Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Image Segmentation from RGBD Images by 3D Point Cloud Attributes and High-Level Features

In this paper, an approach is developed for segmenting an image into major surfaces and potential objects using RGBD images and 3D point cloud data retrieved from a Kinect sensor. In the proposed segmentation algorithm, depth and RGB data are mapped together. Color, texture, XYZ world coordinates, and normal, surface, and graph-based segmentation index features are then generated for each pixel point. These attributes are used to cluster similar points together and segment the image. The inclusion of new depth-related features provided improved segmentation performance over RGB-only algorithms by resolving illumination and occlusion problems that cannot be handled using graph-based segmentation algorithms, as well as accurately identifying pixels associated with the main structure components of rooms (walls, ceilings, floors). Since each segment is a potential object or structure, the output of this algorithm is intended to be used for object recognition. The algorithm has been tested on commercial building images and results show the usability of the algorithm in real time applications.
Learning EBUS-TBNA – A 6-year experience at a single institution

Introduction: Endobronchial ultrasound with transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) has become an important diagnostic tool for the pulmonologist. At our institution, five bronchoscopists have performed EBUS-TBNA during the first 6 years of experience (2008-13) in an unselected patient population. On-site cytological evaluation (ROSE) was introduced in 2011. Aim: A retrospective evaluation of the diagnostic quality of the method and the learning profile during the first years. Methods: EBUS-TBNA procedures from our database were analysed for clinical data. Results: A total of 711 EBUS-TBNA were included. The percentage of EBUS-TBNA with adequate specimen for cytological diagnosis initially decreased the first years, before increasing to a final result of 82,4%. There was a lower proportion of EBUS-TBNA with adequate samples in the benign group (76,8%). Final diagnoses were lung cancer 53%, reactive lymphadenopathies 18,3%, sarcoidosis 17,4% and other malignancy 11,3%. The sensitivity detecting malignancy given adequate samples was 94,8%, specificity 100%, positive predictive value 100%, negative predictive value 81,2% and diagnostic accuracy 95,8%. The percentage of re-examinations declined from 17,1-8,2%. [Figure][1] Conclusion: After an initial run-in period with lower results, the diagnostic yield of EBUS-TBNA increased. This may be explained by increasing experience, introducing ROSE and finding the correct indication for EBUS-TBNA. [1]: pending:yes
Towards a unified analysis of correlatives and indefinites in Balkar

In this paper we consider two morphosyntactically similar constructions in Balkar: correlative clauses and wh-indefinites. They both consist of three elements: (i) an interrogative pronoun, (ii) a verb marked by the conditional suffix -sa, and (iii) the particle da 'even'. We demonstrate that despite superficial similarities there are certain semantic and syntactic differences between them. Specifically, the correlatives are interpreted definitely and are merged as clausal adjuncts and the whindefinites function as indefinite NPs and are merged as arguments of the main predicate. We develop an analysis that maintains the contribution of wh-expressions and the particle da and argue that the point of divergence is the -sa marked element. While in correlatives it is a true verbal predicate, in wh-indefinites it is a grammaticalized marker that denotes a choice function.
Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Herds: 2003 Status

This report synthesizes population monitoring information for bighorn sheep herds in the Sierra Nevada developed over the past 2 winters and intervening summer. This is a synthesis of information collected as part of the Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Recovery Program lead by the California Department of Fish and Game. We were greatly assisted in the collection of data by Greg Foote, Dave German, Dennis Jensen, Heather Johnson, and Cody Schroeder. Additionally, Erica Shockley and Marc Kenyon worked in the Mono Basin during the summer of 2003 under funding from the Yosemite Fund. This report will review prior information where needed to interpret data developed during this time period.
Enhancing Critical Infrastructure Protection with innovative SECurity framework

Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement no 700378. This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both. The opinions expressed and arguments employed in this document do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Research Executive Agency (REA) or the European Commission. This deliverable has been endorsed by Security Advisory Board. 1/63 D2.3. CIPSEC products integration on the Unified Architecture WP 2. Development of the CIPSEC security framework for Critical Infrastructure Environments
The Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustained Entrepreneurial Success: An Investigation Using The Stakeholder Theory

1, Kenneth Chukwujioke Agbim , 2, Zechariahs Benapugha Owutuamor , 3, Godday Orziemgbe Oriarewo, Business Administration Department, College of Management Sciences, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Federal Polytechnic Ekowe, Bayelsa State, Nigeria Business Administration Department, College of Management Sciences, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria
Education As Business: Its Realistic, Pragmatic And Progressivist Angles

