Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Foot and Ankle Deformity in Young Acrobatic and Artistic Gymnasts

Purpose. The aim of the paper was to determine the occurrence of feet and ankle deformities in trampoline and artistic gymnasts. Methods. Ten acrobatic gymnasts (trampolinists) and 10 artistic gymnasts aged 6–14 years were recruited. The calcaneal-tibial (rearfoot) angle was determined as the angle of the upper calcaneal tendon and the longitudinal heel axis while clarke angles were determined by podoscopy. Results. The trampolinists showed significantly greater medial angulation (calcaneal valgus) than the group of gymnasts. right and left foot clark’s angles in both the trampoline and artistic gymnasts were above 55°. Conclusions. Trampolinists exhibit significantly more pronounced calcaneal valgus than artistic gymnasts. The prevalence of foot and ankle deformities in both populations should be addressed by coaches in the gymnastics training of young children.
Chaperone: a content filtering web proxy based on public health policies

In order to contain infectious diseases, public health policies suggest measures to minimise the threats of various risky behaviours. Examples of these measures are the use of condoms for the sexually overactive populations and clean needles for drug addicted users. Computer users that tend to explore various thematic areas (adult sites, warez pirated software, celebrities and wallpapers) of the World Wide Web have more probabilities to encounter malware problems than others. In this paper we present the CHAPERONE content filtering web proxy, which is able to semantically analyse web sites and automatically adjust its security level accordingly. Sites with questionable, arguable or suspicious content are never blocked but treated differently from the rest of the sites, as they often represent the source of various security infringements.
Towards Learning Word Representation

Continuous vector representations, as a distributed representations for words have gained a lot of attention in Natural Language Processing (NLP) ﬁeld. Although they are considered as valuable methods to model both semantic and syntactic features, they still may be improved. For instance, the open issue seems to be to develop diﬀerent strategies to introduce the knowledge about the morphology of words. It is a core point in case of either dense languages where many rare words appear and texts which have numerous metaphors or similies. In this paper, we extend a recent approach to represent word information. The underlying idea of our technique is to present a word in form of a bag of syllable and letter n -grams. More speciﬁcally, we provide a vector representation for each extracted syllable-based and letter-based n -gram, and perform concatenation. Moreover, in contrast to the previous method, we accept n -grams of varied length n . Further various experiments, like tasks-word similarity ranking or sentiment analysis report our method is competitive with respect to other state-of-the-art techniques and takes a step toward more informative word representation construction.
Temperature dependence of activity coefficients in organic aerosols

Submicrometer-sized aerosol particles are typically mixtures of organic and inorganic substances originating from natural and anthropogenic sources. While the prevalent inorganic aerosol constituents are relatively small in number, the organic fraction is highly complex, containing hundreds of compounds with a large fraction still unidentified. The organic aerosol fraction is expected to be present in liquid or amorphous state since a large number of organic compounds depresses the temperature at which crystalline solid formation takes place. The properties of tropospheric aerosols in terms of their hygroscopicity, phase transitions and light scattering are of great interest in view of their cloud forming and climatic characteristics. Semi-volatile organic and inorganic aerosol species partition between the gas and aerosol particle phases to maintain thermodynamic equilibrium. The gas-particle partitioning of semi-volatile organic species, water content and the phase state of the particles can be calculated when the vapour pressures and the activities of the involved species are known. To study the hygroscopicity and phase equilibria of mixed aerosol particles we use the Aerosol Inorganic-Organic Mixtures Functional groups Activity Coefficients (AIOMFAC) developed by Zuend et al. (2008, 2011). AIOMFAC is a group contribution model used for computing the activity coefficients of inorganic, organic, and organic-inorganic interactions in aqueous solutions over a wide composition range. Activity coefficients of aqueous organic solutions may exhibit a considerable temperature dependence that has to be explicitly parameterised in thermodynamic models in order to achieve accurate predictions at temperatures other than room temperature. However, most water activity data of aqueous organic solutions has been acquired at room or elevated temperatures. If temperature dependence of the activity coefficients is neglected, errors on the order of 10-15% in aw at the homogenous freezing temperature
Incorporation of Dstatcom in Radial Distribution Systems

