Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The relative frequency and histopathological pattern of ovarian masses - 11 year study at tertiary care centre

Background: Ovarian tumours are one of the major cause of gynaecological problems in females and present marked variation in their histological types. Relative frequency of these lesions is different for Western and Asian countries. Aims & Objective: This study was designed to find out frequency of various histological patterns of ovarian tumours in patients attending Pathology department of a teaching institute in Gujarat. Material and Methods: A retrospective – series study was conducted on 337 cases of ovarian masses, reported from January 2002 to December 2012. Results: Mean age of the subjects was 33.6 years, ranging from 8 to 70 years. In a total 337 cases of ovarian masses, 197 (58.46%) were non-neoplastic and 140 (41.54%) were neoplastic. Among neoplastic lesions, 77.14% (108/140) were benign, 3.57% (5/140) were borderline and 19.29% (27/140) were malignant. The commonest non-neoplastic lesion was luteal cyst (59/197) followed by simple serous cyst (56/197). The commonest malignant tumour was serous cystadenocarcinoma (11/27) followed by mucinous cystadenocarcinoma (5/27). The commonest borderline tumour was borderline serous tumour (4/5). Conclusion: Non-neoplastic lesions were more common than neoplastic lesions. Among neoplastic lesions benign tumours were common. The commonest benign tumour was serous cystadenoma and malignant was serous cystadenocarcinoma. The commonest non-neoplastic lesion was luteal cyst. Among histological types of ovarian tumours, surface epithelial tumours dominated the other types.
An Overview of Worst-Case Execution Time Estimation for Embedded Programs

Most embedded systems are real-time systems, so real-time is an important performance metric for embedded systems. The worst-case execution time (WCET) estimation for embedded programs could satisfy the requirement of hard real-time evaluation, so it is widely used in embedded systems evaluation. Based on sufficient survey on the progress of WCET estimation around the world, it proposes a new classification of WCET estimation. After introducing the principle of WCET estimation, it mainly demonstrates various types of technologies to estimate WCET and classifies them into two main streams, namely, static and dynamic WCET estimations. Finally, it shows the development of WCET analysis tools.
African Ethnobotany Poisons And Drugs

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How to Make It .

The first version of your poster should be a slideshow. This is for purely visual reasons. In this format, you can easily work on your slide content and send your poster to any faculty members you are working with so that they can edit your poster and judge your slide content. Here you can also make your stylistic decisions, such as font color and type. To my knowledge, there is no way to ‘transform’ these slides into the bigger slide, which you will make later. More on this later.
Validação das equações metabólicas do Colégio Americano de Medicina do Esporte

Validation of metabolic equations of American College of Sports Medicine Ronaldo Domingues Filardo Advisor: Prof. Dr. Edio Luiz Petroski The inexistency of metabolic analyzer in clinical and academic places demand the need for estimating oxygen consumption. For such, regression equations are used to estimate maximal and sub maximal oxygen consumption as the ones suggested by the American College of Sport Medicine (ACSM). The aim of this study was to verify the validity of the ACSM metabolic equation for walking and running. The sample used were 39 voluntary young man (students and users of the CDS/UFSC) with age between 20 and 30 years. During the first stage, the VO2max was measured using a metabolic analyzer AeroSport model TEEM-100 using the ramp protocol for treadmill suggested by Tebexreni et al. (2001). During the second stage, with minimal 48 hours interval from the maximal test, the subjects walk and run during 30 minutes in six stages of five minutes each with fix velocities at each two stages of 4,8, 7,2 and 9,6 km/h and zero inclination during de 1, 3 and 5 stages and with 5% inclination during the 2, 4 and 6 stage. During all the stages the metabolic cost was measured by the metabolic analyzer and predicted by ACSM equation according with the type of exercise performed, walking (VO2 = 3,5 + 1,8 * m/min + 0,9 * m/min * %incl) or running (VO2 = 3,5 + 1,8 * m/min + 0,9 * m/min * %incl). Considering the limitations assumed for this study, can be concluded that the ACSM equation for running, compared to the metabolic analyzer shown r = 0,63, r = 0,407, EC= -15,52 ml.kg.min, ET=17,39 ml.kg,min, EPE=7,38 ml.kg.min what do not permit to validate the procedure for VO2max prediction. In relation of second stage the VO2 predicted by the ACSM equations and measured by the MA did not differ significatively (p<0,05), with r and r higher than 0,9 and EPE lower that 2 ml. kg.min, being the walking more acute than the running equation, both are adequate for their finalities when the linearity statement and the steady-state are obey. Key-words: Prediction equations, oxygen consumption, ACSM.
Sensuous Pageantry

