Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Content Based Medical Image Retrieval – Performance Comparison of Various Methods

Present healthcare system calls for standardization and interoperability of images acquired by various equipment manufacturers. The healthcare system is also not limited to a single super-specialty hospital where state of the art machines and excellent physicians are available but should also these services need to be available in remote places too. Nowadays, number of images acquired by the hospitals is increasing due to the various modalities available to identify accurately the cause of the deceases. This results in more number of medical images being stored in the database in hospitals. The interpretation of these medical images becomes even more critical, as it may contain the information which cannot be perceived by human eye. Therefore the images need to be annotated appropriately while it is stored so that, retrieval of the images of interest can be done quickly. The manual annotation is very cumbersome process when large number of images is involved in the retrieval process. Hence it is necessary to have an efficient Content Based Image Retrieval System which is user friendly and user definable in terms of speed and Precision.
MP 2.04.07 Cervical Cancer Screening Technologies with Pap and HPV Medical Policy

It is estimated that there will be 12,200 new cases, and 4210 deaths from cervical cancer in the United States in 2010. The high prevalence and natural history of cervical cancer, as well as the ability to cure patients in pre-invasive stages, create ideal conditions for wide-spread screening. Cytological screening, through the sampling of cells of the cervix, has been the gold-standard since the introduction of the the Papanicolaou (Pap) smear in the 1940s. The Pap smear involves sampling cells of the transformation zone of the cervix, the area most prone to malignant transformation.
EFL Learners' Use of Online Metacognitive Reading Strategies and Its Relation to Their Self-Efficacy in Reading.

This study explores Iranian EFL learners’ online reading metacognitive strategy use and its relation to their self-efficacy in reading comprehension. It further examines the effect of gender in this respect. To these ends, the Online Survey of Reading Strategies (OSORS) and reading selfefficacy questionnaire were adopted and administered to 63 homogeneous sophomore EFL learners. To analyze data, Friedman Test and Multiple Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) were run. Results of Friedman test indicated that problem-solving online metacognitive reading strategies are most frequently used by the learners, while support strategies are used least frequently. The findings of MANOVA further revealed a significantly positive relationship between the learners’ perceived use of metacognitive online reading strategies and their self-efficacy in reading comprehension. The study further revealed that females use more global online reading strategies, while males perceive themselves as more self-efficacious in reading online texts. Finally, the analysis of think aloud protocol indicated that learners used some other metacognitive strategies while reading online. The findings may have contributions to EFL learners’ online reading strategy use and training and can highlight the significant role that self-efficacy might play in the use of metacognitive reading strategies while reading online.
The variability of Southeastern ( SE ) United States ( U . S . ) summer precipitation in the current and future climate is analyzed using Coupled Model Intercomparison Project-Phase 5 ( CMIP 5 ) models

[1] The variability of Southeastern (SE) United States (U.S.) summer precipitation in the current and future climate is analyzed using Coupled Model Intercomparison Project-Phase 5 (CMIP5) models. By comparing simulated historical precipitation variability with observations, we categorize CMIP5 models into two groups: Group 1 (G1) models that simulate the summer precipitation variability reasonably well and Group 2 (G2) models that need further improvements. Our analysis suggests that the relatively higher skill of G1 models is attributable to their ability to accurately represent the dynamical linkage between SE U.S. summer precipitation variability and North Atlantic Subtropical High (NASH) western ridge position. In contrast, the inability of G2 models to represent such linkage leads to their biases in simulating SE U.S. summer precipitation variability. According to our analysis, the ensemble projection of CMIP5 models suggests that under the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 scenario, SE U.S. summer precipitation variability will intensify and that this intensification is more pronounced among G1 models. Our analysis further suggests that this intensification is most likely due to the projected pattern shift of the NASH western ridge in a warming climate. Under the RCP4.5 scenario, the NASH western ridge will extend further westward leading to more frequent occurrences of the northwestward and southwestward ridge patterns that are respectively related to dry and wet summers in the SE U.S. Consequently, more frequent occurrence of summer precipitation extremes would be expected over the SE U.S. in the future.
Blast Furnace Control using Slag Viscosities and Liquidus Temperatures with Phase Equilibria Calculations

The viscosity of molten slag in blast furnace operations is an important process variable, influencing the rate and location of reactions inside the furnace, as well as the ease with which the final slag could be removed from the furnace. To optimize these processes, it is necessary to estimate the slag viscosity and liquidus temperatures as accurately as possible, and know the target values. Models to predict viscosities and liquidus temperatures, incorporating phase equilibrium calculations, have been developed and validated with measured data. Various diagrams have been developed to illustrate how the properties vary with composition and temperature, including pseudo-ternary diagrams of SiO 2-MgO- CaO-Al2O3 for viscosity and liquidus temperature. Models were also applied and methodologies developed to analyse historical blast furnace operations and determine target values.
A STUDY ON THE WEAKNESS ANALYSIS FOR BINARY CODE IN EMBEDDED ENVIRONMENTS

