Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Stakeholders’ Readiness on the Adoption of a Reverse Vending Technology for Waste Polyethylene Terephthalate Bottle Collection

In the past decade, indiscriminate disposal of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottles has proliferated because of the increasing consumption of it as a beverage container. This problem can affect humans to a large degree, hence it is a necessity to develop a system that will improve the disposal and collection of PET bottles.This study aims evaluate the readiness of stakeholders to adopt the reverse vending technology to improve waste PET bottle collection. Survey questionnaires were constructed to inquire on the following: (a) existing practices of stakeholders on waste PET bottle collection; (b) their level of readiness for the adoption of the technology; (c) their requirements and preferences for the design features and rewards of the reverse vending technology.Based on the results, there is a high level of willingness of the stakeholders to try the reverse vending technology. Stakeholders were concluded also as having a high level of readiness in the adoption of the technology based on the following determinants: technology readiness, self-efficacy, technical needs, relative advantage, compatibility, and perceived ease of use.
The result of phosphorus fertilizer application on growth and yield of three soybean (Glycine max) cultivars in Limpopo Province

This study aimed at assessing the effects of phosphorus (P) rates on the growth and yield of three soybean cultivars in Vhembe district, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Field experiments were carried out at the University of Venda’s experimental farm, Thohoyandou over two seasons (season I: February – May 2006; season II: November 2006 – March 2007). The experiments consisted of a factorial combination of P fertilizer rates (0, 30 and 60 kg P ha -1 ) and soybean cultivars (Pan 520RR, Highveld Top, and LS 555) arranged in a randomized complete block design and replicated three times. Crop biomass (three stages: vegetative phase, 50% flowering and harvest maturity) and grain yield were determined. The (Agricultural Production Systems Simulator) APSIM model (version 5.3) was used to simulate crop biomass and grain yield and to assess the long-term risks associated with yield production of soybean crop. P did not affect crop biomass at harvest maturity but the effect of cultivar was significant (P = 0.01); LS 555 had lower grain yield (701 kg ha -1 ) compared with Pan 520RR (1457 kg ha -1 ) and Highveld Top (1241 kg ha -1 ). There was a strong positive relationship (R 2 = 0.97) between observed and predicted grain yield data but the predicted yields were generally lower than the observed values. These preliminary findings show firstly, that the addition of P may not affect grain yield of soybean in this area, secondly, that Pan 520RR and Highveld Top may be suitable for cultivation in this area, and lastly, that APSIM model may be a useful tool in predicting soybean productivity in this area.
A Comparative Study on Efficacy of Three Different Treatment Modalities for Temporomandibular Joint Pain and Dysfunction

Aim: The aim of the study is to investigate the efficacy of three treatment options (splint therapy, physical therapy, and pharmacologic therapy) in patients suffering from painful temporomandibular joint clicking. Materials and Methods: 60 patients were included in the study suffering from temporomandibular joint disorders randomly divided into three treatment groups. Twenty patients which were given pharmacological treatment (group I), 20 patients will received TENS therapy (group II), and 20 patients will be given splint therapy (group III). In all the three groups, subjective and objective assessments were evaluated at the time of diagnosis, after the first week of initiation of therapy and every week for three months of follow up. Results: There was gradual reduction seen in VAS scores, muscle tenderness, TMJ clicking and significant improvement in mouth opening in Group III therapy during the follow-up period as compared to Group I and Group II therapy. Conclusion: The conventional soft occlusal splint therapy is a much safer and effective mode of a conservative line of therapy in comparison to long-term pharmacotherapy and TENS therapy in patients with TMJ pain and dysfunction.
Approximation of Fractal Interpolation using Artificial Neural Network

: A new fractal interpolation method called NNA (Neural Network Algorithm) based on IFS is proposed to interpolate the self-affine signals with the expected interpolation error. Experiments on the theoretical data and real field seismic data show that the proposed interpolation schemes can not only get the expected point’s value but also get a great accuracy in reconstruction of the seismic profile, leading to a significant improvement over other trace interpolation methods.
Design of Circularly Polarized Broadband Microstrip Patch Array Antenna using HFSS for WLAN Application

