Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Geospatial data to images: A deep-learning framework for traffic forecasting

Traffic forecasting has been an active research field in recent decades, and with the development of deep-learning technologies, researchers are trying to utilize deep learning to achieve tremendous improvements in traffic forecasting, as it has been seen in other research areas, such as speech recognition and image classification. In this study, we summarize recent works in which deep-learning methods were applied for geospatial data-based traffic forecasting problems. Based on the insights from previous works, we further propose a deep-learning framework, which transforms geospatial data to images, and then utilizes the state-of-the-art deep-learning methodologies such as Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and residual networks. To demonstrate the simplicity and effectiveness of our framework, we present a formulation of the New York taxi pick-up/drop-off forecasting problem, and show that our framework significantly outperforms traditional methods, including Historical Average (HA) and AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA).
Incidence of and risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections in a level III neonatal intensive care unit

Giris: Metisilin direncli Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) infeksiyonlari, yenidogan yogun bakim unitesi (NICU)’ndeki hastalar icin onemli bir morbidite ve motalite nedenidir. MRSA enfeksiyonlarinin gelisimine zemin hazirlayan risk faktorlerinin belirlenmesi, enfeksiyonlarin onlenmesi acisindan son derece onemlidir. Bu calismada, MRSA enfeksiyonlarina ait risk faktorlerini saptamayi amacladik. Gerec ve Yontemler: Bu retrospektif calisma, 1 Ocak 2011 – 31 Aralik 2015 takvim yillari arasinda ucuncu basamak bir NICU’da yapildi. Calismaya, kan kulturulerinde Staphylococcus Aureus (S. aureus) izole edilen tum hastalar alindi. Antibiyogram sonucuna gore, hastalar iki gruba ayrildi: MRSA ve metisilin duyarli S. aureus (MSSA). Hastalarin demografik ozellikleri ile klinik ve laboratuvar bulgulari dokumente edildi. Bulgular: NICU’ya kabul edilen 9864 hastanin 54’unde S. aureus enfeksiyonu saptandi. S. aureus enfeksiyonlari, 1500 gr altindaki infantlarda (35 of 1542 infants), 1500 gr ve uzerindeki infantlara (19 of 8322 infants) gore daha sik gorulmekte idi [p<0.001 IRR=9.94 CI=(5.69 - 17.39)]. Olgularin % 79.6 (43 of 54)’inda MSSA, % 20.4 (11 of 54)’unde ise MRSA suslari tespit edildi. MRSA enfeksiyonlari 1500 gr ve altindaki bebeklerde 1500 gr ve ustu bebeklerden daha sik gorulmesine ragmen, MRSA enfeksiyonlari ile dogum agirligi arasinda istatistiksel olarak anlamli bir iliski saptanmadi. Dogum agirligi, gebelik yasi, cinsiyet, SNAPPE skoru, tedavi yontemleri (santral venoz kateter, total parenteral beslenme, yardimli ventilasyon) ve kullanilan antibiyotikler (prenatal veya ampirik) metisilin direnci acisindan anlamli bir fark olusturmadi. Tartisma: S. aureus enfeksiyonlari icin en onemli risk faktoru, cok dusuk dogum agirligina (<1500 gr) sahip olmaktir.
Variation of Non-Motor Neurological Symptoms of Parkinson’s disease Patients

Background: Different non-motor neurological complaints are reported among the Parkinson’s disease patients. Objective: The purpose of the present study was to see the non-motor neurological complaints of Parkinson’s disease patients. Methodology: This cross-sectional study was carried out in the in-patient and out-patient Department of Medicine and Neurology of Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital, Dhaka from July 2012 to December 2013 for a period of one and half year. All patients with Parkinson’s disease who were admitted under department of Medicine and Neurology and also who visited out-patient department of Medicine and Neurology of Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital, Dhaka were included as study population. Patients who were diagnosed according to Brain Bank clinical criteria for diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease were included in this study. The non-motor neurological complaints were recorded. Result: This study was conducted in Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital with a view to see the non-motor neurological complaints of Parkinson’s disease. The mean age was found 69.15±10.08 years. Most of the patients had a combination of non-motor symptoms and among them more than two third (66.7%) of the patients had cognitive impairment; furthermore more than half (53.8%) of the patients had sleep disturbance. One fourth (25.0%) of patients had sensory, sleep and cognitive disorder; however, 9(22.5%) patients had sleep and cognitive disorder. Conclusion: In conclusion majority Parkinson’s disease patients are suffering from cognitive impairment followed by sleep disturbances. Journal of National Institute of Neurosciences Bangladesh, 2019;5(2): 123-126
The Role of Tumor-Infiltrating B Cells in Tumor Immunity

