Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Use of Red Palm Oil for the Promotion of Maternal Vitamin A Status

Ninety rural Tanzanian women were recruited during the last three months of pregnancy and divided into three study groups: a control group given dietary advice to promote intake of dark-green leafy vegetables, a group given dietary advice plus sunflower oil, and a group given dietary advice plus red palm oil. Supplementing pregnant women with red palm oil, which is rich in provitamin A, increased their plasma and breastmilk concentrations of α- and β-carotene significantly, whereas women given sunflower oil had significantly higher amounts of α-tocopherol in their plasma and breastmilk than the control group. Moreover, the consumption of either red palm oil or sunflower oil retarded the decline in the concentration of retinol in breastmilk as seen in the control group during the progression of lactation. This indicates that the consumption of an oil rich in α- and β-carotene or α-tocopherol promotes retinol levels in breastmilk.
Shop Acceptance Testing Of Compressor Rotordynamic Stability And Theoretical Correlation

This paper presents the rotordynamic stability testing of a nine-stage centrifugal compressor used for hydrogen recycle service. The machine tested was of a basic design and employed no damper bearings, damper seals, shunts or swirl brakes to generate very high logarithmic (log) decrements as in previous papers. The test was performed using an electromagnetic shaker as part of the shop order. Results include the forward and backward mode’s stability and frequencies. Two log decrement estimation techniques were employed: One based in the time domain that does not require measurement of the shaker force and the classic ones based in the frequency domain. Examination of the results benchmarks the original equipment manufacturer’s (OEM’s) stability analysis methods versus the measurements. It also provides benchmarking of the purchaser’s acceptance criteria, which can be tailored to each specific OEM.
Potential of artificial intelligence based feature selection methods in regression models

Pattern recognition based on learning approaches is regarded as one of the disciplines of AI. Floating search methods, developed originally for feature selection problems in statistical pattern recognition, are applicable to a much wider class of problems outside pattern recognition. They have the potential to find an optimal subset of variables maximizing any criterion adopted for the problem at hand-eliminating the so-called nesting effect from which traditional algorithms suffer. One such application area is multiple regression, where floating search methods represent a computationally feasible alternative to classical methods for finding the optimal set of regressors.
A Valveless Piezoelectric Micropump Based on Projection Micro Litho Stereo Exposure Technology

At present, the micropumps are usually adopted in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) process, which is characterized by high technical complexity and expense, to obtain micro-scale internal channels. Moreover, the MEMS process is more suitable for the 2.5-dimensional channels. This paper presents a 3-dimensional vortex tube-based valveless piezoelectric micropump with low cost and high accuracy, and the projection micro litho stereo exposure (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{P}\mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>LSE) technology is applied to manufacture the prototype of the micropump. The working principle of the piezoelectric micropump is analyzed, and the flow resistance of the vortex diode is calculated numerically. Then, the performance and 3D morphology measurement of the micropump are conducted. The results demonstrate that the inner surface of the channel is uniform and the surface roughness is small. By comparing and analyzing the output performances between two prototypes manufactured by the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{P}\mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>LSE technology, the stability of the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{P}\mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>LSE technology is confirmed. This paper provides a fast and cheap method for manufacturing a 3D micropump, and the proposed approach can also be further adopted in fabricating such micro-stereoscopic structure devices.
The influence of the physiotherapist-patient relationship on pain and disability

The relationship between physiotherapist and patient is very important in the outcome of treatment, affecting both pain and disability. The aim of this paper is to review the evidence for the effects of the interaction. These can conveniently be described by a number of different models including: (1) the quality of communication and patient education; (2) compliance and adherence to a treatment programme; (3) self-efficacy or the patient's perception of control over the problem and ability to cope; (4) the patient's expectations and the physiotherapist's enthusiasm for the treatment; and (5) the principles of operant conditioning in influencing pain behaviour.The physiotherapist has an opportunity to build rapport with a patient and affect both attitudes and behaviour, for example encouraging individuals to take control of their problem and take up a graded return to previous activities. Self-efficacy is now accepted as an important component of health care which needs to be emphasised by the therapist.
Sensor Fault Detection and Signal Improvement using Predictive Filters

