Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Non-Intrusive and Workflow-Aware Virtual Network Function Scheduling in User-Space

The simple programming model and very low-overhead I/O capabilities of emerging packet processing techniques leveraging kernel-bypass I/O and poll-mode processing is gaining significant popularity for building high performance software <italic>middleboxes</italic> (<italic>aka</italic> <italic>Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)</italic>). However, existing OS schedulers fall short in rightsizing CPU allocation to poll-mode VNFs due to the schedulers’ shortcoming in capturing the actual processing cost of these VNFs. This issue is further exacerbated by their inability to consider VNF processing order when VNFs are chained to form Service Function Chains (SFCs). The state-of-the-art VNF schedulers proposed as an alternative to OS schedulers are <italic>intrusive</italic>, requiring the VNFs to be built with scheduler specific libraries or having carefully selected scheduling checkpoints. This highly restricts the VNFs that can properly work with these schedulers. In this article, we present <sc>UN</sc><italic>i</italic><sc>S</sc>, a <underline><bold>U</bold></underline>ser-space <underline><bold>N</bold></underline>on-<underline><bold>i</bold></underline>ntrusive work-flow aware VNF <underline><bold>S</bold></underline>cheduler. Unlike existing approaches, UNiS is non-intrusive, i.e., does not require VNF modifications and treats poll-mode VNFs as black boxes. UNiS is also workflow-aware, i.e., takes SFC processing order into account while scheduling VNFs. Testbed experiments show that <sc>UN</sc><italic>i</italic><sc>S</sc> is able to achieve a throughput within 90 and 98 percent of that achievable using an intrusive co-operative scheduler for synthetic and real data center traffic, respectively.
The Effects of Social and Entertainment Media on Body Dissatisfaction and Social Comparison of Men with Marginalized Identities

A survey of 565 male undergraduates examined the effects of exposure to social networking sites and entertainment media on the body satisfaction of men with marginalized identities. Exposure to social and to entertainment media was found to have negative effects on men’s body satisfaction, social comparison, and thin ideal internalization. Findings indicated significant differences in those men who were more exposed to social and to entertainment media than those who were not as exposed. Consistent with past studies, gay men were found to be more dissatisfied with their bodies than straight men. Gay men compared themselves to other better-looking individuals and internalized ideal body types seen in media significantly more than their straight counterparts. Surprisingly, straight men seem to care as much about their physical attractiveness/appearance as gay men do, but only in public settings such as at the beach, at athletic events (including gyms) and social events. Although on average ethnic groups were more similar than different, small but significant differences occurred with Asian men indicating significantly higher body dissatisfaction than White/European men and Middle Eastern/Arab men. This study increases our knowledge about social and entertainment media use and its associated body dissatisfaction and social comparison among sexual and ethnic minority men.
A rare case on Rheumatic Heart Disease with Urosepsis and Septic shock

Athulya Subhash1, Anukrishna V P1, Velayudhan K K2, Sayyid Moidu Mon C2, Remya Reghu*1 1Department of Pharmacy Practice, Amrita School of Pharmacy, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, AIMS Health Sciences Campus, Kochi -682041, Kerala, India 2Department of General medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, AIMS Health Sciences Campus, Kochi -682041, Kerala, India
On the optimal policy for infectious animal disease management: a principal-multiple agents approach

Infectious diseases, especially the zoonosis, pose a persistent challenge for both public health and livestock industry. This paper develops a principal multiple-agents model, in which public authorities incentivize heterogeneous agents to implement ex ante biosecurity effort to prevent the introduction of disease within their herds. From our main results, we show that the individual attributes (costs and risk heterogeneity) matter a lot to achieve the optimal incentive policy. In this lines, our results highlight that disease prevention is a weakest-link public good (see Hennessy and Wolf, 2018), in the sense the global welfare is challenged by the less efficient growers. Frictions, such as the trade-off between incentive payment and risk-sharing allows public authorities to take over the control of potential asymmetry of information.
Elf: accelerate high-resolution mobile deep vision with content-aware parallel offloading

