Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Measuring and Visualizing Geometrical Differences Using a Consumer Grade Range Camera

Measuring geometrically complex parts is currently very labor and time intensive in most cases because it involves a significant amount of manual steps to perform a correct measurement. This project was done to find a more productive method of measuring these parts in a production environment. The method should be more productive in terms of speed and ease of use, by automation large parts of the process. The goal is to develop a solution that can measure and check parts automatically using a range camera. A range camera is selected because the data acquisition speed is significantly higher than that of a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). The only manual step in this process is the actual scanning, the remaining model making and comparison steps are fully automatic. A two-step method is presented that shows that it is possible to measure parts in a more productive manner, than conventional techniques used to measure object with a complex geometry. The developed method takes the depth images from the range camera and turns them into a point cloud model of the object that needs to be measured. The second step of the solution then automatically compares the point cloud against a CAD-model of the object. This second step is the key to improve measurement productivity. The end result of this is a proof of concept program that incorporates the two step method, that takes in range camera images and as output it gives the scanned object measured against a reference model. The labor time is reduced to the scanning time which is less than a minute. The total processing time to make the comparison takes roughly fifteen minutes depending on the amount of scanning data. The processing can be done in parallel to other production steps. Because a consumer grade range camera is used, only centimeter accuracy is reached. Using more advanced range cameras or similar techniques will lead to more accurate results as noise in the image, is the limiting factor for the algorithm developed here.
Correlation between Computed Tomography and Pathological Findings of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Treated with Imatinib Mesylate

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common and comprise the majority of mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract; unlike other tumors, they are considered potentially malignant (1). Surgery is the principal initial treatment for patients with an operable GIST, but curative therapy is difficult in more than half of patients with a malignant GIST due to the dispersed nature of the tumor, and high postoperative recurrence and metastasis rates are observed (40–90% of all surgically treated cases) (2-4). Malignant GISTs often fail to respond to treatment with conventional cytotoxic agents such as doxorubicin-based therapy and radiotherapy, and when there is a response, it is often not sustained (5, 6). Imatinib mesylate (imatinib; formerly STI571), is a molecularly targeted drug that selectively inhibits constitutive activity of the KIT receptor tyrosine kinase in GIST cells. Imatinib reduces tumor size and arrests disease progression in > 80% of patients with advanced GIST (7-9). Adjuvant imatinib treatment also improves recurrence-free survival in patients with localized primary GIST (10). Previous studies have indicated a dramatic change in tumor Original Article
Confidence analysis for text-independent speaker identification: inspecting the effect of population size

Confidence analysis was incorporated into a text-independent speaker identification procedure to get the confidence with which one can state the target speaker's presence in or absence from the reference list. The degree of confidence was deduced from a classification of two groups of curves, namely AvD (accuracy versus distance) and PAvD (pseudo accuracy versus distance). The authors inspect the effect of population size (ranging from 5 to 19) on confidence analysis. The inspection is performed by the Fisher's discriminant on the distribution of the classification results of AvD and PAvD curves. Experiment shows that confidence analysis can improve only very little as the population size decreases. Other factors (e.g., interspeakers similarity) seem more dominant than population size. <<ETX>>
Single Dose of Intra-Muscular Platelet Rich Plasma as Therapeutic and Preventive Modalities in Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage

According to published work, platelet-rich plasma (PRP), an autologous derivative of whole blood containing a supraphysiological concentration of platelets, has gained increasing attention in both the scLentLfic literature and the wider media for its potential application in the treatment of traumatic musculoskeletal injury and sports-related injuries. Related the our study results showed that acute exhaustive exercise increased muscle damage markers as a creatinine kinase (CK), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and alanine aminotransferase (ALT), including plasma iron, iron binding capacity (IBC), ferritin, hepcidin levels, indicating muscle damage induced by exercise
Comparison Between Artificial Immune System and other Heuristic Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction

The search for the global minimum of a potential energy function is very difficult since the number of local minima grows exponentially with the molecule size. We present an Artificial Immune System (AIS) inspired by the clonal selection principle, which has been designed for the protein structure prediction problem (PSP). The proposed AIS employs two special mutation operators, hypermutation and hypermacromutation to allow effective searching, and an aging mechanism which is a new immune inspired operator that is devised to enforce diversity in the population during evolution. When cast as an optimization problem, the PSP can be seen as discovering a protein conformation with minimal energy. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed AISis very competitive with the existing state-of-art algorithms for the PSP on lattice models with low computational costs.
Caracterització i propostes de gestió i conservació dels estanyets de Pals i les Closes Fondes (Pals, Baix Empordà)

En aquest article es presenten els resultats de l ’estudi dut a terme a tres ullals localitzats a la plana del Baix Ter, al municipi de Pals, coneguts com els estanyets de Pals. S'ha analitzat la fisicoquimica de les aigues de cadascun dels estanyets, s'ha inventariat la vegetacio i s ’ha estudiat la poblacio ictica i la presencia d'amfibis. Malgrat que es tracta d'un espai reduit, els estanyets de Pals i el sector de les Closes Fondes actuen com a veritables zones humides, amb vegetacio i fauna propies d'aquests amenacats indrets. Les analisis de les aigues han revelat una situacio trofica classificada a mig cami entre la mesotrofia i l'eutrofia. Segons aquests resultats s'han elaborat unes propostes de gestio i conservacio per a aquest indret que inclouen la seva preservacio mitjancant acords de custodia, la creacio de zones tampo, la gestio de la vegetacio i l ’aplicacio de programes de seguiment de la qualitat de les aigues
AN UWB RAKE RECEIVER DESIGN USING MLSE EQUALIZER

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a rake receiver for use with (UWB) systems. The rake receiver uses spread spectrum modulation (SSM) aided by kasami sequence generator . The combination is found to be effective in dealing with multipath fading and signal to noise ratio. The design is initially simulated using MATLAB 7.5 and is implemented using a HDL coder . The design is also implemented in a FPGA kit and is found to be effective in interference mitigation as part of a CDMA framework. Keywords-HDLcoder;VHDL;MATLAB;Simulink;Fading; Equalizer;FPGA;
Traducción de los Textos Sobre el Imperativo Bioético y la Biopsicología de Fritz Jahr (1929-1933)

El siguiente articulo presenta la traduccion al espanol de los textos de Fritz Jahr, de 1927 y 1933, donde el autor presenta a la comunidad intelectual los vocablos, e ideas, Bioetica, Imperativo Bioetico y Biopsicologia (Biopsique). Es interesante notar que Jahr, teologo protestante, reconoce en el santo catolico patrono de ecologos y pacifistas -San Francisco de Asis- al descubridor de la Bioetica. Jahr hace del interlocutor teologico un exaltado componente dialogante para la Bioetica. Mimetizado en la sentencia kantiana, Jahr -seguidor de Herder- reivindica el trato etico hacia la vida humana, animal y vegetal a partir de la comprension de sus necesidades. Para el ser humano sera mas facil respetar al otro de acuerdo a este parametro por cuanto las formas de vida menos evolucionadas tienen necesidades menos demandantes que el mismo humano. En su segundo articulo Jahr evidencia la importancia del quinto mandamiento “No mataras” sobre el cual Jahr, contrario incluso a visiones teologicas mas recientes, comenta que no es una orden restringida al trato interpersonal o hacia el projimo. Similarmente, los temas de la etica sexual y de los vicios alcanzan a ser abordados en unos escritos que mas que anecdoticos son sin duda estructurales.
Intranasal dexmedetomidine vs intranasal midazolam for premedication in paediatric patients undergoing surgery under general anaesthesia

