Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hematogenous small intestinal metastasis 8 months after removal of epithelial ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancers usually spread in four different ways: Trans peritoneal spread, direct invasion, lymphatic, and hematogenous. The primary way of metastasis of ovarian carcinoma is considered to be direct peritoneal dissemination in the abdominal cavity and serosa of bowel. Conversely, hematogenous dissemination is rare, and seldom leads to gastrointestinal metastasis. We report a case of a patient who was operated for an epithelial ovarian cancer and presented with small intestinal metastasis 8 months later. Vascular cancer emboli could be detected by microscopy. Immunohistochemistry tests proved the small intestinal metastasis originated from primary ovarian cancer.
Can FOMC Minutes Predict the Federal Funds Rate?

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) within the Federal Reserve System is responsible for making decisions about the target federal funds rate, and it maintains detailed meeting records, which is called FOMC minutes. In this project, I investigate whether textual information in FOMC minutes can predict directional changes in the federal fund rate in an out-of-sample setting. To this end, I construct hierarchical models that build document embeddings from sentence and word vectors. Document embeddings are then mapped to directional predictions. My results show that models with textual information outperform baseline models using only macroeconomic variables in terms of prediction accuracy for 3and 6-month forecast horizons. 1 CS 224N logistics • Mentor: Alexandre Matton • Collaborators: None • Sharing project: N/A • Grading option: 3
Dentofacial characteristics of patients with hemifacial microsomia. A literature review.

SUMMARYThe Hemifacial Microsomia is a congenitaldisorder that commonly occurs in thehard and soft tissues of half of the facewith specific characteristics that defineits diagnosis, making clear its differencefrom other similar diseases. The aim of thisreview is to recognize the clinical featuresof Hemifacial Microsomia to perform acorrect diagnosis. A search was conductedin the databases (Scielo, Medline, ScienceDirect) with keywords: Hemifacial Microsomia,Soft tissue, Bone tissue). Sixty fourpapers assesed the differential diagnosis ofHFM. The clinician must recognize the associationwith syndromes to treat the HFM,thus the therapeutic process can change,and establish the severity of the diseasein different tissues for future retrieval andtreatment plan.Key words: Hemifacial microsomia, softtissue, bone tissue.
Neonatal Nutrition and Metabolism: Conditionally essential nutrients: choline, inositol, taurine, arginine, glutamine and nucleotides

Introduction The term “conditionally essential” has been used to describe the role of choline, inositol, taurine, arginine, glutamine, and nucleotides in human nutrition. The biochemical pathways to synthesize these nutrients are present, and their absence from the diet does not lead to a classical clinical deficiency syndrome. However, under certain conditions, the biosynthetic capacity may be below functional metabolic demands. The conditions under which these nutrients may become essential include prematurity, certain disease states, periods of limited nutrient intake or rapid growth, and the presence of regulatory or developmental factors that interfere with full expression of the endogenous synthetic capacity. Under these conditions, dietary intake of the nutrient may optimize tissue function. Several of the conditionally essential nutrients are present in significantly higher quantities in human milk versus infant formulas, and several are added to term and/or preterm formulas. On-going research will help to clarify their roles in neonatal nutrition and metabolism. Choline Choline was classified in 1998 as an essential nutrient for humans by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. The Board recognized that fetal development and infancy constitute periods of increased demand for choline. The classification of choline as an essential nutrient will likely stimulate renewed interest and research in its role in the developing infant. Choline has a variety of biological functions. It is a precursor for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, and for two signaling lipids, platelet-activating factor and sphingosylphosphorylcholine.
Blood vessel network remodelling during tumor growth