This paper tried to examine as to whether or not commercialization of education is more of an upside or of a downside to the involved stakeholders (owner, parents, students, teachers). The proponent fairly looked into the data to come up with a balanced synthesis about the issue. Data were gathered using purposeful sampling for study as design strategy, emphatic neutrality and mindfulness as data collection strategy, and inductive analysis and creative synthesis as analysis strategy. This study assumed that commercialization of education is beneficial to all stakeholders based on the platform of realism, pragmatism and progressivism. The result showed that the stakeholders see commercialized education as both advantageous and disadvantageous taking into consideration the three platforms.
ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF INSULIN THERAPY AMONG

Background: regarding insulin usage will optimise insulin therapy in diabetes mellitus. to assess the knowledge, attitude, practice of insulin t was done in various in patient departments using KAP questionnaire. A total of 70 filled questionnaires were evaluated and analysed using Chi practice study found their family history and educational status, towards insulin therapy. The relation between education status of participants and their knowledge about insulin discontinuation on normalize (p value=0.047) as well as their practice of checking blood sugar level in home (p value=0.025) were found to be statistically significant. This data suggests that mean knowledge score was more for illiterate (14.21) fol need to educate the patient about various aspects of insulin therapy including dosing, storage, site of injection, common side effects and life style modifications. Clinical pharmacist can pla monitoring and optimization of insulin therapy.
What does it cost to access justice in Canada? How much is “too much”? And how do we know?-Literature Review

Economic exchanges are the occasion for unavoidable conflicts that the business partners must resolve as rapidly and effectively as possible in order to safeguard their business relations. A conflict arising while a contract is executed does not mean necessarily the end of relationships: everything depends on the way it is approached. Methods for alternative dispute resolution (ADR) seem to be an interesting option in order to avoid the flaws characteristics to the classical judicial process: flexibility, rapidity, confidentiality, and reasonable costs are all attributes often associated with these methods. 3.3 http://www.eyrolles. com/Droit/Livre/9782130566397/livre-economie-des-actions-collectives.php Economie des actions collectives (2008) Bruno Deffains, Myriam Doriat-Duban , Eric Langlais Jurisdiction: MULTIPLES Audience: ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL Source: ACADEMIC This works studies the economic aspects of class action suits: foster access to justice and thus the reparation of victims even the weakest ones, allows for savings in terms of costs for litigants and the justice system, dissuades risky behaviours, modify the power relationships between consumers and producers. Bruno Deffains seems to be a specialist of the economic aspects of justice. Articles he authored are also mentioned. See 4.1 and 4.2. He is also published in English.
Floating-Point FPGA: Architecture Performance and Modeling

This paper presents a novel architecture for domainspecific FPGA devices. This architecture can be optimized for both speed and density by exploiting domain-specific information to produce efficient reconfigurable logic with multiple granularity. In the reconfigurable logic, general-purpose fine grained units are used for implementing control logic and bitoriented operations, while domain-specific coarse-grained units and heterogeneous blocks are used for implementing data paths; the precise amount of each type of resources can be customized to suit specific application domains. Issues and challenges associated with the design flow and the architecture modeling are addressed. Examples of the proposed architecture for speeding up floating point applications are illustrated. We assume that current proposed architecture can achieve 2.5 times improvement in speed and 18 times reduction in area on average, when compared with traditional FPGA devices on selected floating point benchmark circuits.
DESIGN ANAYSIS OF PATCH ANTENNA USING EBG STRUCTURE

Technology has become the most vital part of the daily life. With the development of antenna technology, the wireless devices became more capable of providing the services like Wi-BAN, point-to-point bridge, hotspot, public wireless, Wi-MAX, WLAN, Wi-Fi and wireless video systems. In this research work, we have been demonstrating the design composition of patch antenna backed by the electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structure to be operated at 4.8 GHz of resonant frequency. The dispersion diagram provides the aid to determine the bandgap characteristics of EBG structure. To cover the required band gap of 4.8 GHz, the dimensions of EBG structure are tuned and adjusted. The EBG was analyzed and implemented on coaxial feed microstrip patch antenna in order to determine the S11 parameter performances. Better results have been attained at a distance of -10 mm between the patch antenna and EBG in comparison to other varied distances. Index Terms Dispersion curve, Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG), Microstrip Patch Antenna (MPA), Phase reflection. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
PESARO 2016

—Cloud services have become more popular because of their decreasing cost. However, it is difficult to select the optimal cloud service because there are many services whose service levels are different. We evaluate our proposed method for dynamically selecting the optimal cloud services to store data in a heterogeneous multi-cloud environment. The evaluation used the SLAs of actual cloud services and the results indicate it is possible to select a combination of cloud services.
[How Does Early and Late Reoxygenation Following Hypoxia Affect Human Umbilical Vascular Endothelial Cells in Respect to Oxidative Stress?]