Navigation systems used in racing boats require sensors to be more and more sophisticated in order to obtain accurate information in real time. To meet the need for accuracy of the surface speed measurement, the mechanical sensor paddle wheel has been replaced by the ultrasonic sensor. This ultrasonic sensor measures the water speed precisely and with very good linearity. Furthermore, by its principle of operation, it measures the water flow several centimetres from the sensor, which puts it outside the boundary layer, the region close to the hull where the flow is disturbed. However, this sensor has several drawbacks: it is quite sensitive and if the flow contains too many air bubbles, the sensor picks them up, which can happen quite frequently on boat with a planing hull. Another limitation of this sensor is its low frequency measurement rate. In this paper, we explain the techniques used based on Kalman filters to address these shortcomings, firstly by identifying the inaccurate measurements caused by inadvertent dropouts, then by improving the useful sensor frequency with GNSS data fusion.
Do Not Underestimate the “Otherwise Healthy” Patient

This case report describes an urgent care visit by a 38-year-old, athletic woman who presented with low back pain in the emergency department after beginning an aerobics class. The health care provider noted a subtle difference in the circumference of one of the patient's lower legs while performing a straight leg raise. When questioned about this, the patient stated that she pulled her calf muscle. The patient first noticed the difference in calf size “while driving back from a funeral in Nashville. ” This case outlines the etiology and pathophysiology of deep vein thrombosis. The article also outlines indications for ordering D-dimer and ultrasound. The use of the Wells Score risk stratification tool is also discussed herein. Discussion of treatment and follow-up are also outlined here.
TIPPING THE VELVET: SPECULARISED SEXUALITIES IN THE VICTORIAN ERA

Sarah Waters’ first novel Tipping the Velvet (1998) is a neo-Victorian novel that rewrites the Victorian era to depict the marginalised existence of the female same-sex lovers. Since Waters fictionalises the historical facts, her representations turn out to be the reality of her novel in which facts and imaginary notions blurred. In this article, Waters’ construction of an alternative lesbian history of the Victorian period in London will be evaluated by the constructions of femininity in the Victorian period. Then, the tendency of excluding sexuality and desire by ignoring their existence in Victorian times will be scrutinised by showing sexual interactions of lesbian lovers. In the novel, Waters creates a counter-discourse of lesbians who try to become visible at the centre. By creating different social circles and classes among queer people in Victorian times, Waters both achieves to avoid the stereotyping the lesbians and adds a credibility to their existence.
Weaving a Lexicon

The studies in Weaving a Lexicon make a significant contribution to the growing field of lexical acquisition by considering the multidimensional way in which infants and children acquire the lexicon of their native language. They examine the many strands of knowledge and skill -- including perceptual sensitivities, conceptual and semantic constraints, and communicative intent -- that children must weave together in the process of word learning, and show the different mix of these factors used at different developmental points. In considering the many different factors at work, the contributors avoid both the "either-or" approach, which singles out one strand to explain word learning throughout childhood, and the "all-inclusive" approach, which considers the melange of factors together. Their goal is to discover precisely which strands of ability or understanding make which contributions to acquisition at which points in infancy and childhood.The nineteen chapters are arranged in two broadly thematic sections. The chapters in "Initial Acquisitions," focus on issues involved in word learning during infancy, including how learners represent the sound patterns of words, infants' use of action knowledge to understand the meaning of words, and the links between early word learning and conceptual organization. In "Later Acquisitions," the chapters treat topics concerning the stages of toddler and preschooler language acquisition, including part-of- speech information in word learning, the proper-count distinction, and a comparison of verb acquisition in English and Spanish. Because the contributors present their work in the broader context of the interconnection of different processes in lexical acquisition, the chapters in Weaving a Lexicon should suggest new directions for research in the field.
Automated Morphometric Characterization of the Cerebral Cortex for the Developing and Ageing Brain

Morphometric characterisation of the cerebral cortex can provide information about patterns of brain development and ageing and may be relevant for diagnosis and estimation of the progression of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and schizophrenia. Therefore, understanding and describing the differences between populations in terms of structural volume, shape and thickness is of critical importance. Methodologically, due to data quality, presence of noise, PV effects, limited resolution and pathological variability, the automated, robust and time-consistent estimation of morphometric features is still an unsolved problem. This thesis focuses on the development of tools for robust cross-sectional and longitudinal morphometric characterisation of the human cerebral cortex. It describes techniques for tissue segmentation, structural and morphometric characterisation, cross-sectional and longitudinally cortical thickness estimation from serial MRI images in both adults and neonates. Two new probabilistic brain tissue segmentation techniques are introduced in order to accurately and robustly segment the brain of elderly and neonatal subjects, even in the presence of marked pathology. Two other algorithms based on the concept of multi-atlas segmentation propagation and fusion are also introduced in order to parcelate the brain into its multiple composing structures with the highest possible segmentation accuracy. Finally, we explore the use of the Khalimsky cubic complex framework for the extraction of topologically correct thickness measurements from probabilistic segmentations without explicit parametrisation of the edge. A longitudinal extension of this method is also proposed. The work presented in this thesis has been extensively validated on elderly and neonatal data from several scanners, sequences and protocols. The proposed algorithms have also been successfully applied to breast and heart MRI, neck and colon CT and also to small animal imaging. All the algorithms presented in this thesis are available as part of the open-source package NiftySeg.
Melody extraction from polyphonic music signals