In this paper presents a method to determine the weakest bus in a radial distribution system. A unique& novel voltagestability indicator (VSI) can identify the condition of load buses with voltage collapse point of view.The voltage stability indicator is derived from the voltage equation of radial distribution system. The weakest bus voltage profile is improved by placing a DSTATCOM. The DSTATCOM is modeled to supply the required reactive power for compensation and to maintain the voltage magnitude of the node where DSTATCOM is placed as 1 p.u. The validity of the proposed VSI and DSTATCOM modeling is examined by a standard 33 bus radial distribution system. The results validate the proposed VSI and DSTATCOM models in large distribution systems.
A novel Fuzzy Based STATCOM Control Scheme for the Grid Connected Wind Energy Generating System

Framework of a fuzzy logic controller utilizing the voltage as criticism for altogether enhancing the dynamic execution of compensator with great solidness component to be accomplished. The impacts of the power quality estimations are the dynamic power, responsive power, variety of voltage, gleam, sounds, and electrical conduct of exchanging operations. The establishments of wind turbine with the framework reasons power quality issues are resolved. A Novel Fuzzy based STATCOM (Static synchronous Compensator) is a shunt, flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) gadget with some canny information, used to remunerate the responsive power in a lattice, and by this balance out the network voltage. Static compensator (STATCOM) with a battery energy storage system (BESS) is joined at the purpose of basic coupling to moderate the power quality issues with great steadiness element, low mistake values. The matrix associated wind energy era frameworks for power quality change by utilizing STATCOM with a few controllers are proposed. Here two control plans for STATCOM are thought about: Bang-Bang current controller and Fuzzy rationale controller. Blast Bang controller is a hysteresis current controlled procedure. The STATCOM control plan for the lattice joined wind energy era framework for power quality change is reproduced utilizing MATLAB/SIMULINK.
Impact of Restricted Alcohol Availability on Alcohol-related Violence in Newcastle, NSW, The

In March 2008, the New South Wales Liquor Administration Board (LAB) introduced significant restrictions on hotel trading hours for a number of licensed premises in the Newcastle CBD. We sought to determine whether this reduced the incidence of assault in the vicinity of these premises. Three sources of police data were employed to address this research question: recorded crime data, last-place-of-consumption data from the Alcohol Linking Program and police call-out data. Recorded crime and Linking data revealed a significant reduction in alcohol-related assaults in the intervention site but not the comparison site. These two data sources revealed no evidence of any geographic displacement of assaults to other licensed premises or neighbouring areas. There was no evidence of any decrease in the total number of calls for service in either the intervention or comparison sites but this is most likely due to limitations inherent in the call-out data. All three data sources revealed a significant decrease in the proportion of assaults occurring after 3am in the intervention site but not in the comparison sites. Collectively, the data provide strong evidence that the restricted availability of alcohol reduced the incidence of assault in the Newcastle CBD.
Around a biclique cover conjecture

We address an old (1977) conjecture of a subset of the authors (a variant of Ryser's conjecture): in every r-coloring of the edges of a biclique [A,B] (complete bipartite graph), the vertex set can be covered by the vertices of at most 2r-2 monochromatic connected components. We reduce this conjecture to design-like conjectures, where the monochromatic components of the color classes are bicliques [X,Y] with nonempty blocks X and Y. We prove this conjecture for r<6. We show that the width (the number of bicliques) in every color class of any spanning r-coloring is at most 2^{r-1} (and this is best possible).
Trendanalyse van historische gegevens : handleiding voor het gebruik van monitoringsgegevens

