Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
KonneKt: Encouraging social interaction of isolated children at the Prinses Maxima Center for pediatric oncology

The goal of this project was to support the social development of isolated children in child cancer hospitals by bringing them into contact with other children in the hospital. In interviews with children three play types were found: adventurers, gamers and tinkerers. To support each of these play types, an ambiguous game, which could be played on the window to the hallway, was developed: KonneKt. The game consists of shapes which can be attached to the window. Different meanings can be attributed to the shapes. For example, existing games such as chess can be played with KonneKt, but a tinkerer could build fantasy worlds and adventurers could build an obstacle court. KonneKt enables isolated children to stay connected to the other children in the hospital, and even to play with them!
Safety and efficacy of continued Sorafenib therapy after disease progression in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: A multicenter, prospective study

The drug Sorafenib acts by inhibiting RAF kinase, which contributes to cancer cell growth and the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor, which contributes to angiogenesis in the tumor microenvironment. This drug was found to prolong survival in two large-scale, double-blind, comparative studies conducted in Europe/North America (the Sorafenib HCC Assessment Randomized Protocol [SHARP] trial) and in Asia [3,4]. Sorafenib has been accepted as a standard treatment in guidelines published both within and outside of Japan [5,6]. In the SHARP study, Sorafenib treatment continued until the occurrence of both radiologic progression, as defined using the response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) criteria [7], and symptomatic progression, as defined by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Hepatobiliary Symptom Index 8 questionnaire [8], or the occurrence of either unacceptable adverse events or death. Therefore, Sorafenib treatment was continued until symptomatic progression, even if the radiologic evaluation identified progressive disease (PD); these findings confirmed the survival benefit of Sorafenib and suggested that its therapeutic effect cannot be judged using simple radiological evaluation alone.
WILL SMART CITY NOTION BE AUTHENTIC: WITH SPECIAL

Smart city is an internationally booming phenomenon. The concept of City” is been used widely across contexts. A smart city has to be well outlined services, a good environment of the citizens of the nation of any nation. It is extremely essential for administration of India to offer well informed urban communities in different states as a piece of financial advancement. In view of the escalated investigation of exhibit writing surveys from different healing territories, we recognize eight basic components of shrewd city activity: "administration and association, innovation, administration, arrangement setting, individuals and networks, economy, manufactured framework, and common habitat". The basic role of this examination up a major opportunity of the brilliant city transport even in the wake of being the cleanest city. The examination depends on optional gathered from different newspaper articles, investigation, the investigator in getting a "Smart City" tag.
Abiraterone acetate — is only the second line palliative treatment?

Jednym z najcześciej spotykanych nowotworow zlośliwych u mezczyzn jest rak prostaty [1]. W leczeniu radykalnym miejscowo zaawansowanego raka gruczolu krokowego znajdują zastosowanie takie metody, jak: leczenie chirurgiczne — radykalna prostatektomia oraz radioterapia [2]. W leczeniu paliatywnym zastosowanie hormonoterapii oraz chemioterapii pozwala wydluzyc czas do progresji choroby (PFS) i czas przezycia calkowitego (OS). Hormonoterapia paliatywna pozwala uzyskac regresje biochemiczną, poprawe stanu ogolnego oraz zmniejszenie dolegliwości bolowych wywolanych nowotworem. Stosowanie rotacji antyandrogenow oraz steroidow skutkuje wydluzeniem czasu do progresji choroby. W raku gruczolu krokowego opornym na kastracje standardowym po­stepowaniem po niepowodzeniu leczenia docetakselem, mozliwym i jedynym w Polsce jest obecnie stosowanie octanu abirateronu w drugiej linii leczenia paliatywnego [3, 4]. W opracowaniu przedstawiono dwoch mezczyzn z rakiem gruczolu krokowego, u ktorych zastosowano octan abirateronu w drugiej i piątej linii leczenia z dobrym efektem terapeutycznym.
Implementation of Dynamic System Approach for Radio Location Fingerprinting in WLANs

Wireless indoor positioning systems have become very popular in recent years. These systems have been successfully used in many applications such as asset tracking and inventory management. Three typical location estimation schemes of triangulation, scene analysis, and proximity are analyzed. And also location fingerprinting in detail since it is used in most current system or solutions. This project focuses on the localization using Received Signal Strength (RSS) in dense multipath indoor environments. A dynamic system approach is proposed in the fingerprinting module, where the location is estimated from the state instead from RSS directly. The state is reconstructed from a temporal sequence of RSS samples by incorporating a proper memory structure based on Taken’s embedded theory. Then, a more accurate statelocation correlation is estimated because the impact of the temporal variation due to multipath is considered. General Terms Triangulation, scene analysis, proximity
Secure Data Storage Scheme Using Cryptographic Techniques in Cloud Computing

