Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of the Nutrient Content and Protein Fractions of Four Different Common Vetch Varieties

The objectives of this study were to determine the chemical composition, digestibility, in situ N kinetics, and by-pass protein contents of 4 different common vetch varieties grown under irrigation. Four different common vetch varieties (Emir 20/1, Nilufer 17/1, 28/1, and Uludag 31/4) with different characteristics were selected. The vetch plots were planted on June 15 2002 and each variety was randomly assigned to 3 replications. The vetches were harvested by hand using a clipper on September 11. All samples were analyzed for dry matter (DM), ash, crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), acid detergent fiber (ADF) and acid detergent insoluble nitrogen (ADIN) concentrations. In vitro dry matter digestibility, and in situ degradability of samples at given times were also determined. While the concentrations of DM and ADIN-N did not differ, concentrations of organic matter (OM), CP, NDF, and ADF varied significantly among different vetch varieties (P 0.05). While the water soluble protein (WSP) concentration was lower, concentrations of potentially degradable protein (PDP), and by-pass CP as a percentage of total digestible CP or DM were significantly greater in 28/1 than in Nilufer 17/1 and Uludag 31/4 (P 0.05). It can be concluded that if high by-pass protein content is desired, 28/1 and Emir 20/1 should be preferred over the other varieties. Otherwise, Nilufer 17/1 and Uludag 31/4 should be first choice, based on DM digestibility and CP contents, because the energy contents and percentage of non-digestible CP did not differ among the vetches.
TAILOR: A Record L inkage Toolbox

Data cleaning is a vital process that ensures the quality of data stored in real-world databases. Data cleaning problems are frequently encountered in many research areas, such as knowledge discovery in databases, data warehousing, system integration and e-services. The process of identifying the record pairs that represent the same entity (duplicate records), commonly known as record linkage, is one of the essential elements of data cleaning. In this paper, we address the record linkage problem by adopting a machine learning approach. Three models are proposed and are analyzed empirically. Since no existing model, including those proposed in this paper, has been proved to be superior, we have developed an interactive Record Linkage Toolbox named TAILOR. Users of TAILOR can build their own record linkage models by tuning system parameters and by plugging in in-house developed and public domain tools. The proposed toolbox serves as a framework for the record linkage process, and is designed in an extensible way to interface with existing and future record linkage models. We have conducted an extensive experimental study to evaluate our proposed models using not only synthetic but also real data. Results show that the proposed machine learning record linkage models outperform the existing ones both in accuracy and in performance.
Animal-Assisted Therapy in Counseling

An Introduction to Animal Assisted Therapy. Research in Animal Assisted Counseling and Related Areas. Selecting an Animal for Therapy Work. Training a Pet for Therapy Work. Evaluation of a Pet for Therapy Work. Risk Management and Ethical and Legal Considerations in Animal Assisted Counseling. Animal Assisted Interventions and Counseling Theories. Animal Assisted Counseling Practices. Equine Assisted Counseling. A Variety of AAT Applications. Sensitivity to Cultural Differences and Populations with Special Needs. Crisis and Disaster Response Counseling with Therapy Animals. Establishing a School-based Program for Animal Assisted Therapy and Education. International Considerations and Applications of Animal Assisted Therapy. Appendices: College and University Programs in Animal Assisted Therapy and Related Areas. Client Screening Form for Animal Assisted Therapy. Psychosocial Session Form. Animal Assisted Therapy Animal Illustrations: Instructions and Activities. Sample Course Syllabus for Counselor Training in Animal Assisted Therapy. Educational Resources for Animal Assisted Therapy and Animal Assisted Activities. Sample Policy and Procedures for the Practice of Animal Assisted Therapy in a Counselor Training Program. Recommended Competency Areas and Accompanying Performance Guidelines for the Practice of Animal Assisted Therapy in Mental Health Counseling. Several Hospitals with AAA/AAT Programs. Sample Policies and Procedures for the Practice of Animal Assisted Therapy in an Agency or Private Practice.
Análise pré e pós-operatória da capacidade funcional e qualidade de vida de pacientes portadores de Osteoartrose de quadril submetidos à Artroplastia Total

