Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
First-line Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Therapies – Benefits and Limitations

Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is a primary acquired disease of adults and children characterised by transient or persistent decrease of the platelet count.1,2 Bleeding may be severe and is usually related to the platelet count. When platelet count is lower than 20–30x109/l, bleeding is manifested by variably extensive purpura and mucosal haemorrhages; occasionally, in the case of a much lower platelet count, this can be severe enough to cause a cerebral haemorrhage. Haemorrhagic deaths are reported in fewer than 1% of cases. When a safe platelet count (more than 20–30X109/l) cannot be maintained, the mortality rate is greatly increased and proportional to the time at risk and age of the patient, reaching an age-adjusted death rate of 13/100 patient-years.3–6
Real-Time Laser Sensor Data Acquisition and Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction

A three-dimensional object can be measured and represented as a gray scale set of points through the use of LiDAR sensor with high spatial accuracy. The ability to quickly measure and represent tree canopy profile in 3D is extremely useful in many applications in precision agriculture. In this paper, we developed a software program to characterize a tree canopy profile and to reconstruct 3D image in real time. The developed program can process 2D laser sensor raw data to reconstruct a pseudo-color 3D image in real time. The program was written in C++ and MATLAB programing languages. The software program was tested on specially designed indoor LiDAR-based canopy profile measurement platform. During the test two artificial trees (tree-1 and tree-2) were used as target objects. The reconstructed 3D image and data analysis results showed that the performance of the developed program to reconstruct 3D image in real time is relatively well at low travel speed ranged from 1.0m/s to 2m/s and detection distances ranged from 1.5m to 2.0m.
Water Saving Rice Production Using Alternate Wetting and Drying Technique in Rice Based Cropping System in Sindh, Pakistan

Water plays a vital role in the successful rice production throughout the world. In order to counter the threat of water scarcity, water saving intervention, like alternate wetting and drying (AWD), was applied for evaluation of paddy yield production. Thus, this technique was evaluated at 9 and 13 different locations during rice growing seasons of 2013 and 2014, respectively, in Sindh, Pakistan. The check plot contained the traditional (flooded) rice cultivation technique for the comparison. The yield and yield related components showed significant results over the check plot. The highest average paddy yield recorded 6.04 tonnes per hectare reported during 2013 and 6.61 tonnes per hectare during 2014 in alternate wetting and drying (AWD) technique while the lowest average paddy yield 5.34 tonnes per hectare reported during 2013 and 5.64 tonnes per hectare during 2014 in flooded rice technique. The paddy yield results demonstrated that by utilizing AWD technique, the rice production enhanced 13.20% and 17.06% during 2013 and 2014, respectively, as compared with conventional flooded rice technique. Similar results have also been observed in traits in AWD. This technique saved 39% and 44% irrigation water during 2013 and 2014, respectively, as compared to traditional/conventional rice growing technique, therefore, based on these results, it is concluded that AWD intervention can enhance rice yield production in addition to the saving of irrigation water.
Predictive Model for TPH Degradation in Soil Amended with Spent Mushroom

This study involved the applicability of mathematical model in predicting the amount of residual TPH in contaminated soil. The performances of various concentrations of spent mushroom, mixed with constant weight of TPH contaminated soil were investigated. Although, there was no significant difference in the rate of degradation between 800g to 1000g of spent mushroom, the rate of TPH degradation increased as the amount of spent mushroom was increased. The order of TPH degradation rate in the cells decreased in this order: WF1>WF-2>WF-3>WF-4>WF-5>WF-0. Thus, the mix with 1000g spent mushroom recorded the highest performance. However, TPH degradation rate in the control soil sample was lowest because no remediating agent was used. There was strong correlation between the experiment and the model, which is an indication that it can be used to predict the concentration of TPH in soil amended by biological agent with time.
Effect of Different Irrigation Solutions on the Fracture Resistance of Endodontically Teeth