Het doel van dit rapport is om aan te geven welke technieken gebruikt kunnen worden om inzicht te krijgen in het achtergrondniveau van contaminanten in diervoeders en diervoederproducten. Beschreven is tevens met welke factoren rekening gehouden moet worden bij het gebruik van historische monitoringsgegevens. Deze gegevens zijn verzameld in het kader van monitoringsprogramma’s.
UPTAKE AND TRANSPORT OF BORON IN AVOCADO SEEDLINGS

The importance of boron on fruit set and fruit production in avocados is well documented in the literature. Most of this reported work on boron was on its influence on the flowering, fruit set, fruit production and to a lesser extent on leaf and shoot development. Since many commercial avocado growers have started applying boron as an agrotechnical procedure, many questions have been put to the researchers regarding applications, concentrations and toxic levels. No proper experimental work has been done on the toxic influence of boron on the roots and other vegetative parts. Therefore it has become very important to study the response of these parts to different boron concentrations and the translocation and distribution of boron in avocados. This paper deals with an experiment on the sensitivity to boron of different vegetative parts of young avocado trees and seedlings grown in soil and liquid nutrient medium. UITTREKSEL Die belangrikheid van boor op vrugset en vrugopbrengs in avokado's is goed in die literatuur gedokumenteer. Die meeste van hierdie gerapporteerde boorwerk handel veral oor die invloed daarvan op blomming, vrugset en vrugopbrengs en in 'n minder mate op blaaren stingelontwikkeling. Sedertdien het talle kommersiele avokadoboere boor as 'n agrotegniese maatreel begin toedien en is talle vrae oor boortoedienings, konsentrasies en toksiese vlakke aan die navorsers gestel. Geen behoorlike eksperimentele werk oor die toksiese uitwerking van boor op die wortels en ander vegetatiewe dele is al uitgevoer nie. Daarom het dit dringend noodsaaklik geword om die reaksie van hierdie plantdele op verskillende boorkonsentrasies asook die vervoer en verspreiding in avokadoplante te ondersoek. Hierdie artikel handel oor 'n eksperiment waarin die sensitiwiteit van vegetatiewe dele van Jong avokadoboompies en saailinge op verskillende boorkonsentrasies in die grond en 'n vloeibare voedingsmedium, nagegaan is.
Physiological responses of donkeys (Equus asinus, Perissodactyla) to work stress and potential ameliorative role of ascorbic acid

The review examines donkey as a draught animal, used mainly for carrying load from one place to another in Africa. Although, motorized transport has been thriving rapidly in the twentieth century, the use of donkeys for transport has not experienced a proportionate decline. Donkeys are often overused, neglected and exposed to various stressors, which eventually lead to their poor performance. This review also examines the effect of packing on the physiological parameters of donkeys and the ameliorative role of ascorbic acid in donkeys subjected to work stress. In conclusion, a better understanding of the pathophysiologic mechanism of stress in donkeys may enhance their work output under the unfavourable environmental conditions of the tropics. Keywords : Donkeys, ascorbic acid, packing, stress, physiological parameters African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 12(14), pp. 1585-1593
PIV STUDY ON WATER SPRAY MIXING IN A CONFINED AIR CROSSFLOW

The mixing uniformity of a hollow-cone water spray in an air crossflow is investigated in a rectangular duct by using a particle image velocimetry system. Experiments are carried out with three water/air momentum flux ratios and three nozzle injection angles in the case of a single nozzle. The droplet distributions in both the longitudinal and transverse directions and the velocity vector fields in the transverse direction are obtained. The mixing flow structure along the longitudinal direction has three sequential regions, i.e., vortex controlling, horizontal movement controlling, and impingement controlling regions. The counter-rotating vortex pair (CVP), leading vortex, shear layer vortex, and multiple vortices are observed. The CVP leads to droplet dispersion within a wide range but results in a droplet preferential distribution. A lower water/air momentum flux ratio contributes to a small-scale CVP, while inclined nozzles with an injection angle against the upstream crossflow allow the CVP to occur prematurely. An improved mixing can be achieved with a lower water/air momentum flux ratio and an inclined nozzle with an incidence angle against the upstream crossflow.
Foresight Scenario of Brand Vulnerability: The Case of the Lithuanian Beauty and Personal Care Products’ Industry Branch