As mobile devices continuously generate streams of images and videos, a new class of mobile deep vision applications are rapidly emerging, which usually involve running deep neural networks on these multimedia data in real-time. To support such applications, having mobile devices offload the computation, especially the neural network inference, to edge clouds has proved effective. Existing solutions often assume there exists a dedicated and powerful server, to which the entire inference can be offloaded. In reality, however, we may not be able to find such a server but need to make do with less powerful ones. To address these more practical situations, we propose to partition the video frame and offload the partial inference tasks to multiple servers for parallel processing. This paper presents the design of Elf, a framework to accelerate the mobile deep vision applications with any server provisioning through the parallel offloading. Elf employs a recurrent region proposal prediction algorithm, a region proposal centric frame partitioning, and a resource-aware multi-offloading scheme. We implement and evaluate Elf upon Linux and Android platforms using four commercial mobile devices and three deep vision applications with ten state-of-the-art models. The comprehensive experiments show that Elf can speed up the applications by 4.85× with saving bandwidth usage by 52.6%, while with <1% application accuracy sacrifice.
Concentrations and Strengths of Formaldehyde and Acetaldehyde in Office Buildings in Bangkok, Thailand

Exposure to aldehydes can have adverse health effects. Formaldehyde, the most abundant airborne aldehyde, is also a human carcinogen. This study investigated concentrations and strengths of formaldehyde and acetaldehyde in 12 office buildings in Bangkok, Thailand. Sampling was conducted during March and April 2008. Air samples were collected at ∼0.7—0.9 L · min—1 using cartridges filled with dinitrophenylhydrazine coated silica gel. The cartridge incorporated an ozone scrubber to prevent aldehyde losses on the silica gel surface. Samples were then desorbed by acetonitrile and analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography. Air exchange rates were estimated from the difference between indoor and outdoor carbon dioxide levels. A one-compartment mass balance model was used to estimate indoor source strengths. Results showed that the mean indoor concentrations of formaldehyde and acetaldehyde were 35.5 and 17.1 μg · m–3 respectively, while the outdoor concentra- tions were 10.1 and 7.9 μg · m–3, respectively. The estimated mean indoor strengths of formaldehyde and acetaldehyde were 15.3 and 5.8 mg · h–1, respect- ively. Indoor–outdoor (I/O) relationships showed that the I/O ratios were 3.5 for formaldehyde and 5.7 for acetaldehyde, suggesting that indoor sources are more important contributors to the indoor levels than outdoor sources such as infiltration of vehicle exhaust.
Aerial Spectral Efficiency of Non Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) for 5G Wireless Communications through Successive Interference Cancellation and Superposition Coding

1Student, Global Institute of Technology and Management. 2Assistant Professor, Global Institute of Technology and Management. 3Lecturer North Campus, University of Kashmir, Baramulla, India. ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract Non Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) is a candidate multiple access technology for the Fifth Generation (5G) wireless communication systems. NOMA allows two different users to transmit signals over the same subcarrier and at the same time but with orthogonal phases to avoid interference. NOMA multiplexes multiple users on each subcarrier which achieves better performances on power efficiency and user fairness than conventional Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA) schemes. In non-orthogonal access all the users are served at the same time, with same frequency and code. A pair of users can be served simultaneously I their corresponding channel gains are spatially different. NOMA exploits the Power Domain Multiplexing (PDM) to allocate less power to users with good channel conditions and requisite amount of power to users with slightly bad channel condition. Power spectral density enhancement uses techniques with efficient power allocation strategies. Although NOMA does not employ Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna systems, however NOMA with MIMO antenna systems proves to be game changing combination for spectral efficiency and capacity scaling. In this paper we have proposed a simulation environment to address the achievable spectral efficiency of NOMA through successive interference cancellation at the receivers and superposition coding at the transmitter side. We have also proposed various state of the art methods for efficient Bit Error Rate (BER) analysis, efficient power allocation and outage probability. All the simulation works have been carried out using Matlab 2016a through 5G communication toolbox.
Clinical efficacy of linezolid in the treatment of drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis

Objective: To determine the effect of linezolid on the efficacy, sputum negative conversion rate (SNCR), and focus absorption rate (FAR) in patients with extensively drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (XDR-TB). Methods: A total of 89 patients with XDR-TB who were hospitalized in our hospital from July 2017 to December 2018 were enrolled and assigned to an observation group (obs group, n=48) and a control group (con group, n=41). The con group was treated conventionally, while the obs group was treated with linezolid in addition to the treatment of the con group. Then the two groups were compared in clinical efficacy, imaging changes, sputum examination results, FAR, life quality score (MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)), and adverse reactions. Results: The total effective rate of the obs group was significantly higher than that of the con group (P<0.05), and the obs group showed significantly better clinical symptom amelioration and higher FAR and SNCR than the con group (all P<0.05). In addition, after 6, 12, and 18 months of treatment, the life quality score of the obs group was significantly better than that of the con group, and there was no significant difference between the two groups in adverse reactions. Conclusion: Linezolid is beneficial to the treatment efficacy, SNCR, and FAR in patients with XDR-TB, so it is worthy of clinical promotion.
Evaluation of Demographic and Clinical Presentation of Colorectal Carcinoma in Rajshahi Region

This cross-sectional, descriptive, observational study was carried out for a period of 24 months from January 2014 to December 2015 in the Department of Pathology and Department of Surgery, Rajshahi Medical College, Rajshahi for evaluation of clinical and histological presentation of colorectal carcinoma patients in total fifty four patient. Data were collected by face to face interview, clinical examination. The study revealed that the colorectal carcinoma was highest in the 5th and 6th decade and rectal area (46.3%) and male predominance was observed with male to female ratio being 3:2. Abdominal pain (61.1%), weight loss (61.1%), per rectal bleeding (57.4%), altered bowel habit (24.1%) and melena (24.1%) are the main presenting symptoms. In terms of ABO blood grouping, blood group ‘B’ was found predominant (44.4%), followed by group ‘A’ (24.1%), group ‘AB’ (14.8%) and group ‘O’ (16.7%). TAJ 2020; 33(2): 15-19
Drivers of Customer Value Co-Creation in Travel Services Post Covid-19

The service dominant(S-D) logic has changed the face of the marketing paradigm. It is based on the premise that customers are no longer the passive receivers of the products or services, but play an active role in the value creation process. For the purpose of this paper the research focus is to examine the influence of perceived ease of use of the mobile technology, involvement with the tourism product, interaction with the service provider and active participation of the consumer on customer value co-creation. To do so customer perspective is taken into consideration and a questionnaire is developed on the basis of an in-depth literature review. In specific tourism industry is taken into consideration as there has been tremendous growth in this sector in the previous years and consumer per-se play a pivotal role in planning and execution of the trip which further is an important part in success of the service provider. Data was collected from tourists/travellers and data was analysed using (SEM)structural equation modelling.SEM analysis revealed that the involvement, perceived ease of use, interactions among tourists and tourism service providers and the active participation of tourists have an impact on co-creation in the tourism industry using mobile devices. As one of the first studies in this area in the field of tourism, this study contributes to the body of knowledge by proposing and empirically testing the model.
Clinical application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the reconstruction of anterior cruciate ligament tears in the knee joint

Objective: This study aimed to observe the post-reconstruction effect of anterior cruciate ligament tear of knee joint with MRI. Methods: A total of 52 patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries were enrolled and diagnosed by MRI, and then underwent arthroscopy within 30 days. The results of the two methods were compared; indirect signs and direct signs of ACL were observed, and MRI images were judged by 3 professional physicians in our hospital. Results: The sensitivity of MRI versus arthroscopy for ACL tear examination were 95.63% and 94.25%, and the specificity were 94.26% and 92.84%, respectively, with a statistically significant difference (P<0.05). The sensitivity of MRI in diagnosing edema, atrophy and discontinuity were 71.16%, 53.02% and 73.89%, and the specificity were 96.94%, 96.91% and 96.81%, respectively; MRI had significantly higher accuracy than arthroscopy, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). The specificity was higher in regarding indirect signs, e.g., meniscus, PCL index, empty intercondylar fossa sign and Notch sign. Conclusion: Various indirect signs show that MRI is significantly more accurate than arthroscopy, and such signs as edema, atrophy and discontinuity are of high diagnostic value, while meniscus, PCL index and Notch sign can be used as an auxiliary diagnostic basis.
THE EFFECT OF REPLACEMENT OF SOYABENN MEAL WITH BLOOD MEAL ON THE GROWTH OF MUDFISH Clarias

