Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A combined visual and acoustic estimate of 2008 abundance, and change in abundance since 1997, for the vaquita, Phocoena sinus

A line-transect survey for the critically endangered vaquita, Phocoena sinus, was carried out in October–November 2008, in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico. Areas with deeper water were sampled visually from a large research vessel, while shallow water areas were covered by a sailboat towing an acoustic array. Total vaquita abundance in 2008 was estimated to be 245 animals (CV = 73%, 95% CI 68–884). The 2008 estimate was 57% lower than the 1997 estimate, an average rate of decline of 7.6%/yr. Bayesian analyses found an 89% probability of decline in total population size during the 11 yr period, and a 100% probability of decline in the central part of the range. Acoustic detections were assumed to represent porpoises with an average group size of 1.9, the same as visual sightings. Based on simultaneous visual and acoustic data in a calibration area, the probability of detecting vaquitas acoustically on the trackline was estimated to be 0.41 (CV = 108%). The Refuge Area for the Protection of the Vaquita, where gill net fishing is currently banned, contained approximately 50% of the population. While animals move in and out of the Refuge Area, on average half of the population remains exposed to bycatch in artisanal gill nets.
Poor Maternal Heath Care in Rural Districts: An Attempt to Identify High Priority Districts of Bihar, India -

As per WHO, globally, 64% of pregnant women acknowledged the suggested minimum of four antenatal care visits or more during the time period of 2007-2014. 2 Health problems during pregnancy can be prevented, noticed and taken care of during recommended minimum of four antenatal visits, including interferences such as tetanus toxoid vaccination, screening and treatment for infections, and identification of warning signs during pregnancy with skilled health workers. 2
Epidemiology and Emergence of Schmallenberg Virus Part 1: Origin, Transmission and Differential Diagnosis

Schmallenberg virus (SBV) is a novel Orthobunyavirus causing mild clinical signs in cows and malformations in aborted and neonatal ruminants in Europe. SBV belongs to the family Bunyaviridae and is transmitted by biting midges. This new virus was identified for the first time in the blood samples of cows in the city of Schmallenberg in North‐ Rhine‐Westphalia in November 2011. Since then the virus spread to several European countries. Here we describe the origin and emergence, as well as the transmission and the differential diagnosis of this virus, now known to be a serious threat to Veterinary Public Health.
Adult Onset Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Versus Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Case Study

A 34 year old Caucasian male with symptoms of polyuria, polydipsia, blurry vision and a 40 pound weight loss over a two month period presented to an outpatient specialty clinic. This article describes the evidence-based evaluation and management by the advanced practice nurse (APN) of a patient with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus. Special emphasis is given to the criteria necessary for differentiation between type1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and other types of diabetes, particularly type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA).
Ergot (Claviceps purpurea) - An aposematic fungus

Predators learn to associate conspicuous signals, such as bright colors, with unpalatability or danger. This defensive strategy is termed Aposematism. We propose that the very poisonous purple-black sclerotia of the infamous fungus Claviceps purpurea (ergot) and many other Claviceps species are aposematic. Very toxic fungal sclerotia are associated with conspicuous colors (black, yellow, purple, reddish, brown, violet, white and their combinations) and severely harm herbivores that consume the infected plants, thus meeting the criteria for aposematism. Fungi, that only moderately reduce the reproductive capacity of their hosts can protect the host plants from herbivory and weaken the evolutionary tendency of their hosts to evolve better resistance to infection.
Causal Deliveries in Unreliable Networks With Real-Time Delivery Constraints

Causal order states that for any process the order in which it is delivered messages cannot violate the \em happened-before relation of the corresponding sendings. The aim of this communication abstraction is to cope with the asynchrony of communication channels in distributed systems. This abstraction has been defined for distributed systems without real-time delivery constraints. In this paper we extend this abstraction to cope with unreliable communication networks with real-time delivery constraints: messages have a lifetime, $\Dter which their contentsaiai can no longer be used, moreover some of them can be lost. This new abstraction, called $\Dal order, requires to delivers s as much messages as possible within their lifetime in such a way that these deliveries respect causal order. A simple efficient implementation is proposed. Examples of distributed multimedia real-time applications, in which scheduling messages deliveries respecting $\Dal order is a crucial point for the quality ofarar the service, are given.
SINAI at SemEval-2018 Task 1: Emotion Recognition in Tweets

