Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hierarchical Deep Feature Representation for High-Resolution Scene Classification

High-resolution scene classification is a fundamental yet challenging problem due to rich image variations in viewpoint, object pose and spatial resolution, etc, which results in large within-class diversity and high between-class similarity. In the paper we focus on tackling the problem of how to learn appropriate feature representation for high-resolution scene classification. To achieve better scene representation, we proposed a combined CNN feature learning framework in multi-scale multi-layer based Gaussian coding (mSmL-Gcoding) manner. In addition, a novel feature coding with Gaussian descriptor is introduced to enhance the discriminative ability of CNN features. Experimental results on two publicly available challenging scene datasets validated that the effectiveness of our method and found it compared favorably with state-of-the-arts.
UAV Target Detection Algorithm Using GNSS-Based Bistatic Radar

Global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-based bistatic radar has become an attractive technology in remote sensing applications, and coherent integration is a vital operation for improving its detection ability due to the very weak signal. For small to medium UAV detection, one problem is the coherent integration loss due to issues such as the Doppler-intolerant characteristic of GNSS signal and the large range cell migration over long coherent integration time. In this paper, a modified UAV detection algorithm is proposed. The quadratic phase term caused by transmitter motion is first compensated, then the UAV target echo signal is focused in the Range-Doppler domain by an improved Radon Fourier Transform (RFT) with range-walk removal and Chirp-Z transform. Finally, a refined range matched filter with a shifting Doppler is applied for range compression, and the UAV target is accurately focused in the range-Doppler plane. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the range and Doppler parameters of UAVs can be effectively obtained.
Azimuth Ambiguity Detection and Suppression in SAR Images

We propose a novel SAR azimuth ambiguity suppression method. The proposed method is a post process for a SAR image; namely, it does not require any modification to the SAR image formation process nor the SAR system design. Noting that the azimuth ambiguity is blurred in the SAR image, the proposed algorithm refocuses the image to focus the azimuth ambiguity and then automatically detects and identifies the locations, and also the orders, of the ambiguities in the refocused image. After the detected ambiguities in the refocused image are eliminated, the final SAR image is obtained by refocusing back to the true image. Experimental results using true satellite images show that the proposed method successfully suppresses the ambiguities without causing severe degradations to the true images.
Quantitative analysis of three dimensional volumetric images in Chest CT

We wanted to evaluate the usefulness of three-dimensional reconstructive images using computed tomography for rib fracture patients. The reconstruction used in clinical multi planar reformation(MPR), volume rendering technique(VRT), and image data using quantitative methods and qualitative methods were compared. Much more, the artifact shadow was minimized to reconstruct with 3D volumetric image by using an law data in the analysis of the reconstructive image and chest CT scan of the evaluation result fractures of the thoracic patient. And we could know that the fractures of the thoracic determination and three dimension volume image reconstruction time were reduced.
EFFICACY OF ASHVAGANDHA (WITHANIA SOMNIFERA) ON IMMUNITY OF KRISHA (UNDERWEIGHT)

A group of 37 underweight patients suffering frequently from seasonal diseases was treated with Ashvagandha powder administered in the dose of 6 gm thrice a day for one month. The results of this study showed that Ashvagandha (Withania somnifera) significantly improves the physical strength, functions of the lungs and heart, immediate memory and increases the weight of the underweight patients. It significantly increased the immunity of the persons as evident from significant increased caused in serum IgA, IgG and IgM. Thus it can be recommended for the prevention of seasonal diseases of the patients who frequently suffers from them due to the low immunity. Key Word: Rasayana , Immunity, Ashvagandha, Withania somnifera, Immunoglobulin
Lip Reading in Greek words at unconstrained driving scenario