Purpose of the article: Scientific studies implicate that in order to successfully manage brands in the modern external environment it is important to apply future foresight methods within the planning context and in such way to predict developing factors in the future turbulent external environment and to make proactive brand management decisions, because other wise brand will become vulnerable, and vulnerability is the main risk assumption. Method of scenario development for foresight of brand vulnerability and proactive response to it is suggested to be applied in this article. This article covers the following problematic issue: how to develop brand vulnerability foresight scenarios? Methods: In order to develop vulnerability scenarios of the selected brand, methods of in-depth interview, expert assessment and questioning shall be combined. Scientific aim: The aim of this study is to develop brand vulnerability foresight scenarios while applying the development methodology of brand vulnerability foresight scenarios. Findings: This study covers the case of vulnerability foresight of brand acting in the Lithuanian industry branch of beauty and personal care while applying the scenarios’ developing method. Four brand vulnerability foresight scenarios of the analysed brand are developed while applying the development methodology of brand vulnerability foresight scenarios. Conclusions: The results of empiric analysis revealed that the development methodology of brand vulnerability foresight scenarios may be adapted in the industry branch, and thus is sufficiently universal in order to establish vulnerability of brands intended for end-users and to identify proactive branding development solutions. Having implemented the methodology of brand vulnerability scenarios’ development, it is implicated that it shall be improved while choosing more efficient development methods of brand vulnerability.
Theory for Determining Energy Value in Nanometric Biophysical Systems

In a hypothesis for Gradual Ultramaterialism [1,2] Cognitive Physics and Computation work in greater terms than the redacted, structuralist-autonomous CNS, Neurophysical model [3,4], hadronic physics is the continuation or perpetuation attractor of the Ultra- meaning beyond, or Highest-dimensional primary causation and Brane point of origin. The B/CNS is proposed as an Oracle Machine composed of subsets, NP-incomplete Quantum Turing Machines [5], infinitesimal Origin-system of modes of Quantum Algorithms for Time-like inertia of all Physical forces, e.g. Electro-magnetism mechanics, Gravity-Entropy, Weak Nuclearity, and Time-fluctuation, in inflationary physics and string energy landscape. ICSO as deterministic, biophysical model for representation generates a Gestalt probability in DGW of basic, Quantum Mechanical working system states. Self-organization and Hypercomputation of Zeta functions, Fuzzy sets and Dirac delta, Casimir effect, Planck constants, de Broglie Equation and Shannon entropy are developed in real-time for modal computation in DGWE. The Probability of Origin Point in the QTM is the generator for the proposed point of attraction in R [6] per Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle where (sx sp>/h/2).
An approach to estimate of 2D-3D motion of surfaces: the frequency domain technique

Phase correlation is one of the robustest methods for estimating planar translations: it is a global approach because it operates in the frequency domain using the whole image information and not just a selected subset of the image as the feature-based methods do. The good characteristics of phase correlation for estimating planar translations were found to be a strong motivation for its extension to the estimation of planar rotations. An original algorithm for estimating planar rotations inspired by phase correlation is presented in this work. Practical experimentation on real imagery confirm the expected robustness of the method. Furthermore, a natural extension of the proposed algorithm will be also presented for 3D shapes motion estimation. Free-form 3-D surfaces registration is a fundamental problem in 3-D imaging, tipically approached by extensions or variations of the ICP algorithm [2,10]. In this paper an alternative procedure for 3-D motion estimation wiil be suggested, based on the Fourier transform of the 3-D intensity function, implicitly described by the registered time-sequences of range data. As the proposed method is very suitable for 2D and 3D modeling of cultural heritages, some examples and results of its application to Madonna of Donatello, located in the Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua, will be also presented. 1. ESTIMATION OF PLANAR ROTATIONS BY MEANS OF PHASE CORRELATION
Identifying user roles in Twitter

