Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The effect of an exercise program during pregnancy on the Edinburgh depression score in pregnant women

Background and Objective: Approximately 13-18.4% of pregnant women experience depression during pregnancy. There is currently not much information about the relationship between exercise during pregnancy and depressive symptoms in healthy pregnant women The present study assessed the effects of a prenatal exercise program on Edinburgh depression questionnaire score. Materials and Methods: A total of 100 healthy pregnant women (age ≥ 18 years; gestational age 21-24 weeks) were divided into two groups in the experimental group (n=50) and in the control group (n=50). The experimental group was offered a 12-week exercise program (standard recommendations and included both aerobic and strength training) between 20 and 36 weeks of pregnancy, under supervision, every two weeks. They were encouraged to do exercise program at home three days a week. The control group received routine antenatal care. The primary outcome was symptoms of depression assessed by the Edinburgh Depression Inventory at the first interview and immediately after the 12-week intervention. Results: The comparison of mean and standard deviation of the Edinburgh Depression Inventory in the two groups before intervention showed that there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups (p<0.10). After the 12-week intervention, as compared to the control group, the exercise group showed significantly reduced depressive symptoms on the Edinburgh Depression Inventory (p<0.01). Comparison of subtraction of mean and standard deviation of Edinburgh depression scores before and after intervention indicates a statistically significant difference between the two groups (p<0.001). Conclusion: Exercise during pregnancy reduces depressive symptoms. It is recommended to promote exercise and physical activity in pregnancy as a useful measure for the physical and mental health of pregnant women.
Le blog : retour en force de la « fonction auteur »

Apparu relativement recemment, le blog a rapidement connu un vif succes. Alors qu'on en comptait une vingtaine au debut de 1999, on en denombre aujourd'hui pas moins de 20 millions a travers le monde. Je me propose dans cette communication d'etudier en detail les caracteristiques semiopragmatiques des blogs, meme si l'entreprise est relativement difficile compte tenu de la diversite des blogs et des outils de gestion de blogs existants. Nous verrons ainsi combien cet outil remet a l'ordre du jour la notion meme d'auteur, malmenee jusqu'ici par le dispositif de l'hypertexte, et quelles sont les consequences de cette evolution, notamment dans le cadre d'une utilisation pedagogique.
Supply of the dairy cow with amino acids from dietary protein

Microbial protein produced in the rumen is not sufficient to meet the requirement for amino acids of the high producing dairy cow. The microbial protein thus need to be supplemented with a certain amount of undegraded protein which match the microbial protein both quantitatively and qualitative­ ly to enable an efficient utilization for milk production. This paper summarizes findings with respect to amino acid composition and digestibility of microbial amino acids. The main emphasis is however on recent findings with respect to degradability and digestibility of individual amino acids in feed proteins. The results seem to indicate that degradability and digestibility estimates obtained for nitro­ gen may not always apply to individual amino acids. It is concluded that more research is needed to identify the ideal profile of the amino acids absorbed from the intestine of lactating cows. Results of such efforts are needed to compose an ideal protein supplement eventually by using protected amino acids to balance the microbial protein to meet the amino acid requirement of dairy cattle with a minimum of rumen undegraded protein.
Voxelwise Detection of Cerebral Microbleed in CADASIL Patients by Genetic Algorithm and Back Propagation Neural Network

In this study, we proposed an application of voxelwise detection of cerebral microbleed in CADASIL patients by genetic algorithm (GA) and back propagation neural network (BPNN). We collected in total 20 subjects, and obtained 69,356 CMB voxels, and 124,063,981 non-CMB voxels. We employed BPNN as the classification tool. For BPNN has better prediction, we used GA to optimize BPNN. Finally, we used 10-fold cross validation to verify classifier performance. Our method obtained a sensitivity of 72.90±1.38%, a specificity of 72.89±1.18%, and an accuracy of 72.90±1.28%. Keywords—voxelwise detection; CADASIL; genetic algorithm; back propagation neural network
Techniques for improving the performance of software transactional memory