With the help of a theoretical model the process in which a growing tumor transforms a hierarchically organized arterio-venous blood vessel network into a tumor specific vasculature is analyzed. The determinants of this remodeling process involve the morphological and hydrodynamic properties of the initial network, generation of new vessels (sprouting angiogenesis), vessel dilation (circumferential growth), blood flow correlated vessel regression, tumor cell proliferation and death, and the interdependence of these processes via spatio-temporal changes of blood flow parameters, oxygen / nutrient supply and growth factor concentration fields. The emerging tumor vasculature is non-hierarchical, compartmentalized into well characterized zones, displays a complex geometry with necrotic zones and “hot spots” of increased vascular density and blood flow of varying size, and transports drug injections efficiently. Implications for current theoretical views on tumor-induced angiogenesis are discussed.
A Comparative Study of Neural Question Generation Models

In this project, we aim to do a quantitative and qualitative comparison of the performance of different neural network architectures on the task of generating questions (QG) from text passages using the SQuAD dataset [1]. Speciﬁcally, we plan to 1) reproduce the sequence to sequence attention based LSTM model detailed in our reference paper [2], 2) implement a transformer model that uses multi-headed attention as described in [3]
Second-order RNNs: Resurgence of Recurrence

12 This project explores input-dependent hidden-to-hidden transitions for RNNs with the goal of developing robust language models for natural language and the m -bounded Dyck-k language. Our contributions are two-fold: (1) a special purpose RNN with input dependent transitions that allows the hidden state to function as a LIFO-queue to predict the closing bracket for the m -bounded Dyck-k language and (2) a novel extension of mLSTM [1] to capture more complex input-dependent behavior by using the insights from modelling the Dyck language. We further evaluate variations of our models on character and word level modelling tasks and present various qualitative and quantitative ﬁndings.
The Prevalence of Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) in Taif City Province and its Participating Factors

Background: Myocardial infarction (MI) is a fatal disease caused by block in the oxygen supply of blood vessels of the heart muscles, leading to permanent heart muscle damage and death of its cells. Aim of work: to assess the relationship between incidence of acute myocardial infarction and its participating factors. Patients and methods: observational, descriptive correlation questionnaire based study on 50 Saudi and non Saudi patients with acute myocardial infarction who were admitted in cardiac intensive care unit (CICU), medical ward and followed in out-patient department (OPD). They were chosen from King Faisal Medical Center, cardiology department, Taif, Saudi Arabia from the first of March 2016 to the end of April 2016 (2 months duration). Results: Prevalence of MI patients in the 2 months of research was 1.4%. MI was precipitated by a number of factors in Saudi Arabia as old age, increased body mass index, stress, obesity and consumption of high caloric rich diet. Conclusion: The main risk factors of ACS in our patients were hypertension, Stress, obesity; high cholesterol diet and positive family history of cholesterol in addition to old age and smoking. Recommendations: Combating precipitating factors of MI in Saudi Arabia can decrease the prevalence of the disease
Physiological responses of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) to foliar application of boron and zinc under drought stress conditions

Micronutrient deficiency is characteristic of drought stress conditions and the remedy lies in the administration of nutrients with boron and zinc supplements for the crops to tolerate and survive drought conditions. This study evaluated the effects of zinc and boron foliar application on the physiological traits of sesame under different irrigation regimes. The experiment was conducted in 2013 as a split plot in a randomized complete block design with three replications at Fars Research Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources. The main factors included three irrigation levels (irrigation after 75, 110, and 145 mm evaporation levels from class A evaporation pan) and the sub-factors included foliar sprays of water, zinc sulphate, boric acid, and the mixture of zinc sulphate and boric acid. Results showed that leaf proline content increased significantly as a result of foliar application of boric acid in the 75-mm evaporation treatment and by boric acid and the mixture of zinc sulphate and boric acid in the 110and 145-mm evaporation treatments. Maximum glycinebetaine content was attained with the foliar application of zinc sulphate at all the three irrigation levels. Foliar application of zinc sulphate and boric acid led to the highest leaf relative water content as compared with that of the control. Maximum seed zinc content in the 75-mm evaporation treatment was obtained when either zinc sulphate or the mixture of zinc sulphate and boric acid were applied. Generally, results showed that foliar application of zinc sulphate and boric acid improved both the physiological traits of sesame and its tolerance to drought stress.
DOES QUALITY OF BANK SERVICES LEAD TO CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN THE NIGERIAN BANKING SECTOR?