Objectives: Vascular damage induced by hypoxia or hypoxia-reoxygenation has a crucial role in various clinicopathological conditions such as myocardial infarction, renal and cerebral ischemia. Endothelial cells might have a barrier function to vascular damage triggered by diverse stimuli or might be involved in this process. The aim of this study was to evaluate the roles of nitric oxide (NO), nitrotyrosine, endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and malondialdehyde (MDA) in hypoxia and hypoxia-reoxygenation in human vascular endothelial cells in-vitro. Methods: Human umbilical vein endothelial cells were subjected to normoxia (4 hours), hypoxia (4 hours), early (4 hours hypoxia-4 hours reoxygenation) or late hypoxiareoxygenation (4 hours hypoxia-24 hours reoxygenation) conditions. SOD and eNOS activity, MDA, NO and nitrotyrosine levels were measured. Results: SOD activities were decreased with hypoxia with respect to normoxia. In early reoxygenation however, SOD levels showed statistically significant increase when compared to hypoxia. As compared to hypoxia, MDA levels were decreased in early reoxygenation and late reoxygenation, although insignificant, raised MDA levels were observed in hypoxia compared to normoxia. NO, nitrotyrosine and eNOS levels were unchanged in all groups. Conclusion: Reoxygenation, starting from early phases leads oxidative stress in human umbilical vascular endothelial cells, however, early reoxygenation conditions following hypoxia causes a transient enhancement in antioxidant SOD enzyme activity which probably protects from lipid peroxidation.
POSSIBLE STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITIES IN ENGLISH PROVERBS AND THEIR ROMANIAN CORRESPONDING VERSIONS

Starting from the concept of ‘proverbiality’ which includes the particular pattern, proverbs (as small texts) display, I oriented my research towards the way(s) a speaker intends to derive the sense and reference from the range of possible senses and reference a sentence can have within a saying format. Combining the syntactic and the pragmatic perspectives, I have explored a potential sentencelevel ambiguity, searching for the differences and the similarities of the proverbs’ versions in English, as a source language (SL) and Romanian as a target language (TL). I was interested in the speaker’s meaning and at the same time in the contextual/ utterance meaning. Among the various methods regarding the sampling, I decided on the ethnofields of TRUTH and ADEVĂR, applying the descriptive and contrastive methods to examples of proverbs extracted from V. Lefter’s Dicţionar de proverbe, 2007, Teora.
Psychopharmacological Options in the Management of Lupus Cerebritis: A Case Report

The purpose of this paper is to report a case of a 19 year old woman who presented with prominent hyperactive delirium and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). The psychiatric drug treatment and rational for its usage are discussed. This case illustrates the importance of differentiating between the psychiatric manifestations of chronic high dose steroid use and a psychosis secondary to brain involvement of SLE. Lupus cerebritis should be included in the provisional diagnosis of the young woman with acute onset of psychosis and should be carefully differentiated from a psychotic disorder especially if the patient has no clear period of premorbid psychiatric pathology or a genetic predisposition for a primary psychotic disorder.
On the Evaluation of Direct Search Methods

Direct search methods are the means of choice when dealing with optimization problems where the objective (or goal) functions are hidden in a black box. Under such conditions the optimization strategy can only send queries to the black box and receives quality signals (objective function values) the reliability of which might be disturbed by noise. There is a plethora of such methods and the question arises which of these are the best for a speciﬁc problem. This question can be tackled from different perspectives and with different methods. On the one hand side, there are theoretical investigations dealing with the performance on simplest test functions. Such an analysis based on the dynamical systems approach is presented for the Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (SPSA) strategy using the sphere model. The results are compared with three variants of Evolution Strategies (ESs). On the other hand, there are empirical evaluations based on well crafted testbeds. The second part is devoted to the Black Box Optimization Benchmarking framework. After a short introduction, exemplary results are provided for several strategies considering noise-free and noisy test functions. Furthermore, the performance on the sphere model is discussed.
Teaching the Whole Student: Integrating Wellness Education into the Academic Classroom