OBJETIVO: avaliar a capacidade funcional da articulacao do quadril e a qualidade de vida de pacientes portadores de osteoartrose submetidos a artroplastia total. METODOS: foram avaliados 12 pacientes atraves do questionario Harris Hip Score (modificado/ escala de 0-95 pontos) e goniometria no pre e pos-operatorio de artroplastia total de quadril. RESULTADOS: a amplitude de movimento mostrou-se incompleta em todos os arcos de movimento no pre-operatorio. No pos-operatorio os valores aumentaram significativamente na flexao (p=0,007), extensao (p=0,02), abducao (p=0,001), rotacao medial (p=0,0002) e lateral (p=0,01), apenas o aumento do movimento de aducao de quadril nao foi significativo (p=0,08). A medida do escore obtido atraves do questionario no pre-operatorio foi 39,7 pontos e no pos-operatorio 74,1 pontos (P<0,000001). CONCLUSOES: a artroplastia total do quadril proporciona ao paciente alivio da dor, melhora na realizacao das atividades da vida diaria e aumento da amplitude do movimento articular do quadril. Os pacientes, porem, relatam medo e inseguranca na realizacao dessas atividades.
Implmenting A Modified Shared Tree Multicast O-Corman Protocol in Wireless Adhoc Network

A mobile Ad Hoc network is a Noinfrastructure networkand randomly moves nodes are presented . Multicasting support data forwarding, and thus it is suitable for MANETs.Implementing’Multicast opportunistic cooperative routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Network’, (MANET) to improves the %PDR , and reduces the power consumption, multicast is meant for group communication. Multicasting sending copy of the information to all members in a group, it improves, the wireless link in a network.In an Ad Hoc network nodesare randomly distributed and free to fly without any existing infrastructure or infrastructure less administration. In the Networkeach node isfitted out with a single omnidirectional antennaand that multiple nodes are allowed, together their transmissions to take the advantages of spatial diversity to obtain energy savings.It is assumed that some nodes are not a member in a group, hence it does not receive transmission, and packet has be resent again. Where as in existing unicast transmission protocol for multiple hop network picked by multiple intermediate nodes,and only one receiver. Theprotocol performance is analyzed using the ns-2.32 network simulator.
Segment-based speaker adaptation by neural network

The authors propose a segment-to-segment speaker adaptation technique using a feed-forward neural network with a time shifted sub-connection architecture. Differences in voice individuality exist in both the spectral and temporal domains. It is generally known that frame based speaker adaptation techniques can not compensate for speaker individuality in the temporal domain. Segment based speaker adaptation compensates for these spectral and temporal differences. The results of 23 Japanese phoneme recognition experiments using TDNN (time-delay neural network) show that the recognition rate by segment-based adaptations was 83.7%, 22.8% higher than the rate without adaptation. <<ETX>>
Predictive value of blood culture in acute bacterial meningitis

Abstract To evaluate predictive value of blood culture as an effective alternative laboratory tool for isolation of causative organism in acute pyogenic meningitis. It is a hospital based prospective longitudinal hospital based study performed from May 2007 to May 2009. A total number of 310 children of age group 2 months-14 years who presented to the hospital with probability of bacterial meningitis were screened in the study. Eighty cases excluded by preset exclusion criteria and rest 230 formed the analytic sample. Pretreatment blood culture with concomitant lumbar puncture or lumbar puncture within 2 h of antibiotic administration for cerebrospinal fluid analysis was obtained. The main outcome parameter was the predictive value of blood culture for isolation of causative organism in acute bacterial meningitis. Blood culture revealed a sensitivity of 73.28% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 64.85%–80.63%), specificity of 87.88% (95% CI: 79.78%–93.58%), positive predictive value of 88.9% (95% CI: 81.40%–94.13%), negative predictive value of 71.31% (62.42%–79.14%), positive likelihood ratio of 5.97 and negative likelihood ratio of 0.30. Probability of isolation of causative organism by blood culture in bacterial meningitis was found to be highest among infants (82%) and least in children aged above 5 years (54.17%). When compared to gold standard cerebrospinal fluid diagnostic criteria, blood culture has a high sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and likelihood ratio to be an effective alternative laboratory tool for isolation of causative organism in acute bacterial meningitis especially in infants and younger children.
Environmental Stress and Grain Yields in China