Blood meal could be used to blend with soyabean meal in fish feed because it is high in protein although low in isoleucine (Harris, 1990). A combination of soyabean which is high in isoleucine with blood meal should meet the essential amino acid requirement. Studies have shown that blood meal am be well utilized by fish (Fowler and BankS, 1976: Dekimpe ancl Micha. 1974: Ufodike and Ugwuzor. 1985). Besides blood meal is usually discarded in slaughter houses and therefore costs nothing Ufodike and Ugwuzor, 1985),
Intraocular pressure response to airway management: Comparison between LMA Supreme® and C-MAC® videolaryngoscope in day care surgery

Background: Airway maintenance procedures during anesthesia are usually associated with a rise in intraocular pressure (IOP). This is an important issue especially in vulnerable patients. In the present study we compared the rise in IOP with two different group of airway devices i.e. Laryngeal mask airway Supreme (LMA-S) and endotracheal intubation (ETT) using C-MAC® videolaryngoscope (VLS). Methodology: The present study was conducted on 100 adult patients of ages >18 yrs, of either sex, belonging to American Society of Anesthesiologist (ASA) I and II, scheduled to undergo non-ophthalmic elective surgery under general anesthesia. Patients were divided into two equal groups of 50 each, Group A and Group B. In group A (n = 50), lubricated appropriate sized LMA-S was inserted and in Group B (n=50), lubricated appropriate sized ETT was inserted by an anesthesiologist using VLS. IOP was measured in right eye just before insertion of device and subsequently at 1 min, 3 min, 5 min and 10 min after insertion of device. Hemodynamic parameters were recorded along with IOP measurement. Results: Both the groups were comparable regarding demographic data (p > 0.05), ASA grade (p = 0.069), and Mallampati grade (MPG) (p = 0.646). Airway establishment time (p = 0.011) was significantly less with C-MAC VLS. IOP were comparable at all measurement times, e.g., 1 min (p = 0.216), 3 min (p = 0.093), 5 min (p = 0.859) and 10 min (p = 0.060) after insertion of each device. Hemodynamic parameters measured were also comparable between two groups (p > 0.05). Conclusion: Both LMA Supreme and intubation using C-MAC® videolaryngoscope are safe regarding rise in intraocular pressure. Both methods can be safely used for airway management in suitable patients. Key words: Airway; Anesthesia; Intraocular pressure; LMA; Endotracheal intubation Citation: Kaur H, Singh G, Singh J, Kaur, Dhawan M, Singh A. Intraocular pressure response to airway management: Comparison between LMA Supreme and C-MAC® videolaryngoscope in day care surgery. Anaesth. pain intensive care 2020;24(6):__ Received: 27 January 2020, Revised: 12 May 2020, Reviewed: 25 October 2020, Accepted: 27 October 2020
Coarse Classiﬁcation of Teeth using Shape Descriptors

This paper presents the problem of coarse classiﬁcation in an application to teeth shapes. Coarse classiﬁcation allows to separate a set of objects into several general classes and can precede more detailed identiﬁcation or narrow the search space. Features of an object are mainly determined by its geometrical aspects, therefore we investigate the use of shape description algorithms, namely the Two-Dimensional Fourier Descriptor, UNL-Fourier Descrip-tor, Generic Fourier Descriptor, Curvature Scale Space, Zernike Moments and Point Distance Histogram. During the experiments we examine the accuracy of classiﬁcation into two classes: single-rooted teeth and multi-rooted teeth—each class has ﬁve representatives. We also employ an additional step of data reduction. Reduced representations are obtained in three ways: by taking a part of an original representation, by predeﬁning a shape description algorithm parameter or by applying an additional step of data reduction technique, i.e. the Principal Component Analysis or Linear Discriminant Analysis. Euclidean distance is used to match ﬁnal feature vectors with class representatives in order to indicate the most similar one. The experimental results proved the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Crystal structure of 1-({4-[(3-nitrobenzyl)oxy]benzyl}amino)-2,3-dihydro- 1H-indene-1-carboxamide hydrochloride - 2-propanol(1:1), C27H32ClN3O5

