Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Interleukin-23 concentrations of NREM-AHI greater than REM-AHI versus REM-AHI greater than NREM-AHI in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

Objective: Although the presence of a systemic inflammatory response is known in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), there have not been adequate investigations on the association of such a response with the predominance of apneas either in rapid eye movement (REM) or in the non-REM (NREM) phase. In this study, we compared interleukin-23 (IL-23) concentrations, a marker of systemic inflammatory process, in individuals with sleep apnea syndrome, whose apneas where predominant in the REM or NREM phase. Methods: Fifty-four patients aged over 18 years who were diagnosed as having OSAS based on polysomnography were included in the study. The apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) was used to divide patients into groups of AHIREM>AHINREM and AHINREM>AHIREM. In the blood samples drawn from the patients, IL-23 concentrations were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Results: The study included patients with OSAS aged 28-65 years, of whom 29 were AHIREM>AHINREM and 25 were AHINREM>AHIREM. The AHIREM>AHINREM OSAS group had no sex-based variance (14 males, 15 females), but the AHINREM>AHIREM group was substantially composed of males (21 males, 4 females). The average AHI of the AHINREM>AHIREM group (43.34±21.40) was significantly higher than in the AHIREM>AHINREM group (26.79±17.32). IL-23 concentrations were higher in patients with AHIREM>AHINREM sleep apnea (225.38±77.29) compared patients with AHINREM>AHIREM sleep apnea (183.68±78.49). Conclusion: In AHIREM>AHINREM sleep apnea, the systemic inflammatory response may be more dramatic. Taking the AHIREM value into consideration along with the average AHI value seems to be important for treatment modalities.
iSchool Partnerships and Practices – information and proposal form

Please fill in the information below and upload the proposal form (in PDF format) at the secure submission website for consideration for presentation at the iSchool Partnerships and Practices track at the 2019 iConference in College Park, Maryland, USA. Please keep to the advised length or the proposal will not be considered for review. Please consider also the key review criteria for selection: Transferability to other institutions Grade of innovation Pedagogical dimension Degree of knowledge transfer
SHM with wave diffraction patterns and probabilistic decision tree based multi-class SVM *

In this work, a new process of damage and impact detection on structures with piezoelectric active elements using acoustical wave diffraction patterns and Probabilistic Decision Tree (PDT) tree Support Vector Machine (SVM) architecture is presented. This active SHM approach uses permanently emission of selected nonresonant Lamb waves into the structures and monitors a damage index (DI) relying on the recognition of amplitude disturbed diffraction pattern (ADDP). Based on this ADDP, a detection and localization approach is proposed. It exploits the measurements to train an original SVM clustering algorithm utilizing a specialized binary decision tree (SVMPDT) producing a posteriori probabilities of damage localization in a multi-class context. The proposed SHM procedure is illustrated on actual plates.
Plasma markers of physiologic stress in human fetuses with intrauterine growth restriction and abnormal umbilical artery doppler velocimetry

Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR) may be related to lifelong disease via mechanisms of in-utero programming. We compared IUGR fetuses with abnormal umbilical artery Doppler velocimetry (UA Dopplers) to normally-grown fetuses. Both singleton pregnancies (5 cases and three controls) and multiple pregnancies (4 cases and 5 controls) were compared. Singleton IUGR fetuses were compared to term, normally-grown fetuses. Multiple IUGR fetuses were compared to the other fetus(es) from the same pregnancies with normal growth and normal UA Dopplers. Plasma concentration from cord blood samples were measured for leptin, renin, and C-reactive protein. There were 17 placentas from 12 pregnancies. Singleton IUGR fetuses displayed lower leptin concentrations and greater renin activity. Fetuses from multiple pregnancies diagnosed with IUGR did not display differences from unaffected fetuses from the same pregnancies. There are metabolic differences in singleton fetuses with IUGR and abnormal UA Doppler velocimetry compared to normally-grown singleton fetuses with normal UA Dopplers. Differences between fetuses could not be demonstrated in multiple pregnancies.
HUMAN RESOURCE ACCOUNTING : ITS CONSTRAINTS AND LIMITATIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES

This study is a sequel to the article previously written on awareness of Human Resource Accounting Practices and Costing (HRAC) of companies located in the Philippines. This study aims to find out if the recommended accounting system is acceptable by companies and its constraints and limitations in adapting HRA in the Philippines. The researcher used questionnaire/interview to collect the data from respondents representing forty (40) companies in Metro Manila. The results showed that companies were not interested in adapting any accounting system for human resources at this time. Constraints include no law recognizing humans as assets, no clear guideliness, lack industry standards and lack of universal acceptable human valuation. Limitations in adapting HRA are problems in measuring and amortizing value of employees, the need for more time and resources, morale problems in considering employees as assets, which may dehumanize them, and the need for more time and planning to get used to the accounting system. Some companies, however, are open to the idea of using HRA if given proper guidelines, standards and rules. It is recommended that Philippines companies focus on making HRA an organizational goal and to have standardized procedures to measure human capital.
Negative Pressure Therapy for the Treatment of Inguinal Lymphatic Fistula