Introduction: This prospective, randomized, double-blind study was conducted with an aim to compare the efficacy of intranasal dexmedetomidine and intranasal midazolam as premedication in uncooperative children undergoing elective surgery under general anaesthesia. Materials and Methods: One hundred and twenty children in American Society of Anesthesiology classification (ASA) physical status I & II, in the age group of 2-12 years who were planned to undergo surgery under general anaesthesia, were included in the study and were randomly assigned to one of the two groups. Group D received 1 mcg/kg of IN dexmedetomidine while group M received 0.2 mcg/kg of IN midazolam for premedication. The patient’s sedation status, separation anxiety and mask acceptance along with the hemodynamic parameters were noted. Results: Satisfactory sedation was achieved in 56% children in group M and 65% children in group D (p > 0.05). Compared with the children in group M, those in group D had significantly better satisfactory anxiolysis at the time of separation from the parents (56 vs 50; p Conclusion: Intranasal midazolam and dexmedetomidine are both effective as premedication in children undergoing surgery. However, intranasal dexmedetomidine offers better effect on sedation, alleviating separation anxiety and acceptance of facemask during induction than intranasal midazolam. Keywords: Intranasal, Dexmedetomidine, Midazolam.
Towards the evolution of training data sets for artificial neural networks

While most efforts in artificial neural network (ANN) research have been put into the investigation of network types, network topologies, various types of neurons and training algorithms, work on training data sets (TDSs) for ANNs has been comparably small. There are some approximations for the size of ANN TDSs, but little is known about the quality of TDSs, i.e. selecting data sets from which the ANN can draw the most information. As a matter of fact, with most real-world applications, not even human experts who are familiar with the problem can give accurate guidelines for the construction of the TDS. In order to automate this process, we investigate the use of a genetic algorithm (GA) for the selection of appropriate input patterns for the TDS. The parallel netGEN system, which uses a GA to generate problem-adapted generalized multilayer perceptrons trained by error backpropagation, has been extended to evolve (sub)-optimal TDSs. Empirical results on a simple example problem are presented.
Early Results of Anatomic Double Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

1 Demet Pepele1, Mustafa Karakaplan2, Nurzat Elmali2, Haldun Topgul2, Metehan Ozen2 1Malatya Devlet Hastanesi Ortopedi ve Travamatoloji Klinigi, 2Inonu Universitesi Tip Fakultesi, Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji Anabilim Dali, Malatya, Turkiye Cift Demet On Capraz Bag Rekonstruksiyonu / Double Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Early Results of Anatomic Double Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Survival of patients with breast cancer tumors 1 cm or less. Analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Registry

656 Background: The number of patients (pts) with stage I breast cancer and tumors ≤ 1 cm is increasing due to early diagnosis. In general, their prognosis is excellent, but some pts still die from their disease. There are no clear recommendations of adjuvant therapy for this group. The purpose of this analysis is to describe the characteristics of this patient population, their survival, and to evaluate the association of patient and disease characteristics with overall survival (OS) and breast specific mortality (BSM). Methods: The SEER public registry data was used to select pts who had tumors ≤ 1 cm and negative lymph nodes diagnosed between 1988 and 2001. Pts and tumor characteristics were tabulated. Kaplan-Meier product limit method was used to describe OS and log rank test to test for differences between pts groups. Cox-proportional hazard models were used to assess the multivariate relationships. Results: Analysis included 57,835 pts. Median age was 64 years (64–101). Median tumor size was 8 mm an.
Stato della mente rispetto all’attaccamento e organizzazione della memoria autobiografica: uno studio preliminare su un gruppo di adolescenti con storia infantile di abusi

Premesse teoriche: Il bambino costruisce e sviluppa durante i primi anni di vita ed in interazione con il contesto circostante peculiari modalita di regolazione degli affetti, caratteristiche specifiche di organizzazione della memoria autobiografica e dei processi narrativi. I modelli operativi interni, sviluppatisi all’interno di un processo di co-costruzione con il caregiver, contengono le regole per accedere all’informazione e coordinare tra loro i differenti sistemi di memoria. Obiettivo: obiettivo del presente lavoro e quello di proporre un’indagine preliminare sullo stato della mente rispetto all’attaccamento e sull’organizzazione della memoria autobiografica in un gruppo di adolescenti che vivono presso istituti e che hanno subito abusi e maltrattamenti nell’infanzia. Metodo: la ricerca e stata svolta con un gruppo di 20 adolescenti a cui sono stati somministrati: l’Autobiographical Memory Interview (A.M.I.) di Kopelman, Wilson, Baddeley (1990) e l’Adult Attachment Interview (A.A.I.) di George, Kaplan, Main (1985). Risultati: i risultati indicano una prevalenza della classificazione distanziante rispetto all’attaccamento e di punteggi bassi nella memoria autobiografica, sia a livello semantico che episodico. Conclusioni: i risultati emersi sono discussi tenendo conto della complessita delle esperienze traumatiche. Lo studio della ricchezza ed organizzazione della memoria autobiografica permette l’approfondimento del ruolo svolto dal contesto relazionale ed affettivo sullo sviluppo di un’organizzazione coerente della narrazione autobiografica.
Segmentation de scènes urbaines par combinaison d'information

