Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Speaker Identification Based on Temporal Parameters in Colloquial Arabic

The subject of this study is to identify unknown speakers particularly from their speaking tempo represented in Speech Rate SR and Articulation Rate AR as temporal parameters. The fundamental goal of this study, on the acoustical level, is to prove acoustically that every speaker has a significant speech rate SR and articulation rate AR through which the unknown speaker can be discriminated and to investigate which of them (SR or AR) could be of more benefit for identifying unknown speakers and to what extent. Also, the present study is essentially concerned, on the perceptual level, with listeners' perceptual abilities in perceiving and differentiating different speaking tempo for identifying unknown speakers in order to utilize this exceptional ability in forensic speaker identification FSI; aiming to provide some useful acoustical and perceptual data to be used in forensic phonetic filed. The most important characteristic of the temporal aspects of speech, that they are not easily disguised or imitated by accent or fundamental frequency leveling; so they could be useful for identifying unknown speakers particularly in forensic phonetic field. The speech rate SR and articulation rate AR of ten unknown speakers / informants of colloquial Arabic are calculated. The speakers were recorded while talking spontaneously for a radio program. Only 30 seconds of speech are cut for each speaker from the entire episode. After that 60 naïve listeners are asked to listen carefully to the 10 unknown informants in order to mark the fastest speaker and the slowest speaker depending only on their ears.
Evaluation of TCSC Power flow control Capability

In an A.C Transmission system power flow can be controlled by injecting a compensating voltage in series with the line. Thyristor Controlled series compensators (TCSC) are utilized as a conventional means for the purpose. This paper utilizes the steady state model of Thyristor controlled series capacitor and a unified power flow controller for series voltage compensation, and evaluating their range of power flow control for simple network. The models are incorporated into the existing Newton Raphson load flow algorithm. The iterative equations of the Newton Raphson load flow algorithm are modified by the device parameters and the combined set of power flow equations and the TCSC control equations are solved for convergence of the formula. Matlab codes are utilized for the implementation of the devices in the Newton-Raphson algorithm. Power flow control ranges are evaluated for standard 5 bus system. Results are reported and studies are presented to illustrate the power flow capabilities of TCSC. Keywords: Converters, Control Strategy, MATLAB, Newton Raphson algorithm, Power flow, TCSC
Use of Human Body Morphology as an Indication of Physical Fitness: Implications for Police Officers

Research with police officers (POs) suggests an association between body composition, physical performance and health. The aim of the study was to investigate the associations between body composition and measures of physical fitness, and their use to predict estimated physical fitness score (EPFS). The sample included 163 male POs (age = 31.61 ± 4.79 years, height = 172.97 ± 6.09 cm, body mass = 77.53 ± 11.66 kg). Eight body composition variables: body mass index (BMI), body fat mass index (BFMI), percent of body fat (PBF), percent skeletal muscle mass (PSMM), index of hypokinezia (IH), skeletal muscle mass index (SMMI), protein mass index (PMI), and fat-free mass index (FFMI); and four physical fitness measures: a 3.2 km run, a 2-minute push-up, 2-minute sit -up and estimated physical fitness score (EPFS) were correlated, followed by the regression analysis for causal relationship between bo dy composition and EPFS. Running 3.2 km test correlated to BMI, PBF, PSMM, BFMI, and SMMI (r = 0.274, 0.250, -0.234, 0.311, p<0.01 , respectively); 2-minute push-up correlated to PBF, PSMM, BFMI, SMMI, PMI, IH, and FFMI (r = -0.413, 0.436, -0.375, 0.221, 0.231 , -0.411, 0.261, p<0.01, respectively); 2-minute sit-up correlated to PBF, PSMM, BFMI, and IH (r = -0.237, 0.250, -0.236, -0.218, p<0.01, respectively); and EPFS correlated to BMI, FFMI, PBF, PSMM, BFMI, and IH (r = -0.200, 0.168, p<0.05, and r = -0.369, 0.378, 0.3 76, -0.317, p <0.01, respectively). Two models of predictions were extracted: 1) PBF, BFMI, PMI and FFMI (R 2 = 0.250, p<0.001); 2) PBF, BFMI and PMI (R = 0.244, p<0.001). Obtained prediction models may be a promising screening method of a POs’ fitness, when conducting the physical tests is not possible or safe (obese and injured POs or bad weather conditions).
The Economic Performance of the EU Aquaculture Sector (STECF 13-29)