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PROJECT INFORMATION Project title : Visual Inertial Odometry for Mobile Robotics

This work targets the development of a real-time algorithm to track the pose of a mobile robot equipped with an inertial measurement unit and a monocular camera. The method proposed is the Multi-State Constraint Kalman Filter, developed by A. Mourikis and S. Roumeliotis. Its main strength is that it uses the geometric constraints of the features observed without adding them to the state (as in SLAM). The feature processing is delayed until they are out of view, which avoids the usual problems associated to feature initialization. The cost of the algorithm is linear in the number of features (which can be controlled by the detector), which makes it suitable for real-time execution. The method follows the Kalman filtering framework in its error-state variant, which estimates the accumulated error instead of the truestate. The filter is updated with the feature positions, which are computed using Gauss-Newton optimization using the inverse-depth parameterization.
New Network Generation Models using concept of Friends of Friends

Networks are everywhere around us. They can represent how people are friends with each other, how the papers cite other papers, how the routers are connected in actual network. The structure of the network characterizes the behaviour of all the processes happening over the network, e.g., diffusion of information. Study of network structures and its characterization is now know as network science. In last two decades, the network science has grown as an independent area of research and has found its application in multiple fields of science, technology, medicine and humanities. To generate a network structure which can mimic real world networks in a more better manner has always been of interest. It is expected to give insights into how the real world networks function. In this thesis, we have proposed a model of network generation which modifies the existing ones on the basis of these two common observations. 1. A person makes new connection via someone he/she already knows i.e., chances to make new connection among friends of friends is more. 2. A person does not make all of its friends at once, rather it is done in multiple steps in iterative fashion. Including these two features results into a network having all three desirable qualities i.e., Small world property, Scale free degree distribution and high clustering coefficient. One more advantage is that average Clustering coefficient of the network does not drop to zero with increase in size of network. A new parameter f i.e., tendency of a node to make new connection among friends of
Directed Novelty and Redundancy in Information Retrieval

The information science research community is divided between the system-centered cluster working on information retrieval (IR) algorithms and the user-centered cluster working on user behavior. A criticism from the user-centered cluster on the system-centered cluster is that document relevance should be regarded as a subjective, dynamic, and multi-dimensional construct, rather than a static and objective one. Building on past user studies, this study proposes two hypotheses: firstly, the uni-dimensional treatment of relevance in current relevance feedback IR systems will perform as well as a feedback system based solely on topicality judgment. Secondly, an IR system, which takes into account users’ novelty perception, will perform better when the novelty judgment is allowed to age – some documents are regarded as redundant if they have been evaluated long ago – than when redundancy is not incorporated into novelty judgment. Four systems were designed to test these hypotheses and results were collected from the simulation and user study tests. The results of the simulation support the two hypotheses whereas the results of the user study support only the first hypothesis and not the second, which may be due to the experimental design.
II A case of maxillary hypoplasia with cleft lip and palate corrected using Mid Maxillary

The method of mid maxillary osteodistraction (MMOD) using tooth borne custom-made device is performed on cleft patients in oral and maxillofacial unit Teaching Hospital Karapitiya, Galle over the past ten years. Aims of this case report are to assess the correction of maxillary retroclination, reverse over-jet and class III occlusal discrepancy with improvement of facial appearance and soft tissue harmony. All these objectives were assessed using pre and post surgical study models, true lateral skull radiographs and photographs. MMOD is a less expensive, less invasive orthognathic surgical procedure where adequate distraction is possible with minimum relapse comparing to maxillary advancement osteotomy. Peri-operative orthodontic approach facilitates adequate space for osteotomy cuts pre-surgically and proper alignment of teeth post-surgically. Bone formations on either side of osteotomy cuts facilitates tissue histogenesis providing favourable soft tissue balance which improves facial aesthetics and reduce velo-pharyngeal insufficiency to improve speech.
Functional independent component analysis : an extension of fourth-order blind identification

We extend Independent Component Analysis, and in particular Fourth-Order Blind Identification, to functional data. Two major problems arise in this extension: (i) the notion of “marginals” is not naturally defined for functional data and (ii) the covariance operator is, in general, non invertible. These limitations are tackled by reformulating the problem in a coordinate-free manner and by imposing natural restrictions on the mixing model. The proposed procedure, which involves simultaneous diagonalisation of secondand fourth-order scatter operators, is shown to be Fisher consistent and affine invariant. A sample estimator is provided and illustrated on simulated and real datasets. In particular, it is shown to uncover particular structures that are missed by classical PCA in an Australian precipitation dataset.
A Compact Broadband Antenna for Civil and Military Wireless Communication Applications

