Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multicolor Time‐Resolved Upconversion Imaging by Adiabatic Sum Frequency Conversion

Upconversion imaging, where mid‐infrared (IR) photons are converted to visible and near‐IR photons via a nonlinear crystal and detected on cheap and high‐performance silicon detectors, is an appealing method to address the limitations of thermal sensors that are expensive, often require cooling, and suffer from both limited spectral response and limited spatial resolution as well as poor sensitivity. However, phase matching severely limits the spectral bandwidth of this technique, therefore requiring serial acquisitions in order to cover a large spectrum. Here, a novel upconversion imaging scheme covering the mid‐IR based on adiabatic frequency conversion is introduced. The study presents mid‐IR multicolor imaging and demonstrates simultaneous imaging on a complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) camera of radiation spanning a spectrum from 2 to 4 µm. This approach being coherent and ultrafast in essence, spectrally resolved spatiotemporal imaging is further demonstrated that allows spatially distinguishing the temporal evolution of spectral components.
Clinical outcome of patients diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome-unclassifiable (MDS-U): single center experience

Abstract Myelodysplastic syndrome unclassifiable (MDS-U) is a small subtype of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). However, rare literature exists in terms of natural progression and clinical outcome of patients with MDS-U. In the present study, we investigated the characteristics and the clinical outcomes of patients categorized as MDS-U based on 2008 World Health Organization criteria (WHO) in a single center comparing to other MDS groups. Out of eight hundred and two patients who met WHO criteria for MDS at our institution, ninety patients (11%) were initially classified as MDS-U. Upon pathological review, only half of the cases were confirmed to be MDS-U. With follow up, half of the MDS-U cases were reclassified to another subtype. We found neither significant difference in median overall survival nor in risk of transformation to acute myeloid leukemia when comparing MDS-U to other MDS groups. Additional larger studies are needed to confirm our results.
Complexity of the disablement process in rheumatoid arthritis

Utrzymanie wydolnoœci funkcjonalnej i zapobieganie niepe3nosprawnoœci jest g3ównym celem opieki nad chorymi na reumatoidalne zapalenie stawów. Niepe3nosprawnoœæ to stan, w którym wystêpuj1 trudnoœci z wykonywaniem wszystkich lub niektórych czynnoœci ¿yciowych, zwi1zany ze stanem zdrowia, problemami fizycznymi i psychosocjalnymi. Przyjmuje siê, ¿e niepe3nosprawnoœæ jest kompleksem zjawisk, na które sk3adaj1 siê czynniki bezpoœrednio zwi1zane z chorob1 oraz inne. Do najistotniejszych czynników zwi1zanych z chorob1 nale¿1: ból, aktywnoœæ choroby, uszkodzenie tkanek, ograniczenie wydolnoœci funkcjonalnej oraz deformacje. Do innych czynników, niezwi1zanych bezpoœrednio z chorob1, zaliczane s1: kultura, poziom edukacji, rodzaj wykonywanej pracy, stan psychiczny, choroby wspó3istniej1ce oraz warunki socjalno-bytowe. Przedstawiono teoretyczny model rozwoju niepe3nosprawnoœci u chorych na reumatoidalne zapalenie stawów oraz metody oceny i pomiaru poszczególnych jego etapów, w celu zapobiegania niepe3nosprawnoœci i udoskonalenia strategii interwencyjnej. S u m m a r y
Cross-Sectional Study on Mobile Phone Involvement among Medical Students of a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of Western India -