The design of a stripline fed network producing a conical beam circular polarized microstrip patch array antenna is presented in this article. A circularly-polarized conical-beam microstrip patch antenna, with a coplanar conductor pattern, is realized as an array of a number of stripline-fed slotted patches whose diagonal corners are cut off and whose feed lines meet at a central point with a square slot cut at the centre of the patch. There is good agreement between the simulated and experimental results for the return loss and axial ratio. The antenna is intended for short-range low power WSN applications, such as Bluetooth, WiFi etc.
Modified Permeation Coefficients for Benzene, Toluene, Ethybenzene, and Xylene (BTEX) Estimation through Polyethylene Pipe

Although permeation of hydrocarbons such as Benzene, Toluene, Ethybenzene, and Xylene (BTEX) through polyethylene (PE) pipe in potable water applications is rarely occurred. It is important to understand permeation mechanism and characterize the potential health risk. The most common potential hydrocarbon substances are originated from gasoline leaks. Previous research has shown that pipe materials made of plastic polymers are subject to permeation by hydrocarbons. It is strongly recommended to consider hydrocarbon permeation before selecting pipe materials in potentially hydrocarbon-contaminated area. This paper is to address permeation mechanism and development of modified permeation coefficients that can be used by engineers and pipe material manufacturers. Several factors are considered in this paper to reflect actual pipe design environment. This paper presents the modified permeation coefficients for BTEX contamination through polyethylene pipe. The permeation coefficients can be used to develop a BTEX permeation calculator. Keywords— BTEX, Hydrocarbon Permeation, Permeation Coefficients, Polyethylene
Action Scene Extraction from Movie using Finite State Machine

— To attract the viewers into paying to see full movie, the creation of movie trailers is an essential part of movie industry. Action scene is the main factor of a movie trailer. In this paper, we propose an automatic action scene extraction algorithm using finite state machine based on analyzing audio-visual features. The input video is first decomposed into shot. Then audio features compute and applied to support vector machine in order to determine whether it is speech, silence or music. Extracted Audiovisual features are to feed into finite state machine in order to determine action scene classification from others scene.
Securing Data Against Botclouds and IP Spoofing

Cloud computing is the new trend in computing and resource management. Cloud offers great benefits in terms of flexibility, scalability and availability. Few people and organizations step back from adapting cloud technology mainly because of the security concerns. The security breaches of cloud computing include DoS attacks. BotClouds and IP Spoofing are two DoS attacks. Traditional network security techniques cannot be used to solve cloud computing threats because of the huge and variety of data in cloud. IP spoofing is presenting a false truth in a credible way to gain unauthorized access to cloud services. BotClouds are cloud based botnets which is the most commonly used platform attackers use to perform frauds in cloud environment. This paper proposes a methodology to secure cloud services by monitoring the traffic and logging the activities even for short periods.
A Dynamic Programming Based Approach for Test Sequence Generation

: The software reliability is based on effective software testing. To perform the optimized testing for a software system, a cost effective test sequence is required. In this work, a two stage model is presented for test sequence generation. In first stage of this model, the prioritization is applied to test cases under different vectors. The vectors included in this work are fault based analysis and module interaction analysis. Once the prioritization is applied, the next work is to apply the dynamic programming approach to obtain the optimal test sequence. The work is analyzed under different prioritization cases, and the analysis results show the effect of different prioritization methods for test sequence generation.
La chimiothérapie adjuvante des cancers du sein : d'hier à aujourd'hui