Nous presentons dans cet article une methode de segmentation en superpixels appliquee a des images de scenes urbaines. Ces images proviennent de sequences acquises au moyen d'un systeme de cartographie mobile qui assure des prises de vue geo-referencees et redondantes spatio-temporellement. Notre objectif est d'obtenir une segmentation semantique d'un triplet d'images successives en utilisant la richesse des informations a notre disposition : positions des capteurs, reconstructions 3D eparses et redondances visuelles. Pour cela, nous mettons en œuvre une approche s'appuyant sur une sur-segmentation en superpixels coherents sur un triplet d'images. Notre algorithme fournit des resultats a partir d'images reelles, extraites d'un corpus de validation representatif du probleme pose.
REKABET AVANTAJI YARATMADA KAYNAK TEMELLİ YAKLAŞIM BAĞLAMINDA İNSAN KAYNAKLARININ ROLÜ

Gunumuzun rekabetci ortaminda, kuresellesen pazarlar, surekli degisen musteri talepleri, artan pazar ve urun rekabeti gibi unsurlar insanlari ve insanlarin nasil yonetildigini cok daha onemli bir hale getirmektedir cunku tum bu kosullar dikkate alindiginda diger rekabet kaynaklari yetersiz kalmaktadir. Rekabet avantajini insan kaynaklari yoluyla saglayabilmek, istihdam edilen insan kaynagi ile basariyla calismayi ve insan kaynagini bir maliyet unsuru olmaktan ziyade, rekabet avantaji kaynagi olarak gormeye baglidir. Insan kaynaginin, rekabet avantaji icin onemli bir deger olarak kabul edilmesi ile beraber, akademisyenler de isletmelerdeki Insan kaynaklari yonetimi uygulamalarini, Kaynak Temelli Yaklasim baglaminda incelemeye calismislardir. Bu calisma kapsaminda, oncelikle rekabet avantaji elde etmede Kaynak Temelli Yaklasim uzerinde durulacak, daha sonra ise insan kaynaklarinin bu surecteki rolu ve onemi teorik cercevede ele alinacaktir.
Mobile radio prediction model considering long term fading in urban microcellular environment

This paper proposes a propagation prediction model of received power considering long term fading characteristics for urban microcellulr communications. Since the long term fading affects to the communication pe$ormance, it is important to predict the signal level accurately in the communication design and analysis. The received signal strength in urban microcell is usually constituted with the direct wave, the ground reflected wave, penetration effect and the diffracted waves, etc. We derive the empirical prediction formulas for the above parameters using measured and simulated data. By summing these parameters, we propose a relatively accurate prediction model considering long term fading signaljluctuation. It can be seen that the predicted is good agreement with the measured data.
Cálculo lambda de primer orden con constraints y la propiedad church-rosser

En [2,3] fue presentada una extension al tradicional calculo lambda con constraints. Los constraints pueden ser usados con dos distintos propositos: en una forma pasiva, restringiendo el rango de variables, o en forma activa comput.andp soluciones a determinados sistemas. Aqui presentamos una extension de aquel calculo, agregandole cuantificadores existenciales de modo de enfatizar las teorias de Henkin y para eliminar el problema de las variables compartidas. Tambien definimos nuevas' reglas para la manipulacion de los nuevos terminos del lenguaje. La semantica denotacional del calculo es presentada, asi como tambien la demostracion de la propiedad Church-Rosser (CR). Ademas probamos que las reglas de reduccion son correctas y que la funcion semantica esta bien definida. Palabras Clave: Calculo A, Constraints, propiedad Church-Rosser, semantica denotacional.
Evaluation selbstverantwortlicher Schulen