Transactional Memory (TM) gives software developers the opportunity to write concurrent programs more easily compared to any previous programming paradigms and gives a performance comparable to lock-based synchronizations. Current Software TM (STM) implementations have performance overheads that can be reduced by introducing new abstractions in Transactional Memory programming model. In this thesis we present four new techniques for improving the performance of Software TM: (i) Abstract Nested Transactions (ANT), (ii) TagTM, (iii) profile-guided transaction coalescing, and (iv) dynamic transaction coalescing. ANT improves performance of transactional applications without breaking the semantics of the transactional paradigm, TagTM speeds up accesses to transactional meta-data, profile-guided transaction coalescing lowers transactional overheads at compile time, and dynamic transaction coalescing lowers transactional overheads at runtime. Our analysis shows that Abstract Nested Transactions, TagTM, profile-guided transaction coalescing, and dynamic transaction coalescing improve the performance of the original programs that use Software Transactional Memory.
Use Of Online Translators To Develop Translator’s Competence Of ‘Digital Natives’ Generation

The paper reviews the use of neural-based online translators in the process of teaching students in a translation classroom in order to develop their translator’s competence. The authors define modern students as ‘digital natives’ and formulate their research goal as an attempt to create a specific method of working with online translators to develop translator’s competence of the students who are ‘digital natives’. The paper defines the most popular online translators and their specific features, singles out the main components of translator’s competence, describes the step-by-step action plan for developing translator’s competence of the students from ‘digital natives’ generation by means of online translators. The authors concentrate on detailed description of the experiment organized to check the method developed by them, discuss the results and draw the conclusions. In the paper, translator’s competence is understood as a unity of five components: translation, linguistic, information and technological, reflexive and motivational one. The main characteristics of the ‘digital native’ generation are described as complex information perception from audio, video, multimedia, graphic, sensor channels; insufficiency in perceiving information provided only in text format; insufficient skills of moving along the information labels while searching for the information in need; multitasking. At the end of the paper, some practical recommendations for translation teachers working with
Region-tree Based Sorted List Indexing for Real-time Entity Resolution in n-Dimensional Data Space

Entity resolution (ER) is the process of identifying which tuples/records in a dataset refer to the same real-world entity. In this paper, we primarily focus on the deduplication task for n-dimensional datasets that contain real vectors with the dimensionality 2 ≤ n ≤ 784. By presenting an algorithm with complete and disjoint space partitioning, the ER-Index with a region-tree and sorted lists will be created by a sample set of a (dirty) dataset. We utilize primary horizontal fragmentation to partition a dataset into a set of fragments, and then resolve the fragments one by one applying the ER-Index and algorithms. Extensive experiments are conducted to demonstrate the performances of our proposed approaches.
Revisión bibliográfica: Impacto de los estereotipos de género en la vida diaria de las mujeres. Un análisis desde la justicia ocupacional