Earlier studies on elucidating the role of lymphocytes in tumor immunity predominantly focused on T cells. However, the role of B cells in tumor immunity has increasingly received better attention in recent studies. The B cells that infiltrate tumor tissues are called tumor-infiltrating B cells (TIBs). It is found that TIBs play a multifaceted dual role in regulating tumor immunity rather than just tumor inhibition or promotion. In this article, latest research advances focusing on the relationship between TIBs and tumor complexity are reviewed, and light is shed on some novel ideas for exploiting TIBs as a possible tumor biomarker and potential therapeutic target against tumors.
Conservative management versus surgical intervention for penetrating abdominal shotgun injuries

Background: The objective of the study was to present our experience of selective conservative management of abdominal gunshot wounds in University hospital over three years.Methods: This prospective study included 30 patients who presented with shotgun injuries to the abdomen. The study included only patients with bird shots (small pellets, number 6), who are vitally stable with evidence of penetration on CT scan, and with no hemoperitoneum, pneumoperitoneum, or collection. They were allocated to one of two groups according to the surgeon preference. Patients in the Operative Group were transferred for immediate exploratory laparotomy. Patients in the Conservative Group were closely observed for 48 hours, received nothing per oral with the administration of antibiotics and fluid and no analgesics. After 48 hours, if the patients were stable with no complications, they were discharged. Conservative management was terminated for vital instability, hemoglobin drop, rising white blood cells count, fever, abdominal symptoms, and signs of peritonitis.Results: Exploration yielded a negative result in 9 out of 14 patients (64.3%) of the Operative Group. Four patients had significant injuries, and one had an insignificant injury. Postoperative complications occurred in 3 patients. Conservative management failed in one patient who developed high fever and abdominal symptoms.Conclusions:In patients with penetrating abdominal shotgun injuries with no evidence of abdominal organ injuries, conservative management is a safe and successful option based of strict selection criteria including small shots in a hemodynamically stable patient with evidence of penetration on CT scan, and with no hemoperitoneum, pneumoperitoneum or collection.
Learning outcomes of entrepreneurship education: Entrepreneurship education for knowing, doing, being, and living together

Abstract The authors try to identify the learning outcomes of entrepreneurship education at high schools. The statistical population of this research consists of vocational high school students in Tehran, Iran. The findings showed that learning outcomes for knowing are more than the aspects of doing, being, and living together. More specifically, 65 learning outcomes of entrepreneurship education have been identified in four pillars. This study presents a comprehensive framework for the philosophy of entrepreneurship education.
Correlation between Heart Failure with N-Terminal-Pro-B Type Natriuretic Peptide and Cardiothoracic Ratio from Chest Radiograph in Pediatric Heart Disease

Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the correlation between the symptom of heart failure and basic investigations; N-Terminal-Pro-B Type Natriuretic Peptide (NT-proBNP) and cardiothoracic (CT) ratio from chest radiograph in pediatric heart disease. Methods: One-hundred-eighty children (aged 1-15 years) with underlying heart disease were enrolled in this prospective cross-sectional study. The heart failures were categorized based on the Ross classification into 2 groups, non-heart failure (Ross classification I) and heart failure (Ross classification II-IV). The NT‐proBNP level was determined and chest radiograph was done in posteroanterior upright position for CT ratio. Results: The mean NT-proBNP level was 223.1 pg/ml ( + 180.3) and a mean CT ratio was 53.6% ( + 5.6) in the non-heart failure group. The mean NT-proBNP level was 1,054 pg/ml ( + 1,840.3) and a mean CT ratio was 58.6% ( + 6.1) in heart failure group. There was a significantly positive correlation between heart failure symptoms and the level of NT-proBNP and CT ratio. In this study, the cut-off value of NT-proBNP for heart failure was more than 400 pg/ml (OR 6.97, ROC 0.694, sensitivity 52.6%, specificity 86.3%) and CT ratio more than 55% (OR 3.57, ROC 0.654, sensitivity 68%, specificity 62.8%). Conclusion: In pediatric heart diseases, there are strong positive correlations between heart failure with both NT-proBNP and CT ratio. These correlations help in the diagnosis of heart failure. NT-proBNP level more than 400 pg/ml and CT ratio more than 55% are indicative of heart failure in our population. Both investigations are inexpensive, readily available and do not require specialist experts.
Save Our Spectrum: Contact-Free Human Sensing Using Single Carrier Radio

Recent research has demonstrated new capabilities in radio frequency (RF) sensing that apply to health care, smart home, and security applications. However, previous work in RF sensing requires heavy utilization of the radio spectrum, for example, transmitting thousands of WiFi packets per second. In this paper, we present a device-free human sensing system based on received signal strength (RSS) measurements from a low-cost single carrier narrowband radio transceiver. We test and validate its performance in three different applications: real-time heart rate monitoring, gesture recognition, and human speed estimation. The challenges in these applications stem from the very low signal-to-noise ratio and the use of a single-dimensional measurement of the channel. We apply a combination of linear and non-linear filtering, and time-frequency analysis, and develop new estimators to address the challenges in the particular applications. Our experimental results indicate that RF sensing based on single-carrier magnitude measurements performs nearly as well as the state-of-the-art while utilizing three orders of magnitude less bandwidth.
Assessing Efficacy of Stop the Bleed Education

Stop the Bleed is a national grassroots, education campaign effort that focuses on empowering the public to recognize and control life-threatening bleeding emergencies. The White House, Homeland Security, and the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, and the Hartford Consensus have endorsed the program since 2015. Stop the Bleed is a call to action plan to train the public on hemorrhage recognition and control until medical personnel are available for management. An additional initiative is to place bleeding control kits in every public place. This project focused on educating 80-100 professionally trained and lay persons utilizing handouts and presentation information provided by the Stop the Bleed campaign. The education process involved the use of material focused on hemorrhage recognition while the second component of training involved active and return demonstration of tourniquet use, wound packing with gauze, and hemostatic agents for major bleeding control. A retrospective study evaluating pre and post Short Research Article Daigle et al.; AJRNH, 2(1): 1-8, 2019; Article no.AJRNH. 49352 2 questionnaires was utilized to assess knowledge of bleeding control education. The goal of this project was to prove that the Stop the Bleed campaign initiative can effectively train individuals regardless of current knowledge level. The significance of this study is to prove efficacy and support training of the public in responding to natural and unintentional disasters that result in uncontrolled bleeding.
Human Sleep Scoring Based on K-Nearest Neighbors

Human sleep is one of the essential indicators that gauge the overall health and well-being. Presently, it is common for people to face issues related to sleep. Various biomedical signals including electroencephalogram (EEG), electrooculography (EMG), and electrooculography (EOG) are utilized in the diagnosis and during the treatment of sleep disorder cases. An automatic classification to diagnose sleep problems can help in the analysis of sleep EEG data. In this current study, an effort is made to classify the sleep stages from a single EEG channel (C4-A1) based on K-nearest neighbors (K-NN) with three alternative distance metrics. The Euclidean distance is the most commonly used distance measure in K-NN, and no prior study of sleep EEG data has inspected the classification performance of K-NN with various distance measures. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether the distance function affects the performance of K-NN in the classification of sleep data. Euclidean, Manhattan and Chebyshev distance measures were individually tested with K-NN classification, and their performances were compared based on accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, F-measure, Kappa statistic and computation time for both Rechtschaffen & Kales and American Academy of Sleep Medicine standard labelings of the sleep stages. The experimental results show that the Manhattan distance function with K = 5 was the best choice for classification of the sleep stages, achieving 98.46% and 98.77% correct rates for the two labelings with comparatively rapid computations.
Question-answer pair templates based on bloom’s revised taxonomy