This paper presents a compact broadband antenna for civil and military wireless communication applications. Two prototypes of the antenna are designed and simulated. The proposed antenna is etched on low cost substrate material with compact electrical dimensions of 0. 207λ×0. 127λ×0. 0094λmm at 2GHz frequency. The simple microstrip feeding technique and antenna dimensions are involved in the design to attain the proper impedance matching. An optimization of variables is carried out by multiple rigorous simulations. The designed antennas have achieved the broadband impedance bandwidth of 89.3% and 100% at 10dB return loss. The antennas exhibit omni directional radiation pattern at lower resonances and strong surface current distribution across the radiator. The peak realized gain of 5.2dBi at 10.9GHz resonant frequency is realized. Results reveal that the proposed broadband antenna is a better choice for WiMAX, UWB, land, naval and airborne radar applications. Keywords—Compact antenna; broadband; microstrip feeding; civil and military; peak realized gain and impedance bandwidth
Implementasi Algoritma K-Means Dalam Penentuan Prioritas Rehabilitasi Daerah Aliran Sungai Cipunagara

Kekeringan salah satu kejadian yang sering terjadi pada wilayah indramayu bagian barat, rehabilitasi daerah aliran sungai menjadi salah satu alternatif. Lahan lahan wilayah subang - indramayu dalam keadan kritis, maka perlu dilakukan pengelompokan wilayah lahan kritis menggunakan algoritma k-means, sehingga mudah dalam menentukan prioritas rehabilitasi daerah aliran sungai. Penelitian ini dibagi menjadi 3 tahap diantaranya Tahap 1 (Satu) pada tahap penelitian ini menentukan objek penelitian, yang akan dijadikan objek yaitu kelompok budidaya pertanian dan Bina Pengelola Daerah Aliran Sungai, kemudian dilakukan rumusan masalah. Tahap 2 (Dua) mengumpulkan data primer yang akan dilakukan pre-processing. Tahap 3 (Tiga) penerapan algoritma k-means dan Parameter data yang berpengaruh dalam menentukan tingkat kekritisan lahan yaitu skor penutupan lahan, skor lereng, skor erosi, skor produktivitas dan skor manajemen. Sehingga diketahui kelompok wilayah lahan kritis yang tinggi. Hasil penelitian ini rehabilitasi daerah aliran sungai cipunagara dengan menggunakan metode algoritma k-means dapat menghasilkan kumpulan cluster dengan indeks Davies-Bouldin terkecil kumpulan cluster terbaik adalah cluster_1 dengan nilai 1886.707.
Active Learning via Membership Query Synthesis for Semi-Supervised Sentence Classification

Active learning (AL) is a technique for reducing manual annotation effort during the annotation of training data for machine learning classifiers. For NLP tasks, pool-based and stream-based sampling techniques have been used to select new instances for AL while gen erating new, artificial instances via Membership Query Synthesis was, up to know, considered to be infeasible for NLP problems. We present the first successfull attempt to use Membership Query Synthesis for generating AL queries, using Variational Autoencoders for query generation. We evaluate our approach in a text classification task and demonstrate that query synthesis shows competitive performance to pool-based AL strategies while substantially reducing annotation time
Adaptive Task Aggregation for High-Performance Sparse Solvers on GPUs

Sparse solvers are heavily used in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), computer-aided design (CAD), and other important application domains. These solvers remain challenging to execute on massively parallel architectures, due to the sequential dependencies between the fine-grained application tasks. In particular, parallel sparse solvers typically suffer from substantial scheduling and dependency-management overheads relative to the compute operations. We propose adaptive task aggregation (ATA) to efficiently execute such irregular computations on GPU architectures via hierarchical dependency management and low-latency task scheduling. On a gamut of representative problems with different data-dependency structures, ATA significantly outperforms existing GPU task-execution approaches, achieving a geometric mean speedup of 2.2X to 3.7X across different sparse kernels (with speedups of up to two orders of magnitude).
Cytotoxic Testing towards Artemia Salina L Larva by using Brine Shrimp Lethality Test Method

