Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Utilizing Body Temperature to Evaluate Ovulation in Mares

Although reproductive technology has added many dimensions to the horse breeding industry, less invasive and more efficient methods of evaluating follicular development and ovulation would be beneficial to both the commercial breeder and private horse owner. Because of the highly variable estrous cycle of the mare, it is difficult for breeders to coordinate insemination with ovulation, and much time is invested in evaluation via palpation, ultrasound, and teasing. In both dairy cattle and women, a significant change in body temperature has been measured during the hours immediately prior to ovulation. Research exploring the relationship of body temperature and ovulation in horses has been limited to one study in which no relationship between temperature and ovulation was identified. The current study utilized 38 mature mares and was conducted during the physiologic breeding season. Each mare was implanted in the nuchal ligament with a microchip capable of reporting body temperature, and rectal temperatures were obtained using a digital thermometer. Once an ovulatory follicle was detected using ultrasonography and the mare was exhibiting signs of estrus, the follicle size and temperature were recorded approximately every 6 h until ovulation. No difference was found in rectal temperature in relation to the presence or absence of a follicle. Under specific circumstances, temperatures obtained using the microchip were higher (P < 0.05) prior to ovulation compared with those temperatures collected immediately following ovulation.
Un cas d'amnésie transitoire par thrombophlébite cérébrale: apport de la neuro-imagerie a la physiopathogénie des amnésies transitoires.

Un cas d'amnesie transitoire symptomatique chez une patiente droitiere du a une thrombophlebite cerebrale est rapporte. A notre connaissance il s'agit du premier cas rapporte dans la litterature. Les explorations par neuro-imagerie (IRM et SPECT) ont revele l'existence d'une souffrance temporale interne unilaterale droite. Une telle atteinte fait discuter la specialisation de chaque hippocampe.
ResearchArticle Compact and Broadband Microstrip Antennas for Next Generation High-Speed Wireless Communication Using HIPERLAN/2

The investigations on rectangular-slot-loaded and V-slot-loaded proximity-coupled microstrip antennas are reported. The performances of two antennas are investigated for the application in wireless local area network 2 (HIPERLAN/2) using IE3D software and the computed results are verified by measurement. Results show that the antennas have wide bandwidth and moderate gain and may be used as small, compact antennas for HIPERLAN/2 communication.
Publication 6 SelfOrganizing Map in Matlab: the SOM Toolbox

The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is a vector quantization method which places the prototype vectors on a regular low-dimensional grid in an ordered fashion. This makes the SOM a powerful visualization tool. The SOM Toolbox is an implementation of the SOM and its visualization in the Matlab 5 computing environment. In this article, the SOM Toolbox and its usage are shortly presented. Also its performance in terms of computational load is evaluated and compared to a corresponding Cprogram.
Prevalence of Aspirin-Induced Asthma in Certain Group of Kosovo Population and its Presentation

Prevalence of Aspirin-Induced Asthma in Certain Group of Kosovo Population and its Presentation Background. Aspirin-induced asthma (AIA) is characterized by onset of asthma attack 30 minutes to 3 hours after ingestion of aspirin or NSAIDs (Non steroid antiinflammatory drugs). The typical reaction may be accompanied by intense rhinorhea, periorbital edema with conjunctival irritation and facial flushing. Often, at physical examination, nasal polyposis and serum eosinophilia are notable. Aim: The aim of this study is to identify the behavior of aspirin induced asthma in a certain group of Kosovo population, in terms of age and its presentation. Material and methods. At the University Hospital Centre in Prishtina, 172 adult patients with asthma were diagnosed, while 16 (9.3 %) of them were with aspirininduced asthma (f/m=12/4). Results. The average age was 40.2 years. Nine of them showed triad of symptoms (aspirin-intolerance, asthma, nasal polyposis) while 7 (43.7%) showed tetrad of symptoms (aspirin-intolerance, asthma, nasal polyposis, and sinusitis). Total IgE levels were increased only in 3 patients (18.8%), while eosinophilia was increased only in 8 (50%) of the patients. The skin prick test with standard set of inhalant allergens was positive only in 3 patients (18.8%). There was no correlation between in vitro and in vivo tests. Conclusion. Since there is no reliable in vitro test for the diagnosis of aspirin sensitivity, definitive diagnosis requires an oral or nasal aspirin challenge, which needs to be performed in a hospital.
PhysicTV - Motion-based physical rehabilitation games for the Google-TV