espanolObjetivo: analisis critico del impacto de los estereotipos de genero en la participacion en la vida diaria de las mujeres en terminos de justicia ocupacional. Metodos: se realizo una busqueda bibliografica entre los meses de enero y marzo de 2015 utilizando las siguientes bases de datos: Sumarios de ISOC-Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades e ISOC- Educacion, Pubmed y ERIC, ademas de Google-Academico para obtener articulos completos. Los criterios de seleccion fueron: articulos entre 1990 y 2015, en lengua castellana, catalana o inglesa y que respondieran a las palabras clave: mujer, estereotipos de genero, vida diaria y justicia ocupacional. Finalmente se seleccionaron 33 articulos para la revision. Resultados: a partir de la informacion recogida, se han descrito los estereotipos de genero asociados a las mujeres actualmente y la participacion de estas en las diversas areas ocupacionales. Se han analizado estos datos desde un enfoque multidimensional de la ocupacion y en terminos de justicia ocupacional, lo que ha permitido identificar casos de privacion, alienacion, marginacion o desequilibrio ocupacional. Conclusiones: los estereotipos de genero tienen un impacto significativo en la participacion de la vida diaria de las mujeres al restringir esta participacion a las areas ocupacionales que responden al contenido y caracteristicas de los estereotipos de genero asociados a este colectivo. Asimismo, este impacto se ha podido traducir en casos de injusticia ocupacional (alienacion, privacion, marginacion y desequilibrio ocupacional). EnglishObjective: critical analysis on the impact that gender stereotypes have on women’s daily living participation in terms of occupational justice. Methods: a literature review has been conducted between January and March 2015 on the following databases: Sumarios de ISOC-Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades e ISOC- Educacion, Pubmed and ERIC, plus Academic-Google to obtain completed papers. Selection criteria include: papers published between 1990 and 2015, in Spanish, Catalan or English and papers found with keywords: women, gender stereotypes, daily living and occupational justice. Finally, 33 papers were selected for the review. Results: on the basis of the data collected, women gender stereotypes and their occupational participation have been described and analyzed through a multidimensional perspective of the concept of occupation and in terms of occupational justice, identifying the impact that gender stereotypes have in regards to possible situations of occupational deprivation, alienation, marginalization or imbalance. Conclusions: gender stereotypes have a significant impact on women’s daily living participation limiting their participation to only occupational areas that answer to the gender stereotypes characteristics related to women. Likewise this impact has been translated into occupational injustice cases (alienation, deprivation, marginalization and imbalance).
Surgical techniques in retinal detachment: scleral buckling vs circumferential + buckling

The goal of surgery for retinal detachment is to repair the detachment obtaining the best results and the minor complications. Incases where retinal rupture has caused excessive subcutaneous fluid accumulation, scleral buckling / circumferential techniques orvitrectomy are adopted. In most cases, scleral buckling resolves retinal detachment anatomically and functionally within one monthThe aim of the study is the evaluation of efficacy and postoperative complications in a group of patients with non complicatedrhegmatogenous retinal detachment treated with circumferential and buckling techniques, compared to the control group, treatedwith buckling alone.Fifty-three patients aged between 37 and 82 (mean age: 58.9 years) with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment were recruited fromJanuary 2005 to March 2010. Group A patients undergone radial buckling. Patients in group B were subjected to circling withsilicone band (circumferential + buckling) application. The safety of the two surgical techniques was evaluated in terms of intraand postoperative complications.The results showed that both techniques are effective in treating rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. The surgery “ab externo” wassuccessful for the treatment of retinal detachment after first intervention in 96% of cases in Group A and 75% of patients in GroupB. The best manageability of the circumferential and buckling technique has avoided the development of intraoperativecomplications. However, the number and type of postoperative complications would indicate that the circumferential + bucklingtechnique should not be adopted unless it is strictly necessary.In light of the data obtained, we can state that both surgical techniques are effective in determining retinal adhesion to the retinalpigment epithelium following rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. However, the use of buckling (minimal episcleral surgery) is saferand guarantees a better outcome on the patient visual acuity, and is therefore preferable to the circumferential + buckling.
Coalitional game theory for increasing the energy efficiency of cellular networks

The telecommunication sector is characterised by a huge energy consumption that is still increasing. Mobile network operators seek for new operating techniques to minimise their energy costs and their carbon footprint. One of these energy saving techniques is the use of energy efficient collaborations among the base stations (antennas) in their cellular networks. In this MSc thesis, a coalitional game-theoretic approach is taken to seek for the most energy-efficient collaboration among base stations in a cellular network. Three different coalitional game theory solution concepts: the Shapley value, the nucleolus, and the core are first investigated theoretically and then tested in a case study. Each of these concepts is based on different mathematical concepts such as fairness, dissatisfaction, or stability and may lead to different solutions. The concepts and corresponding solutions are compared with each other and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. One major disadvantage that must be overcome during the case study is the computational complexity when a large number of players is involved. The concepts are then tested on an urban heterogeneous cellular network with a dynamic traffic demand representing the urban area of Delft. Within this case study, the base stations are the players of the coalitional game and they can form collaborations with each other following the approach of the three mentioned solution concepts. To overcome the computational complexity, clustering among the base stations is applied to reduce the number of players in the game. The case study showed that the application of clusters among base stations reduces the computational complexity enormously whereas the energy efficiency decreases slightly. Furthermore, the results of the application of the solution concepts are promising. Each concept achieves almost a 50% energy efficiency increase. The difference in results between the three concepts is small.
Autophagy Regulated by Gain of Function Mutant p53 Enhances Proteasomal Inhibitor-Mediated Cell Death through Induction of ROS and ERK in Lung Cancer Cells

