Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Role of Playfulness and Sensory Experiences in Design for Public Health and for Ageing Well

The chapter provides an insight into the role of design and sensory experiences in public health and ageing well through the lenses of playful design. It presents, through a number of relevant examples, the role of playfulness as a trigger for engaging people and especially older adults with physical exercise through tangible play. Emphasis is placed on the potential, benefits and challenges of designing playful sensory experiences and activities (interventions) for public health and ageing well. Following a review of the relevant literature on playfulness and sensory experiences and health, a number of projects that incorporate playfulness and sensory experiences are presented. This is followed by a presentation of the Active Parks case study. Active Parks co-created an interactive and playful walking trail that offers casual physical activity in one of Lancaster city’s park. Working with the local community and a several key stakeholders a number of interactive and playful multisensory proof-of-concept prototypes were designed, developed and tested in the park. Based on the literature and the aforementioned case study a number of recommendations are provided on how to design playful sensory experiences for public health. This is the first paper of its kind to offer such practical recommendations that aim at public health and playfulness focusing on adults and older users.
RISK ASSESSMENT IN THE REGULATED WATERCOURSES

Ecological risk has not been identified well enough for the designers and contractors to take any actions for its limitation. It results from the lack of the basis formed to assess its level objectively. The aim of this study was to determine the standards useful in the evaluation of the ecological risk for aquatic plants in rivers, where it is planned to conduct regulatory works. The basis for the analysis were the results of the study performed in 2008–2014 in unmodified and transformed lowland watercourses in Lower Silesia. 41 study sections were analysed in 11 watercourses. 30 sections were located in regulated watercourses, while 11 were in unmodified streams. The research included vascular aquatic plants identification and the degree of the bottom coverage by these plants. As a result of regulatory works qualitative and quantitative changes in aquatic plants communities were observed. The analysis of these changes concerning the range and conditions of works conduction enabled assigning measures to the factors of the considered risk. It served as a basis for describing the risk register and the matrix of risk. The study demonstrated that the most important threats resulting from the river regulation from the point of view of environmental protection are complete shading of watercourse bed, and in some cases, bed widening and deepening, embankments slope of 1: 1, 1: 0, embankments protection with stone material or their concreting.
High-speed separation of anechoic mixtures of speech signals using fusion of iterative and closed-forms separation method

We introduce the fusion of iterative and closed-forms separation (FICS) method for high-speed separation of anechoic mixed speech signals. This method is performed in two stages: 1) iterative-form separation and 2) closed-form separation. This algorithm signicantly improves the separation quality simply due to incorporating only some specic frequency bins into computations. We apply the FICS method to the frequency-domain independent component analysis (ICA) to evaluate its performance in increasing the signal separation speed for anechoic mixtures. Simulation results show that for speech signals and anechoic conditions, the proposed algorithm is on average 65 times faster than ICA while preserving the separation quality. It also outperforms FastICA, JADE, and SOBI in terms of separation quality and speed.
FARMING SYSTEMS RESEARCH APPLIED IN A PROJECT ON FEEDING OF CROP RESIDUES IN INDIA

Increased use of prime agricultural land for cropping and non-agricultural uses in many tropical countries implies that crop residues become more important as a source of feed for livestock. Traditionally, much research on crop residue feeding was done by focusing on laboratory measurements of feed quality but neglect of farmers' perceptions led to disappointing results in the transfer of straw feeding technologies based upon laboratory results. Farming Systems Research (FSR) provides methodologies and concepts that bridge the gap between formal commodity research (including crop residues and by-products) and field application. This paper reports the experiences of a project in India that changed the emphasis from a commodity research approach on improved crop residue feeding to a system approach by using three types of FSR. The paper first reviews the achievements of on-station research on feeding systems for crop residues in terms of treatments (biological, chemical, physical) and in terms of breeding and managing cereal crops for more and better straw. Next, it discusses definitions and problems of FSR as encountered in the project's reorientation of livestock research and development programmes. Finally it summarizes the overall results of the three FSR approaches used in the project.
The Problem of Cooperation and Reputation Based Choice