This report, on the Economic Performance of the European Union (EU) Aquaculture sector, is the third report of this type produced for the sector. It provides a comprehensive overview of the latest information available on the structure, social, economic and competitive performance of the aquaculture sector at both national and EU level. The data used in this publication was collected under the Data Collection Framework (DCF). In 2011, the aquaculture sector production in the EU-28 accounted for 1.28 million tonnes, with an estimated value of 3.51 billion Euros. In the EU there are about 14 to 15 thousand companies whose main activity is the aquaculture production, producing a Gross Value Added of more than 1.5 billion Euros. Available data confirms the profitability improvement in 2011 following 2010, after suffering losses in 2008-9. Profitability based on the Return On Investment calculated from the EBIT was 10%. The EU aquaculture sector gave direct employment to more than 80,000 people in Europe, with an annual average wage of around 23 thousand Euros. Women accounted for 27% of these jobs. The large percentage of part-time work in the sector should be highlighted, as can be seen through comparison of the total employment numbers with employment expressed in Full Time Equivalents (FTE is 45% of the total number of employees). Part-time employment is important in the shellfish and freshwater aquaculture subsectors. The economic performance and the productivity differ enormously by subsector and segment. The cost structures of the different subsectors (i.e. shellfish, marine and freshwater aquaculture) and species are also analysed on the report.
PROTOTIPE RUANGAN NICU DENGAN SISTEM MONITORING SUHU DAN KELEMBABAN BERBASIS MINI SCADA JALUR MODBUS

NICU merupakan suatu ruangan untuk mendukung perkembangan hidup bayi yang baru lahir. seperti ventilator mekanik, blue light therapy, portable rontgenography, echocardiography dan lain-lain. Dalam ruangan tersebut digunakan pula untuk melakukan perawatan pada bayi yang memiliki Pigmen bernama bilirubin dengan kadar atau level yang tinggi, bilirubin adalah faktor penyebab dari bayi kuning (ikterus). Untuk dapat mengatur bilirubin pada bayi serta mengendalikan infeksi nosokomial, maka ruang tersebut harus memenuhi standart yang ada, antara lain ruang NICU yang terisolasi dengan area umum, pembagian ruang infeksi dan non infeksi, scrub area, 1 wastafel tiap 3 bayi, jarak antara area perawatan bayi minimal 1,2~2,4 meter, pengaturan suhu (22~30°C) dan kelembaban (30~60%) ruang NICU. Pada Project ini dibuat prototipe ruangan NICU dengan sistem untuk menjaga temperature dan kelembaban secara otomatis dengan mini SCADA melalui jalur modbus, yang di lengkapi dengan lampu UV untuk menurunkan tingkat bilirubin pada bayi. Hasil dari pengujian bahwa temperatur pada ruangan NICU mencapai 36.1°C ~ 37.8°C ketika lampu UV bekerja sesuai dengan tabel kerja dan temperatur tersebut memang di butuhkan untuk dapat menurunkan bilirubin pada bayi, kemudian fan dapat bekerja menurunkan temperatur yang telah berada diatas set point sehingga tetap terjaga pada range standart yang ada.
The recruitment and function of inhibitiory interneurons in olfactory bulb processing

Inhibitory interneurons are the “shush”-ers of the brain—their output causes a reduction in the output of other neurons. Inhibitory interactions play a critical role in the olfactory bulb, where they shape olfactory representations that guide behavior. However, the mechanisms by which interneuron activation improves olfactory function remain debated. In particular, the relative importance neural activity over short periods of time (~tens of milliseconds) versus long periods of time (hundreds to thousands of milliseconds) has provoked significant debate. Granule cells are inhibitory interneurons in the olfactory bulb that can respond and influence olfactory bulb activity across a wide range of timescales. The first part of this dissertation investigates the physiological mechanisms driving the timing of granule cell recruitment. We found that the specific timing of recruitment depends on the timing of synaptic excitation delivered from tufted cells. Tufted cells (unlike the more commonly studied mitral cells) are able to fire at long latencies due to intrinsic membrane properties that allow them to integrate weak inputs slowly while responding rapidly to strong inputs. Computational modeling revealed that the long-latency inhibition generated by this mechanism can improve performance on stimulus discrimination tasks. The second portion of this dissertation focuses on the downstream effects of granule cell recruitment. Highly correlated spiking can be advantageous for propagating information. However, these same correlations limit encoding by introducing redundancy. We investigated how granule cell recruitment altered correlations between mitral cell pairs across timescales. We found that granule cell recruitment increased fast timescale correlations (i.e. synchronous spiking) while simultaneously decreasing slow timescale correlations (i.e. firing rate similarity). Using computational modeling, we show that timescale-dependent correlation changes are functionally advantageous because they can circumvent the tradeoff between propagation and encoding. Taken together, these studies extend our understanding of olfactory bulb physiology by providing a mechanistic description of how inhibitory circuits shape activity across timescales. Our results indicate that granule cell recruitment requires dynamic and stimulus-dependent interactions between mitral, tufted, and granule cells, and that the inhibition recruited by this mechanism works at multiple timescales to effectively encode and propagate stimulus information.
Illusionist Integrated Information Theory