"Background: Mobile phones are said to be the new epidemic of this century. The research was carried out to assess the level of mobile phone involvement among the medical students and its de-terminants. Methodology: It was a cross-sectional study carried out among 150 medical students of Bhavnagar using a tool Mobile Phone In-volvement Questionnaire (MPIQ). Results: Out of 150 medical students, 92.7% were highly involved with their mobile phone. Self reported data revealed that 40% often thought about their mobile phone when not using it; 50.4% of-ten interrupt whatever else they are doing where they are contacted on their mobile phone; 78% often feel connected to others when they are using mobile phone; 39.3% often lose track of their mobile phone usage; 38.7% feel distressed by thought of being without their mobile phone and 35.9% often have been unable to reduce their mobile phone use. No association found between mobile phone involvement and age, gender, per-capita income, number of family members, expenditure on the phone or type of mobile plan. Conclusion: Most of the medical students (92.7%) were highly in-volved with their mobile phone, which was directly correlated with the frequency of their mobile phone usage.
Historical environmental stability drives discordant niche filling dynamics across phylogenetic scales

Regional diversity can increase owing to either the packing of species within regional niche space or the expansion of regional niche space. Yet, the primary factors dictating these dynamics remain poorly understood. Here, we assess the relative influence of current environmental conditions (net primary productivity, NPP) versus historic environmental stability over the Last Glacial Maximum on niche filling patterns of vertebrates (mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles) in the Australian Wet Tropics (AWTs).
CT-gesteuerte perkutane intratumorale Chemotherapie mit Cisplatin-/Adrenalin-Gel zur Behandlung inoperabler maligner Lebertumoren - Ergebnisse einer klinischen Phase-II-Prüfung -

Purpose: To evaluate prospectively the volumetric changes of tumor and necrosis in unresectable malignant liver tumors and the clinical aspects after CT-guided direct intratumoral administration of a novel cisplatin/epinephrine injectable gel in a clinical phase II study. Patients and methods: 8 patients with 17 colorectal liver metastases with a mean volume of 42 ml were treated with a mean of 5.1 injections and 8 patients with 11 HCC nodules (mean volume of 22.1 ml) with a mean of 3.25 treatments with CT-guided local administration of a novel cisplatin/epinephrine gel. This method of administration provides a higher local and lower systemic drug concentration. Volumes of tumor and necrosis prior to and after treatment were measured by computer-generated volumetric analysis. Results: Contrast-enhanced studies verified pretherapeutic tumor necrosis with a value of 12.6% in the metastases and 0.6 % in the HCC nodules. Intratumoral drug administration resulted in a necrotic volume of 110% in metastases and 128 % in HCC versus the mean initial tumor volume, at least 4 treatments resulted in 122% necrosis in metastases and 130% in HCC. Local therapy control rate for the follow-up to 6 months was 38 % and 83.3 % for the group of metastases and HCC, respectively. Conclusions: Direct intratumoral injection of a novel cisplatin/epinephrine injectable gel results in an induction of a relevant necrosis in malignant liver tumors, with a substantially higher local therapy control rate for HCC compared to colorectal metastases.
Shelter from the Storm: Which Safe Asset for Climate Disasters?

Hurricanes give rise to flight-to-safety episodes during which High Tech stocks consistently behave differently from stocks in other industries. We isolate a safety premium of 3.75\% which peaks at 16% annualized for periods of 20 days after landfall. The safety premium is greater than the short term interest rate and thus greater than any safety premium embedded in government bonds. It has strengthened since the Global Financial Crisis. The flight-to-safety is not associated with a flight-to-liquidity episode, nor with changing risk aversion, but is a flight-to-quality. Accounting for higher moments of abnormal returns turns decisive for identifying safe assets.
Perancangan dan Analisis Kinerja Steganography pada MPEG SAOC Menggunakan Improved Spread Spectrum