This work focuses on the problem of Lip Reading with Greek words in an unconstrained driving scenario. The goal of Lip Reading (LR) is to understand the spoken work using only visual information, a process also known as Visual Speech Recognition (VSR). This method has several advantages over Speech Recognition, as it can work from a distance and is not affected by other sounds like noise in the environment. In this manner, LR can be considered as an alternative method for speech decoding which can be combined with state-of-the-art speech recognition technologies. The contribution of this work is two-fold. Firstly, a novel dataset with image sequences from Greek words is presented. In total, 10 persons spoke 50 words while they were either driving or simply sitting in the passenger’s seat of a car. The image sequences were recorded with a mobile phone mounted on the windshield of the car. Secondly, the recognition pipeline consists of a Convolutional Neural Network followed by a Long-Short Term Memory Network with a plain attention mechanism. This architecture maps the image sequences to words following an end-to-end learning scheme. Experimental results with various protocols indicate that speaker independent Lip Reading is an extremely challenging problem.
Development and Evaluation of Orally Disintegrating Tablet of Celecoxib for Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

The aim of the study was to develop orally disintegrating tablet for Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Celecoxib is used to the relief of sign and symptoms of Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. In present work an attempt has been made to prepared orally disintegrating tablet using Celecoxib by direct compression method. The tablets were prepared by using superdisintegrants such as croscarmellose sodium, crospovidone, sodium starchglycolate in different ratio and evaluated for hardness, weight variation, friability, wetting time, disintegration time, drug content and In vitro dissolution study. Drug-exipient compatibility was done by FTIR and DSC studies. Formulation CCP3 prepared dy direct compression method containing 10% crospovidone showed 92.09% of drug release in 30 minute.
Family Caregiving in the New Normal

Family Caregiving in the New Normal discusses how the drastic economic changes that have occurred over the past few years have precipitated a new conversation on how family care for older adults will evolve in the future. This text summarizes the challenges and potential solutions scientists, policy makers, and clinical providers must address as they grapple with these changes, with a primary focus given to the elements that may impact how family caregiving is organized and addressed in subsequent decades, including sociodemographic trends like divorce, increased participation of women in the workforce, geographic mobility, fewer children in post-baby boom families, chronic illness trends, economic stressors, and the current policy environment. A section on the support of caregivers includes technology-based solutions that examine existing models, personal health records, and mobile applications, big data issues, decision-making support, person-centered approaches, crowd-sourced caregiving such as blogs and personal websites that have galvanized caregivers, and new methods to combine paid and unpaid forms of care. * Provides a concise "roadmap" of the demographic, economic, health trends, and policy challenges facing family caregivers* Presents potential solutions to caregiving so that scientists, policymakers, and clinical providers can best meet the needs of families and communities in the upcoming decades* Includes in-depth, diverse stories of caregivers of persons with different diseases who share perspectives * Covers person-centered care approaches to family caregiving that summarize effective community-based services of psychosocial intervention models * Examines how existing efficacious models can more effectively reach and serve individual families
Patients Seeking Alternatives to the Long Waiting List: A Reality Faced by Transplant Physicians

ney disease, with the prevalence of end-stage renal disease forecast to exceed 2 million by the year 2030. Kidney transplantation is the preferred method of renal replacement therapy for many patients. Currently, more than 76000 candidates in the United States are on the waiting list for a kidney transplant (according to data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network [OPTN] as of July 18, 2008), and that number is increasing daily. Conversely, only 16 626 kidney transplants were performed in 2007 (10587 from deceased organ donors and 6039 from live donors; according to OPTN data as of July 18, 2008). The median waiting time for a kidney from a deceased donor in the United States is between 2 and 6 years, with longer waiting times predicted for the future. The disparity between availability of organs for transplantation and their demand will increase because the numbers of patients with chronic kidney disease are increasing as a result of the aging of the population and the increasing numbers of people with diabetes mellitus and hypertension. We report 4 patients from our transplant center who traveled outside the United States to obtain a living donor kidney transplant. Each patient had undergone pretransplant evaluation and had been approved and placed on the waiting list for kidney transplantation in the United States. In each case, the transplant team was unaware that the patient had sought an organ outside the United States until the patient requested posttransplant care. Clinical information provided to the patients from the foreign transplant center was often limited and not in English. In each case, significant unexpected complications were associated with the transplant procedure.
The Development of the Index of Complexity, Outcome and Need (ICON)