The standard method when analyzing the problem of cooperation using evolutionary game theory is to assume that people are randomly matched against each other in repeated games. In this paper we discuss the implications of allowing agents to have preferences over possible opponents. We model reputation as a noisy observation of actual propensity to cooperate and illustrate how reputation based choice of opponents can explain both the emergence and deterioration of cooperation. We show that empirical and experimental evidence of cooperation is consistent with our hypothesis that people behave so as to minimize the risk of damaging their reputation as nice, cooperative persons.
Determinants of success in Twenty 20 cricket

The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of success in Twenty20 cricket. 29 matches for winning teams and 30 matches for losing teams were analysed from the 2010 English domestic Twenty20 competition. Magnitude-based inferences, reported as effect sizes (ES), were used to characterise differences in performance indicators between winning and losing teams. The top 5 indicators of success were losing less wickets in the powerplay overs (ES = -1), losing less wickets between overs 7-10 (ES = -1), 50+ run partnerships (ES = 1), individual batsmen contributing 75+ runs (ES = 1) and 50-74 runs (ES = 1). In addition, winning teams scored a higher percentage of total runs to long-off (ES =0.4) and the off-side (ES = 0.2), and bowled a higher percentage of deliveries at a yorker (ES = 0.4) and short length (ES = 0.58) than losing teams. Collectively, these findings highlight that teams should retain wickets in the first 10 overs of an innings, without necessarily maximising the number of runs scored. In the final 10 overs, teams should outscore the opposition by hitting boundary 4s and avoid scoring a high percentage of runs from 1s. Moreover, from a bowling perspective, a more balanced strategy with regards to bowling length appears to be advantageous, as evidenced by the greater usage of short and yorker length deliveries by winning teams.
A Survey on the principles of mining ClinicalDatasets by utilizing Data mining technique

Clinical data mining is a practice based research strategy by which practitioners and researchers retrieve, analyze and interpret available qualitative and quantitative information from available medical records. It is an active interdisciplinary area of research that is considered the consequent of applying artificial intelligence and data mining concepts to the field of medicine and health care. This paper presents survey on the foundation principles of mining clinical datasets by utilizing data mining techniques to mine health care data and patient records. It also focuses on the preceding survey made in clinical data mining, techniques applied and the conclusion drawn. The most recent research findings that can further unveil the potential of data mining in the realm of healthcare and medicine are clearly presented in this survey.
A Study on Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Infection in Kenya

The existence of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) was studied on children with diarrhea in Mombasa and healthy inhabitants in two rural areas of Kenya in 1983. ETEC which was isolated from 6.0 per cent of rectal swabs (47/782) among the diarrheal children, was the thirdly predominant enteropathogen following enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) and Campylobacter jejuni. Out of 47 ETEC positive cases, heat labile enterotoxin (LT) and heat stable enterotoxin (ST) were detected in 21 and 24 cases respectively and producers of both toxins were proved in two cases. Ten out of 47 cases were also infected with other enteropathogens. On the other hand, among 664 healthy villagers 20(3.0%) carried ETEC, secondly noted pathogens following EPEC. Seven and 12 ETEC carriers were infested by LT and ST producers respectively, and only one case carried ETEC producing both oxins. This study clearly demonstrated that EXEC played a significant role as one of the leading agents of diarrheal children and carriers among healthy individuals in Kenya.
Mycorrhizal inoculation of micropropagated woody legumes used in revegetation programmes for desertified Mediterranean ecosystems

La micropropagation d'Anthyllis cytisoides L, et de Spartium junceum L 2 legumineuses interessantes du point de vue ecologique a ete realisee suivant des techniques usuelles. L'inoculation avec Glomus fasciculatum tot pendant le sevrage post vitro raccourcit l'acclimatation de 8 semaines, et en particulier pour Anthyllis, ameliore la survie, la croissance et la nutrition des microplantes apres leur plantation au dehors. Le niveau de mycorhization etait a peu pres le meme que pour des plantes issues de semis []
The bystander effect: is reactive oxygen species the driver?

