Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Trastornos del espectro autista y exposiciones ocupacionales de los progenitores

Fundamentos: Estudios con hermanos y gemelos sugieren un componente genetico en el origen del autismo que no explica su crecimiento actual. El objetivo es investigar si factores ambientales como algunas exposiciones profesionales (trabajo nocturno, manejo de disolventes y/o campos electromagneticos) incrementan la probabilidad de trastornos del espectro autista (TEA) en los hijos. Metodos: Estudio observacional de casos y controles mediante analisis de expedientes de 206 ninos entre 16 y 36 meses de edad evaluados en el Servicio de Atencion Temprana de Ciudad Real (70 con TEA y 136 no afectados). Para medir el riesgo de TEA asociado al trabajo nocturno, con disolventes y/o campos electromagneticos se calculo la odds ratio (OR) con un intervalo de confianza (IC) del 95%. Resultados: El riesgo de TEA se multiplica por 2,22 cuando un progenitor trabaja en las ocupaciones estudiadas (OR=2,22, IC 95%=1,42-3,48), destacando trabajo con disolventes (OR=2,81, IC 95%=1,28-6,17) y nocturno (OR=2,18, IC 95%=1,21-3,93). El riesgo se multiplica por 3 si la madre trabaja en estas ocupaciones (OR=3, IC 95%=1,44-6,26), destacando trabajo nocturno (OR=3,47, IC 95%=1,39-8,63) y con disolventes (OR=2,88, IC 95%=1,28-6,17). El riesgo se multiplica por 1,94 si el padre trabaja en estas ocupaciones (OR=1,94, IC 95%=1,07-3,53) y por 2,81 con disolventes (OR=2,81, IC 95%=1,01-7,86). Se encontro asociacion positiva entre nivel educativo de los progenitores y TEA. Conclusiones: Encontramos relacion significativa entre exposicion de los progenitores a los riesgos estudiados y TEA en los hijos. Los resultados sugieren la participacion de alteraciones geneticas ocasionadas por factores ambientales en el origen del trastorno.
Toepassing van de wet Ver- betering Poortwachter

Conclusie Eerst wordt onderzocht in hoeverre werkgevers en werknemers de wet Verbetering Poortwachter op een betere manier kunnen toepassen. Het onderzoek richt zich daarbij op drie aspecten: (1) tijdigheid (worden de stappen binnen de gestelde termijn uitgevoerd), volledigheid (worden de verschillende poortwachterstappen adequaat uitgevoerd), en effectiviteit (welk effect hebben de stappen op werkhervatting en WIA status). Vervolgens wordt nagegaan welke effecten een betere toepassing van de wet hebben op het langdurige ziekteverzuim, op de werkhervattingskans en op de WIA-instroom.
Automated Medication System for Rural and War Affected Areas

Robot is machine like human beings working in hazardous situations, replace domain experts and provide accurate results. We proposed automated medication system that work like human physician experts in remote locations, where flood and thunderstorm occurs. It measure patient’s temperature and blood pressure using sensors and get input from user via keyboard and voice system. After finding diseases, it retrieves symptoms for diseases from stored databases. The proposed automated medication system provides facility to people which are unable to reach big cities where medical facilities are available.
A Sentiment Classification Method Using Context Information in Product Review Summarization

As the trend of e-business activities develop, customers come into contact with products through on-line shopping sites and lots of customers refer product reviews before the purchasing on-line. However, as the volume of product reviews grow, it takes a great deal of time and effort for customers to read and evaluate voluminous product reviews. Lately, attention is being paid to Opinion Mining(OM) as one of the effective solutions to this problem. In this paper, we propose an efficient method for opinion sentiment classification of product reviews using product specific context information of words occurred in the reviews. We define the context information of words and propose the application of context for sentiment classification and we show the performance of our method through the experiments. Additionally, in case of word corpus construction, we propose the method to construct word corpus automatically using the review texts and review scores in order to prevent traditional manual process. In consequence, we can easily get exact sentiment polarities of opinion words in product reviews.
L'évolution du phonétisme arabe et la résistance coarticulatoire

This study relies on the articulatory commentary of the early Arab grammarians on the Classical Arabic (CA) consonants (VIII°-XII° century). 4 consonants were picked up from the Arab inventory: 3 consonants appeared in Al- Khalil's (died in 786) commentary as post-palatal, ‘gim', ‘sin' and ‘dad', and the last one as prepalatal, ‘sin'. The stability of the four graphemes allowed the comparison between the articulation in CA and Modern Arabic (MA). The results show that the phonetic values of these consonants have evolved. The phonetic values are unanimous in exhibiting the fronting of the four articulations. They all split from a back to a front articulation. The reasons of this fronting are undoubtedly linked to a better control of the main articulator, the tongue, and to a good optimisation of the coarticulatory process.
Living with fire: homeowner assessment of landscape values and defensible space in Minnesota and Florida, USA