After 1984 China's grain production began to stagnate, slowing during a time of continuing expansion of chemical inputs, irrigated area, and high-yielding rice, wheat, and maize varieties. In this paper we explore the hypothesis that the accumulation of environmental pressures, including erosion, salinization, soil exhaustion, and degradation of the local environment, may be partially responsible for the recent slowdown of grain yields. Using provincial production data from 1975 to 1990, the analysis shows that environmental factors, especially the breakdown of the environment, did contribute to the decline in the rate of increase of yields in China during the late 1980s. Erosion and salinization had a small, negative effect on yields.
Mobile Cloud Computing: implications to smartphone forensic procedures and methodologies

The Smartphone is a powerful miniature computer that has phone capabilities and has been sold globally to billions of people, because of its flexibility for work and entertainment. Third party applications are the reason why the Smartphone is so popular, and Cloud computing is the driving force for the growth of these applications. The combination of Smartphone and Cloud computing technology has also led to many predictions. The forecast of Allied Business Intelligence (ABI) is that by 2014 mobile Cloud computing will become the leading mobile application development and deployment strategy (ABI, 2009). Gartner (2010) predicts that 90% of companies will support corporate applications on personal mobile devices by 2014. Gartner (2010) also predicts a huge increase in both mobile and Cloud computing, with an expected US$6.2 billion to be spent on mobile applications and US$68.3 billion on Cloud Computing services. However, it must also be remembered that, “the more popular the technology, the more opportunity exists for its misuse” (Turnbull & Slay, 2008, p.1355). Motivated by potential financial gain, Smartphone viruses have already been implemented through the utilization of Cloud computing technology to cause huge global economic damage. There is a growing understanding of how to conduct digital forensic analysis on mobile devices. However, there is little understanding of how to apply digital forensic methodologies in Cloud computing, and even less understanding in how to apply forensic methodologies in mobile Cloud investigation. The aim of this thesis is to identify the impact of Cloud computing on Smartphone forensics and to test current mobile forensic tools, methodologies and procedures in different mobile Cloud forensic scenarios. Furthermore, the aim of this thesis is to provide recommendations in conducting forensic investigation in mobile Cloud computing. Future research direction within this research topic area will also be identified.
Calibrating the HISA temperature: Measuring the temperature of the Riegel–Crutcher cloud

H I self-absorption (HISA) clouds are clumps of cold neutral hydrogen (H I) visible in front of warm background gas, which makes them ideal places to study the properties of the cold atomic component of the interstellar medium. The Riegel-Crutcher (R-C) cloud is the most striking HISA feature in the Galaxy. It is one of the closest HISA clouds to us and is located in the direction of the Galactic Centre, which provides a bright background. High-resolution interferometric measurements have revealed the filamentary structure of this cloud; however, it is difficult to accurately determine the temperature and the density of the gas without optical depth measurements. In this paper, we present new H I absorption observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array against 46 continuum sources behind the R-C cloud to directly measure the optical depth of the cloud. We decompose the complex H I absorption spectra into Gaussian components using an automated machine learning algorithm. We find 300 Gaussian components, from which 67 are associated with the R-C cloud (0 < vLSR < 10 km s-1, full width at half maximum < 10 km s-1). Combining the new H I absorption data with H I emission data from previous surveys, we calculate the spin temperature and find it to be between 20 and 80 K. Our measurements uncover a temperature gradient across the cloud with spin temperatures decreasing towards positive Galactic latitudes. We also find three new OH absorption lines associated with the cloud, which support the presence of molecular gas.
From Information Society to Knowledge Society: The Ontology Issue