This study examined a critical question from customers’ perspective: Does quality of bank services lead to customer satisfaction in the Nigerian banking sector? The study is conducted using questionnaire survey administered in Nigeria using customers of some selected banks as sample. The paper uses primary data collected through scientifically developed questionnaires, which were administered on 174 bank customers selected on a convenient basis. The results, based on factor and regression analysis, identified four factors that impact customers’ assessment of the quality of banking services including responsiveness, reliability, tangibility and empathy respectively. The implication of the finding is to enhance the understanding of bank managers and other relevant stakeholders of customers’ perception of the quality of banking services and consequently reveal the path to developing strategies for improving their satisfaction. The study therefore, recommends that the Nigerian banks should make products and services available that best suits the peculiarity of each category of customers and improve the confidence Nigerians have in the banking sector.
Antimicrobial and antioxidant effects of nisin Z and sodium benzoate in vacuum packed Caspian Kutum (Rutilus frisii) fillet stored at 4 ◦ C

This study was done to evaluate the antimicrobial and antioxidant effects of nisin Z (0.02 %) and sodium benzoate (1.5 and 2.5 %) in vacuum packed Caspian Kutum (Rutilus frisii) fillet stored at 4°C. Microbial changes [aerobic plate counts (APC), psychrotrophic counts (PTC) and lactic acid bacteria] and chemical indices [peroxide value and total volatile basic nitrogen (TVB-N)] were determined in days 0, 4, 8, 12 and 16. Results showed that PV and TVB-N in control samples (the sample dipped in prechilled distilled water) were deteriorated after 12 days compared to preserved samples which were acceptable after 16 days. Microbial tests indicated that control samples contained APC and PTC bacteria in day 16 more than standard limit, whereas treatment samples were in the acceptable range. In case of lactic acid bacteria, after 16 days, all samples were in the acceptable range. Results of chemical and microbial analysis showed that simultaneous use of nisin Z and sodium benzoate could increase the shelf life of vacuum packed R. frisii.
Integrating palliative care in heart failure: A review article

Millions of people have heart failure around world. Despite the advances in the care, heart failure has a poor prognosis. Palliative care offers patients a care which achieves symptom control with good quality of life. Palliative care is usually identified with cancer patients but individuals with heart failure also need palliative care. According to the World Health Organization, palliative care is needed mostly by patients with cardiovascular conditions followed by cancer patients. Patients with heart failure suffer from several symptoms, they have poor quality of life and it is difficult to estimate the course of their disease. Patients with heart failure, however, do not receive enough palliative care. Patients with heart failure should have palliative care integrated to their care to ensure that they receive palliative care services. The present study investigated palliative care models offered to patients with heart failures, and examined their outcomes. Several studies have found that heart failure patients who receive palliative care had better symptom management and quality of life and reduced hospitalizations.
Electrophoresis and Western Blot can Detect the Interaction of Ion Ligand with the Pathogenic Prion Protein

Copyright: © 2016 Moussa A. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Most of the publication studying the effect of cations on the cellular prion protein (PrPc) used either a recombinant PrPc, extracted PrPc from animal organs or in Neuronal cells cultures. Heir is investigated the effect of ions on the pathogenic prion protein proteinase K treated (PrPres) using electrophoresis and western blot.
Pseudocode, the Pseudocode Programming Process, and Alternatives to the PPP

Writing pseudocode before source code eases the development process, helping to ﬁx certain kinds of errors before any source code is written and providing easily maintainable documentation. Studies show that pseudocode is superior to visual approaches for routine creation in most programming environments, while visualizations are more eﬀective when used as a teaching aid. The Pseudocode Programming Process (PPP) for routine creation is introduced in detail and compared to some well-known alternatives.
Inferring Editor Roles in Ontology Engineering Projects A Large-Scale Study of WebProtégé Change Logs