This invention is a thermoacoustic system for communicating between an airborne or spaceborne vehicle and a sound detector that is located aboard an object beneath the surface of the water. The foregoing system comprises a laser or particle accelerator that is located aboard an airborne or spaceborne vehicle. The laser produces a light beam whose amplitude is subsequently modulated or whose pulses are varied in time. A particle accelerator would produce a pulsed particle beam that varies in time. These modulated or varied pulses are focused or deflected to a small layer of water at the air/water interface so that the beam will be absorbed by the water causing the water to produce an acoustic signal that will propagate to the sound detector.
Reading data of sensor nodes belonging to an integrated RFID-sensor network with an RFID handheld reader

The RF mesh network, deployed with IQRF mesh network devices, works in the 868 and 916 MHz frequency band and it allows the operation of 65000 devices per network. Our own nodes, named exNode, have been developed and in them the IQRF unit is responsible for the communication. This is complemented with a sensor-line or more precisely an UHF RFID interface that is intended to possess a self-designed protocol that enables the nodes to be located by an UHF RFID reader. If some segments of the sensor network are still connected it is possible to read the measurement data of the subgraph nodes through only one node. In this article, it is expounded how a software for a handheld RFID reader that can change the settings of and read and interpret data of the sensor nodes even with different types of sensors, can be developed.
Depression Among Children and Adolescents: A Timely Multipurpose Guide to Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment

John R. Z. Abela is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at McGill University. With M. E. P. Seligman, he co-authored ‘‘The Hopelessness Theory of Depression: A Test of the Diathesis-Stress Component in the Interpersonal and Achievement Domains,’’ which appeared in Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2000, 24, 361–378. Benjamin L. Hankin is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of South Carolina. With R. Mermelstein and L. Roesch, he co-authored ‘‘Sex Differences in Adolescent Depression: Stress Exposure and Reactivity Models,’’ which appeared in Child Development, 2007, 78, 279–295. Deborah J. Walder is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She received a NARSAD Young Investigator Award 2008 to examine the interaction of early life stress with genetic predisposition in predicting brain integrity among adolescents at-risk for depression. Along with V. Mittal, H. Trotman, A. L. McMillan, & E. F. Walker, she co-authored ‘‘Neurocognition and Conversion to Psychosis in Adolescents at High-Risk,’’ which appeared in Schizophrenia Research, 2008, 101, 161–168.
Product Design and Development

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Development Processes and Organizations Chapter 3 Product Planning Chapter 4 Identifying Customer Needs Chapter 5 Product Specifications Appendix Concept -Scoring Matrix Example Chapter 6 Concept Generation Chapter 7 Concept Selection Appendix A Concept-Screening Matrix Example Appendix B Concept-Scoring Matrix Example Chapter 8 Concept Testing Appendix Estimating Market Sizes Chapter 9 Product Architecture Chapter 10 Industrial Design Chapter 11 Design for Manufacturing Appendix A Material Costs Appendix B Component Manufacturing Costs Appendix C Assembly Costs Appendix D Cost Structures Chapter 12 Prototyping Chapter 13 Robust Design Appendix Orthogonal Arrays Chapter 14 Patents and Intellectual Property Appendix A Trademarks Appendix B Advice to Individual Inventors Chapter 15 Product Development Economics Appendix A Time Value of Money and the Net Present Value Technique Appendix B Modeling Uncertain Cash Flow Using Net Present Value Analysis Chapter 16 Managing Projects Appendix Design Structure Matrix Example
Sosiaalisen median käytön alueelliset erot Helsingin ydinkeskustassa ja pääkaupunkiseudun erilaisilla esikaupunkialueilla

The study examines the use of social media in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The focus is on comparing regional differences related to social media use. Social media consists of web 2.0 technologies, content, community, networks and participation. The data were gathered through a postal survey conducted in Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa in 2010. Crosstabs, Chi square and Mann­Whitney U­test statistics are used to examine differences between social media user groups in relation to age, income level, education and knowledge intensity and creativity in work. The study shows that the use of social media is most frequent in Helsinki city center in relation to suburban areas. Especially the use of LinkedIn is related to education and income level. Further­ more, the results indicate that the level of knowledge intensity and creativity in work relates to the use of social network sites for networking. The study contributes to the discussion of the connection between social media and social capital which produces trust between individuals, organizations and other stakeholders.
Fusing Verbal and Nonverbal Information for Extractive Meeting Summarization