The integrated information theory (IIT) is a promising theory of consciousness. However, there are several problems with IIT’s axioms and postulates. Moreover, IIT entails that some two-dimensional grids of identical logic gates have more consciousness than humans. Many have found this prediction to be implausible, and as will be argued here, this prediction also exacerbates the so-called “hard problem of consciousness”. Recently, it has been argued that if we treat the phenomenological aspects of consciousness as an illusion (illusionism), we can avoid the hard problem altogether by replacing it with the more tractable illusion problem: the problem of explaining how introspection systematically misrepresents experiences as having phenomenology. IIT is intended to be a theory of the phenomenological aspects of consciousness. However, it is possible to reformulate the axioms and postulates of IIT consistently with illusionism. Here it is argued that the resulting theory illusionist integrated information theory removes several problems for IIT including the hard problem and the logic gate problem, and also enables meaningful progress for illusionists on solving the illusion problem.
Detection of Quinolone Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus isolates in a tertiary care centre

BACKGROUND: Staphylococcus aureus can cause a range of illnesses, from minor skin infections to life-threatening diseases of respiratory tract, CNS and bones toxic shock syndrome, bacteremia, and sepsis. As we approach the halfway point of the second decade of fluoroquinolone use, resistance has already emerged in some species of bacteria and some clinical settings. This study has been undertaken to examine the mechanisms of fluoroquinolone resistance and discuss epidemiologic factors that may have contributed to the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in clinical settings. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 120 clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from various clinical samples were cultured on blood agar. Following biochemical confirmation, fluoroquinolone resistance was tested by disc diffusion and agar dilution methods. Genotypic detection of gyrase genes ( gyrA, gyrB, topoisomerase IV , grlA, grlB) were done by PCR. RESULTS: The resistance to fluroquinolones among the total isolates of Staphylococcus aureus was 14%. High level of ciprofloxacin resistance was noted among majority of the isolates tested (MIC: 32 to 64 μg ml). Real time PCR for detection of fluoroquinolone resistance showed grl A and gyr A to be the most predominant genes expressed (72%) mostly in MRSA. CONCLUSION: Injudicious use of antibiotics has led to widespread emergence of resistant organisms. The strict implementation of antibiotic policy tailor made to the individual hospital needs and prompt regular audits of compliance to the same are the only means of saving the populations from newer pathogens and multi drug resistant bugs.
Humoral immune factor changes in group of patients with Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer treated with intravesical therapy.

Background: Bladder cancer (BC) one of the most common urologic cancer characterized by the highest recurrence rate, many types belong to BC, but most common of them worldwide are transitional cell carcinoma(TCC) which constitute about 90-95% cases, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and adenocarcinomas Objective: This study was designed to evaluate parameters of humoral immunity in Non-muscle invasive (superficial or early) bladder cancer patients in Iraq that may provide a new insight into the future of immunotherapies development and BC management. Materials and methods: Fifty-nine volunteer's patients ranged from 24 to 83years old, and 30 control individuals ranged from 51-80 years old, who attended and admitted to Hospital of Gazi AL-Harery in medical city of Baghdad, and Al-Emamain Al-Khadhemain Teaching hospital was recruited in this investigation. The sera of study groups were subjected to serological test to estimate the levels of (IgA, IgG, IgM and C3) by Single radial immunodiffusion (sRID) assay and Enzyme-Linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to estimate the serum levels of IL-10. Results: The ages ranged from 24 to 83years (females: 26 to 72years, males: 38 to 83years) with male to female ratio 4.9:1 and ages of controls ranged from 51 to 80years (females: 54 to 70years, males: 51 to 80years) with male to female ratio 2.75:1, the mean ages of cases and controls groups were (61.65±11.04) , current study showed significance dropping in C3 levels in patients control and Mitomycin C groups compared with apparently healthy, levels of IgM showed significant elevation in BCG group compared with apparently healthy group while patients control and mitomycin C groups showed insignificant elevation of IgM. Levels of IgG showed significant elevation in patients control and mitomycin C groups compared with apparently healthy group while in BCG group showed no differences. Serum levels of IL-10 showed no differences between apparently healthy group and each of patient's groups, also showed no differences within patient's groups Conclusions: Bladder cancer is a common urologic malignancy in male than female patients enrolled in this study. Intravesical BCG or Mitomycin C leading to effective anti-bladder cancer immunity in the majority of Patients
Histone modifications across the cell cycle in undifferentiated and differentiating mouse embryonic stem cells