20 La Lettre du Sénologue n° 23 janvier/février/mars 2004 L e cancer du sein est de loin le plus fréquent des cancers de la femme, avec près de 42 000 nouveaux cas par an en France (1). Pendant longtemps, ce cancer était considéré comme une maladie loco-régionale mais les récentes décennies en ont fait évoluer la prise en charge, et si le traitement loco-régional demeure fondamental, lémergence de traitements systémiques efficaces a fait naître le concept de maladie systémique. Lhormonothérapie et la chimiothérapie ont démontré, dans un premier temps, leur efficacité en phase métastatique. La maladie micrométastatique pouvait dès lors être prise en charge par le traitement adjuvant. Le développement des nouveaux anticancéreux en phase métastatique permet dévaluer leur efficacité et leur tolérance et de positionner les plus intéressants au stade précoce ou adjuvant. Pendant très longtemps, la chimiothérapie adjuvante, lorsquelle était indiquée, était administrée, selon les mêmes modalités et le même protocole, chez toutes les femmes, quels que soient leurs facteurs pronostiques et les caractéristiques biologiques de la tumeur. Aujourdhui, on sait que certaines femmes bénéficieront plus du traitement que dautres. Le profil génomique ou protéomique de la tumeur pourrait même, dans lavenir, nous indiquer quel produit de chimiothérapie choisir. Alors, du traitement identique pour toutes, nous arriverions au traitement sur mesure. Déjà de nouvelles drogues sont disponibles. Larrivée prochaine des taxanes en phase adjuvante devrait nous permettre doptimiser le traitement systémique et en partie dadapter celui-ci à lidentité de la patiente.
2013.The Effect of Exercise Induced Hemorheological Adaptation on Respiratory Function and Sport performance. Asian J. Med. Pharm. Res., 3 (4): 161-175.;

Exercise hemoreology is the issue of many studies done on athletes, sedentary people and patients who suffer different illnesses. Changes in red blood cells’ properties occur in most exercise methods that one of the most incident one is changes in RBC deformability which happens in most sports events and intense exercises. Blood lactate that reduces number of RBC and their flexibility is a result of exercise induced RBC rigidity and reduced flexibility. Thus, there might be a relationship between blood lactate concentration and RBC rigidity during exercise. In other hand, it has been confirmed that excessive usage of oxygen in active muscle and inadequate pulmonary oxygen supply in well exercised athletes leads to hypoxemia which cause the formation of free radicals. Studies have shown that oxidative stress during acute exercise accompanies by hemorheological disorders, but its mechanisms haven’t been clarified yet. Since sport performance relates to oxygen carrying capacity to active muscles, increased performance as a result of increased hematocrit by exercising in high altitude, blood doping or erythropoietin injection isn’t surprising. Because of biological engineering, erythropoietin has been very accessible and erythropoietin doping has been very popular as a result. But, logic of this kind of doping contradicts with physiological information. In normal conditions, there is a negative correlation between hematocrit and physical fitness. So, in various kinds of sports, different hemorheological patterns are observed.
Treatment of Intracranial Superficial Micro-AVMs: A Single Center Experience

Background: Surgery and embolization may both be considered in ruptured superfi cial micro-AVMs. However, surgery may be challenged by poor recognition of the lesion and embolization by diffi culty in achieving complete obliteration and avoiding en passage feeders. Recent developments in AVM surgery and embolization techniques call for a reevaluation of these treatment options. Methods: Eight consecutive patients with superfi cial micro-AVMs are presented. All patients received an initial embolization attempt with either nBCA or ONYX. If complete obliteration was not obtained, either a second embolization or surgical resection was offered. At surgery, indocyanine green video angiography (ICG-VA) was used in all cases. Effectiveness and safety of all procedures were evaluated retrospectively. Functional outcome at 6 months was assessed by the modifi ed Ranking Score (mRS). Results: Patients had a mean age of 52±17 years and all presented with hemorrhage. The mean nidus size was 4 mm, and was localized supratentorially in 5 cases and infratentorially in 3. Initial embolization was successful in 2 patients (25%). One patient underwent a second, unsuccessful, embolization attempt and 1 patient did not receive further treatment. Consequently, fi ve patients underwent surgery, which was successful in four (80%). The unsuccessful case was successfully reoperated. The only two procedural complications were related to superselective embolization, but neither caused clinical sequelae. Mean clinical follow-up was 29 months (range, 4–75mo), with mRS 0 in 2, mRS 1 in 4 and mRS 3 in 2 cases. Conclusions: In a current case series, embolization of superfi cial micro-AVMs was associated with a lower success rate (25% vs 80%) than microsurgery and a higher procedural complication rate (minor complications: 22% vs 0%). Research Article Treatment of Intracranial Superfi cial Micro-AVMs: A Single Center Experience GM Overdevest1, AC van Es2, MAA van Walderveen2 and PWA Willems1,2* 1Department of Neurosurgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA Leiden, the Netherlands 2Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA Leiden, the Netherlands Dates: Received: 11 January, 2017; Accepted: 21 February, 2017; Published: 23 February, 2017 *Corresponding author: P.W. A. Willems, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Postal Zone C2S, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 71 5269111; E-mail:
DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF HEPATOPROTECTIVE POLY HERBAL FORMULATION AGAINST VARIOUS METHODS OF DRUGS INDUCED LIVER TOXICITY