Automatic meeting summarization would reduce the cost of producing minutes during or after a meeting. With the goal of establishing a method for extractive meeting summarization, we propose a multimodal fusion model that identifies the important utterances that should be included in meeting extracts of group discussions. The proposed multimodal model fuses audio, visual, motion, and linguistic unimodal models that are trained by employing a convolutional neural network approach. The performance of the verbal and nonverbal fusion model presented an F-measure of 0.831. We also discuss the characteristics of verbal and nonverbal models and demonstrate that they complement each other.
An Automated Method for Human Face Modeling and Relighting with Application to Face Recognition

In this paper, we present a novel method for human face modeling and its application to face relighting and recognition. An annotated face model is ﬁtted onto the raw 3D data using a subdivision-based deformable model framework. The ﬁtted face model is subsequently converted to a geometry image representation. This results in regularly sampled, registered and annotated geometry data. The albedo of the skin is retrieved by using an analytical skin re-ﬂectance model that removes the lighting (shadows, diffuse and specular) from the texture. Additional provisions are made such that if the input contains over-saturated specular highlights, an inpainting method with texture synthesis is used as a post-processing step in order to estimate the texture. The method is fully automatic and uses as input only the 3D geometry and texture data of the face, as acquired by commercial 3D scanners. No measurement or calibration of the lighting environment is required. The method’s fully automatic nature and its minimum input requirements make it applicable to both computer vision applications (e.g., face recognition) and computer graphics applications (i.e., relighting, face synthesis and facial expressions transfer). Moreover, it allows the utilization of existing 3D facial databases. We present very encouraging results on a challenging dataset.
Information technology use in Romanian companies- case of Transylvanian SMEs

ICT's contribution to economic growth is mainly achieved by its use in the firms. Use of ICT is likely to stimulate the extensive and intensive development of the production and services sector. Regarding the extensive development, ICT provides the opportunity for Romanian companies to access new regional or global markets, or to promote and sell products and services electronically. Intensive development is due to decreased production management and disposal costs, due to the use of ICT, which can result in a significant increase in productivity of the factors used.
Apprenticeship instruction through adaptive human-computer interaction

Discusses an approach and issues regarding the use of intelligent adaptive user interfaces, coupled with hypermedia, to provide supportive learning situations for users within an instructional paradigm of cognitive apprenticeship. Existing models of user interaction are examined and extended with a supportive learning model of user interaction. The paper addresses learning opportunities provided by implementing this model of interaction using intelligent computer-human interaction, as well as identifies issues which are yet to be resolved in providing supportive learning situations within the apprenticeship learning paradigm. <<ETX>>
Evaluation of Some Serum Adipokines and Oxidized Low Density Lipoprotein Before and After Methotrexate Treatment in Patients with Chronic Plaque Psoriasis (A Case-Control Study)

Psoriasis is a common inflammatory autoimmune skin disease that affects 2–4% of the world population. T-cells infiltration, interleukins and cytokines including adipocytokines like visfatin, high molecular weight-adiponectin (HMW-adiponectin) and retinol binding protein-4 (RBP-4), together with oxidized low density lipoprotein (ox-LDL) have been implicated in psoriasis pathogenesis. A total of 86 subjects (43 with Psoriasis and 43 healthy controls) were enrolled in this study. Their mean age was (41± 14.37) for patients, and (35.81± 18.66) for the control group. The study conducted in dermatology outpatient clinic in Merjan Teaching Hospital in Al –Hilla City and investigations were done in laboratory units of the hospital through the period from June 2013 to September 2014. The sera obtained from blood were used to determine the level of serum visfatin, HMW-adiponectin, RBP-4 and oxidized-LDL by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Assessment of psoriasis disease activity and methotrexate efficacy was done by psoriasis area and severity index (PASI) score. Results of this study showed a significant increase (p<0.05) in serum visfatin, HMW- adiponectin, and oxidized-LDL concentrations, and a significant decrease (p<0.05) in retinol binding protein-4 (RBP-4) concentrations in sera of patients with chronic plaque psoriasis when compared with control group. There was a significant correlation between oxidized-LDL and visfatin, HMW-adiponectin and retinol binding protein-4 (r = 0.81, 0.68, -0.77) (p value < 0.001) respectively . Finally, the impact of systemic methotrexate on above adipocytokines and oxidized-LDL was determined by significant reduction in the levels of visfatin, HMW-adiponectin and ox-LDL and a significant increase in levels of RBP – 4 after treatment and by a significant mean difference in PASI score before and after treatment in psoriatic lesions. Results obtained by this study indicate that some adipocytokines including serum visfatin, HMW–adiponectin and RBP-4 levels, in addition to oxidized-LDL measured in patients with chronic plaque psoriasis were closely associated with disease severity and could be used to assess the successful treatment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study in Iraq to evaluate serum levels of these adipokines and Ox – LDL in patients with psoriasis and study the effect of methotrexate treatment on these parameters.
Using Virtual Machines in Desktop Grid Clients for Application Sandboxing