The provision of orthodontic treatment has been justified on the grounds of potentially improving dental aesthetics, dental health,occlusal functioning,and psychosocial adjustment. However, the efficacy of orthodontic treatment at improving dental health, functioning, and psyche is somewhat weak. Occlusal aims include the creation of the six keys of ideal occlusion as presented by Andrews (1972), but very few treatments achieve the six keys (Kattner and Scheider, 1993). The spectrum of malocclusion ranges from near ideal to markedly anomalous and so the justification for treatment for an individual will vary. The actual receipt of treatment may also be modified by patient demands. The point at which the potential risks of treatment outweigh the potential benefits is a matter of contention and must be judged for patients on an individual basis, but it is clear that practitioners may be biased by non-clinical factors when assessing borderline cases (Richmond and Daniels, 1998a).
OPIUM ADDICTION AS A CAUSE OF GASTRO DUODENAL REFLUX IN DYSPEPTIC PATIENTS

Introduction Drug abuse as a frequent high risk behavior accompanies many different gastrointestinal complications. In this study we tried to evaluate the prevalence of gastrointestinal reflux among opium addicts. Materials and Methods Using a historical cohort design, 62 cases with dyspepsia as the chief complaint entered the study: 30 cases with history of regular use of opium over the last year (exposed group) and 32 cases with no history of addiction at all (unexposed group). Upper GI tract endoscopy was accompanied by 3 biopsy specimens taken from body and antre of stomach was performed for all the cases. Results 2 cases in the exposed group and 3 cases in the unexposed group left the study with the diagnosis of malignancy. Mean age of the remaining cases in the exposed group was 48. 1Â±13.2 and in the unexposed group, it was 37. 8Â±13.9 years (p= 0.006). 16 cases (57.1) in the exposed group and 5 cases (17.2) in the unexposed group had endoscopic evidence of bile reflux into the stomach (p= 0.003). Pathologic evidence of bile gastritis including foveolar elongation was reported in 7 cases (25.0) of the exposed group in comparison with 1 case (3.4) of the unexposed group (p = 0.025). The frequency of
Thumb Reconstruction after Amputation at the Metacarpophalangeal Joint by Bone-Lengthening

A method of thumb reconstruction in teenagers with the thumb metacarpal intact, using gradual distraction of the stump tissues after osteotomy of the metacarpal, is described. The advantage of the procedure is that the soft tissues covering the thumb are not disturbed thus preserving its sensibility. This method may be used when the thumb metacarpal is available and the skin is in good condition. An alternative procedure when the skin of the stump end is in poor condition is also briefly described.
Comparison of the Changes in Facial Profile after Orthodontic Treatment, with and without Extractions

A study was made of 31 patients with Angle Class II malocclusion. Fifteen patients did not undergo extraction of teeth (Group A), while 16 underwent extractions of four premolars (Group B). Data was obtained from the corresponding lateral radiographs of the head taken both before and after orthodontic treatment. The main aim of the study was to com pare the response of the soft and hard tissues of the facial profile in Class II malocclusion treated with the extraction of four premolars and the response of borderline cases presenting with similar malocclusions, but not subjected to extraction. In this latter group reasonable doubt existed as to whether or not to remove teeth in order to solve the occlusal and aes thetic problems. It is concluded that significant hard tissue differences between the groups at the end of treatment were limited to a more retruded position of the incisors and a reduced overbite amongst those patients subjected to extraction. The main soft tissue differences between the groups at the end of treatment were a more retruded lower lip and a more pronounced lower labial sulcus in those patients subjected to extraction. Index words: Extraction, Facial Profile, Non-extraction, Orthodontic Treatment
Establishing a Transplant Coordinator-Led Living Kidney Donor Follow-up Clinic