Music was the first mass-market industry to be completely restructured by digital technology, and today we can have access to thousands of tracks stored locally on our smartphone and millions of tracks through cloud-based music services. Given the vast quantity of music at our fingertips, we now require novel ways of describing, indexing, searching and interacting with musical content. In this thesis we focus on a technology that opens the door to a wide range of such applications: automatically estimating the pitch sequence of the melody directly from the audio signal of a polyphonic music recording, also referred to as melody extraction. Whilst identifying the pitch of the melody is something human listeners can do quite well, doing this automatically is highly challenging. We present a novel method for melody extraction based on the tracking and characterisation of the pitch contours that form the melodic line of a piece. We show how different contour characteristics can be exploited in combination with auditory streaming cues to identify the melody out of all the pitch content in a music recording using both heuristic and model-based approaches. The performance of our method is assessed in an international evaluation campaign where it is shown to obtain state-of-the-art results. In fact, it achieves the highest mean overall accuracy obtained by any algorithm that has participated in the campaign to date. We demonstrate the applicability of our method both for research and end-user applications by developing systems that exploit the extracted melody pitch sequence for similarity-based music retrieval (version identification and query-by-humming), genre classification, automatic transcription and computational music analysis. The thesis also provides a comprehensive comparative analysis and review of the current state-of-the-art in melody extraction and a first of its kind analysis of melody extraction evaluation methodology.
Catégorisation des noms propres: une étude en corpus

Cet article presente l'etude preliminaire que nous avons menee en corpus sur la categorisation graphique et referentielle des noms propres du francais dans le but d'etablir les specifications linguistiques d'un systeme pour leur reconnaissance et leur categorisation automatiques. Apres la presentation des categorisations des noms propres existantes, nous confrontons celle que nous avons retenue aux noms propres apparaissant dans notre corpus et montrons son adequation a rendre compte de toute la palette des categories apparaissant dans les textes meme s'il est necessaire de l'etendre pour quelques categories. Nous realisons ensuite une etude numerique sur la presence des noms propres en fonction des categories graphiques et referentielles. En guise de synthese et de conclusion, nous resumons les points importants reveles par cette etude et leur interet pour la realisation d'un systeme.
Terapia con células madre en cirrosis

En este articulo se presenta una revision de la literatura sobre las celulas madre como terapia para la cirrosis hepatica, con enfasis en describir la situacion cientifica actual y las implicaciones clinicas de los avances. Se ha propuesto la terapia celular en cirrosis por la escasez de donantes de higado y las complicaciones derivadas de la terapia inmunosupresora. Las celulas madre se pueden obtener de diferentes fuentes como el blastocisto, la medula osea e incluso hepatocitos maduros; pero la capacidad de proliferacion y diferenciacion de cada uno de estos tipos celulares es distinta y, entre otras consideraciones, es lo que va a definir su utilidad clinica final. En la literatura se encuentran varios estudios en modelos animales y en seres humanos que evaluan la seguridad y factibilidad de esta tecnica en cuanto a la mejoria de la fibrosis, la capacidad de diferenciacion y replicacion celulares y algunos parametros clinicos. Los resultados, aunque alentadores, se deben interpretar con cuidado. En conclusion, antes de aceptar esta modalidad terapeutica se requieren estudios de mejor calidad y con homogeneidad metodologica porque su uso aun es controversial.
Mathematics of Crossing Fibres

This chapter looks at the problem of crossing fibers in diffusion MRI of the brain. Diffusion tensor imaging only gives us a single fiber direction, but fibers within single image voxels can adopt complex configurations. In particular, fi ber crossings cause problems in diffusion tensor imaging that can result in failure of tractography or misleading indices of tissue integrity. Here we will study a variety of more sophisticated techniques that provide more information about the configuration of fibers within image voxels and resolve the orientations of crossing fibers.
From Martial Arts to Practice： A Philosophical Examination of the Term Martial Art