The role of post translational histone modifications in stem cells has been of increasing interest in recent years, however, the heritability of histone modifications has not yet been determined, and as such their status as epigenetic remains in question. Here we have taken the novel approach of comparing the enrichment of histone modifications, across specific genes and how they are modulated through various phases of the cell cycle: in doing so we address this question of heritability from a new perspective. Highly dynamic fluctuations in the enrichment of histone modifications were observed across the cell cycle in embryonic stem cells. In cell cycle regulated genes the patterns of modification enrichment revealed an increase in active marks either pre-emptive or at the point of expression, indicative of highly dynamic regulation, not a stable heritable transmission, perhaps reflective of the plasticity of these cells. Following on from this embryonic stem cells were differentiated for seven days, allowing the enforcement of canonical cell cycle regulation and a more lineage specific transcription profile. At this point histone modifications displayed a variety of patterns including what appeared to be the stable and presumably heritable transmission of H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 across the cell cycle.
Q-Net : Machine Reading Comprehension adding Question Type

K-QuAD 데이터 셋[5]은 연세대학교에서 제안한 SQuAD[6] 형식의 한국어 데이터 셋이다. K-QuAD 데이터 셋은 SQuAD의 번역 데이터와 한국어 Wikipedia로 구성된 데이터로 구성되어 있다. 번역 데이터는 SQuAD Version1 을 한국어로 번역한 데이터이다. SQuAD Version1의 데이 터는 하나의 본문에 여러 개의 질문-답으로 구성된 데이 터 셋이다. 질문에 대한 답은 본문 내에서 찾을 수 있으 며, SQuAD의 경우 그 답은 본문의 특정한 부분으로 구성 돼있다. 실험에 사용된 SQuAD를 번역한 데이터의 경우, 오역된 데이터는 제거하여 실험한다. 오역을 판단하는 기준으로는 코퍼스 내 ‘지지지지’, ‘K K K’ 등 특정 단어가 반복된 것이다. 오역으로 판단해 제거한 데이터 는 총 731 개다.
Survey of VA: mycorrhizae in agroforestry and its implications on forest trees

Agroforestry, per cent colonization, spore population, vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (VAM) During the last two decades, different aspects of mycorrhizal associations on crops as well as for-est plants have been studied extensively, in differ-ent geographical and agroclimatic conditions (Harley 1989). It is suggested that mycorrhizal fungi form symbiotic relationship with plants and are highly potential for the improvement of over all growth of plant even in infertile soil, P deficient adverse soil facilitate revegetation of waste lands and heavy metal toxicity (Gianinazzi
Aydın ve İzmir İllerindeki Koyun ve Keçilerde Pestivirus Enfeksiyonunun Serolojik ve Virolojik Olarak Araştırılması