Previous research attempting to analyze and understand the processes involved in ontology creation was often limited in scope and generality due to the lack of available data. In this paper, we shed light on the editing behavior of users creating ontologies by investigating change logs for a large number of ontology engineering projects. To that end, we analyze a corpus of nearly ﬁve hundred ontology engineering project change logs, extracted from the Web-based online ontology editing tool WebProtégé. The change logs contain over four million edits made by over one thousand users. In our analysis, we cluster users with similar editing behavior by applying k-means clustering on their editing sequences. We infer and describe ﬁve distinct editor roles, revealing that individual users concentrate on speciﬁc tasks for extended periods. We further investigate these individual clusters by (i) analyzing their distributions over the projects, and by (ii) tracking editor role changes over the complete lifespan of the individual projects. Our results indicate that the majority of projects have one leading editor role and that there are regular patterns of how users switch between roles during different phases of an ontology engineering project. Moreover, our results reveal valuable insights into the engineering processes and the editor role distribution and evolution of nearly ﬁve hundred real-world ontology engineering projects, which can potentially be leveraged for improving existing ontology editing tools by, for example, creating automatically adapting interfaces to support the individual editor roles.
DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF RECONFIGURABLE MULTIWAVELENGTH VCSEL USING MEMS

This paper describes the novel structure of the mul ti wavelength reconfigurable Vertical Cavity Surfac e Emitting Laser (VCSEL) with tunable Fabry Perot cav ities. This device is designed to operate in the C band. The tunability is achieved by varying the cav ity length of the filter using electrostatic actuat or. The cavity length of the filter is varied to resonate a t discrete wavelengths. The cavity length variation s achieved by using MEMS based electrostatic actuator . The active layer of VCSEL is modeled with three quantum wells, and is sandwiched between the DBR mi rrors to give high gain. The tunable portion consis ts of an array of four filters to give different wavel engths. The detail analysis of the filter is carrie d out and the performance is analysed using Intellisuite soft ware.
Introducing a general class of species diversification models for phylogenetic trees

Phylogenetic trees are types of networks that describe the temporal relationship between individuals, species, or other units that are subject to evolutionary diversification. Many phylogenetic trees are constructed from molecular data that is often only available for extant species, and hence they lack all or some of the branches that did not make it into the present. This feature makes inference on the diversification process challenging. For relatively simple diversification models, analytical or numerical methods to compute the likelihood exist, but these do not work for more realistic models in which the likelihood depends on properties of the missing lineages. In this article, we study a general class of species diversification models, and we provide an expectation‐maximization framework in combination with a uniform sampling scheme to perform maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of the diversification process.
Whole Genomes of Avian orthoavulavirus 1 (Newcastle Disease Virus Genotypes VIg or new genotype XXI.) in Wild Birds in Kazakhstan