The term martial art is used as a heading to discuss a wide range of combative styles; however, the term is deployed in ways that exposes a disconnection between the term and the styles to which it is referring. In this paper, I explore the disconnection between the martial arts and posit that martial art is an oxymoron as described by Michel de Certeau. As an alternative to the oxymoronic use of martial art, I examine two conceptions of practice: the first advanced by Alasdair MacIntyre and applied to martial arts by Charles Hackney; the second advanced by Todd May and amended with ideas from Noël Carroll. The latter conception of practice begins to establish a new way to consider the relationships among the combative styles and how these can be incorporated into the term martial arts, thereby quelling the disconnection between the term and the styles.
Tactual Explorations: A Tactile Interpretation of a Museum Exhibit through Tactile Art Works and Augmented Reality

This paper introduces and analyses the performance of “Tactual Explorations”, a research-based inclusive public event which includes workshops, talks and a tactile exhibition focusing on one museum object. At this tactile exhibition, the selected object, the Bronze Bust of Sophocles from the British Museum’s Greek and Roman Antiquities collection is represented tactually by ten artists, through one haptic simulation and nine supporting artworks to enhance the physical information. By investigating the effect of a haptic display that is surrounded by physical artworks that represent the tactile properties of the museum object, the paper discusses a new method of a tactile interpretation by suggesting a potential series of exhibitions that are focused on individual museum pieces, where visitors engage with a number of physical and virtual works in order to study the original. The paper first examines the visitors’ interaction with the exhibition as a whole, and then focuses on the results gained from the engagement with the haptic simulation alone. The comparison of both results is presented, not to replace the traditional museum display, but to enhance the information conveyed about the exhibit, to a wider, more diverse audience. “Tactual Explorations” is formed as part of the current PhD research investigating the topic of haptic interactions with museum objects, that is being undertaken at the University of Huddersfield, with the title of “Application of Haptic Technologies into museum displays: A real-time "touch" simulator for protected exhibits” under the supervision of Paul Atkinson and Derek Hales from the University of Huddersfield, and Ann Marie Shillito from the Edinburgh College of Art. The paper briefly introduces some of the research questions of this research and talks about their relevance to the “Tactual Explorations” event and its outcomes. Throughout the paper, keywords and some of the common terms are also defined for the workshop participants from different academic or professional backgrounds. Acknowledgement: The author is grateful for haptic programming provided by Alastair Barrow of the Interactive Systems Research Group, University of Reading -
High-level synthesis of digital integrated circuits in the nanoscale mobile electronics era

Digital integrated circuits (ICs) are the main workhorse of all modern consumer electronic systems. Digital ICs are much more complex and more closely follow the technology scaling as compared to the analog or mixed-signal ICs. For example, the transistor count can be in billions the device sizes at this point can be 14 nm FinFET in the digital ICs. However, the good news for digital ICs is that the digital designs have well-defined abstractions including system, architecture, logic. This Chapter is focused at the architecture level of the digital ICs. In particular, detailed discussions of high-level synthesis technique has been presented that can generate digital ICs. Trust of electronic systems that are used in day-to-day life is critical. This Chapter also discusses the HLS technique that can generate trusted digital ICs.
MANAGEMENT OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: AN OVERVIEW

The word arthritis means inflammation of the joint (“arthr” meaning joint and “itis” meaning inflammation). Inflammation is a medical term describing pain, stiffness,redness and swelling. There are more than 100 types of arthritis. Some are caused by joint inflammation, while others are caused by progressive bone and joint damage. The major complaint by individuals who have arthritis is joint pain. Pain is often a constant and may be localized to the joint affected. The pain from arthritis is due to inflammation that occurs around the joint, damage to the joint from disease, daily wear and tear of joint, muscle strains caused by forceful movements against stiff painful joints and fatiguein the majority of cases arthritis causes pain and swelling in the joints.eventually a swollen joint can suffer severe damage. in some cases, arthritis can cause problems in the patient's eye, skin or other organs. Arthritis is not a single disease ,it is a term that covers over 100 medical conditions. Osteoarthritis (oa) is the most common form of arthritis and generally affects elderly patients. some forms of arthritis can affect people at a very early age. rthritis affects the musculoskeletal system, specifically the joints. It is the main cause of disability among people over fifty-five years of age in industrialized countries. Rheumatoid arthritis is characterised by persistent synovitis, systemic infl ammation, and autoantibodies (particularly to rheumatoid factor and citrullinated peptide). 50% of the risk for development of rheumatoid arthritis is attributable to genetic factors. Smoking is the main environmental risk. In industrialised countries, rheumatoid arthritis aff ects 0·5–1·0% of adults, with 5–50 per 100 000 new cases annually. The disorder is most typical in women and elderly people. Uncontrolled active rheumatoid arthritis causes joint damage, disability,decreased quality of life, and cardiovascular and other comorbidities.