ABSTRACT This article proposes an exploration of taste through the lens of certain events organized by the Slow Food movement. It aims, first, to situate Slow Food discourses in the practices carried out in particular sites, and second, to account for sensuous relations established between people and food in events such as fairs, festivals, and markets. In redirecting attention to the specificity of sensory practices of the organization, the article contributes to a little-explored field in Slow Food studies. It shows how micro-practices enrich and continuously shape the Slow Food principle of sensory education. Research from fairs, festivals, and markets in England and Italy provides insight into the interactions and strategies of producers, organizers, and visitors, and evaluates modalities of taste-making and taste formation. The article introduces the concept of sensuous pageantry in order to explore multiple ways of engaging with various sensory orders pertaining to the what, who, and how of tasting. It is argued that sensuous pageantry, an often overwhelming and dominant sense of taste and sensing at fairs, brings multiple sensory orders together and creates tensions which alternately undermine or reinforce those sensory orders. As such, fairs offer distinctive conceptual insights for a sociology of taste and the senses, which aims to assess emerging sensory constitutions as potential catalysts and drivers of change.
Prevalence of malnutrition, acute respiratory infections and diarrhoea in children aged 1-5 years in urban slums of Puducherry, South India

Background: Aim of current study was to document the prevalence of malnutrition, burden of acute respiratory and diarrhoeal diseases in children aged 1-5 years in urban slums of South India. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Villianur municipal area of Puducherry district, South India. A semi-structured pretested interview schedule was used to collect information on demographic details of the family, episodes of ARI and diarrhoea and health seeking behaviour. Anthropometric measurements were also done. Results: A total of 242 children were studied. The prevalence of stunting and wasting was 25.2% and 12.2 % respectively. Nearly 60% reportedly had at least one episode of ARI (144/242) and one-fourth had at least one episode of diarrhoea (60/242; 24.8%) in the last three months prior to the interview. There were no sex based differences in the treatment seeking practices. Conclusions: Considerable burden of malnutrition, ARI and diarrhoea exists in children of this urban slum. Health seeking behaviour was appropriate.
Integration of neural heuristics into knowledge-based inference

Summary form only given, as follows. Analogies observed between relief networks and neural networks lead to the plausibility of introducing heuristics developed under the neural network approach into knowledge-based systems. An approach has been developed that maps a rule-based system into the neural architecture in both the structural and the behavioral aspects. Under this approach, the knowledge base and the inference engine are mapped into an entity called conceptualization, where a node represents a concept and a link represents a relation between two concepts. Inference in the conceptualization involves the propagation and combination of activations as well as maximizing information transmission through layers. Learning is based upon a mechanism called backpropagation, which allows proper modification of the connection strengths in order to be adapted to the environment. Finally, the validity of this approach has been demonstrated by experiments. <<ETX>>
Kwaliteitssystemen voor de rechtsprekende macht

Dit rapport doet verslag van een 'quick scan' van de literatuur over gehanteerde kwaliteitssystemen in de rechtspraak in de rechtspraak in het buitenland. Kwaliteit wordt in dit onderzoek opgevat als het voldoen aan criteria. De probleemstelling luidt: welke kwaliteitssystemen voor de rechtspraak worden in het buitenland gehanteerd en wat zijn de ervaringen die ermee zijn opgedaan? De resultaten zijn vooral van belang voor het pVRO (project Versterking Rechterlijke Organisatie), waaronder deelprojecten vallen, gericht op de ontwikkeling van waarderingsonderzoek en kwaliteitsindicatoren.
Introducing the Portuguese Unisyn Lexicon (LUPo): An Accent-Independent Pronunciation Lexicon for Portuguese

Successful speech technologies require the ability to account for variation in the speech signal. Most TTS systems are built using data from a single accent, usually what is considered to be the standard accent, or dialect, for a given language. While users of these technologies represent an ever widening speaker base, the prospect of developing separate lexicons to account for regional pronunciation variants is a very costly one. Semi-automatic approaches for exploiting regularities between graphemes and phones have yielded good results. However, such systems rarely extend to multiple accents, and make limited or no use of morphology. Moreover, these projects typically occur in isolation, and are governed by private sector interests that prohibit the sharing of data and tools.
Sind wir (zu) gut informiert? – Auslöser, Auswirkungen und Gegenmaßnahmen von Informationsüberlastung