mode of organ provision for kidney transplantation because of the shortage of cadaveric organs and increasing waiting lists. In certain European countries such as Norway, the number of living kidney transplantations approaches the number of cadaveric transplantations. Although the reported risks of perioperative complications are low for living organ donors, there is a lack of good quality prospective data examining the long-term consequences of organ donation. Some studies have shown that the long-term risks of renal failure and hypertension are statistically low for living kidney donors as a group, but can have seri ous consequences for the individual. In a recent study, the investigators found that of 28 transplant centers undertaking living donor transplantation in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, 18 undertook lifelong follow-up, 7 arranged limited follow-up, and 3 reported that they did not undertake long-term follow-up. Similarly, in the United States, only 13% of United Network for Organ Sharingapproved centers recommend lifelong donor followup. Part of the difficulty in recommending policy on living kidney donor follow-up is that there are relatively few data on which to base such recommendations. In a somewhat circular argument, the lack of data lends weight to the call to establish a system of long-term donor follow-up. The nature of follow-up and who should undertake are also issues for debate. With acknowledgment to the lack of literature concerning long-term follow-up, the British Transplantation Society/Renal Association Guidelines for Living Kid ney Donor Transplantation have advocated lifelong follow-up. The purpose of this article is to report the implementation of a transplant coordinator-led living kidney donor follow-up clinic and to explain the basis for its establishment and agreed upon protocols. Establishing a transplant coordinator-led living kidney donor follow-up clinic
Cytofluorimetric Evaluation of DNA Ploidy in Lung Cancer: A Bronchoscopic Study

The study of the biological characteristics of lung cancer is gaining more and more interest both because of their potential role as prognostic indicators and for therapeutic reasons. The DNA content estimated by flow cytometry in surgical samples of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has already been demonstrated to be correlated with survival in these patients. From July 1990 to February 1992 we analyzed the DNA distribution of bronchoscopic biopsies from 88 patients with lung cancer (18 small cell lung cancer, SCLC, and 68 NSCLC, two unspecified histology). Twenty-eight tumors (34.6%) had a diploid DNA distribution, while 53 were aneuploid (65.4%). A correlation was found between DNA ploidy and survival. Evaluation of the DNA content in bronchoscopic samples in a large series of patients could determine the role of this analysis prior to surgery in NSCLC and its value as a marker with respect to prognosis and response to therapy in SCLC.
Studies on conducting nanocomposite with gallium nitride–doped ferrite, part-II

This article (a sequel to part-I that appeared earlier in the same journal) presents synthesis and characterisation details of conducting PPY-nanocomposite obtained from gallium nitride–doped ferrite and polypyrrole. The GaN-doped ferrite is synthesised by sol–gel method. GaNFe2O3f-PPY composites are prepared by impregnation technique. Using the SciFinder software we could not trace any report in the literature for this synthesised Ga(2x + 2)NFe2(49 − x)O3-PPY nanocomposites. The doped nanoferrite is combined with polypyrrole, an intrinsic conducting polymer, in three proportions by percentage (70%:30%), (90%:10%) and (97%:3%), to obtain two series each of three compositions for the conducting PPY-nanocomposite. The synthesised polymer composites are characterised by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, selected area electron diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray analysis and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. From our studies, it has been observed that the crystallite size of nanocomposites is decreased when compared to crystallite size of GaNFe2O3. The average particle size from histogram is in good agreement with Debye–Scherrer formula calculations. The scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy micrograms reveal that the particles are varying with the values of X and the percentage of PPY. The shapes observed are Globules,Tetrahedron,Nanorods of short and long lengths. The GaNFe2O3-PPY composites’ spectra revealed the shift in the band in comparison with the PPY spectra. Also, the wavelength is decreased, and vibrational frequency is increased.
Development of a New Reporter Gene System-dsRed/Xanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase-Xanthine for Molecular Imaging of Processes Behind the Intact Blood-Brain Barrier