Mutations in p53, especially gain of function (GOF) mutations, are highly frequent in lung cancers and are known to facilitate tumor aggressiveness. Yet, the links between mutant GOF-p53 and lung cancers are not well established. In the present study, we set to examine how we can better sensitize resistant GOF-p53 lung cancer cells through modulation of cellular protein degradation machineries, proteasome and autophagy. H1299 p53 null lung cancer cells were stably transfected with R273H mutant GOF-p53 or wild-type (wt) p53 or empty vectors. The presence of R273H-P53 conferred the cancer cells with drug resistance not only against the widely used chemotherapeutic agents like cisplatin (CDDP) or 5-flurouracil (5-FU) but also against potent alternative modes of therapy like proteasomal inhibition. Therefore, there is an urgent need for new strategies that can overcome GOF-p53 induced drug resistance and prolong patient survival following failure of standard therapies. We observed that the proteasomal inhibitor, peptide aldehyde N-acetyl-leu-leu-norleucinal (commonly termed as ALLN), caused an activation of cellular homeostatic machinery, autophagy in R273H-P53 cells. Interestingly, inhibition of autophagy by chloroquine (CQ) alone or in combination with ALLN failed to induce enhanced cell death in the R273H-P53 cells; however, in contrast, an activation of autophagy by serum starvation or rapamycin increased sensitivity of cells to ALLN-induced cytotoxicity. An activated autophagy was associated with increased ROS and ERK signaling and an inhibition of either ROS or ERK signaling resulted in reduced cytotoxicity. Furthermore, inhibition of GOF-p53 was found to enhance autophagy resulting in increased cell death. Our findings provide novel insights pertaining to mechanisms by which a GOF-p53 harboring lung cancer cell is better sensitized, which can lead to the development of advanced therapy against resistant lung cancer cells.
Akran Aracılı Uyarlanmış Fiziksel Aktivitelere Katılan Otizm Spektrum Bozukluğu Olan Bir Bireyin İletişim Becerilerindeki Değişimlerin İncelenmesi

Bu arastirmanin amaci, akran aracili uyarlanmis fiziksel aktivite (AAUFA) programina katilan otizm spektrum bozuklugu (OSB) olan bir bireyin iletisim becerilerindeki degisimlerin incelenmesidir. Durum (Vaka) calismasi modelinde desenlenen arastirmaya, OSB tanili bir birey ve normal gelisim gosteren (NGG) uc akran katilmistir. Arastirmada, OSB tanili birey ve NGG uc akran ile birlikte ucu serbest fiziksel aktivite oturumu, 18’i ise AAUFA oturumu olmak uzere toplamda 21 egitim oturumu gerceklestirilmistir. AAUFA oturumlarinda, 29 farkli uyarlanmis fiziksel aktivite akran aracili olarak uygulanmistir. AAUFA oturumlari oncesi, NGG uc akran ile birlikte alti oturum akran egitimi sureci gerceklestirilmistir. Arastirma suresince gerceklestirilen tum oturumlar video kamera ile kayit altina alinmistir. Arastirma verileri farkli veri toplama araclari (gozlem formu, yari yapilandirilmis gorusme formlari, saha notlari ve yansitmaci gunluk) ile elde edilmistir. Arastirmanin bulgularina gore, OSB tanili bireyin goz kontagi, ortak ilgi, iletisim baslatma ve iletisime tepki becerilerinin AAUFA programi suresince olumlu yonde arttigi tespit edilmistir. Iletisim becerilerinde gozlenen bu olumlu degisimlerin arastirmadan uc hafta sonra elde edilen izleme olcumunde devam ettigi saptanmistir. Sonuc olarak, AAUFA programinin OSB tanili bireyin iletisim becerileri uzerinde olumlu yonde etkisi oldugu izlenimi edinilmistir.
Long-Term Cardiovascular Effects of Pregnancy-Related Disorders