Object-based audio technology is important for audio reproduction because of providing the users with an ability to change the audio composition. As a result, MPEG Spatial Audio Object Coding (SAOC) as an international standard for encoding object-based audio has been widely used in many applications. However, the object-based audio transmission scheme is different than conventional audio transmission technology, so the use of steganography in MPEG SAOC needs to be further studied. In this work, a steganography technique has been developed based on Improved Spread Spectrum (ISS). There are two embedding configurations used in this study: embedding on MPEG SAOC audio objects and embedding on MPEG SAOC downmix signals. The performance of these two embedding configurations was analyzed by measuring ISS embedding capacity. As a comparison to the ISS method on channel-based audio, the ISS is also applied to Advanced Audio Coding (AAC). Based on the experiments, the embedding capacity of both proposed configurations varies depending on the bandwidth of audio signals. However, the downmix signal has a capacity of 20% higher than the audio objects. Moreover, the ISS embedding capacity on the MPEG SAOC downmix signal is similar to the embedding capacity on the AAC.
An overview on the use of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) in animal nutrition

The aim of the paper was to research the possibility of using hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) in animal nutrition. In animal nutrition, hemp seeds can be used, as well as hempseed cake, and hemp oil as supplement in feed mixtures. Hemp seeds are rich in crude protein and crude fat with adequate proportions of linoleic (LA, C18:2 n-6) and linolenic (ALA, C18:3 n-3) acid. The addition of hemp oil in diets of dairy goats increased milk fat with increasing conjugated fatty acid (CLA) and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) proportions. When feeding ewes with addition of hemp seeds (180 g/day) or hempseed cake (480 g/day), higher milk fat content was observed with higher proportions of LA, CLA and ALA. Addition of hempseed cake (143 g/ kg DM) in diets of cows increased milk yield, compared to the control group and the group with higher levels of hempseed cake (233 or 318 g/kg DM). Nutrition of laying hens with hemp seeds in diet (10 and 20%) provided enrichment of yolk fat with ALA, and did not negatively influence laying performance. The aforementioned indicated possibility of using hemp in diets of animals without major changes in production, and with possible increase of desirable fatty acids in animal products.
Advance Virtual Channel Reservation

We present a smart communication service called Advance Virtual Channel Reservation (AVCR) to provide a highway to target packets, which can greatly reduce their contention delay in NoC. AVCR takes advantage of the fact that we can know or predict the destination of some packets ahead of their arrival at the network interface (NI). Exploiting the time interval before a packet is ready, AVCR establishes an end-to-end highway from the source NI to the destination NI. This highway is built up by reserving the virtual channel (VC) resources ahead of the target packet transmission and offering priority service to flits in the reserved VC in the wormhole router, which can avoid the target packets’ VC allocation and switch arbitration delay. Additionally, optimization schemes are proposed to increase resources utilization and system performance. We evaluate AVCR with GEM5 full-system simulations by using 24 benchmarks in PARSEC and OMP2012. Compared to the state-of-art mechanisms and the priority-based mechanism, experimental results show that our mechanism can significantly reduce the target packets’ transfer latency and thus effectively decrease the average region-of-interest (ROI) time by 18.1 percent (maximally by 29.4 percent) across all benchmarks.
Associação entre a obesidade infantil e a capacidade cardiorrespiratória: revisão sistemática

Objective: To investigate the scientific evidence regarding the association between childhood obesity and cardiorespiratory fitness. Methods: A review was conducted on the literature arising from the search of articles published in the last five years in the databases SciELO and CAPES Journal Portal (Portal de Periodicos da CAPES). The descriptors used were cardiorespiratory fitness, overweight/obesity and children/adolescents/students. The study included full articles published in periodicals in English, Portuguese and Spanish, with publication year from 2010 to 2015, which aimed to predict the cardiorespiratory fitness with use of exercise testing in childhood obesity. Results: A total of 97 articles were surveyed but, after consideration and submission to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, five articles remained, two of them published in Portuguese, two in Spanish and one in English. Of the five articles analyzed, four studies reported that the cardiorespiratory fitness was affected by the body adiposity indexes. Conclusion: An inverse association was observed between the body mass index and the cardiorespiratory fitness, and the overweight students showed lower levels of cardiorespiratory fitness.
The Fluctuation of Aedes Aegypti in Endemic Area of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in Surabaya City, Indonesia

