of data collection (November 1993), and provided with a hearing aid (HA) during this period 1988-1993. All information in this part of the survey is obtained from the records in the Department. The overall prevalence of HA provision was 30% (n = 859/2915) with no differences as a function of gender. The prevalence of HA provision indicated an increase from 20% at the age of 80-84 to 61% at an age of ≥ 95 years of age. Among the sample, 42% were first-time applicants, whereas 58% were experienced users. The better and worse ear hearing level, averaged across 0.5-4 kHz, showed significantly poorer hearing in the experienced users compared to the inexperienced users; however, there were no significant differences as a function of 5-year age bands. In the i.
Pretreatments of Non-Woody Cellulosic Feedstocks for Bacterial Cellulose Synthesis

Pretreatment of biomass is a key step in the production of valuable products, including high-tech bacterial cellulose. The efficiency of five different pretreatment methods of Miscanthus and oat hulls for enzymatic hydrolysis and subsequent synthesis of bacterial cellulose (BC) was evaluated herein: Hydrothermobaric treatment, single-stage treatments with dilute HNO3 or dilute NaOH solution, and two-stage combined treatment with dilute HNO3 and NaOH solutions in direct and reverse order. The performance of enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreatment products was found to increase by a factor of 4−7. All the resultant hydrolyzates were composed chiefly of glucose, as the xylose percentage in total reducing sugars (RS) was 1−9%. The test synthesis of BC demonstrated good quality of nutrient media prepared from all the enzymatic hydrolyzates, except the hydrothermobaric treatment hydrolyzate. For biosynthesis of BC, single-stage pretreatments with either dilute HNO3 or dilute NaOH are advised due their simplicity and the high performance of enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreatment products (RS yield 79.7−83.4%).
ESTIMATING THE REQUIRED SURPLUS , BENCHMARK PROFIT , AND OPTIMUM REINSURANCE RETENTION FOR AN INSURANCE ENTERPRISE USING THE COMPOUND POISSON DISTRIBUTION

This paper presents an analysis of the capital needs, needed return on capital, and optimal reinsurance retention for insurance companies, all within the context of the compound Poisson distribution. As an alternative to much of the present practice, it focuses on closed form expressions and closed form approximations, rather than focusing on how to estimate such values using Monte Carlo simulation. The analysis is also done using a distribution-free approach with respect to the loss severity distribution. It shows how the risk of extreme aggregate losses that is inherent in insurance operations may be understood (and, implicitly, managed) by using key values from the loss severity distribution. The capital and surplus needs of a company are then estimated using a VaR approach. A tractable formula for the benchmark profit need of a company is developed. An analysis of the economically optimal reinsurance retention/policy limit is performed as well. It shows that that the marginal (across loss caps) profit need should equal to the marginal reinsurer loading on losses. Analytical expressions are then developed for the optimal reinsurance retention. Approximations to the optimal retention based on the normal distribution are developed and their error is analyzed in great detail. For sample data that is known to be difficult to approximate with a normal distribution, the results indicate the normal approximation to the optimal retention is acceptable. The impacts of those results on other aspects of insurance company operations are discussed. It discusses that their is a logical limit on insurance benefits beyond which the cost of the insurance outweighs the benefits.Also, the benchmark loading for profit and the amount needed to recompense investors for diversifiable risk is discussed. An analysis of whether or not the loading for diversifiable risk is needed is performed, suggesting that some small load for the randomness of insurance clams is required to support the capital employed by an insurance company. The profit load needed in the rates is shown to be independent of how an insurance company invests its assets, and as such is mostly independent of the CAPM “beta” of the company as a whole. It is shown to be related strictly to the risk-free rate and the asset structure of an insurance company in the most common cases.
Disabled graduates experiences of the UK labour market

Disability is a common phenomenon in the UK and year on year there are more disabled graduates graduating and entering the labour market. Despite the relevance of disability to contemporary society, research that focuses on disabled graduates is notability absent in the wider equality and diversity literature. In order to address this lacuna, the research focuses on how disabled graduates manage and navigate the UK labour market. Five key stages in the graduates’ journey into the labour market are addressed in the research, the process of job searching, how disabled graduates negotiate the workplace environment, which includes management relations, how reasonable adjustments are secured, and engagement with external bodies for advice and support and welfare. The wide range of topics covered in the thesis allowed the totality of the experience of disability to be addressed. The thesis used an inductive, qualitative methodology to uncover the lived experience of the disabled graduates. Several key themes emerged from the thesis, firstly disabled graduates were active agents in managing their situation. They often had plan ‘A’ along with various alternative plans to allow them to achieve their desired career path. In addition the graduates were excellent at executing coping strategies to deal with the negative situations in which they found themselves; they did not allow their suffering to negatively deter them. Thirdly, the data showed it was very important to consider issues around impairment because impairment impacted many of the disabled graduates’ experiences. If issues around impairment are ignored then only a partial understanding of disability is achieved. Finally, the data indicated that disabled graduates still experienced unfairness and discrimination in the workplace. This discrimination manifested itself in numerous ways from failure to be recruited to employers failing to make reasonable adjustments.