- Data storage security refers to the security of your personal or official work on the storage media. Security has been a number one issue within the Information Technology space as a result of as user’s knowledge or work. We have a tendency to don’t wish anyone to use our work as their own. Range of users stores their data on Cloud Server and with passage of your time cloud computing grows in numbers of time. Information should not be taken by the third party therefore authentication of consumer becomes a compulsory task. Security doesn't solely mean Arcanum protection or adding extra firewalls or hide the information. It additionally suggests that having complete information concerning your data or information i.e. wherever hold is on on-line or offline and who all read it. Before proposed the scheme, the definition of cloud computing and transient discussion to beneath cloud computing is given. Then discusses cryptographic algorithm to employed in cloud & propose the new theme for offer the safety to cloud storage.
International Conference on Information Systems and Computing ( ICISC-2013 ) , INDIA

It is increasingly important to understand the capabilities and potential performance of various interconnection networks. An analytical model for communication network in cluster systems have been widely reported. Several analytical models of interconnection networks of multi-cluster systems under uniform traffic pattern have been proposed in the literature. However, there has been hardly any work reported yet that deals with other important non-uniform traffic patterns in parallel applications. In this paper we propose a new analytical model based on Mesh-of-tree interconnection networks in the presence of traffic pattern generated by matrix-transpose permutation, which is an important communication operation in parallel applications such as matrix computation problems. The model is validated through comprehensive simulations, which demonstrated that the proposed model exhibit a good degree of accuracy for various system organizations and under different working conditions.
EDGE DETECTION COMPARISON ON VARIOUS COLOR SPACES USING HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION

Because Color is a powerful descriptor of the color image, so color edge detection has been a staple of color image segmentation. The paper analyzed the methods of RGB image edge detection, the color image edge detection method is improved according to the two principles that are conversion transformation between RGB color space and various color spaces (HSV, YCBCR, YIQ) and histogram equalization transformation. The three steps of the detailed color image edge detection method are as follows: decomposing the color image, processing one of their component, composing each component and HSV, YCBCR, YIQ color spaces-to-RGB transformation. The experiment results show that the improved method compared with the RGB image edge detection methods can not only raise the effect of color image, but also simplify the method of color image edge detection and also gives the best color space in which this edge detection method is comparatively the best. Keywords— Histogram Equalization; Color Image; HSV Color Space; YCBCR color space; YIQ color space; Edge Detection
Demand on Request and Performance Evaluation in Video MAC Protocol (VMP) for EPON based Network

MAC Protocol (VMP) in EPON based access networks. In triple-play (Data, Voice, and Video) service scenarios for such EPON based access networks, Optical network technologies are expected to converge in the near future, since the fiber networks hold great promise as future broadband communication. Video traffic will likely dominate in triple-play service scenarios for each fiber networks. It is proposed to introduce and analyze the Video MAC Protocol (VMP) to efficiently deliver pre-recorded video downstream to consumers over a fiber network in presence of voice and data upstream and downstream traffic. The VMP consists of three main components: (i) Frame Fragmentation and Hierarchical frame Aggregation, (ii) Multi-Polling Channel Access, and (iii) Prefetching for VBR Video Streams. By introducing VMP we are going to analyze the throughput- delay performance for all three traffic types: Voice Traffic, Video Traffic, and Data Traffic. In this paper we are evaluating a demand on request and performance evaluation of VMP. Video streaming according to the user requirement and encoded in three quality types of Video for low, medium and high quality users and the most common performance metrics are delay and throughput are compared with existing Mac protocol.
A Fusion Based Visibility Enhancement of Single Underwater Hazy Image

Underwater images are prone to contrast loss, limited visibility, and undesirable color cast. For underwater computer vision and pattern recognition algorithms, these images need to be pre-processed. We have addressed a novel solution to this problem by proposing fully automated underwater image dehazing using multimodal DWT fusion. Inputs for the combinational image fusion scheme are derived from Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) for contrast enhancement in HSV color space and color constancy using Shades of Gray algorithm respectively. To appraise the work conducted, the visual and quantitative analysis is performed. The restored images demonstrate improved contrast and effective enhancement in overall image quality and visibility. The proposed algorithm performs on par with the recent underwater dehazing techniques.
WILDLIFE: A HIDDEN WAREHOUSE OF ZOONOSIS