O termo PhysicTV e composto por dois termos distintos. O primeiro (Physic - Fisico) refere-se ao aspeto fisico associado ao objetivo da plataforma e o segundo (TV - Televisao) refere-se ao aspeto tecnologico uma vez que os jogos a desenvolver vao ser jogados numa televisao.Enquanto plataforma, o PhysicTV contem duas tecnologias principais: XtionPRO e GoogleTV. Os principais objetivos deste projeto sao a integracao entre essas tecnologias e o desenvolvimento de jogos eletronicos que possam ser utilizados para efeitos de reabilitacao. O primeiro desses objetivos constituira uma vertente inovadora e o segundo vai permitir ao fisioterapeuta uma ligeira mudanca nas sessoes com os seus pacientes, tornando-as mais dinâmicas e mantendo os pacientes mais motivados aquando da realizacao de exercicios. Com o XtionPRO e os seus sensores de movimento, e possivel ao utilizador interagir com o sistema atraves dos movimentos dos bracos, permitindo-lhe realizar exercicios e ir melhorando durante as sessoes.
Introducing Special Issues in BIOLINGUISTICS

phenomenon, the grammatical marking of discourse reference and clausal argument structure by the category . Just after the acquisition of V2 (at week 125), the use of the variant elements before names/nouns begins to rise. Argument structure gets established, once the predicate containing that structure has been shaped by a grammatical marking . Predication (C0/I0) precedes reference (D0). It takes the period between 2;4–2;9 (week 120–145) for Dutch Sarah’s articles to reach the adult norm. The wh-element is a element too. The acquisition of Move to [Spec,CP] takes place as soon as is identified as a (determiner) in front of NPs. Reinterpreted as a D , the gets access to the clause-initial position. See some examples of preposing in the speech of Sarah before and after the acquisition point at 2;9
Antibiotic susceptibility of Enteric pathogens from the Maasai community, Narok and Kajiado Districts, Kenya.

SUMMARY The emergence of resistance to antimicrobial agents in bacterial pathogens is a worldwide problem that has been associated with inappropriate use in human and veterinary medicine. Between August 2004 and July 2005 stool samples from 380 patients were cultured for enteric pathogens and characterized by Polymerase Chain Reaction for the presence of virulence properties. Patients were from Narok and Kajiado Districts of Kenya, mainly populated by the Maasai community majority of who practice traditional medicine. 218 patients were from Narok District Hospital and 62 from Entosopia Clinic in Kajiado. A total of 107 E. coli and 35 Shigella isolates were tested. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was done using the E-test strips containing tetracycline, gentamicin, chloramphenicol, fosfomycin, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, Trimethoprim/Sulphamethoxazole, ticarcillin/ clavulanic acid and ciprofloxacin. The resistance frequencies did not differ significantly between other E. coli and Shiga toxigenic E. coli, respectively; gentamicin (3% vs. 3%), chloramphenicol, (24% vs. 23%) and ampicillin (25% vs. 23%), tetracycline (63% vs. 68%), fosfomycin (44% vs. 54%) and Trimethoprim/Sulphamethoxazole (84% vs. 84%). Overall antibiotic resistance levels were at much lower levels than those reported from the rest of Kenya, possibly due to the lower levels of exposure and usage of antimicrobials among the Maasai community.
SISTEM PENGENALAN CITRA JENIS-JENIS TEKSTIL