Information Technology and Communication has altered the paradigm of Teaching and Learning Process into a process that is not limited by the problem of distance, time and method. This could be possible by means of the use of electronic learning system used as a media in teaching and learning activity. However, the utilization of Information and Communication Technology works, confirmed only as disseminator of teaching materials, so that we need to increase the performance of learning level. One of the ways is by doing the learning exercise to easily understand the teaching materials. This study is conducted with an aim to identify and classify the Expected Type Answer and question answer pairs templates based upon Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy at the level of knowledge acquisition and knowledge deepening, and this study is part of automatic question-answer system development. The research method used a descriptive approach to collect 1.354 training data from 10 documents of teaching materials from electronic books published by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Indonesia Republic. This research resulted in the parameter of Expected Type Answer for Question Answer System based on Blooms Revised Taxonomy and 109 question answer pair templates based on Blooms Revised Taxonomy. The result of this research becomes one of solutions to build the electronic learning sustainability.
Homoeopathic individualized LM-potencies versus Centesimal potencies for pain management of cervical spondylosis: A multicenter prospective randomized exploratory clinical study

Objectives:The primary objective of this study was to determine the therapeutic usefulness of a group of predefined trial medicines in benign prostatic hyperplasia. The secondary objective was to check the progression of disease by evaluating changes in prostate volume (PV), post-void residual urine (PVRU) and peak urine flow rates (Qmax and Qavg in ml/sec). Methods:In a multi-centric observational study, 231 patients suffering from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) having prostate volume > 20 mL and prostate specific antigen (PSA) ≤ 4 ng/mL were enrolled at 5 Institutes/Units under Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH). Symptoms were analyzed using the American Urological Association Symptom Index (AUASI). Parameters like PSA, Prostate volume, Post void residual urine, Qmax, Qavg were also analyzed. Twenty pre-defined homoeopathic medicines were short-listed for prescription after repertorizing the pathological symptoms of BPH. The appearance of any change (relief/worsening)/status quo was immediately followed by placebo/ change in potency/change in remedy. The follow-up period was for one year. The analysis was done as per intention to treat principle. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 16. Results:The data of 187 patients out of 231 enrolled was analyzed. The non-parametric Friedman test was applied to test for significant difference in AUASI score reported over 12 months (baseline, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months). There was a statistically significant reduction in AUASI score (median change of 13 points, p= 0.0001) on completion of one year of treatment. A total of 10 out of 20 pre-defined medicines were prescribed to 187 patients. The medicines found to be most useful in this study are: Thuja (27 out of 53; 51%), Sulphur (26 out 46; 56.5%), Pulsatilla (34 out of 46; 74%), Lycopodium. (7 out of 13; 54%). There was a mean reduction of 2.3 ml in prostate volume, which was significant satistically (p=0.005). Conclusion:Homoeopathic medicines significantly improved lower urinary tract symptoms in men with BPH. Placebo-controlled trials are needed to evaluate their efficacy and effectiveness.
Philosophy of Technology in Affective Computing and Social Network Analysis

The paper assumes Philosophy of Technology importance in Affective Computing and Social Network Analysis from three perspectives: challenges generated by changes in relationships stablished in social networks, contemporary interactions nature between artifacts, humans and environments throughout concepts as meaning and experience and applying data mining to enhance information comprehension, reflection and influence in contemporary knowledge societies. Through a flexible methodology of comparing concepts presented in literature to expert’s viewpoints, it outlines some of the key ethical issues around analysis of social interactions shared in the web. Keywords-affective computing, philosophy of technology, social network analysis, technology and society
GREEN SDN — An enhanced paradigm of SDN: Review, taxonomy, and future directions