Information society, virtual enterprise, e‐business rely more and more on communication and knowledge sharing between heterogeneous actors. But, no communication is possible, and all the more so no co‐operation or collaboration, if those actors do not share the same or at least a compatible meaning for the terms they use. Ontology, understood as an agreed vocabulary of common terms and meanings, is a solution to that problem. Nevertheless, although there is quite a lot of experience in using ontologies, several barriers remain which stand against a real use of ontology. As a matter of fact, it is very difficult to build, reuse and share ontologies. We claim that the ontology problem requires a multidisciplinary approach based on sound epistemological, logical and linguistic principles. This article presents the Ontological Knowledge Station (OK Station©), a software environment for building and using ontologies which relies on such principles. The OK Station is currently being used in several industrial a.
Distributed Data Mining Bibliography

Advances in computing and communication over wired and wireless networks have resulted in many pervasive distributed computing environments. Many of these environments deal with different distributed sources of voluminous data, multiple compute nodes, and distributed user community. Analyzing and monitoring these distributed data sources require a data mining technology designed for distributed applications. The field of distributed data mining (DDM) deals with this problem—mining distributed data by paying careful attention to the distributed resources. The goal of this paper is to maintain and distribute a bibliography of DDM-related publications. We hope that DDM researchers and practitioners find this service useful. We welcome every help from the community in maintaining the bibliography. ∗The authors acknowledge supports from the NASA (NRA) NAS2-37143 and the United States National Science Foundation CAREER award IIS-0093353.
Investor Sentiment and Capital Markets : What Do We Know ?

Nowadays, the social media play a central role not only in “de-asymmetrizing” the information between firms and investors but also in influencing the emotional response to this information. The social media have provided firms with the opportunity to construct their image and stimulate significant attention and positive emotional responses (i.e. celebrity firm). Investors also become no longer passive participants; they can now communicate, re-tweet, comment, mention, react to information and express their sentiment/views. Theoretically, this should exert a positive impact on information diffusion and so the market efficiency. However, as the social media also significantly influence the public mood and emotional response to any new information/news, several behavioral explanations contradicting with the concept of market efficiency (e.g. investor sentiment and herding behavior) become more reasonable. The study aims at providing a literature review and synthesis of research on the impact of social media sentiment in the context of capital markets, scrutinizing the theoretical understanding of this impact, underlining the methodological challenges related to extracting the sentiment, and reviewing the main empirical findings on the impact in the context of Twitter and StockTwits, which will enable researchers to evaluate and classify existing studies, obtain useful insight into the theoretical understanding of the impact of social media sentiment, hence spurring further theoretical and empirical research.
Role of non-timber forest products in sustaining forest-based livelihoods and rural households' resilience capacity in and around protected area: a Bangladesh study†

People in the developing world derive a significant part of their livelihoods from various forest products, particularly non-timber forest products (NTFPs). This article attempts to explore the contribution of NTFPs in sustaining forest-based rural livelihood in and around a protected area (PA) of Bangladesh, and their potential role in enhancing households' resilience capacity. Based on empirical investigation, our study revealed that local communities gather a substantial amount of NTFPs from national park despite the official restrictions. Twenty seven percent households (HHs) of the area received at least some cash benefit from the collection, processing and selling of NTFPs, and NTFPs contribute to HHs' primary, supplementary and emergency sources of income. NTFPs also constituted an estimated 19% of HHs' net annual income, and were the primary occupation for about 18% of the HHs. HHs' dependency on nearby forests for various NTFPs varied vis-à-vis their socio-economic condition, as well as with their location from the park. Based on our case study, the article also offers some clues for improving the situation in PA.
Heisenberg y Bohr en la mira de Frayn y Volpi