This research was aimed to describe the density pattern and the fluctuation of Aedes aegypti larval based on the season in dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) endemic area in Surabaya city. The population of the research was the house of people together with its breeding sites either inside and outside the house. The 55 houses were randomly chosen in 11 RWs in Nginden Subdistrict. The sample of this research was Aedes aegypti larva obtained from its breeding sites. The sample sizes were all of the larval in the containers existed in the chosen houses. The samples of the larval were taken and carried for identification and documentation of the species. This research was applied in the same houses in January, March, and May 2008 in rainy season. The results indicated that the highest larval index occurred in January with House Index (HI) 76.8%, Container Index (CI) 40.5%, and Breteau Index (BI) 137.5%. There was a decrease in March with HI 63.3%, CI 31.3%, and BI 92.7%. It continued to decrease in May with HI 42.6%, CI 21.1%, and BI 57.4%. All of those larval indices in the three observed months showed a high percentage of larval which was much higher than the safe limit or the critical threshold (5%) as defined by WHO. It implied that people in Nginden Subdistrict were threaten by the infection of DHF. The three indices achieved the peak in January, which was also the peak of the rainy season. It gradually decreased in March and May as the rainy season decreased its intensity of rain. Larval Density Index (LDI) also showed a high value. There were 173 larval/house in January, 187 larval/house in March, and 84.8 larval/house in May. The containers or breeding sites of Aedes were mostly found in January then their existences gradually decreased in March and May. Traditional bath tub was the most productive container inside the house, while drum and bucket were the most productive containers outside the house. Other containers which contributed abundance of larval were refrigerator, flower pot, well, and PDAM meter box.
Metabolomika i proteomika w diagnostyce nieswoistych chorób zapalnych jelit

Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease belong to the group of inflammatory bowel diseases and are characterized by chronic inflammation of gastrointestinal tract. The pathogenesis of these conditions is multifactorial and not fully understood. The diagnostic process of inflammatory bowel diseases is often time consuming and involves many different diagnostic tests. Researchers are looking for novel diagnostic tools, that would lead to early and correct diagnosis, optimal treatment and would be possibly least invasive. Novel technolog ies, such as metabolomics and proteomics show great promise for future clinical use. Meta bolomics involves analysis of metabolites in cells and tissues, whereas proteomics is based on the analysis protein and peptide profile, that are changing depending on underlying disease.
Pharmacokinetics Modeling of Glucagon and a Novel Glucagon Analogue after Subcutaneous Administration in Dogs

Currently available hypoglycemic glucagon rescue kits are difficult to handle and need reconstitution immediately before use due to the instability of native glucagon in solution. A novel Zealand Pharma invented glucagon analogue (ZP-GA-1) with increased stability in liquid formulation has potential for application in a ready-to-use rescue pen. Pharmacokinetic (PK) characteristics similar to native glucagon and fast on-set of action are critical for success.
An acoustic analysis of the rhythm of Yemeni Arabic

Previous studies have found that different Arabic dialects display different degrees of stress-timing features forming a continuum that ranges from more stress-timed to less stress-timed Arabic dialects. This study investigated the vocalic durational intervals of speakers from two groups of speakers, Yemeni younger generation (YYG) and Yemeni older generation (YOG), both in reading and spontaneous speech by means of two indexes, namely, nPVI and Varco V. The results revealed that Yemeni speakers displayed stress-timing features in both the read passage and spontaneous speech. However, whereas the rhythmic patterns in read speech appeared to be comparable for both YYG and YOG speakers, significant differences were found in spontaneous speech, in terms of the nPVI and VarcoV measurements, where the rhythmic output of YYG speakers appeared to be more stress-timed than their older counterparts. The high values obtained by both indexes in the study show that YA patterns with prototypical stress-timed languages such as English, Dutch, Thai and the highly stress-timed western Arabic dialects.
A New CR-Chord Based P2P Protocol in the Presence of Malicious Nodes