C27H32ClN3O5, triclinic, P1 (no. 2), a = 8.8386(10) Å, b = 10.4309(10) Å, c = 14.8625(17) Å, & = 77.475(3)°, % = 85.541(4)°, ! = 76.737(3)°, V = 1301.4 Å, Z = 2, Rgt(F) = 0.0588, wRref(F ) = 0.1668, T = 100 K.
Effect of dual plasma molecular adsorption system combined with hormone therapy on postoperative liver cancer

Objective: Effects of dual plasma molecular adsorption system (DPMAS) combined with hormone therapy on liver function (LF), coagulation function (CF) and inflammation indexes in patients with hepatic failure after liver cancer (LC) surgery. Methods: Altogether 108 patients with liver failure admitted to our hospital for liver cancer resection were selected as the research participants, 58 of whom were treated with dual plasma molecular adsorption system combined with hormone therapy as the research group, and 50 of whom were treated with single dual plasma molecular adsorption system as the control group. The clinical effects of the two groups were compared. The changes of liver function before and after treatment were detected by an automatic biochemical analyzer, coagulation function was detected by a hemagglutination analyzer, inflammatory index was detected by ELISA, and immunoglobulin levels before and after treatment were compared between the two groups. The average hospital stay and adverse reactions after treatment were observed. Results: The efficacy in the research group (RG) was clearly higher than that in the control group (CG) (P<0.05). AST, ALT and TBIL expressions in RG were lower than those in CG (P<0.05). After treatment, prothrombin activity, coagulation factor X and platelets in the RG were higher than those in the CG (P<0.05). After therapy, the inflammatory level in the RG was significantly lower than that in the CG (P<0.05). After therapy, the levels of IgG, IgA and IgM in the RG were lower than those in the CG (P<0.05). There was no obvious difference in the average hospitalization time in both groups (P>0.05). The incidence of adverse reactions in the RG was clearly lower than that in the CG (P<0.05). Conclusion: DPMAS combined with glucocorticoids had significant therapeutic effect on patients with hepatic failure after LC surgery, which could effectively reduce inflammatory factors of patients and improve CF. It is worthy of clinical application.
Bio-SODA - A Question Answering System for Domain Knowledge Graphs

The problem of question answering over structured data has become a growing research ﬁeld, both within the relational database and the Semantic Web community, with signiﬁcant efforts involved in question answering over knowledge graphs (KGQA). However, many of these approaches are speciﬁcally targeted at open-domain question answering, and often cannot be applied directly in complex closed-domain settings of scientiﬁc datasets. In this paper, we focus on the speciﬁc challenges of question answering over closed-domain knowledge graphs and derive design goals for KGQA systems in this context. Moreover, we introduce our prototype implementation, Bio-SODA, a question answering system that does not require training data in the form of question-answer pairs for generating SPARQL queries over closed-domain KGs. Bio-SODA uses a generic graph-based approach for translating questions to a ranked list of candidate queries. Furthermore, we use a novel ranking algorithm that includes node centrality as a measure of relevance for candidate matches in relation to a user question. Our experiments with real-world datasets across several domains, including the latest ofﬁcial closed-domain Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD) challenge – the QALD4 biomedical task – show that Bio-SODA outperforms generic KGQA systems available for testing in a closed-domain setting by increasing the F1-score by at least 20% across all datasets tested. We also provide a new bioinformatics benchmark with complex queries drafted in collaboration with domain experts. The experimental results show that for these types of real-world queries, the advantage of Bio-SODA is even more signiﬁcant by outperforming state-of-the-art systems up to 46% improvement in the F1-score.
Increased understanding of platinum anticancer chemistry

The development of a few worldwide routinely used Pt(II) coordination compounds is described from a mechanistic point of view and related to the molecular aspects of Pt-DNA binding. Mechanistic knowledge developed from these studies is applied nowadays for the design and synthesis of new bifunctional and trifunctional compounds, aimed for use as improved anticancer drugs.