Much has been studied about the involvement of domestic or companion animals which are around us, for their role in transmission of diseases. But, little is known about the involvement of wild animals in broadcasting of some zoonotic diseases which affect diseases as their spread is often difficult to prevent. They may be viral viz., Rabies, Avian influenza, Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Viral encephalitis and Haemorrhagic f valley fever, Monkey pox and Kyasunur forest disease (KFD); bacterial viz., Brucellosis, Leptospirosis, Lyme disease, Psittacosis, Plague, Tuberculosis, Human monocytic ehrlichiosis or parasitic viz., Alveolar Echinococcosis. Population explosion and changes in agricultural practices, travel and tourism and exotic pet keeping are the factors which play critical role in their spread. diseases in wildlife than in domes translocation, the surveillance and monitoring of disease outbreaks in wildlife populations are particularly relevant. Monitoring mortality event, active surveillance, understanding the e distribution and identification of the factors associated with host importance. level of population decrease and attempts to reduce large population by culling (lethal control), vaccination and medical therapy, and medical tools employed to limit the population growth of a maintenance host species (contraception), isolation and zoni effectively in the prevention and control programme according to feasibility. The present review describes the pathogens and diseases of wildlife having public health significance, thei strategies for their surveillance and monitoring along with suitable prevention and control measures to be followed, which altogether would be helpful for formulating effective strategies for preventing and controlling wildlife zoonosis. The review would be useful for and medical health professionals.
VBIRS-Visual based Image Retrieval System for Generic Web Image Database

this paper, we discussed Visual Based Image Retrieval System to retrieve set of relevant images for the given input image from the large generic image database. We proposed HSV color space model and Haar transform to extract color and texture features. The images are transformed into set of features. These features are used as inputs in Self Organizing Maps (SOM) to train the network for generate the code word. The advantage of SOM is able to preserve topology structure. The cosine similarity measure is used to retrieve similar images with new representation. The experimental results are evaluated over a collection of 10,000 general purpose images to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system.
Correlation between scavenging property and antioxidant activity in the extracts of Emblica officinalis Gaertn., syn. Phyllanthus emblica L. Fruit

The present study investigates a concentration-dependent assessment of scavenging property and antioxidant activity in the extracts of Emblica officinalis Gaertn. syn. Phyllanthus emblica L. fruit using various in vitro assays. A correlation of aqueous and ethanolic extract of Emblica fruit along with different known standards for its antioxidative properties was made by performing assays like TPC, RP, TAC, DPPH FRAP and HRSA. Both the aqueous and ethanolic extract of fruit showed high phenolic content beside strong reducing power and free radical scavenging capacity. The hydroxyl radical scavenging potential of aqueous extract was higher compared to ethanolic extract. A high positive correlation was observed among the in vitro assays for the antioxidative properties except for HRS assay which showed negative corelation. Our finding not only tots up the results related to antioxidant asset of amla fruit but also emphasizes the fact of its usefulness as chemopreventive and/or chemotherapeutic importance. Further studies are warranted to explore the constituents responsible for the antioxidant property and other pharmacological activities.
Ethnobotanical Survey of Plants’ Stem Barks Used in Kaduna State of Nigeria

Inventory of plant species whose barks were sold in markets located in two local government areas of Kaduna State, Nigeria was carried out in this study. Three markets were selected randomly from each of the two Local Government Areas of the study area. In each market, 10 medicinal plant vendors and 10 respondents were randomly selected and interviewed with the aid of semi structure questionnaire matrix. Plants whose stem barks were of medicinal values were identified; their mode of preparations and utilizations were documented. The respondents were diverse and cut across socioeconomic classification. Respondents’ consciousness was linked to oral transfer of the indigenous knowledge on plants and the recent realization of their economic values thus trading and the act of apprenticing in trading in medicinal plants is now a viable entrepreneurial venture. 54 plant species, belonging to 28 families, have their barks valued for medicine and were sold in the study area. The species were rich in diverse chemical constituents. The sales and patronage of the identified barks, in the study area, transcend gender but skewed to the males due to religious belief thus suggesting that gender specific roles in medicinal plants could be faith-based. Dependence on plant barks was borne out of the age long tradition and confidence of the people on plant medicine. This was complemented by their affordability and ready availability especially in the markets in the study area. Most of the identified barks were sourced outside the study area though forest reserves abound in all parts of the state, yet importation dominated the supply chain as the reserves were highly depleted due to anthropogenic activities. This study tends to support the previous clamour for biodiversity conservation through cultivation of the identified plant species in the study area.
Psychiatry Teaching and its Impact on the Attitudes towards Psychiatry, Psychiatry as a Career Choice and Psychiatrists as Role Models on Saudi Medical Students- A Comparative Analysis

