Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dutch National Food Consumption Survey 2007-2010 : Diet of children and adults aged 7 to 69 years

Nederlanders eten nog steeds te weinig fruit, groente, vis en vezel. Wel is het type vet in de voeding verbeterd, doordat vooral de hoeveelheid transvetzuren in voedingsmiddelen is afgenomen. Het aandeel verzadigde vetzuren in de voeding is echter nog ongunstig en overgewicht komt frequent voor. Dit blijkt uit recente voedselconsumptiegegevens van het RIVM. Hiervoor is tussen 2007 en 2010 in kaart gebracht wat kinderen en volwassenen consumeren. Belang gezond voedingspatroon: Een gezond voedingspatroon is van belang om overgewicht en chronische ziekten tegen te gaan. Met de verkregen kennis van het huidige consumptiepatroon kan een gezondere voeding worden gestimuleerd. Dit kan via veranderingen in het voedselaanbod en het voedingsgedrag. Inname van vitamines en mineralen: Uit de peiling blijkt ook dat een deel van de bevolking minder vitamine A, B1, C en E, magnesium, kalium en zink binnen krijgt dan wordt aanbevolen. Onderzoek is nodig naar de effecten hiervan op de gezondheid. Verder wordt het advies aan specifieke leeftijdsgroepen voor hogere innames van foliumzuur (voor vrouwen die zwanger willen worden), vitamine D (voor senioren), ijzer (voor vrouwen in de vruchtbare leeftijd) en calcium (voor adolescenten) lang niet altijd opgevolgd. Dit onderschrijft de adviezen van de Gezondheidsraad aan genoemde groepen om foliumzuur- en vitamine D-supplementen te slikken. Voor de lage inname van ijzer en calcium zijn de gezondheidsconsequenties onduidelijk. Hiernaar is meer onderzoek nodig. Toepassingen voedselconsumptiegegevens: Deze voedselconsumptiepeiling bevat gedetailleerdere gegevens dan de vorige bevolkingsbrede peiling in 1997/1998. De actuele gegevens kunnen worden gebruikt als ondersteuning van beleid op het gebied van gezonde voeding en veilig voedsel, om het voedingsmiddelenaanbod te verbeteren, bij voedingsvoorlichting en binnen het voedingsonderzoek.
P/sup 5/ : a protocol for scalable anonymous communication

We present a protocol for anonymous communication over the Internet. Our protocol, called P/sup 5/ (peer-to-peer personal privacy protocol) provides sender-, receiver-, and sender-receiver anonymity. P/sup 5/ is designed to be implemented over current Internet protocols, and does not require any special infrastructure support. A novel feature of P/sup 5/ is that it allows individual participants to trade-off degree of anonymity for communication efficiency, and hence can be used to scalably implement large anonymous groups. We present a description of P/sup 5/, an analysis of its anonymity and communication efficiency, and evaluate its performance using detailed packet-level simulations.
A High Performance Web Server Based on Pipeline

Architectures of servers have very important effects on their performance. Some shortcomings of the existing design of servers' architectures are indicated and some design principals are presented in this paper. A new architecture of servers 'pipeline' and a design pattern 'resource manager' based on the above analysis are proposed in this paper. A real Web server is implemented by using these new techniques. The testing results show that it is
A Use Case Template: Draft for Discussion

One of the more surprising things about the UML standard is the lack of detail on the structure of use cases. The UML semantics [1] state that “A use case can be described in plain text, using operations, in activity diagrams, by a state-machine, or by other behavior description techniques, such as pre-and post conditions. The interaction between the use case and the actors can also be presented in collaboration diagrams. ” However no format is presented for any of these alternatives.
Comparison of mononuclear and mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in myocardium infarction