Sorghum is potential source of antioxidants because it contains phytochemical components such as flavonoids, phenols hydroquinone, sterols and tannins. Phenolic antioxidants and flavonoids in sorghum as scavenger to free radicals potentially inhibit cancer cell proliferation. This research aims to study the activity of extracts of hexane, ethyl acetate, and ethanol extracts of sorghum on the inhibition of proliferation of several cancer cell line. All three extracts of sorghum were evaluated on the cytotoxic Artemia salina Leach, lymphocytes, lung cancer cells (A549), colon cancer cells (HCT 116), cervical cancer cells (Hela), and lymphoma cancer cells (Raji). The results showed sorghum extract can inhibit proliferation of cancer cells. The concentration of extract in inhibiting cancer cell varied and generally the higher the concentration the higher the inhibitory activity of extracts of cancer cells. Sorghum extract inhibits proliferation of A 549 cancer cells d” 24%, HCT 116 d” 22%, Hela d” 25%, and Raji cancer cells d” 80%. Sorghum extract has the highest inhibitory activity on Raji cells. Inhibition of cancer cells Raji (80.08%) were shown by ethanol extracts of sorghum (2600ìg/ml).
USER ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA FOR ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software systems have become progressively more vital for private and public organizations’ operations, and one of the most important applications among computer information systems. However, the implementation of ERP software systems is a complex issue, as it contains different types of the end users. Therefore, this study investigated and identified several factors with focusing more on the software characteristics that contribute to shape the user acceptance of ERP software, in which the developers could pay more attention to ERP software implementation from early development stages. The research model was constructed, based on the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). The findings revealed that the acceptance of ERP software is affected by performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, software interoperability, software cost, and software security.
Detection of an Ultralow Velocity Zone at the CMB Using Diffracted PKKPab Waves

Seismic phases diffracted around Earthʼs core contain direct information about lowermost mantle wave speeds. By measuring the slowness or ray parameter of incident diffracted energy from array recordings, seismic velocity along the diffracted path can be estimated. Here we apply this principle to diffraction of the major arc seismic phase PKKPab recorded at the Canadian Yellowknife array to study P-wave velocity variations along the core-mantle boundary. We observe PKKPab diff
Sliding Mode Control of an Array of Three Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converters to Optimize Electrical Power Generation

This paper presents a complete mathematical model of an array of three oscillating water column (OWC) wave energy converters (WECs) and the design of a direct generator torque control strategy using a sliding mode control (SMC) to maximize the output power of doubly-fed induction generators (DFIGs) attached to bi-radial turbines that are driven by the oscillating motion of the air inside the OWC tubes. The performance of the proposed control strategy is evaluated in irregular waves scenarios and different angles of arrival of the wave front. Keywords—Bi-radial turbine, oscillating water column, sliding mode control, WEC array.
A Study to Determine the Correlation between Mean Platelet Volume and Outcome of Acute Ischaemic Stroke in Eastern India

Introduction: Stroke is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Stroke may be ischaemic or hemorrhagic. MPV is an emerging risk factor for atherothrombosis. Aims and objectives: To determine the possible correlation between MPV and outcome of acute ischemic stroke. Materials and methods: 150 patients of General Medicine Department were selected to determine the correlation between MPV and outcome of stroke measured by MRS. Results: MRS had a strong positive correlation with MPV. Conclusion: In conclusion, this study has shown an elevation of MPV in acute stroke.
MSO with tests and reducts

Tests added to Kleene algebra (by Kozen and others) are considered within Monadic Second Order logic over strings, where they are likened to statives in natural language. Reducts are formed over tests and non-tests alike, specifying what is observable. Notions of temporal granularity are based on observable change, under the assumption that a finite set bounds what is observable (with the possibility of stretching such bounds by moving to a larger finite set). String projections at different granularities are conjoined by superpositions that provide another variant of concatenation for Booleans.
How to sell in a sequential auction market

We characterize an optimal mechanism for a seller with one unit of a good facing N ≥ 3 buyers and a single competitor who sells another identical unit in a second‐price auction. Buyers who do not get the seller's good compete in the competitor's subsequent auction. The mechanism features transfers from buyers with the two highest valuations, allocation to the buyer with the second‐highest valuation, and an allocation rule that depends on the two highest valuations. It can be implemented by a modified third‐price auction, and it raises significantly more revenue than would a standard second‐ or first‐price auction with a reserve price.
A VARIATIONAL FORMULATION FOR TRAVELING WAVES AND ITS APPLICATIONS

In this article, we give a variational formulation for traveling wave solutions that decay exponentially at one end of the cylinder for parabolic equations. The variational formulation allows us to obtain the monotone dependence of the velocity on the domain and the nonlinearity, since the velocity is related to the infimum. In particular, we apply this method to GinzburgLandau-type problems and a scalar reaction-diffusion-advection equation in infinite cylinders. For the former, we not only obtain the existence, nonexistence, boundedness and regularity of the solutions, but also obtain the monotone dependence of the velocity on the nonlinearity and the domain. For the later, we obtain the monotone dependence of the velocity on the nonlinearity and the domain besides the existence, uniqueness, monotonicity and asymptotic behavior at infinity of the solutions. Moreover, we deduce that the influence of the advection on the traveling waves is different from a flow along the cylinder axis considered in many articles.