Medical students’ attitude towards psychiatry is an area of serious concern as it has an impact not only on their career choice but also on the quality of care that the psychiatric patients are going to receive from these future doctors as physicians. Objectives: To assess and compare the change in the attitudes of medical students before and after six weeks psychiatry clerkship, students' views about quality of teaching and student perception about psychiatrists as good role models along with the effects of psychiatry teaching on choosing psychiatry as a future career. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional analytical study was carried out by administering Attitude towards psychiatry (ATP)-30 questionnaire along with additional 5 items added to assess medical student’s perception regarding psychiatric teaching and teachers in psychiatry. Pre and post clerkship differences were found out using appropriate tests of association through SPSS 23.00 while setting p value < 0.05 using Pearson-Chi Square method. Results: Study showed significant increase in Attitude towards psychiatry (ATP) scores post teaching. The positive effect of clinical rotation on perception about psychiatrists as role models was found to be statistically significant with a p value equal to 0.000. Similarly, on item regarding perception of students about teaching being valuable, a significant change in attitude was found with an increase from 41.38% to 73.33% with a p value of 0.046. There was increase in a desire to pursue a career in psychiatry. There were positive views about quality of module taught and psychiatrists were considered as good role models. Conclusion: Teaching of psychiatry module could improve the attitudes of undergraduate medical students about psychiatry and raise their interest as a possible career choice.
Study of Size, Shape and Nanoparticle Concentration Effect in Micro-Channel, Pillar and Flat Channel

In this study, thermal efficiency was calculated based on experimental results of micro channels, flat channel and pillars. Here constant heat flux was applied from the bottom of the test section using film heaters where DC (Direct Current) power was supplied to the heaters and a lamp was used for radiation experiments. The flow through channels and pillars were maintained at constant rate using two syringe pumps. There were eight thermocouples for heater and six thermocouple for radiation to measure the temperature continuously using DAQ (Data Acquisition) system at different locations of the test section. Pressure drop between inlet and exit was recorded using calibrated pressure sensor and the reading was fed to the DAQ system. There were different fluids like DI (De-Ionized) water, 0.05%TiO2 (Titanium di-Oxide), 0.1%TiO2 and again water was used for testing. Similar series of tests were carried out with SiO2 (Silica) as well. It has been found that nano-fluid has significant effect (it is termed as the “nanofin effect”) on effective convective heat transfer as it creates “Nanofin” on the substrate surface and effectively increase the area for heat transfer. However, after a certain concentration of nano-fluids, the effective area for fluid passage also decreases and thus convective heat transfer decreases. This is why water repeat case gives best result among all four cases on heat transfer.
A Novel UWB Vivaldi Antenna Array for Radar Applications

This paper presents a novel four elements ultra wideband (UWB) antipodal Vivaldi antenna (AVA) array design for radar and microwave imaging applications. Initially, the radiation ares of the AVA is designed based on an elliptical curve shape. Next, the substrate end is shaped as a triangular shape and a negative index metamaterial (NIM) has been incorporated into the AVA aperture to act as a director. A gain enhancement of 2 dB is obtained for the proposed element compared to conventional one. The proposed antenna element is fabricated and measured. There is a good consistency between the simulated and measured return loss. In addition, four UWB Vivaldi antennas with substrate end shaping are placed along the z-axis in a linear antenna array configuration. The four NIM structures of the four antennas are placed together to form a sheet which is perpendicular to the four antenna substrates. A gain enhancement of about 6 dBi is obtained compared to the proposed single element through the whole UWB frequency range. The proposed antenna array bandwidth extends from 3 GHz to 16 GHz. The proposed antenna array is fabricated, measured, and good agreement is obtained between simulated and measured reflection coeffcients.
ENHANCED IMAGE PATCH APPROXIMATION FOR LUNG TISSUE CLASSIFICATION USING FEATURE EXTRACTION

— The growing size and number of the medical images necessitated the use of computers to facilitate processing and analysis. In medical world diagnostic Imaging is an invaluable and important tool for early detection of diseases. An enhanced feature descriptor that categories lung tissues in High Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) images used for Computer Aided Diagnosis is proposed in this paper. The images are divided into multiple Image Patches called AROI (Annotated Region of Interest). Image features like Texture, intensity and gradient are considered for feature extraction and classification. Labeling is done using a new patch-adaptive sparse approximation method. The proposed method is evaluated on a publicly available Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) database to show the performance improvement.