The paper reviews selected examples of the bystander effect, such as clonogenic survival decrease, chromosomal aberrations and mutations. The similarities and differences between the biological effects in directly targeted and bystander cells are briefly discussed. Also reviewed are the experimental data which support the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS), especially * O2 , as mediators of the bystander effect. Endogenously generated ROS, due to activation of NAD(P)H oxidases, play a key role in the induction of DNA damage in bystander cells. All the observed effects in bystander cells, such as alterations in gene expression patterns, chromosomal aberrations, sister chromatid exchanges, mutations, genome instability, and neoplastic transformation are the consequence of DNA damage.
EFFECT OF ICT INVESTMENT AND USE ON BUSINESS PERFORMANCE OF UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH WEST NIGERIA

The study assessed the influence of ICT Investment and Use on Performance of Business Units of Universities in South West Nigeria. To do this, the entire population of Universities in South Western Nigeria comprising of seven Federal, ten state and twenty private Universities were sampled for the study. Both primary and secondary data were employed for the study. One hundred and fifty two questionnaires were administered out of which one hundred and forty two were returned representing 93% response rate. The secondary data were derived from the annual reports of each of the Universities covered by the study. The variables of interest from the secondary data were: ICT Investment (ICT Inv.), Return on Capital employed (ROCE),Net Profit Margin (NPM), and ICT Cost Efficiency (ICTCE). Multiple Regression analysis employing the use of ANOVA revealed a very highly significant relationship F (4, 137) = 120.029; P <0.05 (table value = 5.66) between the independent variables group (ICT Investment, Effect of ICT use on Personnel,) and Performance of business units of Universities in South-western Nigeria. Furthermore, competent hands engaged should be trained and retrained for effective use of the facility to exploit to the optimum the benefits of ICT.
Label free Affinity sensing: application to food analysis

In this paper real-time, label free sensing principle based on Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) and gravimetric, i.e. Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) are described and some applications to food analysis problems are reported. Affinity receptors are introduced and examples using antibodies, nucleic acid probes and biomimetic receptors i.e. molecular imprinted polymers (MIP) reported. In particualr pesticide, endotoxins, pathogens, Genetically Modified Organism (GMOs) detection and food origin analysis are reviewed.
Trusty Analysis Based on Taint Trace Software with Non-interference

we proposed a novel approach for software trust analysis, in order to solve the problems in auto testing that, the test process is lack of guidance, further more, with high performance cost. The main idea of this approach is based on taint data tracing by taint tracing started from outside of software environment. By extracting the raw behaviors such as API invocation that may cause un-trust consequence, the scope of codes that being tested will be narrowed. These may-un-trust behaviors then form into a taint dependency behaviors model, and will be proved that whether these behaviors can be trusted in certain environment. The proving mechanism will be done by a so called noninterference information flow model. The behavior model will be evolved by refinement, and the context of each test iteration will be taken advantaged of for guidance. Besides, non-interference theories will also be applied in proving. We also briefly discussed about the implementation of this approach, and necessary theorems for this approach are also proved. Keywords-component; software trust ;software behavior; tiant; non-interference;behavior model
MediaBank: Keyword Search and Tag Cloud Functionalities for a Multimedia Content Authoring Web Platform