Background: The remarkable diversity and mobility of Newcastle disease viruses (NDV) includes virulent viruses of genotype VI. These viruses are often referred to as pigeon paramyxoviruses 1 because they are normally isolated and cause clinical disease in birds from the Columbidae family. Genotype VI viruses occasionally infect, and may also cause clinical disease in poultry. Thus, the evolution, current spread and detection of NDV are relevant to avian health. Methods: Nucleotide sequencing and phylogenetic studies of three Kazakhstan isolations were performed to characterize the complete fusion (F)-protein gene as well as whole genome sequence. Sequence data were compared with 106 Fusion genes representing different NDV genotypes and sub-genotypes, as well as 225 fusion genes and 37 whole genome of class VI NDV strains from different regions of the world at different time periods. Phylogenetic trees were constructed to determine evolutionary relationships among these strains. We analysed fusion (F) protein gene and whole genome sequences, including the cleavage site. Results: The complete genome of these 3 isolates contained 15142bp, 15085bp and 15102bp in length, similar to those of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) strains in genotypes VIg, with the gene order 3’-NP-P-M-F-HN-L-5’. The cleavage site of the fusion protein was 112KRQKR116-F117, a feature generally associated with virulent NDV strains. Phylogenetic analysis, based on genomic sequences, SNP and fusion gene sequences, revealed that three isolates should be classified as class II genotype VIg NDVs. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that the NDV from various sites in Kazakhstan was highly similar genetically and that it clustered together with NDV of genotype VIg. Based on our data analysis, VIg isolates shared highest sequence identity with Russian and Ukraine isolates of the VIg subgenotype, suggests the possible spread of velogenic NDV in this region through cross-border live bird trade. Conclusion: Our study provides baseline information on the genetic characteristics of NDV circulating in Kazakhstan and we propose that the evolutionary and epidemiological study of virulent NDV could help to provide accurate molecular data about variants circulating in this region, thus aiding in the design of more efficient recombinant vaccines.
ESPÉCIES DE MOSCAS FRUGÍVORAS (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE E LONCHAEIDAE), QUANTIFICAÇÃO DE DANOS E AVALIAÇÃO DE MEDIDAS PARA O SEU MANEJO EM POMARES ORGÂNICOS DE CITROS

Several aspects about frugivorous flies (Diptera: Tephritidae and Lonchaeidae) in familiar systems of production and under ecological management, as well as alternatives for its handling, are hardly known. The aim of this study was to recognize the species of frugivorous flies and its numerical variation, to quantify damages and to evaluate alternatives of management used by growers in the organic system of production of citrus, in the ‘Vale do Caí’ region, Rio Grande do Sul. The experiment was installed in ‘Céu’ orange orchards (Citrus sinensis), from January to May, 2003 and 2004, and in ‘Murcott’ tangoreiro orchards (Citrus reticulata x Citrus sinensis), from June to September, 2003 and June to August, 2004, during maturation period. For the inspection of population of flies in the orchards, McPhail traps, with grape juice 25%, were used, which were verified weekly. The damages had been evaluated by means of the percentage of damaged fruits. Maximum, minimum and average temperatures, precipitation, relative humidity and the coloration of the fruits, were registered. The control methods (calda sulfocálcica, milk serum and fruits bagging) had been analyzed by the reduction of the damages and the impacts in the taxa composition of the orchards. The economic viability of these methods was also calculated. Anastrepha fraterculus was found to be the species of higher importance in the region. The precipitation was the main climatic factor that affected the population of flies. In ‘Céu’ orange and ‘Murcott’ tangoreiro, in the period that precedes the change of fruit coloration, damages were delayed in relation to the population peak. After this period, there was a coincidence between population growth and damages. Fruit bagging is the method that promotes the larger reduction of damages and lower impact in taxa composition. However, its economic viability depends on the population of flies and the values to be received by the production. Doctoral thesis in Agronomy, Faculdade de Agronomia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. (152 p.) August, 2005.
Evolutionary paths to strong antibiotic resistance under dynamically sustained drug stress

Antibiotic resistance can evolve through sequential accumulation of multiple mutations1. To study such gradual evolution, we developed a selection device, the morbidostat, which continuously monitors bacterial growth and dynamically regulates drug concentrations such that the evolving population is constantly challenged 2-5. We analyzed evolutionary trajectories of Escherichia coli populations towards resistance to chloramphenicol, doxycycline, or trimethoprim. Over a period of ~20 days, resistance levels increased dramatically, with parallel populations showing similar phenotypic trajectories. Whole-genome sequencing of the evolved strains identified mutations both specific to and shared between drugs. Chloramphenicol and doxycycline resistance evolved through diverse combinations of mutations in genes involved in translation, transcription, and transport3. In contrast, trimethoprim resistance evolved in a stepwise manner1,6, through mutations restricted to the target enzyme dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR)7,8. Sequencing DHFR over time showed that parallel populations evolved similar mutations and acquired them in similar order9.