As is known, P2P networks work differently from traditional server-client architecture. Each node can act both a server and a client role. Traditional structural P2P systems are not architectures developed with security in the foreground. Therefore, there are many security vulnerabilities, and when malicious nodes are present in the system, P2P can adversely affect the functioning of the system. With the proposed method, secure nodes are kept in a specific table, taking into account the security gaps in structured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, and subsequent queries are made over these secure nodes. In addition to the CR-Chord algorithm, half cycles were used to find more reliable cycles in dense malicious environments and increase lookup performance. This enabled P2P network to operate more robust. The lookup performance of the developed method was compared with Cyclic-Routing Chord algorithm in OverSim simulation environment. According to the obtained results, the developed Half Cyclic Routing Chord (HCR-Chord) algorithm was observed to give better results. Keywords: P2P Networks, Chord, Malicious Node, HCR-Chord DOI: 10.7176/JSTR/5-12-31
Crepant resolutions and Hilb^G(C^4) for certain abelian subgroups for SL(4,C)

Let G be a finite subgroup of SL(n,C), then the quotient C^n/G has a Gorenstein canonical singularity. Bridgeland-King-Reid proved that the G-Hilbert scheme Hilb^G(C^3) gives a crepant resolution of the quotient C^3/G for any finite subgroup G of SL(3,C). However, in dimension 4, very few crepant resolutions are known. In this paper, we will show several examples of crepant resolutions in dimension 4 and show examples in which Hilb^G(C^4) is blow-up of certain crepant resolutions for C^4/G, or Hilb^G(C^4) has singularity.
Health problems and healthcare needs of elderly- community perspective from a rural setting in India

Background: Population is ageing in India. Health care and other needs associated with ageing have risen. The study objectives were to explore the concept of ‘healthy ageing’; health problems of elderly; and felt needs in the care of elderly perceived by the community. Methods: Total of five focus group discussions was conducted. Three Focus group discussions were conducted with family members of homebound elderly and one discussion each were conducted with primary health workers and residents of old age home to supplement the qualitative information gathered from the family members. Results: The participant could make a long list of geriatric health problems. But, their knowledge and attitude towards them was grossly incorrect. All the problems were regarded as part and parcel of ageing for which help was not sought proactively. Mental health problems were regarded as ‘behavioural’ and ‘psychological’ problems. The health problems had its bad effect on family relationships. The perceived healthcare needs were mostly of palliative nature. Day care centres were proposed to improve social interaction of elderly. The community could not afford the level of services which they need. Home care visits by a health team were regarded highly useful. Conclusions: Wide spectrum of barriers to healthcare access of elderly exists in the community. In this regard, a comprehensive community based geriatric health care program including health promotive, preventive, curative and palliative services needs to be formulated with a strong component of health education.
Initial results of CALGB 80803 (Alliance): A randomized phase II trial of PET scan-directed combined modality therapy for esophageal cancer.

1Background: To determine whether changing chemotherapy (CT) during pre-op chemoradiation (CRT) based on response to induction CT by 18F-fluoro-deoxyglucose PET imaging can lead to improved pathologic complete response (pCR) in patients (pts) with resectable esophageal and gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinomas. Methods: 257 eligible pts were enrolled, underwent baseline PET scan, and were randomized to one of 2 induction CT arms: Modified FOLFOX-6 (oxaliplatin, leucovorin, 5-FU), days 1, 15, 29 or Carboplatin/Paclitaxel (CP), days 1, 8, 22, 29. Repeat PET was performed days 36-42; change in max standardized uptake value (SUV) from baseline was assessed. PET non-responders (≤35% decrease in SUV – PET-NR) crossed over to alternative CT regimen during CRT (50.4Gy/28 fractions). PET responders (>35% decrease in SUV – PET-R) continued on same CT during CRT. Pts underwent surgery 6 wks post-CRT. Pts evaluable if had surgery, disease progression (PD), death due to disease, were unresectable or had adve.