Polyherbal formulations were developed by using five bioactive N-butanol fractionated extracts of Eclipta alba, Picrorhizakurroa(Rhizome), Terminaliachebula (fruits),Piper nigrum (fruits),Nigella sativa(seeds), Tribulusterristris(whole plant) Linn, treatment of liver disorders by exploiting the knowledge of traditional system of medicine and evaluated for hepatoprotective activity using acute liver toxicity models of paracetamol,ccl4, ethanol, isoniazide induced liver damage in rats. Major active fractions were isolated by solvent fractionation and quantified by column chromatographic method. Two polyherbal tablet formulations were developed by the wet granulation method using microcrystalline cellulose, aerosil and other excipients and subjected for physicochemical evaluation to assess physical stability followed by pharmacological screening. The prepared tablets were finally subjected to stability testing to assess its shelf-life. The rats were monitored for change in liver morphology, biochemical parameters for polyherbal tablet formulation at 50 mg/kg and polyherbal tablet formulation at 100 mg/kg. Both formulations showed significant hepatoprotective activity. The histological studies were also support the biochemical parameters. From the results of biochemical analysis and histopathological studies, Biochemical marker showed improved results for polyherbal tablet formulation at 100 mg/kg. Polyherbal tablet formulation contains a potent hepatoprotective agent suggested to be a butanol fraction concentrated in polyherbal formulation which may find clinical application in amelioration of paracetamol, ethanol, ccl4, isoniazide induced liver damage.
Study on Rumen and Reticulum Foreign Body in Slaughtered Cattle at Gondar Elfora Abattoir

A cross-sectional study was conducted from October, 2014 to April, 2015 at Gondar Elfora Abattoir, North Gondar zone, Amhara National Regional State, with the objectives of to assess the prevalence of rumen and reticulum foreign bodies, identify types of foreign bodies and associated risk factors for the occurrences of foreign bodies. Both antemortem and postmortem examinations were employed to examine the live animal and for the recovery of foreign body from rumen and reticulum after slaughter respectively. The study animals were selected by using simple random sampling method from the total slaughtered animals. From the total of 500 male animals examined, 74 (14.8%) were found positive for the occurrence of indigestible foreign bodies in rumen and reticulum. Berrie et al., World J. Biol. Med. Science Volume 2 (4), 133-150, 2015 134 From 446local breed examined 55 (12.33%) and 54 cross breed examined 19 (35.18%) were found Positive respectively. The types of foreign bodies were detected nails, wires, plastics, leathers, clothes and ropes. From these plastics35 (42.3%), rope21 (28.4%), cloth18 (24.3%), nail16 (21.6%), wire5 (6.7%) and leather 2(2.7%) were more frequently encountered of the positive cases respectively. Prevalence of foreign body occurrence recorded comparing with in age young 5 (4.95%), adult 37 (13.5%) and old32 (25.6%) from the total examined animals 101, 274and 125respectively. While the prevalence rate recorded within association of body condition were poor 29(39.72%), medium32 (11.47%) andgood13 (8.7%) from total examined animal73, 279 and 148respectively, Poor body condition and old animals were more affected. From the total prevalence74 (14.8%), 51(68.9%), 14(18.9%) and9 (12.2%) were observed fromrumen, reticulum and rumen and reticulum respectively and rumen harbored mostly plastic materials while reticulum was the major site for the retention of metallic objects. These aforementioned factors are considered as potential risk factors and found highly significantly associated (p < 0.05) with the occurrence of foreign bodies. In conclusion, detection of the foreign bodies in fore stomach suggested as health risk to ruminants and contributes a lot for reduced production. Therefore, appropriate solid waste disposal system need to implement in the study area to prevent health risk of ruminants and also to protect the environment.
Structured SVM for Speech Recognition Using Kernel Derivative Model