The composition of multimedia presentations is a timeand resource-consuming task if not afforded in a well-defined manner. This is particularly true when people having different roles and following different high-level directives, collaborate in the authoring and assembling of a final product. For this reason we adopt the Select, Assemble, Transform and Present (SATP) approach to coordinate the presentation authoring and a tag cloud-based search engine in order to help users in efficiently retrieving useful assets. In the first of this paper we present MediaPresenter, the framework we developed to support companies in the creation of multimedia communication means, providing an instrument that users can exploit every time new communication channels have to be created. In the second part we describe how we adopt keyword search techniques coupled with Tag Cloud in order to summarize the results over the stored data.
Odour-mediated Host Preference in Mosquitoes : The Role of the Maxillary Palps in Host Recognition

The mechanisms underlying host preference in mosquitoes are ultimately a result of optimal foraging on currently available hosts and historical patterns of host availability. The proximate mechanisms are regulated by available host cues and the nature of the mosquitoes’ responses to these cues. Although mosquito host preference has a genetic background and the response to specific host cues are adaptive, mosquitoes exhibit a high degree of plasticity in their host preference. The purpose of this study was to analyse the extent of this variability in the disease vectors Aedes aegypti, Anopheles gambiae and Culex quinquefasciatus, and if their behavioural response is constrained by qualitative and quantitative differences in host cues. I investigated the sensory mechanisms and constraints regulating mosquito behaviour in response to various carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, within the range emitted from vertebrate hosts. The temporal capacity of the CO2-ORNs in Ae. aegypti and An. gambiae is higher than in Cu. quinquefasciatus, which translated into behavioural constraints leads to an increased time to take off at high concentrations. The altered sensitivity of CO2-ORNs in transient elevated background levels of CO2 also constrain the host-seeking behaviour in Ae. aegypti. Take off flight was impeded, correlating with a behavioural threshold in the net CO2-ORN response. Hence, sensory limitations of CO2-ORNs induce behavioural constraints at higher CO2 concentrations, which may be partially responsible for species-specific host preferences. The specificity and sensitivity of host volatile blends play a key role in mosquito host recognition and non-host avoidance. I determined that Ae. aegypti and An. gambiae consider (R)-1-octen-3-ol as a host cue, whereas Cu. quinquefasciatus perceives it as a non-host cue, when not in the context of a preferred host. Hence, host recognition is regulated by the perception of specific volatiles in the context of a blend. This specificity appears to be consistent with host preference, as Ae. aegypti is attracted by a wide range of (R)-1-octen-3-ol concentrations, while in Cu. quinquefasciatus it elicits no attraction or even repels at higher concentrations. The behavioural and physiological specificity and sensitivity to (R)-1-octen-3-ol is the output of the sensitivities of the orthologous mosquito odorant receptors, the OR8s. The functional tuning of these receptors and their cognate neurons was reflected in minor differences in the receptors amino acid structure. These findings provide a substrate with which to examine how the sensory system of a mosquito interprets host and non-host odour cues and thus produces host recognition behaviour.
Assessment of total cardiovascular risk according to SCORE scale in patients with metabolic syndrome