Der Artikel erweitert die Ergebnisse einer Literaturanalyse zum Thema Informationsuberlastung aus dem Jahr 2004 um die neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse aus dem Bereich der Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI). Zur Strukturierung der Analyseergebnisse wurde das Phanomen der Informationsuberlastung prozessual betrachtet und dabei in Ausloser, Auswirkungen und Gegenmasnahmen unterschieden. Insgesamt wurden 26 Ausloser und 21 Auswirkungen von Informationsuberlastung identifiziert. Zusatzlich konnten insgesamt 30 potenzielle Gegenmasnahmen zur Reduzierung von Informationsuberlastung herausgearbeitet werden. Widerspruch-lich wird die sog. Push-Technologie diskutiert, die sowohl als Ausloser wie auch als Gegenmasnahme in Zusammenhang mit Informationsuberlastung zu sehen ist.
A Simplified Approach to Link Course Learning Outcomes to Student Outcomes in ABET Accreditation to Perform Program Assessment and Improvement

Assessment of student outcomes remains the most crucial issue in any plan that aims to address the requirements of ABET 2000. All specialization courses offered in the department should meet the required and pre-defined student outcomes. The achievement of these student outcomes indicates that the students achieved the program objectives. In this paper a simplified approach is described to assess the degree of achievement of the student outcomes through the direct assessment methods.
High-Resolution Three-dimensional Simulations of Relativistic Jets

We have performed high-resolution three-dimensional simulations of relativistic jets with beam-flow Lorentz factors of up to 7, a spatial resolution of 8 cells per beam radius, and up to 75 normalized time units in order to study the morphology and dynamics of three-dimensional relativistic jets. Our simulations show that the coherent fast backflows found in axisymmetric models are not present in three-dimensional models. We further find that when the jet is exposed to nonaxisymmetric perturbations, (1) it does not display the strong perturbations found for three-dimensional classical hydrodynamic and MHD jets (at least during the period of time covered by our simulations) and (2) it does propagate according to the one-dimensional estimate. Small three-dimensional effects in the relativistic beam give rise to a lumpy distribution of apparent speeds like that observed in M87. The beam is surrounded by a boundary layer of high specific internal energy. The properties of this layer are briefly discussed.
Transforming Growth Factor β2 in the Vitreous in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy

Objective To evaluate the hypothesis that transforming growth factor β 2 (TGF- β 2 ) is involved in the cause of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). Methods We assayed TGF- β 2 levels in the vitreous of patients with PDR and other vitreoretinal disorders. Forty-nine vitreous specimens were obtained from eyes of patients with PDR undergoing vitrectomy, and 19 vitreous specimens from nondiabetic subjects served as controls. We assessed TGF- β 2 levels using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Both mature and total TGF- β 2 levels were quantified. Results The mean (± SD) total levels of TGF- β 2 were 2634 (± 1652) pg/mL in the patients with PDR and 1305 (± 972) pg/mL in controls. The mean (± SD) levels of mature TGF- β 2 were 244 (± 316) pg/mL in patients with PDR and 79 (± 81) pg/mL in controls. Total and mature TGF- β 2 levels were significantly greater in patients with PDR (total TGF- β 2 , P 2 , P 2 levels were higher in the vitreous of patients who had severe fibrous proliferation. Conclusion The results indicate increased levels of both total and mature TGF- β 2 in the vitreous of patients with PDR, suggesting that TGF- β 2 plays an important role in the pathogenesis of PDR.
Stochastic Interaction in Neural Systems

Brains are information processing systems evolutionary adapted since millions of years. It seems plausible therefore that they follow information theoretic optimization principles. In the early visual system mutual information maximization (Infomax) is one such widely accepted principle which claims that neurons represent as much information as possible in their output about the ensemble of stimuli at their input. The principle minimizes coding redundancy in feedforward pathways thereby ecien tly coupling the brain to its environment, and it supports self-organization of fairly realistic receptive elds. Independent information channels seem useful for early stimulus coding under a bottleneck constraint, but brain activity is more complex in that cortical neurons get dynamically engaged into functional networks. They interact massively within and between areas in order to integrate distributed information into functional ensembles as tentatively expressed by highly dynamic correlation patterns in their activity. Synchronized oscillations and synre-c hain-like spatio-temporal ring patterns are the two best known correlation patterns suggested to serve cortical integration. The maximization of spatio-temporal stochastic interactions (called TIM for temporal Infomax) has been proposed as an information-theoretic organizing principle in neural systems which supports complex correlation patterns and a high cooperativity among cells. Instead of information transfer between input and output units it maximizes information exchange between all units in a system thereby emphasizing dynamic cooperation in recurrent networks in favor of static feedforward encoding systems only.
An application of data encryption technique using random number generator

Coding theory is one of the most important and direct applications of information theory. Using a statistical description for data, information theory quantifies the number of bits needed to describe the data, which is the information entropy of the source. Information theoretic concepts apply to cryptography and cryptanalysis. Cryptography is the study of sending and receiving secret messages. With the widespread use of information technologies and the rise of digital computer networks in many areas of the world, securing the exchange of information has become a crucial task. In the present paper an innovative technique for data encryption is proposed based on the random sequence generation. The new algorithm provides data encryption at two levels and hence security against crypto analysis is achieved at relatively low computational overhead.
Combination therapies for asthma