Emotion classification is a new task that combines several disciplines including Artificial Intelligence and Psychology, although Natural Language Processing is perhaps the most challenging area. In this paper, we describe our participation in SemEval-2018 Task1: Affect in Tweets. In particular, we have participated in EI-oc, EI-reg and E-c subtasks for English and Spanish languages.
Antibacterial and Larvicidal Activities of Sri Lankan Endemic Plant, Vateria copallifera

Abstract Crude acetone extracts of leaf, bark, pericarp and seeds of Sri Lankan endemic plant, Vateria copallifera were evaluated for antibacterial and larvicidal activities against ten clinically important pathogenic microorganisms and 3 rd instar mosquito larvae of Culex quinquefasciatus and Aedes aegypti . The highest antibacterial activity with zone of inhibition 19.66 ± 0.65 mm was reported from the seeds against Methicilin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as evident from minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) > 0.01526 mg/ml and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) > 0.125 mg/ml. The lowest antibacterial activity was reported from the pericarp against Methicilin resistant staphylococcus aureus with MIC > 0.125 mg/ml and MBC > 4 mg/ml. Seed extract which reported the highest antibacterial activity was subjected to bioassay guided fractionation and obtained five fractions. (F1, F2, F3, F4, F5). From five fractions of seed extract, F2 reported the highest antibacterial activity. Commercially available antibiotic discs sulphamethoxazole trimethoprim (25 μg), ampicilin (10 μg), erythromycin (15 μg) were used as positive controls. Absolute ethanol was the negative control with zone of inhibition 0 ± 0. Larvicidal activity was reported only from seed extract with LC 50 and LC 90 values 465.3mg/ml, 915.8mg. ml for Culex quinquefasciatus and 661.3mg/ml and 1105.9mg/ml for Aedes aegypti respectively.
Chronic Mitral Valve Insufficiency in Dogs: Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment

Chronic mitral valvular insufficiency (CMVI) is the most common acquired heart disease in dogs and is characterized by degenerative valvular changes causing progressive thick ‐ ening of mitral leaflets and incomplete closure of mitral valve. As the disease progresses, it causes congestive heart failure (CHF) and pulmonary edema if the LA dilation cannot accommodate the volume overload by mitral regurgitation. Therefore, it is the most com ‐ mon cause of cardiac mortality in dogs. This chapter discusses general features of CMVI in dogs focusing on recent advances in diagnosis and treatment.
Design and Performance Guarantees in Cloud Computing: Challenges and Opportunities

In the last years, cloud computing received an increasing attention both from academia and industry. Most of the solutions proposed in the literature strive to limit the effect of uncertain and unpredictable behaviors that may occur in cloud environments, like for example flash crowds or hardware failures. However, managing uncertainty in a cloud environment is still an open problem. In such a panorama, the service provider is not able to define suitable Service Level Objectives (SLO) that are easy to measure, and control. In this work we analyze two of the critical problems that are encountered in cloud environments, but seldom discussed or addressed in the literature: (1) how to reduce the uncertainty providing suitable control interfaces at different levels of the computing infrastructure; (2) how to assess performance evaluation in order to get probabilistic guarantees for the SLOs. We here briefly describe the two problems and envision some possible control-theoretical solutions. (Less)
Digital Watermarking using DWT-SVD Algorithm