College students are increasingly reporting higher stress, which can negatively influence their personal and intellectual development. Greater academic challenges and new social experiences in college may be accompanied by stressors like mental health issues, family concerns, or financial pressures. To help students manage stress, institutions typically provide resources through health services, student life or student affairs, recreation departments, or other entities that operates primarily outside the academic program. Recently, some institutions have integrated wellness education into the academic curriculum, leveraging the power of the classroom to deliver important lessons about accessible, evidence-based wellness strategies. Here we investigate if a first-year interdisciplinary writing class designed to help students learn about physical and mental wellbeing actually improved students’ awareness of their wellbeing and their confidence as first year learners. We share details of the course design, evidence of student learning, and advice for incorporating wellness content throughout the curriculum.
The Function of the Hyalectan Class of Proteoglycans and Their Binding Partners during Vertebrate Development

The hyalectan family of extracellular matrix (ECM) chondroitin sulphate proteoglycans comprises aggrecan, brevican, neurocan and versican. Although they share common structural domains including a G1 domain that is invariably linked to hyaluronan, their tissue distribution and biological roles in vertebrates are diverse. During vertebrate embryonic development, complex interactions between cells and their surrounding ECM precede profound cellular behaviour and morphogenetic events. Studies in several vertebrate species have identified specific roles for the hyalectans in numerous embryonic processes from early through late embryogenesis that are necessary for shaping the body plan and subsequent morphogenesis. Of particular note is the wide distribution of versican throughout the vertebrate embryo and its proteolytic processing by the proteoglycanase family of disintegrin-metalloproteinases (ADAMTS). Versican is differentially spliced into four distinct isoforms: V0, V1, V2 and V3, with overlapping and specific tissue distribution within the vertebrate embryo. V0 and V1 are the most * frederic.brunet@ens-lyon.fr. † Corresponding author: Dr Daniel R. McCulloch, Phone: +61-3-52272838, Facsimile: +61-3-52272615, Email: daniel.mcculloch@deakin.edu. au. No part of this digital document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted commercially in any form or by any means. The publisher has taken reasonable care in the preparation of this digital document, but makes no expressed or implied warranty of any kind and assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions. No liability is assumed for incidental or consequential damages in connection with or arising out of information contained herein. This digital document is sold with the clear understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, medical or any other professional services. Frédéric Brunet, Christopher Kintakas, Adam D. Smith et al. 50 widely distributed isoforms, and also those that contain a specific ADAMTS proteoglycanase processing sites. Studies in the chicken (Gallus gallus) and mouse (Mus musculus) have revealed specific roles for versican during embryogenesis including cell migration, apoptosis, morphogenesis and organogenesis, whilst few studies have identified roles for versican in the zebrafish embryo (Danio rerio). Herein we review the major roles identified for the hyalectans during vertebrate development with a general focus on versican. We further provide new insights into the conservation and diversity of versican and other hyalectans, and their hyaluronan binding proteins in the developing zebrafish embryo along with their potential processing by ADAMTS proteoglycanases. We identify the developing zebrafish embryo as an ideal platform to enhance our understanding of hyalectan biology throughout vertebrate embryogenesis.
BY MEANS OF DENIABLE ATTRIBUTE BASED ENCRYPTION

: Transformations square measure obligatory to mount the unstoppable stream of amendment . The majority of associations are endeavoring to lessen their registering cost through the methods for virtualization. This interest of decreasing the processing cost has prompted the advancement of Cloud Computing. The most appealing administration/service of cloud computing is Data outsourcing, because of this the information proprietors, who are commonly called as data owners can have any size of information on the cloud server and clients can get to the information from cloud server when required. As servers and information proprietors are clear personalities, the example of information accumulating raises different security challenges. It is hard to decide if the cloud storage providers meet the client's desires for information security. Numerous plans were proposed for keeping up honesty of cloud information yet practically speaking those plans neglect to ensure the information respectability. This structure is exhibited for a cloud storage encryption conspires which empowers cloud storage providers for making the convincing forged/fake client secrets so as to secure client protection. Since coercers can't reveal whenever acquired private details are valid or not.
Numerical study of quadrupole magnetic traps for neutral atoms : anti-Helmholtz coils and a U-chip

Anti-Helmholtz coils and micro-fabricated chips are used for magnetically trapping neutral atoms in forming Bose-Einstein condensates and Fermi degenerate gases. Although they are widely used, literature dealing with a detailed numerical study of the magnetic fi elds involved in these traps is incomplete. Analytical and numerical investigations were carried out to study the physical properties of the magnetic fi elds produced by the anti-Helmholtz coils and a U-chip. The roles played by electric current and geometric aspects of these magnetic traps are emphasized through numerical modelling. original research