Sistem pengenalan untuk identifikasi tekstil berbasis komputer merupakan proses memasukkan informasi berupa citra kain ke dalam komputer. Selanjutnya komputer menterjemahkan serta mengidentifikasi jenis kain tersebut. Pada penelitian ini telah dilakukan perancangan sistem identifikasi tekstil yang memanfatkan mikroskop digital untuk akuisisi data citra kain. Selanjutnya dilakukan pemrosesan awal, ekstraksi ciri dan pengklasifikasi. Pada pengembangan sistem ini terdiri 2 yaitu tahap penetuan pola standar referensi dan pengujian. Data yang digunakan sebagai standar refrensi sebanyak 5 sampel untuk masing-masing jenis kain yaitu blacu, finished dan rajut. Sedangkan untuk pengujian unjuk kerja sistem menggunakan 100 sampel untuk masing- masing jenis kain. Pengujian unjuk kerja sistem dilakukan dengan melakukan variasi ukuran citra dan metode metrik jarak. Hasil pengujian sistem identifikasi citra kain menunjukkan tingkat akurasi yang tinggi sebesar 93% untuk ukuran citra asli 600x800 dengan metode ekstraksi ciri histogram dan teknik klasifikasi metrik jarak Squared Chi Squared. Kata kunci: Identifikasi Kain, Histogram, Metrik Jarak
Radio Resource Allocation for Increased Capacity in Cellular Networks

Cellular networks are widely deployed for wireless communication, and as the number of users of these networks increase, so does the need for higher spectral efficiency. Clever measures have to be taken in order to increase throughput for wireless networks because of the scarcity of radio resources. Ever higher rates are demanded, but we also want to conserve a fair distribution of the available resources. Therefore, we consider the problem of joint power allocation and user scheduling, while achieving a desired level of fairness in wireless cellular systems. Dynamic resource allocation is employed for the full reuse networks simulated, in order to cope with inter-cell interference and to optimize spectrum efficiency. Binary power allocation is implemented and compared to the performance without power control, for minimum transmit power levels equal to 0 and greater than 0. We show that binary power control with individual power levels for each cell is optimal for two-cell networks. We also present an extension to the proportional fair scheduling for multi-cell networks, and analyze its performance for different cell sizes and time windows. Finally, we highlight the equality between multi-cell, multi-user and multi-carrier proportional fair scheduling. Simulation results show how power control and user scheduling increase throughput, reduce power consumption and achieve a desired level of fairness. Hence, we can obtain considerable gains for the network throughput through adaptive power allocation and multiuser diversity.
Evaluation of Antidiabetic Activity of Methanolic Leaf Extract of Coriandrum sativum in Alloxan Induced Diabetic Rats

Diabetes mellitus is the most common endocrine disorder that impairs glucose homeostasis resulting in severe diabetic complications including retinopathy, angiopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy causing neurological disorders due to perturbation in utilization of glucose. In the present study diabetes was induced in albino rat models with alloxan monohydrate. Coriandrum sativum Linn, has been claimed to possess antidiabetic properties in traditional medicine. The present study was undertaken to screen the hypoglycemic activity of methanolic extracts of leaves of Coriandrum sativum. The methanolic extract showed significant dose dependant decrease in blood glucose level at a dose of 200 mg/kg and 400 mg/kg. It also decreased the lipid parameters such as total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, VLDL and TG when compared with diabetic control. Other biochemical parameters
A Study on the Chinese Romanization Standard in Libraries

Two major Chinese romanization systems are used in libraries: Wade-Giles and Pinyin. Due to structural defects and distorted pronunciation, Wade-Giles, the Chinese romanization standard in the North American library community, is beyond the knowledge of most Library users. On the other hand, Pinyin, the international transliteration standard for Chinese, is as accurate in rendering standard Chinese pronunciation as it is popular with library users. Though the shift of the Chinese romanization standard from Wade-Giles to Pinyin appears to be a logical and reasonable choice, the conversion issue has been repeatedly raised and discussed, but has never materialized. In order t6 facilitate the implementation of the switch without delay, the issues must be clearly and widely understood so that the attending problems can be promptly resolved.
Machine Learning in Astroinformatics Using Massively Parallel Data Processing

Modern astronomy and all natural sciences are dealing with exponentially increasing amounts of data. This phenomena resulted in the penetration of computer science into pure natural sciences. In the case of contemporary astronomy, this led to the creation of a new field called astroinformatics. This thesis is a case study of modern parallel machine learning algorithms and their usage on astronomical big data. It resulted into deep neural network classifiers running on graphical processors and built on top of Caffe framework. An efficient input layer was added into Caffe so it is possible to use standard flat files for big data. The classifier comes with two pre-trained models to fit tabular and raw spectral data. The model for raw spectra is a two layered convolutional network whose accuracy is over 99% and average dataflow 1440 MB/s. The source code of our classifier is available on github https://github.com/ vodev/vocloud-deeplearning and the big data layer for Caffe framework at https://github.com/atheiste/caffe/tree/big_data_layer
Arbeiten und begreifen: Erfahrungshandeln in virtuellen und realen Welten