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the effect of three root canal irrigation solutions on the fracture resistance of endodontically treated teeth with three root canal obturation materials. Materials and Methods: A total of 90 teeth with single straight root canals were randomly divided into three equal groups (n = 30) according to the irrigation solution (citric acid, chlorohexidine, and MTAD 2%). Each group was subdivided into three subgroups (n = 10) according to the root canal obturation materials (Gutta-percha with AH plus or MM-seal, Resilon with Epiphany SE). The crowns of the teeth were removed at the cementoenamel junction with a diamond disc under water coolant. For each group, the root canals were prepared using step-back technique and one of the tested irrigation solutions. For each subgroup, the roots were obturated with lateral condensation technique using one of the used obturation materials and subjected to the strength test. Statistical analysis was performed using Kruskal-Wallis. The level of significance was set at (P = 0.05). Result: Resilon with Epiphany SE with citric acid irrigation showed the highest fracture resistance (629.97 N), while Gutta-percha with AH plus with chlorhexidine irrigation showed the lowest fracture resistance (507.085 N). Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that use of citric acid is safe in terms of fracture resistance.
INVESTIGATING AND INTERPRETING THE PERFORMANCE OF FLEXIBLE ROBOT IN CONTROLLING THE CONDENSATION FLOTATION OF COPPER COMPLEX SHAHR-E BABAK

Received: 7, September, 2017 Final Accepted: 16, October, 2017 Published Online: 26, October, 2017 In the condensation unit of the National Iranian Copper Company, a flotation operation is carried out to improve the copper concentrate. In this operation, by adding a substance called lacquer and blowing high pressure air into the mills, the pH of the concentrate is reached to an optimal level of 11.5 to 12.5. Obviously, if the pH of the concentrate output from the mill is outside this range, copper perforation has failed and the concentrate is known as waste. Therefore, one of the most important operations in copper perforation is floatation. At present, there are pipes for drainage of lacquer and blowing of compressed air into the condensing mills, with the discharge amount monitored through the control room. The control room controls these concentrations based on the pH characteristic of the concentrate pH contained in the mill and lowers or increases the amount of lime and compressed air. Problems such as high precision, user control room, and the need for a lot of manpower will make it a way to replace the robot with a human. From the direction of operation, the addition of lighter and compressed air is controlled by the electrical keys, and also the pH of the concentrate present in the mill is also displayed on a monitor. This paper presents an idea for using a robot instead of human control, which makes the robot control the copper flotation control by flexing the arms. The robot presented in this article is simulated by Webots software and simulation results are presented with this article.
STOCK MARKET RESPONSE TO MONETARY POLICY

This paper finds nexus between monetary policy movements and stock market performance. Quantile regression is applied on monthly data of monetary policy instruments and stock market index (KSE100) from 2008-2014. It has been estimated that contractionary monetary policy suppresses stock market investment or activities while expansionary monetary policy boosts stock market activities. OMOs have positive relation while interest rate has negative relation with stock market. At higher level of index value, the nature of monetary policy impact more in comparison to lower level or moderate level of index value. Expansion monetary policy, on the other hand, increases economic growth, enhances stock market activities, creates job opportunities but increases inflation in economy by increasing money supply and money velocity.
ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF N-HEPTACOSANYL OLEATE FROM THE WHOLE AERIAL PARTS OF CENTELLA ASIATICA LINN.

ABSTRACT Various studies have already been performed involving the whole aerial parts of Centella asiatica (L.) (Umbelliferae), commonly known as gotu kola or jalbrahmi, and thus, the present investigation has been carried out for the phytochemical study of an ethanolic extract of the aerial parts of C. asiatica. To perform this activity, the drug (1.5 kg) was exhaustively extracted in 95% ethanol using Soxhlet apparatus. The column chromatography was performed then for isolating the various phytoconstituents using the solvents of increasing polarity from petroleum ether to methanol. The isolated compounds were structurally elucidated using various spectral data analysis, i.e. infrared,1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR),13C NMR, and positive ion fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry. One of the isolated compounds was characterized as n-heptacosanyl oleate. Keywords : Whole aerial parts, Centella asiatica, Soxhlet, Column, Heptacosanyl oleate.
A Study on Cloud and Fog Computing Security Issues and Solutions