Background: Bone marrow stem cell (SC) transplantation into failing myocardium has emerged as a novel therapeutic option for the treatment of ventricular dysfunction. Both mononuclear (MoSC) and mesenchymal (MeSC) stem cells have been proposed as ideal cell types to this goal. The objective of this study is to compare the efficacy of these cells in improving ventricular function in a rat model of postinfarct ventricular dysfunction. Method: Myocardial infarction was induced in Wistar rats by left coronary occlusion. After 1 week, 42 animals with resulting ejection fractions (EF) lower than 30% were included in the study. MoSC and MeSC were obtained from bone marrow aspirates and separated by the Ficoll-Hypaque method. MeSC were cultured for 14 days before injection. Nine days after infarction, rats received intramyocardial injections of MoSC (n=8), MeSC (n=13) or culture medium as a control (n=21). Echocardiographic evaluation was performed at baseline and after one month. Results: There were no significant differences in the baseline ejection fractions or the left ventricular end diastolic volumes (LVEDV) between all groups. After 1 month, ejection fraction decreased in the Control Group and remained unchanged in MoSC and MeSC Groups. In all three groups ventricular dilation was observed. Histopathology of the infarcted area where injections were performed identified new smooth muscle cells and endothelial cells in the MeSC Group and only new endothelial cells in MoSC Group Conclusions: Both MoSC and MeSC provided stabilization in the ejection fraction in this post-infarction ventricular dysfunction model however, no therapy prevented ventricular dilation.
Politikwissenschaft in einer entgrenzten Welt

Wahrend der letzten 50 Jahre hat es innerhalb des Rahmens der klassischen politikwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisinteressen verschiedene Themenkonjunkturen gegeben, sowohl im Bereich der Internationalen Beziehungen wie in der Demokratietheorie und der Steuerungstheorie. In diesem Papier wird zunachst gezeigt, das nicht zuletzt aufgrund der jungsten thematischen Erweiterungen zum ko-operativen Staat, gesellschaftlicher Selbstregelung und politischen Mehrebenen-systemen die zentralen Fragestellungen und analytischen Kategorien der Politikwissenschaft sich recht gut auf den transnationalen (globalen) Bereich ubertragen bzw. ausdehnen lassen. In einem zweiten Schritt wird argumentiert, das die derart anschlusfahigen Ansatze den Besonderheiten der Vorgange im transnationalen Bereich in verschiedener Hinsicht nicht gerecht werden. Diese Mangel stellen zum Teil Herausforderungen dar, die sich durch Veranderungen in der jetzt vorherrschenden analytischen Perspektive auf global governance bewaltigen liesen; teilweise stost die Politikwissenschaft hier aber an disziplinare Grenzen, die schwer uberwindbar sind.
Programme de lutte contre la pauvreté et stratégie de croissance au Sénégal. Les deux politiques se complètent-elles ?

Since 2004, the Government of Senegal has adopted an accelerated growth program in the aim of reducing poverty by half before 2015 (Millennium Development Goal). This article criticizes this program by analysing his pro-poor components. It shows that policies are too much oriented towards sectors that generate few jobs and revenues to poor people. Then, this growth strategy is not really in accordance with the Senegalese Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. ________________________________ Les autorites senegalaises ont adopte un programme de lutte contre la pauvrete avec le soutien des institutions de Bretton Woods depuis 2002. Afin de tenter d’atteindre les objectifs de reduction de la pauvrete qui ont ete fixes par les Objectifs du Millenaire pour le Developpement (OMD), elles ont lance en 2004 un programme de relance de la croissance. Cet article discute de cette nouvelle strategie de croissance et analyse de quelle maniere elle est en mesure ou non de repondre aux objectifs de reduction de la pauvrete. On montre que les orientations politiques de ce programme devraient avant tout favoriser les activites formelles peu generatrices d’emploi et de revenus. Cela interroge alors la maniere dont les autorites senegalaises s’impliquent dans la mise en oeuvre des politiques vis a vis des plus defavorises.
Epidemiologische Beispiele zur Seuchenausbreitung

The globalisation of trade with animals and animal products and increase of travel transports are very important issues with respect to prevent and control animal diseases or epizootics respectively. The disease control concepts as a complex manner should be established on scientific basis and must be permanently evaluated and updated. Outbreak investigations in order to clarify the source of infection and/or the spread of animal diseases including zoonoses are important fields of activities of veterinary epidemiologists. The application of modern epidemiological methods is the precondition of a successful disease control. On selected examples of animal diseases, the use of these methods is demonstrated. It is urgently necessary to intensify the epidemiological work in applied research and practice
Heart in the brain injured

system (amygdala and hippocampus). Following this, animal experiments showed that excessive activity of the parasympathetic system also played role in the myocardial damage. The current understanding is in massive stress causes an autonomic storm. In the immediate period, it activates the sympathetic system and in the later stages the parasympathetic system; both are thought to be responsible for the myocardial dysfunction seen in these patients. [1] In addition, it was recognised that the cerebral hemispherical dominance with regard to autonomic control (right predominantly sympathetic and left predominantly parasympathetic) probably also contributes to the dominant mechanism of sudden death (i.e., sympathetic vs. vagal). [2]
Le commerce d’exportation de voitures d’occasion entre Bruxelles et Cotonou