Network architectures nowadays are not able to address the requirements of future Internet, as they are not sufficient, ossified, and are power hungry on the TCP/IP paradigm. Therefore, to promote the realizable progression toward the new paradigms and modern protocols, modern routers are required to become programmable for the flexible control and dynamic management of both power states and traffic flows. In this scenario, Software Defined Networking (SDN) is considered as an exemplary approach for providing the support of dynamic traffic flows of each node on a network. Besides the benefits that SDN brought to the networking area, there are still crucial challenges such as to design an effective, lightweight API, rich algorithms, and traffic forwarding rules for SDN layers along with the adoption of an energy efficient infrastructure that could have the least effect on the environment. The aim of this research is to drive the attention toward environment friendly adoption and implementation of SDN that could deal with the growing number of users and network equipment. For this purpose, in this research, a comprehensive review on SDN while mapping the characteristics of green computing with SDN is provided. In addition to that, the research stressed on the benefits of Green SDN through a proposed G‐SDN framework. Some well‐defined case studies are presented to highlight the need of greening an SDN infrastructure. Finally, various research directions are presented to the wide adoption of SDN technology for academia and industry alike.
Designing Automatic Guided Device of Books

There are several methods returning scattered books in library, such as asking visitors to put them back to the bookshelf, recruiting more employees, or creating system that can return the books automatically. But, by using the system, visitors no need to walk to certain bookshelf. The system itself called Automatic Guided Device included of Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV), RFID tag, scissor-lift, and book thruster. Every books have RFID tags which contains the book database. There are name of books and shelf location inside of the database. Visitors just need scan the book(s) and laid on the device, then the system will begin to operate. After that, this Automatic Guided Device sensor equipped will start its journey and go through to the location of bookshelf by following tracked line on the floor. To show them, it uses ASCII Table in the C Source Code Program. This table is to represent information substitutes which contains certain number, then it will be declared as the bookshelf location spot. After reaching certain distance, scissor-lift lifts as high as the table. Then scissor-lift stops, while the book thruster removing the book from device into bookshelf. So, this system not only returning the books without any manual operation but also can do more things such as lifting and putting the books automatically at once. Based on several tests, AGD reaches at certain spot within an average 60% of successfulness by using ASCII Table numbering format.
Tendencias de mortalidad por VIH/SIDA en la ciudad de Pereira, Colombia (2002-2014): estudio ecológico

Objetivo: evaluar las tendencias de la mortalidad por VIH y sus factores asociados en el periodo 2002-2014 del municipio de Pereira. Materiales y metodos: estudio ecologico de serie temporal. Utiliza como fuente de informacion las bases de datos de certificados de defuncion codificados por el Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadisticas. Las tendencias de la mortalidad se estimaron de acuerdo con las siguientes variables: edad, sexo, area de residencia y causa de muerte. Se realizo un analisis exploratorio con los datos en bruto, aplicando estadistica descriptiva para el calculo de porcentajes, medidas de tendencia central y variabilidad. Se aplico regresion joinpoint para identificar tendencias en tasas ajustadas. Resultados: la mortalidad de los pacientes con infeccion por VIH en el periodo 2002-2014 fue en promedio de 11,9 por 100.000 habitantes. La mortalidad se mantuvo estable sin presentar variaciones estadisticamente significativas en el periodo evaluado (VPAP: 2,6; IC 95 %: -2,7 -8,1; p = 0,6), con una tendencia al aumento de 14,3 % por ano, del ano 2002 al ano 2005, otra tendencia a la disminucion de -1,1 % por ano en el periodo 2005-2014. La mortalidad fue mayor en el sexo masculino, los pacientes de edad avanzada, aquellos con causas no infecciosas y que residen en la zona urbana. Conclusion: se presento una alta mortalidad de los pacientes con infeccion por VIH y una tendencia sin variaciones significativas en el periodo 2002-2014 en la ciudad de Pereira, Colombia.