Abstract Usually, pregnancy-elated effects and changes in the different organs terminate after delivery or maybe within 6 months. Long-term effect of complicated pregnancies leading to long-term cardiovascular and other diseases was recognized long back. With the accumulating evidence with many landmark studies, it became mandatory to have pregnancy heart team approach not only to manage during pregnancy and peripartum period but also to monitor future events and educate the pregnant women about the modification of cardiovascular risks for prevention of anticipated events. In this review, more importance is given to risk-stratify these women with complicated pregnancy and recommendation to prevent the long-term effects.
Code-switching: Contents

It is quite commonplace for bilingual speakers to use two or more languages, dialects or varieties in the same conversation, without any apparent effort. This phenomenon, known as code-switching, has become amajor focus of attention in linguistics. This concise and original study explores how, when and where code-switching occurs. Drawing on a diverse range of examples from medieval manuscripts to rap music, novels to advertisements, emails to political speeches, and above all everyday conversation, it argues that code-switching can only be properly understood if we study it from a variety of perspectives. It shows how sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, grammatical and developmental aspects of code-switching are all interdependent, and findings in each area are crucial to others. Breaking down barriers across the discipline of linguistics, this pioneering book confronts fundamental questions about what a “native language” is, and whether languages can be meaningfully studied independently from individuals who use them.
Numerical Taxonomy of Photosynthetic Rhizobia Nodulating Aeschynomene Species

Fifty-two strains of photosynthetic rhizobia isolated from stem and root nodules of Aeschynomene afraspera, Aeschynomene denticulata, Aeschynomene evenia, Aeschynomene indica, Aeschynomene nilotica, Aeschynomene pratensis, Aeschynomene rudis, Aeschynomene schemperi, and Aeschynomene sensitiva were compared with reference rhizobial strains representing Rhizobium, Bradyrhizobium, and Azorhizobium species by performing a multivariate statistical analysis of 150 phenotypic characteristics. Eight phena, some of which contained subphena, were identified. Aeschynomene rhizobia which synthesize bacteriochlorophyll were grouped in phenon 6, which contained three subphena, while nonphotosynthetic Aeschynomene rhizobia were grouped in phena 1 and 2. Our results indicate that the photosynthetic rhizobia nodulating Aeschynomene species belong to a phenon (phenon 6) that is separate from the genera Bradyrhizobium (phena 1 to 5), Azorhizobium (phenon 7), and Rhizobium (phenon 8).
Using Brain Computer Interface for Home Automation

-Brain computer interface (BCI) is a communication pathway between the brain and the external peripheral devices like computers. We propose to use this technology for Home automation. Home automation can be totally revolutionized using BCI. Brain produces various types of waves like alpha (9-13Hz), beta (14-30Hz), theta (4-8Hz), delta (1-3Hz). Using these waves we can control various home appliances. The entire concept consists of 4 main stages detection, amplification, processing, output. First detecting the brain signals using an EEG cap or electrodes. These brain signals are very weak hence in second stage we need to amplify these brain signals to a usable amount and filter these to remove noise. Then thirdly, we will have to convert these signals into digital by using A to D converter and into a type a computer software or a microcontroller can understand. Fourth, taking this decoded signal and sending these signals wirelessly, by using an RF circuit to a distant switch circuit, which will turn on or off the appliance in vicinity. Using this technology the life of people would be further simplified, physical efforts would be considerably reduced and it would also prove as a boon for physically disabled people.