— Cloud computing is the significant part of the data world. The security level in cloud is undefined. Fog computing is the new buzz word added to the technical world. And the term Fog was coined by CISCO. The need for Fog computing is security and gets the data more closely to the end-user. Fog Computing is not going to replace the Cloud computing, it will be acting as the intermediate layer for securing the data which is stored inside the cloud. The principal idea of this paper is to provide data safety measures to the Cloud storage through Fog Computing. Fog Computing will be playing the vital role for the future technology. The Internet of Things (IoT) will be using the Fog computing to implement the smart World concept. So, in the future we have to handle huge amount of data and we need to provide the security for the Data. This study gives the security solutions available for the different issues.
Investigation and New Method of No intrusive Detection of Driver Drowsiness

— Now days the driver drowsiness is leading cause for major accidents. Driver drowsiness makes this an area of great socioeconomic concern. The regular monitoring of drivers drowsiness is one of the best solution in order to reduce the accidents caused by drowsiness. In this paper we are presenting the investigation over drowsiness detection system. In addition to this we are also presenting the new non-intrusive approach for monitoring driver drowsiness depending on the driver and driving data fusion. This paper is divided into two parts, first phase carried the investigations and second phase carried new method for drowsiness detection based on driver’s fusion. In case of proposed method, to estimate drivers state the method called Percentage of Eye Closure (PERCLOS) is used. The PERCLOS is computed on real time using a stereo vision-based system. In this approach we are using the driving information such as the lateral position, the steering wheel angle and the heading error provided by the CAN bus. These three signals have been studied in the time and frequency domain. In order to fetch the optimal performance score the multilayer perceptron neural network has been trained. In case of investigation, proposed research presented a real-time, nonintrusive driver drowsiness detection system by building biosensors on the automobile steering wheel and driver’s seat to measure driver’s heart beat signals. Heart rate variability (HRV), a physiological signal that has established links to waking/sleepiness stages, is analyzed from the heat beat pulse signals for the detection of driver drowsiness. The novel design of measuring heat beat signal from biosensors on the steering wheel means this drowsiness detection system has almost no annoyance to the drivers, and the use of a physiological signal can ensure the drowsiness detection accuracy.
A Pixel Based Signature Authentication System

-Signature verification is the process used to recognize an individual’s h a n d -written s i g n a t u r e . The p r o c e s s o f verifying signature is cumbersome in practice. There is a need for automatic verification system for a signature since the signature has been a means of a person’s identification through ages. Verification of a signature can be done either Offline or Online based on the application. Online systems use dynamic information of a signature captured at the time the signature is made. Offline systems work on the scanned image of a signature. In this paper, we verify the off-line signatures by taking a boundary of the entire signature and do the pixel comparison. Signature is acquired using a scanner. Detection process is done after the data acquisition and pre-processing. Pre processing includes noise removal, grey-scale, manipulation, edge detection. Experimental results show that 50% of the accurate matching with the existing one from the data base.
Phosphorus Storage Compounds in Microorganisms

Inorganic polyphosphate was proposed to be an ancient molecule performing energy functions in primary living cells [4,6]. The opinion that polyphosphate formed as a result of geothermal activity could be used by primitive kinases for the ancient transphosphorylation processes was supported by several researchers [1-7]. Modern hypothesis modeling life origin suggests the participation inorganic polyphosphate and pyrophosphate in energy transduction and membrane transport in progenote metabolic pathways [8,9].
AN INTERLEAVED HIGH STEP-DOWN CONVERSION RATIO BUCK CONVERTER WITH LOW SWITCH VOLTAGE STRESS