We report the development of a novel dual-modality fusion reporter gene system consisting of Escherichia coli xanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (XPRT) for nuclear imaging with radiolabeled xanthine and Discosoma red fluorescent protein for optical fluorescent imaging applications. The dsRed/XPRT fusion gene was successfully created and stably transduced into RG2 glioma cells, and both reporters were shown to be functional. The level of dsRed fluorescence directly correlated with XPRT enzymatic activity as measured by ribophosphorylation of [14C]-xanthine was in vitro (Ki = 0.124 ± 0.008 vs. 0.00031 ± 0.00005 mL/min/g in parental cell line), and [*]-xanthine octanol/water partition coefficient was 0.20 at pH = 7.4 (logP = 0.69), meeting requirements for the blood-brain barrier (BBB) penetrating tracer. In the in vivo experiment, the concentration of [* C]-xanthine in the normal brain varied from 0.20 to 0.16 + 0.05% dose/g under 0.87 + 0.24% dose/g plasma radiotracer concentration. The accumulation in vivo in the transfected flank tumor was to 2.4 ± 0.3% dose/g, compared to 0.78 ± 0.02% dose/g and 0.64 ± 0.05% dose/g in the control flank tumors and intact muscle, respectively. [14C]-Xanthine appeared to be capable of specific accumulation in the transfected infiltrative brain tumor (RG2-dsRed/XPRT), which corresponded to the 585 nm fluorescent signal obtained from the adjacent cryosections. The images of endogenous gene expression with the “sensory system” have to be normalized for the transfection efficiency based on the “beacon system” image data. Such an approach requires two different “reporter genes” and two different “reporter substrates. ” Therefore, the novel dsRed/XPRT fusion gene can be used as a multimodality reporter system in the biological applications requiring two independent reporter genes, including the cells located behind the BBB.
Trends in Atomization Theory

Sprays are widely used in industry for combustion, coating, painting, and a number of other applications. They have in common the principle of dividing a continuous liquid phase into a dispersed phase made of numerous droplets. Among all the techniques employed to atomize liquids, very few are fully described by a model or a convenient theory. We summarize in this work the main trends and principles of spray and atomization models. The mechanisms identified as being at the origin of atomization, such as aerodynamic drag, cavitation, turbulence, electrostatic forcing, etc., are listed and the appropriate models are described. Linear instability theory, cavitation models, electrostatic equations, along with Eulerian models, and statistical descriptions of sprays are presented. The need for intense work and improvement of knowledge is brought out in the conclusion.
26th Annual Scientific Meeting

26th Annual Scientific Meeting The American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery Vol.26, No.4, 2009 The 26th Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery will be held January 28th-31st, 2010 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, Orlando, Florida. This is an overview of the papers to be presented.
Silymarin in the treatment of liver diseases: What is the clinical evidence?

Silymarin is a mixture of flavonolignans extracted from the milk thistle (Silybum marianum Gaertneri) and has a history as a medical plant for almost two millennia. The main component of silymarin is silibinin (in a 50:50 mixture of Silybin A and Silybin B); the remaining components are silydianin, silycristin, isosilybin A, isosilybin B, isosilycristin, and taxifolin. Silibinin has strong antioxidative and antifibrotic properties, which make it a potentially useful drug for treatment of chronic liver diseases. Nevertheless, the role of the drug for treatment of liver diseases remains controversial. Part of this uncertainty is due to the lack of data on its pharmacokinetics and optimal dosing regimens. Because of the complexity of the absorption, metabolism, and disposition nature of various flavonoids, it is still unclear which form [i.e., the parent flavonoid or its metabolite(s)] contributes to the overall effects in the body. Although flavonoids are rapidly absorbed after oral ingestion, their plasma concentrations are very low, whereas the phase II metabolites such as glucuronides, sulfates, and methylated conjugates seem to be predominant in blood circulation. Extensive first-pass metabolism in the intestine and the liver are responsible for low oral bioavailabilities of flavonoids.