In recent years, technology is not the rocket science but it cut both ways in terms of fast transmission and manipulation. Manipulation of data raises online data vulnerability and copyright issues. Digital watermarking comes out as one of the best solutions to deal with these issues. In this paper, various watermarking techniques reported in literature are reviewed. A simple digital watermarking algorithm based on discrete wavelet transform and singular value decomposition has been proposed in this paper. This proposed method helps to understand basic concept of digital watermarking. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. One of the major advantages of the proposed scheme is the robustness of the technique on wide set of attacks. 2162 Sunesh, Vinita Malik, Neeti Sangwan and Sukhdip Sangwan
FRANCIS JEFFRY PELLETIER and RICHMOND H. THOMASON TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY

A BibTeX-formatted bibliography of the first twenty-five years of Linguistics and Philosophy, with topic keywords, is available at www.eecs. umich.edu/∼rthomaso/l-and-p/. Rather than attempting an overview of what has been accomplished in the pages of this journal, or even a proper introduction to the papers in this issue that celebrate its twentyfifth anniversary, we instead try to present our own view of why each of the two subjects is profoundly and enduringly important to the other. The lack of italics in the title is intentional: we are concerned here more with Linguistics and Philosophy than with Linguistics and Philosophy, although of course the two are related. Our discussion begins with a general rationale, which we illustrate with two case studies, dealing with natural language metaphysics and with some philosophical issues in the semantics of words. The case studies are meant to provide examples of the sort of interesting, nontrivial interactions between Linguistics and Philosophy that create a special need and niche for Linguistics and Philosophy. They illustrate the many, and many unexpected, ways that the two fields affect one another. The role of L&P in fostering this interaction has been enormous and salutary for both fields.
Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Using the Open Lung Approach for Ventilatory Support in a Case of Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Mathews Journal of Anesthesia Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Using the Open Lung Approach for Ventilatory Support in a Case of Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Yoshitaka Hara1, Osamu Nishida1*, Hiroki Tsubouchi2, Tomoyuki Nakamura1, Naohide Kuriyama1, Daisuke Niimi3, Chizuru Yamashita1, Junpei Shibata1, Hidefumi Komura1 1Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, 1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-cho, Toyoake-city, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan. 2Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Ichinomiyanishi Hospital, 1 Taira, Kaimei-cho, Ichinomiya-city, Aichi 494-0001, Japan. 3Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Nishichita General Hospital 3-1-1 Nakanoike, Tokai-city, Aichi 4778522, Japan. Corresponding Author: Osamu Nishida, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, 1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-cho, Toyoake-city, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan, Tel: +81-562-93-9008; Email: nishida@fujita-hu.ac. jp
IMPACT OF IT INVESTMENTS IN THE OPERATING INCOME OF BRAZILIAN BANKS

IT has transformed the banking industry in recent years, becoming strategic and vital for business. Given this context, the main objective of this study was to analyze the impact of IT investments in the operating income of Brazilian banks. The econometric model was based on a Cobb-Douglas production function with three variables, namely, the operating income, IT investments and personnel expenses. Data were collected from COSIF system, operated by the Brazilian Central Bank, and the study covered the period from 1997 to 2008. After specifying the model, four analyses on the impact of IT investments were conducted: cross section analysis, longitudinal analysis (panel data), comparative analysis of IT investments by both domestic and foreign banks, and the analysis of behavior of these investments within the context of the millennium bug (Y2K) and the implementation of the Brazilian Payment System (SPB). ABSTRACT Submitted 15.11. 2010. Approved 04.04. 2011 Evaluated in a double blind review Scientific Editor: Maria Alexandra da Cunha
The mode of delivery in twin pregnancy. Part II. Maternal outcome

The study was carried in the Department of Perinatology and Gynecology in the Clinical Hospital of the Poznan Medical University between the year 2004 and 2007. It included 64 patients in twin pregnancy between 32 and 38 weeks of gestation where the first twin was in vertex presentation (prospective group). The retrospective group consisted of 371 women in twin pregnancy, where the first twin was in vertex presentation. The aim of this study was to determine the optimal mode of delivery for twin pregnancy in terms of maternal outcome. We have not observed any significant differences in the maternal morbidity in relation to the mode of delivery.
Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships in loach (Genus: Botia ) through molecular characterization in a river of Terai region of West Bengal, India