Today's software is developed by collaborating with various levels of people rather than being developed by superior individuals.Also, recent software development is increasingly being developed using open source and third party libraries.On the other hand, Research shows that when using third party libraries, security analysis and testing are less than 50% in the development process.For those reasons, Security incidents caused by the use of such third-party libraries are continuously increasing, such as HeartBleed, ShellShock, POODLE, and DROWN, but security of binary libraries is very difficult to verify.In this paper, we analyze major security weaknesses based on the major CVEs generated in the embedded SW environment and use them for security weakness analyzer and intermediate language design for effective security weakness analysis of binary code in the future.
Taking foreign policy personally : personal values and foreign policy attitudes

Previous research shows that, when it comes to foreign policy, individuals have general orientations that inform their beliefs toward more specific issues in international relations. But such studies evade an even more important question: what gives rise to such foreign-policy orientations in the first place? Combining an original survey on a nationally representative sample of Americans with Schwartz's theory of values from political psychology, we show that people take foreign policy personally: the same basic values that people use to guide choices in their daily lives also travel to the domain of foreign affairs. Conservation values are most strongly linked to “militant internationalism,” a general hawkishness in international relations. The value of universalism is the most important value for predicting “cooperative internationalism,” the foreign-policy orientation marked by a preference for multilateralism and cosmopolitanism in international affairs. This relatively parsimonious and elegant system of values and foreign-policy beliefs is consistent across both high- and low-knowledge respondents, offering one potential explanation for why those people who are otherwise uninformed about world politics nonetheless express coherent foreign-policy beliefs.
Effect of concentration on the rheological behavior of aqueous non ionic polymer solutions

Rheological properties of aqueous derivative guar gum solutions at various concentrations ( 0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3%, 0.4%, and 0.5% w/w) were investigated in the rotational mode with a concentric cylinder using a controlled-stress rheometer over a wide range of shear rates (0-1000 s -1 ). We had studied the rheological behaviour using shear stress / shear rate data. The effect of shear rate and polymer concentration has been analysed. The flow curves show that all polymer solutions exhibit an apparent viscosity which is dependent of shear-rate, no yield stress was detected. The rheogramms could be adequately described by several rheological models such, power-law and Williamson. It was found that the rheological parameters were greatly affected by polymer concentration. All polymer solutions have a shear-thinning behavior (n=0.35–0.85), the consistency index (k) and apparent viscosity increased with the increase in polymer concentration. The characterization of polymer solutions was completed with a time-dependent shear stress study that showed that the derivative guar gum dispersions don’t exhibited thixotropic behavior.
Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets

We show that the entry of formal financial institutions can have far-reaching and long-lasting impacts on informal lending and social networks more generally. We first study the introduction of microfinance in 75 villages in Karnataka, India, 43 of which were exposed to microfinance. Using difference-in-differences, we show that networks shrank more in exposed villages. Moreover, links between households that were both unlikely to borrow from microfinance were at least as likely to disappear as links involving likely borrowers. We replicate these surprising findings in the context of a RCT in Hyderabad, where a microfinance institution randomly selected 52 of 104 neighborhoods to enter first. Four years after all neighborhoods were treated, households in early-entry neighborhoods had had credit access longer and had larger loans. We again find fewer social relationships between households in these neighborhoods, even among those ex-ante unlikely to borrow. Because the results suggest global spillovers, atypical in usual models of network formation, we develop a new dynamic model of network formation that emphasizes chance meetings, where efforts to socialize generate a global network-level externality. Finally, we analyze informal borrowing and the sensitivity of consumption to income fluctuations. Households unlikely to take up microcredit suffer the greatest loss of informal borrowing and risk sharing, underscoring the global nature of the externality.
Enhanced Thermal Conduction Through Nanostructured Interfaces