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract This paper present a non-isolated interleaved buck converter, constituted by two switches, two diodes, two voltage balance capacitors, and three inductors. It is similar to a three level buck converter, but the two switches interleaved to share the converter power between the two interleaved modules. The interleaving technique reduce the voltage stress across the switch approximately equal to half the input voltage and peak current through the switch to half of the load current. So the converter is suitable for high power applications. Also it has low switching losses and used for high frequency applications. Higher frequency converters have reduced component size. The converter operates in continuous conduction mode for wider range of operation. The in front voltage balance capacitors helps in automatically balancing the inductor current. So it requires no complex current control methods. Simulation of the new interleaved buck converter is done with 200V Dc input, 240W output power, and 50 KHz frequency.
Comparative Studies on Prodigiosin Production by Serratia marcescens using Various Crude Fatty Acid Sources-Its Characterization and Applications

Prodigiosin is a red colored pigment belonging to the family prodiginines and has a tripyrrole in its structure (Venil et al., 2009, Grimont and Grimont, 1978). It is reported to be produced by species of Serratia, S. marscesens, S. plynuthica and S. rubidaea and actinomycetes belonging to genus Streptomyces. Apart from these, a range of other bacteria including ISSN: 2319-7706 Special Issue-2 (2015) pp. 254-267 http://www.ijcmas. com
Pyélonéphrite aiguë : Etude randomisée multicentrique en double insu comparant la ciprofloxacine à l'association ciprofloxacine et tobramycine

OBJECTIF : Evaluer l'efficacite d'une injection unique de tobramycine (T) chez des patientes traitees pour une pyelonephrite aigue non-compliquee par de la ciprofloxacine (CIP) (500 mg 2 fois par jour per OS). METHODES : Il s'agissait d'une etude multicentrique randomisee en double insu implantee dans 6 services d'urgence. Les principaux criteres d'exclusions etaient : infection urinaire recente, antecedent de malformation ou de lithiase urinaire, intervention urologique recente, grossesse, diabete, immunodepression ou sepsis severe. Le critere principal etait la guerison clinique et bacteriologique. RESULTATS : Cent dix huit patientes ont ete inclues, 60 dans le groupe tobramycine et 58 dans le groupe placebo. E. coli a ete isole de facon predominante et tous les germes isoles etaient sensibles a la ciprofloxacine et a la tobramycine. Deux echecs sont survenus dans le groupe CIP + T et 4 dans le groupe CIP + P (non significatif). CONCLUSION : L'administration d'une dose de tobramycine n'ameliore aucun parametre clinique dans le traitement des pyelonephrites aigues non compliquees traitees par de la ciprofloxacine par voie orale.
Thad Reduction in Multi-Level Inverter by Solving She Equations Using Improved Optimization Technique

The multilevel Inverter is used for high power utility applications. To get AC output waveforms with low harmonic content, a set of nonlinear transcendental equations known as selective harmonic elimination equationsare solved. Thus lower order harmonics are eliminated and the higher order harmonics are filtered out in SHE techniques . The switching angles are optimized with new proposed optimization technique. Modulation index m, is changed over a range to get required output waveform. THD vary with modulation index values. In this paper, the THDs and output waveform of single phase full-bridge inverter using SHE scheme with varying the modulationindex isobtained Index Terms – Cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverter, Total Harmonic Distortion-THD, Selective Harmonic Elimination-SHE, Modulation index mi, Optimization techniques. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 13-07-2018 Date of acceptance: 28-07-2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LIFAGO DIELSII SCHWEINF AND MUSCHL (ASTERACEAE) AMELIORATES LIVER INJURY INDUCED BY ISONIAZID AND RIFAMPICIN IN RAT