Loaches which are quite near to extinction are high demanding fish species having both ornamental and edible food value. Their identification is difficult due to morphological variation especially amongst Botia lohachata and Botia almorhae. Genetic diversity and molecular phylogeny among six loaches belonging to genus Botia were studied. Cytochrome Oxidase I (COI) gene (655 bp) was amplified using PCR and sequenced. The pairwise genetic distances among Botia species ranged from 0.004 to 0.200. The interspecies Kimura’s 2parameter pair-wise distance was highest (0.200) between B. modesta and B. lohachata and lowest (0.004) for B. almorhae and B. lohachata. The overall transition/transversion bias is R = 3.084. The phylogenetic tree showed that B. almorhae and B. lohachata formed a monophyletic group (supported by 100% bootstrap value) and then constituted one clade with B. kubotai. Other Asian species B. rostrata, B. striata, B. dario B. modesta and B. macracanthus also contributed to this clade but were distant to native Botia species. It was deduced that loaches need attention towards conservation due to its endangerment and vulnerability status.
Calibration of the time-dependent mean reversion parameter in the Hull-White model using neural networks

Interest rate models are widely used for simulations of interest rate movements and pricing of interest rate derivatives. In order to calibrate their parameters, several strategies and methods have been proposed. We focus on the Hull-White model, for which we develop a technique for calibrating the speed of mean reversion. This parameter is treated by most existing methods as a constant. We examine the theoretical time-dependent version of mean reversion function and propose a neural network approach to perform the calibration based solely on historical interest rate data. Our results are compared with those obtained by the most widely used methods, linear regression and generic global optimizer. The experiments indicate the suitability of depth-wise convolution over long-short memory modules and prove the advantages of our approach over the existing procedures. We manage to use the knowledge acquired from one market to another, while studying the effects of different subsets of maturities. The proposed models produce mean reversion values that are comparable to rolling-window linear regression's results, allowing for greater flexibility while being less sensitive to turbulent markets.
Wind Tunnel Testing of Novel Wing Configurations for Design and Customisation in an Industry 4.0 Environment

Industry 4.0 calls for validated simulations for rapid customization and through-life designs. Wind tunnel experiments are widely used in validating flow-field simulations for aircraft design and manufacture. In this paper, we develop testing for simulating the NACA0015 model wings in various shapes and Angles of Attacks (AoA) through an anatomy wind tunnel. Particle traces are recorded during the tests and then analyzed with PIVlab and Tecplot for validating streamlines and vorticity distributions. The experimental results show that the wing shape with a relatively large angle of sweepback and an AoA ranging from +10to +15deg possess good aerodynamic behaviors for an aircraft. We discuss future prospects of aircraft simulations in an Industry 4.0 context. Keywords—Wind Tunnel, wing, Angle of Attack, streamline, vorticity, flow separation, laminar, turbulent, leading-edge vortex, Industry 4.0
THE UW SOLUTION FOR CANINE KIDNEY PRESERVATION

The preservation effects of UW solution on renal hemodynamics and microvascular systems were studied in canine kidney autografts. In 72-hr UW-preserved kidneys, the microvessels of both cortex and medulla were completely visualized with silicon rubber compound 1 hr after reperfusion. Histology also showed extremely well-preserved arterioglomerular and tubular systems. These results were correlated with good renal blood flow, prompt recovery of posttransplant graft function, and 100% two-week survival of dogs. In contrast, kidneys preserved for 72 hr with Euro-Collins solution showed necrotic and obstructive changes of the microvasculature and deterioration of renal hemodynamics. In 120-hr UW-preserved kidneys, the microcirculation of the medullary region became poor after reflow when there was fairly intact perfusion of the cortical region, indicating an ischemia-related intrarenal blood flow maldistribution. The 120-hr kidneys subsequently failed in spite of having a good blood flow and morphologically well-maintained microvasculature after reperfusion. These data demonstrated that much, but not all, of the beneficial effect of UW solution in kidney preservation might be attributed to its remarkable protection of renal microvasculature. Correction of intrarenal blood maldistribution caused by a discrepancy in tolerance to ischemia of the vascular and tubular systems might be important in successfully preserving the kidney for 120 hr.
Transference of Bilinear Restriction Estimates to Quadratic Variation Norms and the Dirac-Klein-Gordon System