Chaque annee, entre 3 et 4 millions de voitures d’occasion sont exportees d’Europe vers l’Afrique. Le quart de ce commerce passe par le port d’Anvers. C’est pourtant a Bruxelles, le long du canal dans le quartier de Cureghem, que s’effectue la majeure partie de l’achat, la revente et la preparation de ces voitures. Se trouve ainsi rassemble sur quelques rues tout un marche reunissant des transporteurs de voitures d’occasions (en provenance essentiellement de France et d’Allemagne), des acheteurs directement debarques des principales capitales africaines, des dizaines de garages ainsi qu’une serie de commerces de biens en tout genre destines au fret. Une grande partie de ce commerce s’effectue en marge de la legalite avec une part belle laissee au marche informel, notamment pour l’achat et la revente des vehicules qui se fait a meme la rue. C’est en marge de la circulation des voitures d’occasion que s’est developpe la circulation des migrants. La grande majorite des personnes actives dans ce secteur sont des migrants arrives en Belgique en vue de pratiquer ce commerce. Certains ont pu s’installer et possedent aujourd’hui d’importants garages, d’autres sont venus pour quelques mois sans permis de sejour afin de rassembler un lot de voitures a exporter. Cette circulation se caracterise par une activite que nous qualifions de glocale en ce sens qu’il s’agit d’une activite economique a l’echelle globale mais extremement ancree dans le local. Les populations occupees dans ce secteur d’activite vivent en effet dans un micro quartier entretenant tres peu de contact avec le reste de la ville. L’approche theorique fondant ce travail de terrain se base sur la Grounded Theory Approach de Glazer et Strauss et est mise en œuvre au travers d’entretiens approfondis et de Focus Group. Une importance particuliere est donnee au concept de carriere migratoire car il permet de rendre compte des etapes institutionnelles et sociales ainsi que de leurs bifurcations.
Motor nerve conduction velocity distribution of diabetic neuropathy

Objective To evaluate the motor nerve conduction velocity distribution (MNCVD) properties of early diabetic peripheral neuropathy(DPN). Method Sixty patients with early diabetic peripheral neuropathy were clinically observed and physically examined and their motor and sensory nerve conduction velocity were measured. Using computer-assisted collision technique(CCT),MNCVD for the median,ulnar and peroneal nerves was measured in 10 normal subjects and 60 adult DPN patients. Results Conduction velocity(CV)10%,CV50% and CV90% were (46.7±5.7)m/s,(50.6±5.2)m/s and (53.4±5.0) m/s for the median nerve;(47.4±5.6) m/s,(51.6±5.3) m/s and (55.0±5.4) m/s for the ulnar nerve;and (34.9±5.4) m/s,(39.2±4.6) m/s and (42.7±4.7) m/s for the peroneal nerve. Except for CV10% in median and ulnar nerve,CV50% in all tested nerves,the statistical differences were found in all values between normal and DPN patients. Conclusions MNCVD histogram of DPN patients showed left-shifted velocity peak and reduced conduction velocity in fibers of all the level. The early DPN processes affect peripheral nerves unevenly and the faster-conducting ones were preferentially affected. The MNCVD method is more sensitive and reliable than conventional measures. This technique can be used to diagnose subclinical DPN.
Sero-prevalence and risk factors associated with toxoplasma gondii infection among pregnant women in Alexandria, Egypt -