Combination inhalers are one of the five most expensive drug groups in the UK. Expenditure may rise further following the launch of several new combinations for asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or both. Despite clear advice, healthcare professionals (HCPs) often prescribe combination therapies inappropriately, which potentially undermines efficacy, increases costs, and may contribute to asthma mortality. Nevertheless, health care professionals need a diverse formulary to tailor treatment to each patient, and address the related issues of poor adherence and poor inhaler technique—both of which undermine outcomes and drive up costs. Meanwhile, commissioning groups seem to be missing several opportunities to reduce expenditure on drugs for asthma, while maintaining or improving outcomes.
Music and Visual Color: A Proposed Correlation

The author tells of events leading up to finding a possible link between musical harmony and visual color based on complementarity. He points out that an equal division of the musical octave into 12 half-steps permits one to recognize chords built on tones occurring at the interval of half an octave or the tritone interval as being complementary to each other. This corresponds to the equal spacing of 12 hues on a color circle in which complementary hues are located diametrically opposite each other. A circular form of the musical octave divided according to the chromatic scale of 12 half-steps places tones serving as roots for complementary chords diametrically opposite each other also. There seems to be a parallel between the equal division of the color circle into 3 primaries and 3 secondaries and the equal division of the musical circle into 6 whole steps or the whole-tone scale. In both circles, colors and chords that can be classified as secondaries are complementary to the primaries and vice versa. The near-complements of a color lying on either side of its complement are more subdued in contrast with the color than the complement is. Chords built on tones on either side of a tritone interval from a given tonal center on the musical circle also produce subdued contrast with a chord built on the tonal center. The relationship of the adjacent chords to a chord built on the tonal center is as of sub-dominant to tonic and dominant to tonic, which is the harmonic basis of the diatonic system.
Data structures and techniques for visualization of large volumetric carbon dioxide datasets in a real time experience

Lambert, Jason B. M.S., Purdue University, May, 2010. Data Structures and Techniques for Visualization of Large Volumetric Carbon Dioxide Datasets in a Real Time Experience. Major Professor: Bedrich Benes. This thesis covers new research into real-time rendering of volumetric carbon dioxide data collected in the Vulcan project. The Vulcan project, a multidisciplinary initiative to quantify carbon dioxide mass flux from residential, commercial and industrial sources headed by Gurney et al ( Gurney, K. R., Mendoza, D. L., Zhou, Y., Fischer, M. L., Miller, C. C., Geethakumar, S., and de La Rue du Can, S. , 2009). The Vulcan datasets are a significant aid for policy makers, scientists and the general public alike as the collection was completed at a much finer space and time resolution than ever before. A previous visualization attempt, completed in 2009 (Andrysco, Gurney, Benes, & Corbin, 2009) was able to visualize the data in an offline environment, noting constraints of data size and disk speed access as the most significant drawbacks for real-time visualization. This thesis presents research towards a new real-time visualization suite in the areas of compression, data representation and simplification. The research hypothesizes that the use of these techniques will enable sufficient speed of rendering and loading to enable real-time data exploration. The results show that a combination of techniques used in compression and the use of optimized indexed geometric structures allows the dataset to be explored and rendered in real time.
Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome

Alcohol withdrawal syndrome is a significant problem that can complicate underlying disease states and lead to serious clinical consequences. The recognition of the early signs and symptoms of this syndrome, as well as the identification of those at highest risk for developing it, is crucial for effective prevention and management. Multiple pharmacotherapy options exist, and therapy should be guided on the basis of patient-specific factors and clinical presentation. The optimal care of these patients is dependent on a multidisciplinary approach to provide appropriate evaluation, treatment, and follow-up.
Predicting Protein-protein Interactions from Protein Sequences Using Probabilistic Neural Network and Feature Combination ⋆

Identifying Protein-protein Interactions (PPIs) can provide a deep insight in cellular processes and biochemical events. Although many computational methods have been proposed for this work, there are still many difficulties due to the high computation complexity and noisy data. In this paper, a novel method based on Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) with feature combination was proposed for PPIs prediction. PNN is a statistic model and is robust to noise. It need not to be trained compared with other computational models such as Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). So it is very fast and can deal with large scale noisy PPIs data more properly. In addition, in order to obtain the more informative features from protein pairs, three most import physicochemical properties were adopted for featuring, then the three different features are combined as the input for PNN training and the different combinations were tested to get the best combination. Experiments show that our proposed method produces the best performance compared with the other popular methods.