Copyright © 2012 Via Medica ISSN 2081–2450 Adres do korespondencji: Katarzyna Głuchowska ul. Słupecka 15 A 62–404 Ciążeń tel. 665 809 255 e-mail: kasia.gluchowska@interia.pl STRESZCZENIE Wstęp. Zespół metaboliczny (ZM) określa się jako współistnienie czynników ryzyka chorób układu krążenia. Przyjmuje się, że osoby z ZM mają wyższe ryzyko wystąpienia ostrych incydentów wieńcowych. Cel pracy. Celem pracy jest odpowiedź na pytanie, czy na podstawie skali SCORE w wiarygodny sposób ocenia się podwyższone ryzyko zgonu z przyczyny sercowo-naczyniowej u osób z ZM. Materiał i metody. Ryzyko według tabeli SCORE oceniono u 81 pacjentów hospitalizowanych na Oddziale Chorób Wewnętrznych, Zaburzeń Metabolicznych i Nadciśnienia Tętniczego. Pacjenci byli w wieku 35–70 lat (55,8 ± 9,1); 43,2% stanowiły kobiety, a 56,8% mężczyźni. Spośród całej grupy u 59 osób na podstawie kryteriów według IDF z 2005 roku stwierdzono ZM. Pacjenci bez ZM w liczbie 22 stanowili grupę kontrolną. Wyniki. Nie wykazano statystycznie istotnej różnicy między ryzykiem SCORE w obu grupach; 71,2% pacjentów z ZM miało niskie (< 5%) ryzyko SCORE, a 28,8% wysokie (≥ 5%). Podobnie przedstawiało się ryzyko w grupie kontrolnej: 72,7% (niskie), 27,3% (wysokie) — test chi2 Yatesa p = 0,8884. Grupa badana i kontrolna nie różniły się pod względem wieku, płci, palenia tytoniu i stężenia cholesterolu całkowitego oraz cholesterolu frakcji LDL. Wnioski. Z zebranych danych wynika, że większość pacjentów z ZM ma niskie ryzyko SCORE. Zespół metaboliczny jest jedną z tych sytuacji klinicznych, w których ryzyko może być wyższe niż oszacowane na podstawie SCORE. Otyłość brzuszna, nieprawidłowa glikemia na czczo, zmniejszone stężenie cholesterolu frakcji HDL i zwiększone TAG to kryteria ZM nieuwzględnione w ocenie SCORE. Pacjentów z ZM należy traktować indywidualnie, a SCORE jako dodatkowe narzędzie w pracy lekarza, które nie powinno jednak zastępować całościowej i dokładnej oceny lekarskiej. (Forum Zaburzeń Metabolicznych 2012, tom 3, nr 2, 43–49)
The effect of interannual variation in growth and condition on haddock recruitment

The relationship between recruitment and spawner biomass assumes that estimates of spawner biomass are proportional to total egg production by the stock. The validity of this assumption is in question for long-lived gadoid stocks; however, estimating total egg production independently of spawner biomass is seldom feasible. An alternative approach is to examine correlations between recruitment and variables likely to be proxies for total egg production by the stock. This indirect approach was used for haddock on the Scotian Shelf. Indices of growth (mean length at age-4) and condition (weight at 50 cm) were used as proxies for the reproductive potential of individual spawners. Both variables were positively correlated with recruitment over a 3-decade period (1964-1995). During the same time period, there was no relationship between recruitment and spawner biomass estimated by Virtual Population Analysis (VPA). This is further evidence that VPA-based spawner biomass is a poor index of the true reproductive .
Comparative morphology of urohyal bone in brackish water species of the genus Aphanius Nardo, 1827 in the Persian Gulf and Southeastern Mediterranean Sea basins (Teleostei: Aphaniidae)

Among the skeletal elements in fishes, the urohyal bone which lies in the lower part of the head - the central part of the mandibular skeleton- has proved to be of special significance in fish systematics. The urohyal bone is considered to be a synapomorphic structure in teleostean fish. The urohyal bone of six brackish water Aphanius species (i.e., Aphanius hormuzensis , A. stoliczkanus , A. furcatus , A. ginaonis , A. mento , A. sirhani ) was compared using morphological description and linear measurements to explore the effectiveness of urohyal bone morphology in the separation of the Aphanius species. Description of the urohyal bones and their morphological variation allowed identification of the A. furcatus , A. mento and A. sirhani from their relatives. Moreover, the UH.UL separates significantly A. dispar and A. ginaonis , and the MH.UL discriminates significantly A. mento from others studied relatives. Discriminant function analysis (DFA) separated the studied species with high classification success (overall mean 94.7%). These results suggest the power of urohyal bone morphology in separating of the Aphanius species analyzed, and highlighting the taxonomic value of the urohyal bone. By considering the phylogenetic relationships among the studied species, it can be concluded that the observed variation in their urohyal morphology is largely consistent with their phylogeny. This indicated that at least some morphological characters in the shape of urohyal bone in Aphanius are encoded probably by genetic factors, which can be used for species discrimination.