Background: Toxoplasma gondii infection during pregnancy can result in fetal death, neonatal death or various congenital defects. This study aimed to estimate the seroprevalence of toxoplasma gondii infection using two different diagnostic tests, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) versus Immunochromatographic assay (ICA) and to study the potential risk factors for acquiring infection in pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics in Alexandria, Egypt. Methods: A cross sectional study, conducted between May 2015 and June 2016. The study was done in antenatal care centers of most districts of Alexandria Governorate, Egypt. 382 pregnant women, of a gestational age between 8-40 weeks were included in the study and were given pretested structured questionnaire to assess risk factors, which included: demographic, socio-economic data, kitchen hygiene and behavioral variables. Blood samples were taken and sera were divided into two parts; the first part was examined for anti-T.gondii IgG and IgM antibodies using rapid diagnostic test RDT kit, the other part tested by ELISA. Results: The overall seroprevalence of T.gondii infection was (11.3%) detected by RDT, significantly increased to (57.9%) by ELISA test (X2= 5.3; p=0.001). RDT had the sensitivity of (15.8%), the specificity of (95%), PPV of (81.4%), NPV of (45.1%), with overall diagnostic efficiency of (49.2%). The association between T.gondii infection and the age of the pregnant women was found to be statistically significant (OR=2.84, 95%CI=1.251-6.455). Conclusions: The present study has documented a bad diagnostic performance of RDT in detection T.gondii in serum samples of infected pregnant women as compared to ELISA technique. Age is the only risk factor to be associated statistically with toxoplasma gondii infection.
Human Motion Capture using Computer Vision

We live in a visual world where our main input comes through our eyes. Building systems that can replicate (or even outperform! ) peoples’ ability to analyze visual information is the goal of the Computer Vision research field. One of the major focal points within this field is to automatically be able to capture human motion: Human Motion Capture. This rapidly growing research field has inspired this book. The book starts out by providing an overview of the different motion capture technologies and their potential applications. A special focus is here devoted to computer vision-based approaches. The rest of the book hereafter goes in-depth with a particular model-based approach known as Analysis-by-Synthesis and shows how the complexity of the problem can be made tractable by incorporating the human kinematics. Concretely the book illustrates how spatially-based pruning can be applied to constrain the state-space representation of the human’s upper body. The book is aimed at both researchers who seek insides into concrete methods for human pose estimation, as well as students who want and introduction to the exiting field of computer vision-based human motion capture.
Mobile Sensor Deployment Optimization for k-Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks with a Limited Mobility Model

Abstract Sensor deployment is one of the key issues in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). An optimal placement of sensors is propitious to the maximum possible utilization of the available sensors, balancing node energy consumption, and prolonging the network lifetime. In this paper, we consider the mobile sensor deployment optimization for k-coverage of sensor networks with limited mobility. Since a mobile sensor’s cost is higher than that of a static sensor, we want to allow partial sensors to move to fill the coverage holes and vacancies. Through the analysis of the node distribution of randomly deployed sensor networks, we present the density of the vacancy for k-coverage of sensor networks, and the number of mobile sensors required to move to fill the coverage holes and vacancies. Moreover, since sensor mobility consumes much more energy than sensing and communication, we restrict sensors to move in a limited mobility model, i.e., the disk-based mobility model, which can reduce the sensor moving distance greatly. In this paper, we attempt to improve k-coverage of the mobile sensor networks using the improved particle swarm optimization algorithm under limited mobility. Simulation results show that few mobile sensors in the disk-based mobility model can realize the k-coverage, which reduces the cost of the sensor networks and moving distance of mobile sensors.
Prevalencia de anticuerpos anti hepatitis C en pacientes con insuficiencia renal crónica en terapia conservadora

Introduccion La prevalencia de hepatitis C varia segun el area geografica y los grupos de riesgo. Los pacientes con insuficiencia renal cronica terminal (IRCT) en dialisis constituyen un grupo importante de riesgo. En el Peru las tasas de infeccion por el virus de la hepatitis C (HCV) en pacientes en hemodialisis llegan hasta 90 %, asociandose a las transfusiones y al tiempo en dialisis como factores de riesgo. Poco se sabe sobre la prevalencia de la infeccion por el HCV en pacientes con IRCT en terapia no dialitica. El objetivo de este estudio es conocer la prevalencia de la infeccion por HCV en estos pacientes y determinar los factores de riesgo. METODOLOGIA: Estudio prospectivo, se evaluaron los anticuerpos anti-hepatitis C (anti HCV) , en los pacientes con IRCT en terapia conservadora, no dialitica, del Servicio de Nefrologia del Hospital Arzobispo Loayza. RESULTADOS: Se estudiaron 99 pacientes, 54.1% varones y 45.8% de mujeres, con una edad promedio de 56.60 ± 17.9 anos, con un tiempo de diagnostico de IRC promedio de 9.28 ± 14.35 meses. La causa mas frecuente de IRC fue la no identificada seguida de la diabetes. Se hallo una tasa de antiHCV de 1.01 % (1 / 99) CONCLUSION: Se hallo una prevalencia baja de antiHCV en la poblacion estudiada, comparable con las tasas de la poblacion general sin IRCT.
SECURE COMPUTATION IN A PROBABILISTIC POLYNOMIAL-TIME PROCESS CALCULUS