Bu calisma ile Aydin ve Izmir illerindeki koyun ve kecilerde pestivirus enfeksiyonunun serolojik ve virolojik olarak arastirilmasi amaclanmistir. Calismada 128 adet keci, 332 adet koyun olmak uzere toplam 460 adet hayvandan serum ornekleri elde edildi. Alinan kan serumu orneklerinde, bovine viral diarrhea virusunun (BVDV) referans susu NADL kullanilarak virus notralizasyon testi ile antikor varligi arastirildi. Toplam 348 adet (116 adet keci, 232 adet koyun) hayvandan alinan tam kan ornekleri pestivirus spesifik antijen varligi yonunden ticari Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) (Serelisa ® BVD p80Ag Mono Indirect, Synbiotics, Europe, Lyon, France) ile test edildi. Keci orneklerinin %41.40’inin (53 /128), koyun orneklerinin ise %47.59’unun (158/332) seropozitif oldugu saptandi. Seropozitif bulunan toplam 211 serum orneginin %37.44’unde 1/5, %34.12’sinde 1/10, %14.21’inde 1/20, %5.21’inde 1/40, %5.68’inde 1/80 ve %3.31’inde ise 1/160 olarak SN 50 degerleri belirlendi. Test edilen tam kan orneklerinin antijen yonunden negatif oldugu belirlendi. Bu calismada, Aydin ve Izmir illerinde orneklenen koyun ve kecilerde viremik hayvan tespit edilmemis olmasina ragmen, %45.87 (211/460) oraninda seropozitiflik saptanmasi pestiviruslarin bolgede sirkule oldugunu ve onemli ekonomik kayiplara neden olabilecegini gostermektedir.
An Improved Relevance Vector Machine With Spatial Fuzzy Clustering Based Defense Mechanism To Defend Against Co-Resident Dos Attacks In Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is taking the technology world by storm because of the varieties of services offered by the cloud service providers (CSPs). Despite numerous benefits offered by CSPs, there are some security issues that may dissuade users from using it. In this service, different virtual machines (VMs) share the same physical resources, these VMs are known as co-resident VMs. The shared physical resources pose a significant threat to the users. As resources may belong to competing organizations as well as unknown attackers. From the perspective of a cloud user, there is no guarantee whether the co-resident VMs are trustworthy. The shared resources make privacy and perfect isolation implausible, which paves the way for co-resident attacks, where a VM attacks another co-resident VM. There is a risk that a covert side channel can be used to extract another user's secret information or launch Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. In this paper, an Improved Relevance Vector Machine with Spatial Fuzzy Clustering (IRVM-SFC) based defense mechanism is proposed for minimizing the co-resistance DOS attacks by making it difficult for attackers to initiate attacks. In this process, first, the attacker behavior is analyzed by using Previously Selected Server First (PSSF) VM allocation strategy. Then, the partial labeling is done by using SFC scheme to partially distinguish the users as legal or malicious. After that, an IRVM scheme is proposed for classifying all users into three categories like high risk (i.e. malicious), medium risk (i.e. uncertain), and low risk. In IRVM, the Mosquito Flying behaviour based swarm intelligence Optimization (MFO) approach used to optimize the kernel functions of parameters to improve the training process. Finally, aStackelberg Game Approachis presented to increase the cost of launching new VMs thus minimizing the probability of initiating co-resident DOS attack. The experimental results show that the proposed IRVM-SFC attained high performance results compared than existing VM allocation schemes.
Régénération de l'épithélium respiratoire de surface humain et mucoviscidose et identification des cellues progénitrices épithéliales

La @mucoviscidose (CF) est caracterisee, par une infection et une inflammation qui sont associees a un remodelage et a des lesions de l'epithelium respiratoire de surface. Cependant, l'association de ces remaniements a l'infection ou a un processus anormal de regeneration apres lesion epitheliale reste mal definie. De plus, la reparation des lesions de l'epithelium de surface humain necessite l'implication des cellules souches/progenitrices qui ne sont actuellement pas identifiees. Nos resultats montrent en utilisant le modele de xenogreffe dans la souris nude, que la regeneration de l'epithelium respiratoire CF, en dehors de toute infection bacterienne, est retardee et caracterisee par une hyperproliferation cellulaire, ainsi qu'un desequilibre de certains mediateurs proteiques. De plus, des anomalies morphologiques sont observees au niveau de l'epithelium CF differencie. Afin d'identifier les cellules epitheliales respiratoires responsables de la regeneration et de la reparation des lesions survenant au cours de la CF, nous avons identifie deux marqueurs des cellules basales, le CD151 et le facteur tissulaire, avec lesquels nous avons isole ces cellules par cytometrie en flux. Comme le confirme leur activite de la telomerase, nous montrons que les cellules basales humaines adultes sont des progeniteurs capables de generer un epithelium differencie mucociliaire in vitro et in vivo. Notre travail constitue un premier pas dans la comprehension des anomalies survenant au cours de la regeneration de l'epithelium respiratoire CF, ainsi que dans l'identification des cellules souches de l'epithelium respiratoire humain adulte.