Kernels model-based is a superior technique for recognizing speech for huge amount of training data in continuous speech recognition technique. This study describes a specific model in this framework, kernel based structured support vector machine (SSVM). This illustrates that how it can be applied to average to large vocabulary recognition jobs. Here a high dimensional feature of derivative kernels and context – dependent models are used . This explores the previous work with combined form of generative and discriminative classifiers. The feature of derivative kernel is extracted. These extracted features can be segmented by using Viterbi-like scheme. Viterbi-like scheme is illustrated for obtaining optimal segmentation. At last a training algorithm can be included into large margin criterion. The performance of SSVM is estimated to aurora 2 speech recognition task. The experimental result presents kernel based SSVM provides better result over SSVM. Keywords— StructuredSVM, kernel methods, Log Linear Models, AURORA 2 .
BER Improvement in Rayleigh Fading SIMO Channel Using Hybrid Diversity Combining Technique

Abstrac t — In this paper, Hybrid Diversity Combining Technique for a wireless system using Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) in a Rayleigh Fading Single-Input-Multiple-Output (SIMO) channel is proposed. In Hybrid technique, the hybridization of Selection Combining (SC) and Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) is done. An algorithm is developed for implementation on wireless system. All the three basic standalone combining techniques Selection Combining (SC), Equal Gain Combining (EGC) and Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) are also considered and Bit Error Rate (BER) for Hybrid Diversity Combining technique and basic standalone combining techniques are computed and simulated. Antenna diversity (Receive diversity) is used by using multiple antennas at the receiver side and single antenna at transmitter side
Dynamic Postural Control and Level of Functional Abilities with and without Ankle Foot Orthosis in Ambulatory Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Cross Sectional Study

Objective: To investigate the dynamic postural control and level of functional abilities with and without ankle foot orthosis in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy. Method: 32 children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP) were selected based on the inclusion criteria in two groups: Children who were using DAFOs and children who had never used DAFOs. Two dynamic activities of sit to stand and forward reach were performed by children of both the groups on force plat form for the assessment of dynamic postural control and their level of functional abilities were scored using Paediatric Evaluation of Disability Index (PEDI) by parental report. Results: The dynamic postural control using force platform showed lesser COPE in children with CP who were using DAFOs compared to children in other group for sit to stand and forward reach activities respectively (p=0.003; p=0.423). PEDI score was higher in children who were using DAFOs compared to children without DAFOs. The correlation of dynamic postural control with their level of functional abilities was non- significant for both the groups. Conclusion: Children with spastic CP who are using DAFOs more than a year had better dynamic postural control and functional abilities compared to children without DAFOs.
AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF ADENOID ENLARGEMENT: A CASE STUDY

Adenoid hypertrophy that is one of the most common cause of nasal obstruction, causing alterations to the auditory and orthognathic apparatus, and sleep disorders such as snoring and obstructive apnoea resulting in educational and social problems. Inefficient medical management and reluctance of masses to surgery necessitates an alternative and novel non-surgical approach to deal this condition. With the very aim of fulfilling the same this case study was taken which involved intake of Ayurvedic medicines and an adoption of Ayurvedic procedure. The experiment was very successful and the patient and his guardians were very much satisfied with the outcome of the treatment.