A process for the preparation of a substituted guanidine by reacting a substituted cyanamide with ammonia or a substituted amine in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst. Also disclosed is a process for the preparation of a tri-substituted guanidine by reacting a mono-substituted cyanamide with a di-substituted amine.
Metaheuristics for Solving Facility Location Optimization Problem in Lagos, Nigeria

Facility location problem is a problem that many organizations still face today because of its increasing constraints and objectives. Decision makers want this problem solved in order to maximize profit and as such, it became a field of interest to many computer scientists over the years. The solution tool used by these scientists; a function of technological advancement, has evolved from the use of classical mathematical approaches to the use of metaheuristics. Some of the metaheuristics used include particle swarm optimization metaheuristics, genetic algorithm metaheuristics and tabu search. The problem considered in this research evolves the study of waste management in Lagos state. How the location of waste evacuation centers could be allocated in order to minimize resources such as transportation cost, facility cost, distance and the capacity of each centers. A mathematical model was developed that serves as a template for the algorithm used to solve the problem. Then particle swarm optimization metaheuristics was used to find the optimal solution in terms of capacity to the problem. Particle swarm optimization minimizes the use of memory and still gives a satisfactory solution. With the result obtained, respective agencies could make good decision as to the best location to build a new facility.
A descriptive study of the grapes of Afghanistan

This paper is the result of field observations and laboratory studies under­ taken by the authors during 1957 -1959 while the first author was Director of Agricultural Research with the University of Wyoming Team associated with the International Cooperation Administration of the United States government and the second author was Associate Director of the Afghan Ministry of Agriculture's Central Experiment Station in Kabul. A previous study of the grapes of Afghanistan by the Russian botanists N. I. VAvrwv and D. D. BuKINICH included in the volume ,,Agricultural Afghani­ stan" is fragmentary and incomplete. At the time the present study was under­ taken there was confusion among foreign agriculturists working in Afghanistan as to the numbers of varieties of grapes grown in the country.
Automated Rendezvous and Docking of Spacecraft

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Fehse, Wigbert. Automated rendezvous and docking of spacecraft / Wigbert Fehse. p. cm. – (Cambridge aerospace series; 16) Includes bibliographical references and index. The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites, and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Contents Preface xv List of symbols xviii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2 The complexity of the rendezvous process 3 1.3 Objective and scope 6
PET/CT-Bildgebung in klinischer Anwendung: Versprechen und Missverständnisse

PET/CT ist heute die wichtigste onkologische Bildgebungsmethode. Mit PET/CT ist das Staging und Restaging genauer als mit PET oder CT allein. Der mitunter unsinnige Zwang, die Technologie eines modernen PET mit einer stetig aktualisierten CT-Technologie zu kombinieren, sollte durch eine vernunftige Kombination aus PET und CT ersetzt werden, die auf spezifische klinische Anforderungen in definierten Patientengruppen zugeschnitten ist. Der weitere Erfolg der molekularen PET/CT Bildgebung hangt weniger von technischen Upgrades, sondern vielmehr von Fortschritten in der molekularen Bildgebung ab, wobei die Einfuhrung von spezifischen Markern fur individualisierte onkologische Therapieansatze eine besonders wichtige Rolle spielt.
A two-stage binarization approach for document images

Binarization of a gray scale document image is one of the most important steps for automatic document processing. The paper presents a two-stage document image binarization approach. The approach applies a region based binarization technique first to the whole image and utilizes a neural network based binarization technique to those text blocks in which a good character segmentation cannot be achieved at the first stage. Experimental results on a number of document images show that our two-stage binarization approach performs better than other binarization techniques in terms of character segmentation quality and computing time.
A Character Recognition Method for License Plate Based on Combination Feature and Partial Character Input

In order to improve the recognition rate of license plate characters, a new method based on combination feature and partial character input is proposed. First, according to the texture characteristics of the license plate character, the basic LBP operator is improved, and then the characteristics of the license plate partial character image are extracted using the improved local binary mode and horizontal vertical projection, and the classifier is trained with the extracted features. Then use this classifier to classify and identify license plate characters. The experimental results show that the overall recognition rate of license plate reaches 94.56 %, which proves the effectiveness and robustness of this method.