ABSTRACT Interfaces dominate heat conduction in nanostructured systems, and much work has focused on methods to enhance interfacial conduction. These approaches generally address planar interfaces, where the heat flux vector is everywhere normal to the interface. Here, we explore a nanostructured interface geometry that uses nonplanar features to enhance the effective interfacial conductance beyond what is possible with planar interfaces. This interface consists of interdigitating Al pillars embedded within SiO2 with characteristic feature size ranging from 100 to 800 nm. The total sidewall surface area is modulated to highlight the impact of this additional channel by changing the pillar-to-pillar pitch between 1.6 µm and 200 nm while maintaining the same Al:SiO2 fill fraction. Using optical pump-probe thermoreflectance measurements, we show that the effective conductance of an ~65 nm thick fin layer monotonically increases with decreasing and that the conductance for = 200 nm is more than twice the prediction for a layered stack with the same volume ratio and a planar interface. Through a combination of Boltzmann transport modeling and finite element calculations, we explore the impact of the pitch and the pillar aspect ratio on effective thermal conductance. This analysis suggests that the concept of nanostructured interfaces can be extended to interfaces between diffusive and quasiballistic media in highly scaled devices. Our work proposes that the controlled texturing of interfaces can facilitate interfacial conduction beyond the planar interface regime, opening new avenues for thermal management at the nanoscale.
Once More into the Breach: Economic Growth and Integration

This paper re-examines the evidence linking poor growth during the era of import substituting industrialization with trade restrictions. Recent work, notably Rodriguez and Rodrik (2000), asserts that all the evidence is fragile, implying that economists who believe that trade restrictions played a role in this poor performance do so largely on faith. This paper argues that this criticism ignores crucial evidence and tests regression specifications that are either not relevant for the question or are bound to have low statistical power. After revising and updating measures of trade openness used in Sachs and Warner (1995), the weight of the evidence argues that trade restrictions were indeed harmful to growth during this period. While there is certainly room for debate about how best to use the available data on trade restrictions, a large number of variants yield strong and consistent results. Furthermore, although some assert that it is impossible to empirically distinguish measures of trade restriction from other policies or institutions, the findings are not diminished even after controlling for many alternative economic policies or institutions.
Organic Surface Modification of Silicon Nanowire-Based Sensor Devices

The year 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of silicon nanowire (SiNW)-based electronic devices. Since their introduction (Cui & Lieber, 2001) SiNW-based sensor devices have gained considerable interest as a general platform for ultra-sensitive, electrical detection of biological and chemical species (Figure 1). Although SiOx coatings can be used for the detection of protons (Cui, 2001), and gases (Wan, 2009), the specific detection of other analytes, including ions and biomolecules requires the presence of an affinity layer that interacts with the analyte of interest. Such a layer can be added on top of the nanowire by the modification of the nanowire surface. In this chapter we review the surface modification strategies that have been explored on SiNW-based devices over the past decade.
Challenges and Lessons from Working with Data Collected by Crowdfunding in the Wild

The rise of the smartphone opens up new possibilities for researchers to observe users in everyday life situations. Researchers from diverse disciplines use in-field studies to gain new insights into user behavior and experiences. However, the collected datasets are mostly not available to the public and thus results are neither falsifiable nor reproducible. Community datasets attempt to counter this problem, i.a. by sharing the cost of the data collection. One example is the crowdfunded campaign CrowdSignals. In this paper, we report on our experiences in doing research with crowdfunded data, drawing on the example of this dataset. By "zooming into" specific aspects of the data, we juxtapose the expectations we had when co-funding the data collection with our findings when analyzing the dataset. We highlight shortcomings and benefits of crowdfunded datasets, draw lessons and discuss how future crowdsourced data collection campaigns might be improved.
Searching for the Smoking Gun: Did Trade Hurt Unskilled Workers?

We conduct an economy-wide analysis of the association between trade and wages in New Zealand and decompose the influence of imports on relative wages by sector and region. We find that increased imports resulted in a small increase in wage inequality but this rise was offset by downward pressure on the skill premium due to increased exports. In aggregate, we observe that increased openness (rising imports and exports) decreased New Zealand wage inequality. We also find that imports from developed nations resulted in a greater increase in the New Zealand skill premium than imports from developing nations.
Farm service agency employee intentions to use weather and climate data in professional services

Abstract Agricultural service providers often work closely with producers, and are well positioned to include weather and climate change information in the services they provide. By doing so, they can help producers reduce risks due to climate variability and change. A national survey of United States Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (FSA) field staff (n = 4621) was conducted in 2016. The survey was designed to assess FSA employees’ use of climate and weather-related data and explore their perspectives on climate change, attitudes toward adaptation and concerns regarding climate- and weather-driven risks. Two structural equation models were developed to explore relationships between these factors, and to predict respondents’ willingness to integrate climate and weather data into their professional services in the future. The two models were compared with assess the relative influence of respondents’ current use of weather and climate information. Findings suggest that respondents’ perceptions of weather-related risk in combination with their personal observations of weather variability help predict whether an individual intends to use weather and climate information in the future. Importantly, climate change belief is not a significant predictor of this intention; however, the belief that producers will have to adapt to climate change in order to remain viable is. Surprisingly, whether or not an individual currently uses weather and climate information is not a good predictor of whether they intend to in the future. This suggests that there are opportunities to increase employee exposure and proficiency with weather and climate information to meet the needs of American farmers by helping them to reduce risk.
Modeling of the interface formation during CuO deposition on Al(111) substrate: linking material design and elaboration process parameters through multi-levels approach