In this paper, we present a general definition for secure computation following the general paradigm: a protocol is secure iff it can emulate an ideal protocol. We start by adopting the probabilistic polynomial-time process calculus, originally presented in [LMMS98], as the natural language to specify protocols. Given the nature of the adversaries together with the secrecy requirements of secure computation protocols, we need to augment the calculus with local output channels and priority terms. Capitalizing on the semantics of the calculus, we extract a Markov process of observations and establish the notion of emulation. After representing the ideal secure computation protocol in the calculus, we present the concept of secure computation via emulation and obtain the associated composition theorem, encompassing both active and passive adversaries. To illustrate the concepts and results in an intuitive and simple manner, we focus the simpler case of oblivious transfer (OT). Finally, we show that our concept of secure OT is equivalent to the concept formalized by Canetti in [Can00], which is based on interactive Turing machines, and discuss the advantages and simplifications introduced by this work.
Zoomer n’est pas explorer:Spatialiser les graphes, catégoriser et (dé)construire les réseaux

A partir du cas du web du livre en France, cet article interroge la notion de zoom dans l’exploration visuelle de reseaux. En soumettant un graphe a des questionnements et traitements successifs, il devient possible de comprendre ce qui apparait comme une anomalie pour le chercheur, un entrelacement sur le plan visuel de deux communautes pourtant distinctes du point de vue des categories et de l’algorithme de modularite. En appliquant ces differentes epreuves au graphe apparait la variete des algorithmes de spatialisation et de clusterisation, les limites des notions de zoom, de decoupage et d’exploration des reseaux, toutes metaphores spatiales peu pertinentes. Cette demarche plaide pour des conventions d’exploration qui assurent la robustesse de l’exploitation de ce type de donnees.
ANTIPLASMODIAL AND PHYTOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF MONANTHOTAXIS PARVIFOLIA (OLIV.) VERDC SSP. KENYENSIS VERDC (ANNONACEAE)

xvii CHAPTER ONE . 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW . 1 1.1 General introduction. 1 1.1.1 Plants as sources of medicines . 1 1.2 Literature review . 3 1.2.1 Malaria disease . 3 1.2.1.1 Transmission of malaria . 4 1.2.1.2 Symptoms of malaria . 5 1.2.1.3 International perspective of malaria. 7 1.2.1.4 Malaria control . 8 1.2.2 The role of plants in development of medicines for malaria . 10 1.2.2.1 Annonaceae family . 12 1.2.2. 2 Monanthotaxis genus in Kenya . 14 1.2.2.3 Monanthotaxis parvifolia ssp. kenyensis . 17 1.3 Study justification . 19 1.4 Study objectives . 19
Primary Pulmonary Hypertension and Moyamoya Disease: Case Presentation and Review of Literature

Introduction: Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) is an uncommon disease in children. This pulmonary vascular disease may be idiopathic, familial or a kind of hereditary systemic vasculopathy. Multisystemic vascular diseases in children are rare and may be underrecognized. A few reports have described the involvement of cerebral vessels such as moyamoya disease (MD) in patients with PPH. MD is a unique cerebrovasculopathy, characterized by occlusion of the internal carotid arteries. Case Presentation: We reported a 2-year-old boy with PPH, who presented unusual and intractable seizure which suggested the diagnosis of MD. We also reviewed a few previous reports about the association of PPH with moyamoya disease. Discussion: Moyamoya disease is a kind of cerebral vasculopathy and should be considered as a differential diagnosis for patients with unusual seizure attacks who are suffering from primary pulmonary hypertension.