Einfuhrung Die heutige industrielle Produktion ist durch eine zunehmende Informatisierung von Produkten und Produktionsprozessen und die Tendenz zur Virtualisierung gekennzeichnet. Traditionelle Produktionsund Arbeitsweisen, die mehr oder weniger durch den unmittelbaren und vielsinnigen Umgang mit materiellen Objekten gepragt waren, verlieren an Bedeutung. An ihre Stelle treten virtuelle Werkzeuge, Werkstoffe und Maschinen. Virtual Prototyping und Virtual Manufacturing sind beispielsweise solche Techniken, die bei vielen Unternehmen bereits Einzug gefunden haben und die eine durchgangige digitale Prozesskette ermoglichen. Das Ziel ist die Zahl physikalischer Modelle und Prototypen, deren Erstellung viel Zeit und Kosten kostet, drastisch zu reduzieren. Welche Konsequenzen hat dies fur die Handhabung technischer Prozesse und fur deren Verstandnis und Beherrschung?
Statistical Computing in Functional Data Analysis: The R Package fda.usc

This paper is devoted to the R package fda.usc which includes some utilities for functional data analysis. This package carries out exploratory and descriptive analysis of functional data analyzing its most important features such as depth measurements or functional outliers detection, among others. The R package fda.usc also includes functions to compute functional regression models, with a scalar response and a functional explanatory data via non-parametric functional regression, basis representation or functional principal components analysis. There are natural extensions such as functional linear models and semi-functional partial linear models, which allow non-functional covariates and factors and make predictions. The functions of this package complement and incorporate the two main references of functional data analysis: The R package fda and the functions implemented by Ferraty and Vieu (2006).
Compensatory Education for Disadvantaged Mexican Students: An Impact Evaluation Using Propensity Score Matching

The authors use propensity score matching to evaluate the effectiveness of CONAFE, a compensatory education program in Mexico, in improving student test scores and lowering repetition and failure rates. They find that CONAFE is most effective in improving primary school math learning and secondary school Spanish learning. Secondary education delivered by way of television to remote communities and bilingual education for indigenous students are both shown to improve student achievement. CONAFE also lowers primary school repetition and failure rates. The authors conclude that this compensatory education program can effectively improve short-term learning results for disadvantaged students, but that improvement varies by the subject of instruction and the demographics of students taught.
SERO-PREVALENCE OF PESTE DES PETITS RUMINANTS (PPR) VIRUS IN SHEEP AND GOATS IN PUNJAB PROVINCE OF PAKISTAN

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute febrile viral disease of sheep and goats characterized by mucopurulent nasal and ocular discharge, necrotizing and erosive stomatitis, enteritis and pneumonia. The disease is endemic in Pakistan and causes huge economic losses due to high rates of mortality and morbidity in infected sheep and goats. In the present study, 660 serum samples of sheep and goat were collected from 24 districts of Punjab Province of Pakistan. Competitive Enzyme Linked Immunosorbant Assay (cELISA) was used to detect the presence of antibodies in the serum against PPRV. Findings suggested that the sero-positive cases were significantly higher in sheep than in goats (51.29 versus 39.02%; P=0.002). The overall sero-prevalence of PPRV in small ruminants was 43.33%. Highest prevalence (35.71-100%) was observed in Southern districts, while no antibodies were found in serum from some of Northern and Eastern districts of the Punjab Province.
New Class Cohesion Metric: An Empirical View

Cohesion is an Object-Oriented (OO) software design property that helps for the measuring of degree of interdependency or connectivity within subsystems of a system. Numerous class cohesion metrics can be found in the literature. Which metric is best suited for a given situation is always a critical question. Few metrics are validated empirically against open source software projects. The purpose of this paper is to validate empirically of the proposed new class cohesion metric (CC) using some open source software projects and find the effected quality factors. Results of this paper conclude that CC continuously gives better correlation with Number Line of Code (NLOC) compare to other existing cohesion metrics. The average value of CC (CohS) of a system also predicts the natures (understandability, modifiability, and maintainability) of a system.
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AODV AND DSR MANET ROUTING PROTOCOL