In this paper, we use a multi-levels modeling approach to describe the elaboration of directly integrated energetic materials. The deposition of copper oxide on aluminum substrate is described. Atomic scale calculations are first conducted to identify local mechanisms involved during the growth of CuO on Al(111). These atomic scale data are then used to parameterize a macroscopic code, inspired on a kinetic Monte Carlo methodology dedicated to simulate vapor like deposition process. The objective is to establish the link between the microstructure of materials and the way they are achieved, i.e. the process parameters such as temperature and gas pressure. This work is conducted in the context of the integration of nano-structured energetic thermites used as micro energy source in microelectronic devices. We show that the temperature of the deposition process appears as the driving parameter to tailor the thickness of interfacial layers.
Ethno-Therapeutic Remedies for Women ’ s Problems , in Dang District of Gujarat , India

The medicine men of Dang district of Gujarat have their own home remedies to treat problems related to women. This paper is to highlight Ethno-Therapeutic Remedies for WOMEN’S PROBLEMS in Dang district of Gujarat, India and present it under eight titles and their subtitles. The titles under which the results presented are: Excess Bleeding and Irregular Menstruation, White Discharge, Pain during Menstruation, Sterility in Women, Enhancement of Lactation, Breast Abscess, Lumps in the Uterus and Problems after Delivery (Backache, stomach ache and bleeding etc). In the result medicinal plants’ local name, botanical name and the parts which are used are mentioned first, then the preparation and dosage are mentioned. Different medicine person’s contribution for a particular ailment is numbered in Roman letters. For Ethno-Therapeutic Remedies for WOMEN’S PROBLEMS, 55 medicinal plants are referred by the 24 medicine men from different parts of Dang Dt. The medicinal plants Pterocarpus marsupium, Butea monosperma, Careya arborea, Pteramnus labialis and Tecomella febrifuga are referred frequently by most of the medicine person for women related problems. A synoptic view of the 55 medicinal plants that are used for therapeutic remedies for these problem are given with their botanical name, family, local name and the parts that are used.
Antioxidant activity and protective effect against oxidative hemolysis of Clinacanthus nutans ( Burm . f ) Lindau

Pannangpetch, P., Laupattarakasem, P., Kukongviriyapan, V. , Kukongviriyapan, U. , Kongyingyoes, B. and Aromdee, C. Antioxidant activity and protective effect against oxidative hemolysis of Clinacanthus nutans (Burm.f) Lindau. Songklanakarin J. Sci. Technol. , March 2007, 29(Suppl. 1) : 1-9 Increasing evidence suggests that oxidative damage to cell components has an important pathophysiological role in many human diseases. The free radicals formed in cells can readily attack protein, DNA and unsaturated lipids resulting in their loss of function and damage. Red blood cells are highly susceptible to oxidative damage which results in cell lysis. A natural antioxidant could be a potential therapeutic intervention. Thus, we examined the antioxidant activity of Clinacanthus nutans (CN). An ethanolic extract of dried leaves of CN was used in this study. The free radical (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl; DPPH) scavenging activity, the ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and the intracellularly antioxidant activity of the ORIGINAL ARTICLE 1Ph.D. (Pharmacology), Assoc. Prof., Department of Pharmacology, 2Ph.D. (Physiology), Assoc. Prof., Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, 3Ph.D. (Pharm Chem), Assoc. Prof., Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Muang, Khon Kaen, 40002 Thailand. Corresponding e-mail : patc_pan@kku.ac. th Songklanakarin J. Sci. Technol. Vol.29 (Suppl. 1), March 2007 : Thai Herbs II 2 Antioxidant activity of Clinacanthus nutans Pannangpetch, P., et al. extract were determined. The protective effect of the extract against 2,2′-azobis(2-amidinopropane) hydrochloride (AAPH)-induced rat red blood cell lysis was also evaluated. It was found that the extract could scavenge DPPH with the maximum scavenging activity of 67.65±6.59% and with an IC50 of 110.4±6.59 μg/ml. The FRAP value was 17 mg ascorbate equivalent to one gram of the extract. The extract demonstrated a significant inhibition of peroxide production in rat macrophages stimulated by phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) and protected red blood cell against AAPH-induced hemolysis with an IC50 of 359.38±14.02 mg/ml. In conclusion, the ethanolic extract of CN had an antioxidant activity and protective effect against freeradical-induced hemolysis.