Firstly, bilinear Fourier Restriction estimates --which are well-known for free waves-- are extended to adapted spaces of functions of bounded quadratic variation, under quantitative assumptions on the phase functions. This has applications to nonlinear dispersive equations, in particular in the presence of resonances. Secondly, critical global well-posedness and scattering results for massive Dirac-Klein-Gordon systems in dimension three are obtained, in resonant as well as in non-resonant regimes. The results apply to small initial data in scale-invariant Sobolev spaces exhibiting a small amount of angular regularity.
Financial development and economic growth in the Middle East

This paper investigates the linkages between financial development and economic growth in the Middle East using newly developed methods of panel cointegration along with the popular time series methodologies such as the Johansen's cointegration, Granger causality, and the variance decompositions. The results indicate that, in the long run financial development and economic growth may be related to some level. In the short run, the panel causality tests point to real economic growth as the force that drives changes in financial development while individual countries’ causality tests fail to give a clear evidence of the direction of causations.
Assessment of Patient Safety Culture among Egyptian Healthcare Employees

A limited amount of data exists from developing and underdeveloped nations related to patient safety culture among diverse healthcare employees. This study aimed to identify baseline perceptions and attitudes towards patient safety across healthcare disciplines at two Egyptian hospitals using a validated survey tool to allow for comparison with international benchmarks. We conducted a cross- sectional study of 250 employees, who voluntarily completed the survey over a 14-day period. Results revealed that job satisfaction scored highest among the safety domains assessed and was significantly greater than the international benchmark. Job satisfaction was followed by teamwork climate, working conditions, safety climate, and perceptions of unit management and hospital management. All mean scores for these domains were significantly greater than the international benchmarks. In contrast, the mean score of stress recognition was significantly less than the international benchmark. Respondent demographics did not influence overall safety perception measured by the six domains; however, resident physicians perceived greater collaboration and communication among team members than other position types reported. Egyptian healthcare providers reported an overall positive perception of the culture of safety. However, recognition of the negative implications of stress on patient safety among Egyptians was lower than the international benchmark. Clinical Relevance: Our study provides insight into patient safety perceptions among diverse healthcare employees in a developing nation, establishes baseline data on safety culture at two hospitals, and offers a comparison between Egyptian healthcare workers’ patient safety attitudes and international benchmarks.
Accelerating Monte Carlo Method for Pricing Multi-asset Options under Stochastic Volatility Models

In this paper we investigate the control variate Monte Carlo method for pricing some multi-asset options with the stochastic volatility model. First several multi-asset options are priced analytically, which volatilities are the deterministic functions of the time, by using the risk-neutral pricing formula. Then we derive the explicit representation of control variate under the Hull-White stochastic volatility model. Numerical experiment results suggest that our proposed method performs good in terms of improving the efficiency of variance reduction by obtaining more accurate prices of multi-asset options. This idea can be extended easily for pricing other financial instruments with stochastic volatility models.
Surface Electromagnetic Waves in Finite Semiconductor-Dielectric Periodic Structure in an External Magnetic Field

The speciflc features of TM-polarized surface electromag- netic waves in a flnite structure fabricated by a periodic alternating semiconductor and dielectric layers are investigated. Dispersion char- acteristics of eigenwaves are analyzed numerically and analytically. The complex Poynting energy ∞ux and the surface wave's distribution are calculated. The in∞uence of geometrical and physical parameters of the structure on the properties of surface waves is studied.