Social Networks such as Twitter offer a platform for individuals to create and share messages, establish ‘friendships’ between each other, and even become part of specific communities. Twitter has enabled a range of important social activity to succeed, including identifying public health issues and more recently, as a platform for social and political change. However, in spite of this, the volumes of messages that are transmitted per day make identifying valuable content from the back chatter and ultimately, influential individuals from spam, difficult. To tackle this, a classification model which utilizes the features offered in Twitter has been developed which classifies users based on their interaction behavior. This model helps identify Twitter users into specific categories based on their own specific behavior. This provides a method of identifying users who
Tractography of white matter based on diffusion tensor imaging in ischaemic stroke involving the corticospinal tract: a preliminary study

Diffusion tensor MR imaging (DTI) provides information on diffusion anisotropy in vivo, which can be exhibited three-dimensional white matter tractography. Five healthy volunteers and five right-hand affected patients with early subacute ischaemic infarction involving the posterior limb of the internal capsule or corona radiate were recruited in this study. We used 3D white matter tractography to show the corticospinal tract in both volunteer group and stroke group. Then we compared parameters of the corticospinal tract in patients with that in normal subjects and assessed the relationships between the fiber number of the corticospinal tract in ipsilesional hemisphere and indicators of the patients' rehabilitation using Pearson correlation analysis. The fractional anisotropy (FA) values and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values in the ipsilesional corticospinal tract may significantly reduce comparing with the volunteer group. In addition, the stroke patient with less fiber number of the ipsilesional corticospinal tract may bear more possibilities of better motor rehabilitation. The FA values, ADC values and fiber number of the corticospinal tract in the ipsilesional hemisphere might be helpful to the prognosis and prediction of clinical treatment in stroke patients.
Purchasing Organic Food in U.S. Food Systems: A Study of Attitudes and Practice

Consumers' preference for organic foods in the context of food aspects considered important in a consumption decision and socioeconomic variables has been examined in this study. The results indicate that food aspects related to naturalness, vegetarian-vegan and production location were critical enhancing regularity of organic food purchases. While the familiarity food aspect was viewed as a 'no' issue as far as organic food purchases are concerned. Results further indicate that females and young people buy organics on a regular basis. In terms of political affiliation and church attendance, the liberals and those who at least visit places worship once a month will also regularly buy organics.
Obstacle Avoidance Technology Based on Collision Cone for UAV FastSLAM

Zeng-xiang Yang, Xi-bin Wang, Wei-chao Si Wenling Power Supply Company of Bay Power Supply State Wenling Power Supply Company, Taizhou Zhejing, 317500, China Department of Control Engineering, Naval Aeronautical and Astronautical University, Yantai Shandong 264001, China Department of Armament Science and Technology, Naval Aeronautical and Astronautical University, Yantai Shandong 264001, China Yangzengxiang520@163.com, wangxi_bin@163.com, luchdevilsi@163.com
The Petersburg Paradox: Menger revisited

The Petersburg Paradox and its solutions are formulated in a uniform arrangement centered around d'Alembert's ratio test. All its aspects are captured using three mappings, a mapping from the natural numbers to the space of the winnings, a utility function defined on the space of the winnings, and a transformation of the utilities of the winnings. The main attempts at a solution of the Petersburg Paradox are labeled according to their most fervent proponents, viz. Bernoulli and Cramer, Buffon, and Menger. This paper also investigates the role of the probabilities for the Petersburg Paradox: they may well be used to solve a Petersburg Paradox, or to re-gain it by means of appropriate transformations. Thus, the probabilities are also instrumental for the Petersburg Paradox. The Petersburg Paradox can only be avoided for bounded utility functions. Its various solution proposals are but disguised attempts of filling in the missing behavioral justification for the boundedness of utility functions. This paper also corrects several misconceptions which have crept in the respective literature.