The Lifago dielsii has been used in Algerian folk medicine for the treatment of various disorders since ancient time. In this study we aimed to investigate the possible hepatoprotective effects of n-BuOH extract of Lifago dielsii (BELD) in isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RIF)-induced liver injury model. Administration of INH and RIF for 14 days resulted in hepatic failure as evidenced by the elevation of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransaminase (ALT), and hepatique oxidative stress which was associated with extensive hepatic parenchyma alteration. The co-treatment of rat with BELD (200 mg/kg; 14 days) attenuated the increase of hepatic dysfunction markers (AST, ALT) and suppressed malondialdehyde (MDA). BELD co-treatment restored GSH level and reversed the antioxidant parameter SOD as compared to the quercetin co-treatment in suppressing MDA level and in GSH, SOD levels preservation. The histopathological protection was clearly confirmed by the reduction of hepatic alteration. Conclusion: The data obtained in the present study revealed that Lifago dielsii butanolic extract has significant World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research SJIF Impact Factor 7.523 Volume 7, Issue 2, 1-16. Research Article ISSN 2277– 7105 *Corresponding Author
Integration of Bus Specific Clock Gating and Power Gating

: In integrated circuits a gargantuan portion of chip power is mostly consumed by clocking systems which comprises of flip-flops, latches and clock distribution networks. The two most widely used techniques for the reduction of dynamic and leakage power are clock gating (CG) and power gating (PG). The two techniques CG and PG are coupled in such a way that the clock enable signal is generated by CG used as sleep signal to drive the power gated cells for the reduction of leakage power. So here we first introduced bus specific clock gating (BSCG) technique which is traditional XOR based CG and it reduces the dynamic power, then the power gating (PG) technique is used for power gated cells for reduction of leakage power. All circuitsare simulated in CadenceVirtuso Analog Design Environment using GPDK 45nm technology at different global clock frequencies and temperatures. The performance of proposed integrated technique is compared with power gating technique in terms of performance metrics like average power and leakage power.From simulation results, it is evident that as temperature increases both average and leakage powers is reduced and the sleepy stack technique outstands in its performance as compared with other techniques.
Urinary Fluoride Excretion in Children Drinking Fluoridated School Milk in Thailand Prathip Phantumvanit, Sawalee Sangkheaw, Puangtong Lekfuengfu,

Objective: To compare urinary fluoride concentration and excretion for children drinking fluoridated milk with that of children drinking non-fluoridated milk and to check whether total fluoride intake, when fluoridated milk is used for caries prevention in Thailand, does not exceed accepted standards. Methods: Eight-hour urinary collections were carried out in 31, 44 and 40 children aged 4, 6 and 8 years in fluoridated milk drinking school and 41, 32 and 30 children in non-fluoridated milk drinking school. Urine was collected during 2 periods: 7.30-10.00 a.m. and 10.00 a.m.-3.30 p.m. at baseline and after 6, 12 and 24 months. The children drank 200 ml milk at 10.00 a.m. In the control group the milk was not fluoridated; in the test group, 200ml milk contained 0.5 mg fluoride. Results: The average excreted urinary fluoride per hour in the morning in children aged 4 and 8 years in test group remained similar to those of control group, whereas those in the afternoon samples in every age group in test group were significantly higher than that of control group. In children aged 4, 6 and 8 years, the average urinary fluoride per hour in the morning at baseline was 9.0±4.87, 10.5±5.17 and 10.4±4.38 g/hr and after the fluoridated milk was 13.8±8.05, 17.6±9.57 and 17.6±8.35 g/hr, respectively (p>0.05). But the mean urinary fluoride per hour in the afternoon was 3 times significantly (p<0.05) higher as 26.9±10.82, 28.3±16.23 and 29.1±12.30 g/hr, in children aged 4, 6 and 8 years, when compared with the baseline data as 9.0±4.62, 9.8±5.64 and 10.3±5.46 g/hr respectively. Conclusion: The average total excreted urinary fluoride per hour in children in all age groups, after launching the fluoridated milk project, indicated that they received fluoride at the optimum and safety level. Further study should be done to investigate the bioavailability of fluoride from milk and the corresponding fluoride excretion in young children in more detail for more precise estimations of total fluoride intake.