Prof. Ute Clement und Christian Martin fuhren seit September 2005 die wissenschaftliche Begleitung des hessischen Modellprojekts Selbstverantwortung plus durch. 16 berufliche Schulen fuhren im Rahmen des Projektes das schweizerische Qualitatsmanagementsystem Q2E ein.
Deep Learning – Now and Next in Text Mining and Natural Language Processing

This study was conducted to find out what has not been discussed in last research in domain text mining and NLP using Deep Learning. In this literature review has covered more than 50 articles that can be accessed from a various portal of scientific articles. The focuses are conducted on important elements of a network and what influences them. The results of this study indicate that currently, more research discusses how data is presented. This is due to the assumption that input data is very important in performance of an algorithm. modification of network architecture and a combination of techniques are also attracted researchers. The next studies are many research points that can be done in text mining and NLP using Deep Learning. Especially on input features, learning methods, and the others issues in the domain of Text mining and NLP.
Abstract 1648: Framingham Risk Score is Poorly Associated With Subclinical Carotid Atherosclerosis: Results From Firefighter Heart Disease Prevention Project

BACKGROUND: Framingham risk scores (FRS) are used to estimate the 10-year coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in individuals. Non-invasive assessment of subclinical atherosclerosis by means of carotid intima media thickness (cIMT) could improve patients’ risk stratification even though it is not part of current guidelines. OBJECTIVE: We examined the distribution of FRS scores of cIMT positive and negative individuals. We hypothesize that FRS underestimates the early carotid atherosclerotic risk in firefighters. METHODS: We studied 159 male firefighters (age, 47±5 yrs) without known coronary, peripheral, or cerebral vascular disease. Each participant underwent clinical and serologic risk factor screening and cIMT with high resolution ultrasound. Abnormal cIMT was defined as intimal thicking ≥0.9 mm RESULTS: Out of 159 firefighters 30 (19%) had evidence of early atherosclerosis by cIMT. Of these 30 positive cIMT firefighters 19 (63%) had low risk FRS (0 –10%), 11 (30%) had moderate risk FRS (10 –20%) and 2 (7%) had high risk FRS (>20). Between high risk and low to moderate risk groups while this represents a stellar false negative rate is 93% even though excellent false positive rate of 0%. CONCLUSIONS: In this age-homogeneous, low-risk screening cohort, FRS underestimated the presence of premature, subclinical carotid atherosclerosis. In our observations, a large number of firefighters with low to moderate Framingham risk scores who are not currently treated to the maximal goals have already have evidence of early carotid atherosclerosis.
Applying genre theory to improve exposition-type essay writing

The study reported in this paper focuses on the use of the Genre Theory in multilingual classrooms as an appropriate framework for English L2 writing. Our students’ mother tongues were Spanish, Valencian, French, Flemish, Italian, German and Rumanian. The Genre Theory was applied to increase students’ literacy skills through the study of text types and specific grammar structures that appear in these texts. As an adequate evaluation process had to be implemented, the computer programme Markin’© developed by Martin Holmes (1996-2002) was used to correct a corpus of 40 expositions written in English by students on the English Language IV course at the University of Alicante (Spain). Markin’© was used to classify and monitor the frequency of the types of specific structures used in exposition writing. In this study we intend to demonstrate that the combination of the Theory of Genre and the use of Markin’©, helped students to improve their level of literacy.
A Double Blind Cross over Study of Ibuprofen, Metiazinic Acid, Aspirin and a Placebo in Rheumatoid Arthritis

In a double-blind cross-over study the analgesic and anti-inflammatory action of ibuprofen 1600 mg/day in cases of rheumatoid arthritis has been compared with aspirin 4 g/day, metiazinic acid 1 . 5 g/day and a placebo, lactose. Each compound was administered in identical capsules and in a totally randomised order to all patients studied. Assessment of the articular index, grip strength, knee score, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and subjective improvement was made before and after one week's treatment with each drug. In the doses used in this trial, the analgesic and anti-inflammatory activity of metiazinic acid in rheumatoid arthritis, was found to be approximately equipotent to that of aspirin, while ibuprofen seemed to be slightly more potent and to cause fewer side-effects.