Este articulo compara las versiones literarias que, de las relaciones entre Werner Heisenberg y Niels Bohr, presentan Michael Frayn ( Copenhague , pieza teatral de 1998) y Jorge Volpi ( En busca de Klingsor , novela de 1999). En particular, se detiene en la controversia del encuentro de 1941, y asimismo en la lectura que de los problemas especificamente cientificos se hace en dichos textos literarios.
Adequacy Criteria and Cytomorphological Changes in Liqui-Prep TM versus Conventional Cervical Cytology.

Background: The subject of adequacy in cervical smears has an essential role in the prevention of cervical cancer deaths. The predicament of establishing exactly what constitutes an adequate sample has received increasing attention in recent years. In this study, we tried to compare specimen adequacy and cytomorphological changes between conventional cervical and liquid based cytology “ Liqui-PREP TM”. Material and methods: A total of 170 asymptomatic women who undergo annual screening, were examined in cytopathology and gynecology departments (Al-Zahra Hospital of Isfahan University, Iran) during August 2008 to December 2008. Among which 153 cases, 93 cases: pre-menopause and 60 cases: post menopause women were subsequently selected. The conventional smears (CS) and Liquid-Based slides (LBS) using Liqui-PREP TM technique taken from each patient were evaluated carefully by a professional cytopathologist. The number of endocervical and transional zone's cells per slide, covering diagnostic squamous cells (%) and degenerated cells per high power microscopic field (HPF) were also counted. Other cytomorphological changes evaluated for postmenopausal women were included: number of eosinophilic pyknotic cells and spindled cells, basophilic globules (per HPF) and the presences of basophilic filaments (+/-). SPSS software was used for data analysis using indices of frequency percent, mean, and standard deviation for descriptive analysis. Results: Mean of the patients' age was 42.28 which ranged from 20 to 67 years. The numbers of satisfactory cases with CS were 30 (31.9%) compared to 58 (62.4%) with the LBC (P<0.0001). Data for menopausal women included respectively: 11 (18.30%) and 39 (65%) and the P<0.0001. A significant difference was observed two methods in the number of degenerated cells and the amount of slide coverage by squamous cells in both age groups (P=0.0001) but bet the quantitative amount of endocervical cells was more in CS method rather than LBC method (P=0.0001). Other morphologic changes (variations) assessed in
Persian sturgeon growth hormone elaboration and purification

In this study Escherichia coli DE3 containing expression vector (pET21a) with cloned Persian sturgeon growth hormone (psGH) gene was grown in 10 mL LB broth on a 150 rpm shaker, at the temperature of 37 °C. At the late log phase (determined by OD standard curve) 100 μL isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) was added for induction of GH synthesis. Samples were taken every 2 hours and after bacterial cells lysis crude extracts with recombinant proteins inclusion bodies (IB) were loaded on 15% SDS-PAGE gel. Thenafter staining, comparative concentrations of rpsGH were measured by densitometric scanning of sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) gel it was more than 90 %. The maximum yield of GH was observed after 4 hours of growth. To recover active psGH from inclusion bodies we used imidozole to obtain most of the total recombinant protein in the soluble fraction. Purification of 6xhisN tag recombinant psGH has been performed using affinity chromatography where nickel was bound to an agarose bead by chelation using NTA (nitrilotriacetic acid) beads. The overall yield of the purified monomeric psGH was approximately 50% of the initial IB proteins. The purification manipulations including IB isolation and solubilisation, protein refolding by dialyze and affinity chromatography ensure yields of biologically active psGH up to 30%. This study shows that, the affinity chromatography is a powerful and very specific method for recombinant proteins purification of psGH.