A mobile Ad-hoc network is self-organized wireless network which are able to connect on a wireless medium without the use of a infrastructure or any centralized administration. The mobile nodes perform both as a host and a router forwarding packets to other nodes routing in these network is highly complex nodes within each other’s radio range communication directly via wireless links while those that are far apart use other nodes as relays in a multi-hop routing fashion. This paper present performance comparison of two mobile ad-hoc network routing protocols i.e. Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing(DSR), using Qualnet 5.0. 2 The performance analysis is based on different network metrics such as End-to-End delay(s), Average Jitter(s), Total packet received and Throughput.
Effects of Nutritional Counseling and Micronutrient Supplementation on Some Biochemical Parameters of Persons Living with HIV and AIDS in Uyo, Nigeria

3 Abstract: The nutritional status of 290 randomly selected persons living with HIV and AIDS, who reported for anti retro viral therapy at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital was evaluated. The study participants were randomly assigned subjects (78 females and 66 males), who received nutritional counseling and free daily micronutrient supplements and controls (76 females and 70 males), who did not receive. Their biochemical parameters (Serum albumin, packed cell volume, serum retinol and serum Vitamin C) wer e assessed at recruitment and the end of the four month study period. The results showed that there was significant difference (p 0.05) in the mean gain in total serum protein between male subjects and control, however there was a significant difference (p<0.05) in mean gain in serum protein between female subjects and female controls. The study also observed a significant difference (p<0.05) in the mean gains in serum albumin; serum retinol and serum vitamin c levels respectively between subjects and their controls. It is recommended that in resource-limi ted settings all PLWHA should be given individualized nutritional counseling and micronutrient supplementation, when undergoing anti-retro viral therapy.
EVOLUTION OF THE SPEECH ORGANS OF MAN

Human speech depends primarily on the production of sound in the larynx, an organ which corresponds to the reed in various musical instruments or to the sound box of a gramophone. To produce this sound bellows are required to blow air through the glottis; these bellows are provided by the lungs, encased in the thoracic cavity, made up of the mobile ribs and the diaphragm. The compound sound produced in the larynx is modified by resonators above and below the glottis and is further altered by various stops, which can interrupt the vibrating column of air or direct it mostly through the nose or out of the mouth, independently or synchronously. These stops are the vocal cords and ventricular bands, the soft palate and nasopharyngeal sphincter, the tongue and fauces and the lips. All of these constituents of the speech mechanism are controlled and coordinated by the brain and are
HIV-assoziierte Lymphome

Forty-one HIV-positive homosexual men (mean age 39.8 [23-72] years) with malignant lymphomas were examined with the object of exploring the clinical and pathological spectrum of HIV-associated lymphomas in Central Europe, and their therapeutic aspects. There were 33 patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma of high malignancy and four with non-Hodgkin lymphoma of low malignancy; four further patients suffered from Hodgkin's disease. 27 patients died during the period of observation. The mean survival period after diagnosis was 5.5 months. It depended on the stage reached by the lymphoma at the time of diagnosis: 11.8 months in stage I, 10.6 months in stage II, 7 months in stage III, 3.3 months in stage IV and 1.3 months in patients with primary involvement of the central nervous system by the lymphoma. Eight out of nine patients with highly malignant non-Hodgkin lymphoma in stage I or II attained complete and lasting remissions after chemotherapy or irradiation. However, only minimal prolongation of life was achieved in the 16 patients with lymphomas in stages III or IV. The response rate among all patients treated (complete and partial remissions) was 75%; 45% achieved complete remission. Hodgkin's disease responded well to standard therapy, but the disease rapidly recurred in every case.
Biometric identification system using a radial basis network

The paper describes an efficient face identification method using a probabilistic neural net. Our system is compared to the method presented at ICCST'99, based on the Karhunen-Loeve transform for feature extraction (reduction of dimensionality of the input image), and a feedforward multilayer perceptron neural net, implemented as a classifier device, that performed the identification process.