Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Identification of Cancer in CT Images based on SVM and PSO using Gene Selection Algorithm

Objectives: The objective of the proposing system is to classify Computed Tomographyimages into two classifications like cancernodes and without cancernodes for lung pictures using SVM and PSO classifiers. Methods/Analysis: Computed tomography (CT) cancerous lung images are used. Techniques employed include the usage of support vector machine and particle swarm optimization classifiers. Proposed techniques include histogram equalization, ROI masking using thresholding, wavelet transform, gray level co-occurrence matrix. Hence resulting in results in high accuracy, also yields better result in terms of the recognition accuracy. Findings: SVM shows higher accuracy rate of identifying the cancerous nodules than PSO for different iterations held. These comparison results between SVM and PSO bring out the efficiency of comparing between the two classifications algorithms. In the existing system 1.afusion of classification techniques was used to determine the lung nodes in the CT image and feature extraction based technique was implemented on the node. 2. As the second step, the features were computed based on its texture to distinguish the blood vessels. The proposed system is implemented to classify by combining of SVM and PSO. Hence leading to Low performance and accuracy in classification. With the results obtained in the proposed system it differs in various aspects like the lung nodes are well identified, better result obtained due to comparisons hence highlights the fact that proposed system had far more advantages than the existing system.
Strategie en organisatie van publieke organisaties

“Strategie en organisatie van publieke organisaties” is een handboek dat leidinggevende ambtenaren (die we vandaag “publiekemanagers” noemen) en studenten die zich willen voorbereiden op een leidinggevende functie in publieke organisaties de begrippen, modellen en theorieen wil aanreiken die hen moeten in staat stellen om de strategische en organisatorische dimensies van hun organisatie op een succesvolle wijze gestalte te geven. Daarmee ondersteunt het boek de fundamentele en ingrijpende veranderingsprocessen die zichmomenteel op alle bestuursniveaus in publieke organisaties voltrekken. Het begrip “publieke organisatie” moet daarbij in zeer ruime zin worden begrepen: de “echte” overheid, maar evenzeer al die organisaties die vooral bedoeld zijn om “maatschappelijke waarde” tot stand te brengen en die niet in de eerste plaats op hun financiele winstgevendheid worden afgerekend.
[Effect of after-hours emergency endoscopy on the outcome of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding].

BACKGROUND/AIMS Gastrointestinal endoscopy is imperative for acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB) to find bleeding focus and stop bleeding. This study was designed to assess the necessity of emergency endoscopy and determine screening criteria for the patients who presented to emergency room (ER) with after-hours AUGIB. METHODS The medical records of 383 patents with AUGIB who presented to ER at after-hours were reviewed. Patients were divided into 2 groups: emergency endoscopy (EE) group (<12 hours after arrival) or delayed endoscopy (DE) group (12-24 hours after arrival). We compared the severity, hemostatic procedures, rebleeding rate, length of hospitalization and 30-day mortality between the two groups. RESULTS Ninety-eight patients in EE group and 137 patients in DE group were evaluated among patients with non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding. No significant differences in clinical severity, finding the bleeding focus, hemostasis, 30-day mortality, hospital stay, and rebleeding rate were observed between the two groups. Among 148 patients with variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding, 65 patients were in EE group and 83 patients in DE group. Most clinical severity index were not different between the groups. In EE group, the rate of finding bleeding foci was lower (p=0.043), and 30-day mortality was higher than in DE group (p=0.023). CONCLUSIONS Emergency endoscopy within 12 hours after arrival at after-hours do not lead to better prognosis in AUGIB.
Discharge planning in an acute hospital.

: To improve discharge planning on an acute medical ward, a nursing "team system" was initiated with clear delineation of responsibility for discharge planning. The head nurse supervised the nurses' actions and supported their communication with attending physicians. To assess the efficacy of this approach, chart reviews and interviews of 60 consecutive patients were performed before and after the implementation of the plan. A plan was labeled adequate if the following criteria were met: all treatable diagnoses were recognized; appropriate treatment regimens were instituted for each diagnosis; the patient's abilities were sufficient for him to function in the proposed environment; and plans were made for follow-up care. Patient knowledge was stated to be adequate if the patient was aware of his diagnosis, treatment regimen and plans for follow-up care. In addition, the patient was questioned concerning his satisfaction with the plans for further care. Seventy-five percent of the patients admitted to this ward required discharge planning. Of those requiring discharge planning, the plan was judged adequate in 55% prior to the program change and in 83% following that change. Eighty percent of the patients required some teaching during their hospital stay. Of these, by the time of discharge, knowledge was adequate in 53% prior to the program change and 51% subsequent to the change. Initially 68% of the patients were very satisfied with the discharge plans but this figure rose to 86% following the program change.
An Empirical Study on Day-of-the Week Effect in Indian Stock Market During Different Settlement Regimes Using Garch Framework

The presence of calendar anomalies such as day-of-the-week effect can help investors to earn abnormal returns and indicates market inefficiency. In this study we examine whether the market microstructure reforms such as introduction of rolling settlement mechanism by SEBI did increase efficiency of the Indian Stock Market. This study tests the presence of the day of the week effect on stock market returns for the period of January, 1995 through July, 2012 using GARCH (1,1) Model for three indices viz., S&P CNX NIFTY (Nifty), CNX Nifty Junior and S&P CNX 500 (NSE-500). The sample period is divided into two sub-sample periods comprising a Pre-Rolling settlement period and a Post–Rolling settlement period. Our results support previous research findings that returns are the highest on Friday after introduction of rolling settlement.
Using positive and negative examples for precise image retrieval

Systems for content based image retrieval typically support access to database images through the query-by-example paradigm. This includes query-by-image and query-by-sketch. Since query-by-sketch can be difficult in some cases-lack of sketching abilities, difficulty to detect distinguishing image features-querying is generally performed through the query-by-image paradigm. A limiting factor of this paradigm is that a single sample image rarely includes all and only the characterizing elements the user is looking for. Querying using multiple examples is a possible solution to overcome this limitation. In this paper some issues and solutions for retrieval by content using positive and negative examples are presented and discussed.
The Role and Place of the Romanian Registry on Cardiac Arrest in a more Efficient Management of Resuscitation

The existence of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) has permitted the collaboration regarding resuscitation at an international level. The first definitions and recommendations regarding the report of cardiac arrest cases were developed in 1991 for the Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest, and in 1997 for the In Hospital Cardiac Arrest. The Utstein definitions, which are in their revised and commonly adopted shape by the work group of ILCOR in 2002, at Melbourne, were translated and are available for anyone who wants to involve in the resuscitation study. Several registries of cardiac arrest are presented in this paper, The European registry of the cardiac arrest, the Belgian, the Swedish, the German, the Spanish, the Dutch, the French, and the registries from the United States of America. Last but not least, the Romanian Registry of the Cardiac Arrest is presented as it represents an initiative of the Romanian National Counsel of Resuscitation. The perspectives of a unique European register for the cardiac arrest has inspired this initiative, which has as a base the example of other European registers and the Utstein reporting model. In the first stage, the register participation was limited to the Emergency Departments of the Emergency Hospitals. Because the European purpose was to develop a smooth system of reporting the cardiac arrests that took place out of hospital, an integration of the pre-hospital events has followed, by collaborating with the Ambulance Services. Other characteristics, as the graphic representation of the Register data, are in progress of development, testing and implementing.
Mètodes iteratius per a la resolució d'equacions no lineals

El projecte consisteix en un estudi tant teoric com practic d'alguns dels metodes iteratius sense memoria, emprats per la resolucio d'equacions no lineals. Es plantegen i analitzen els cinc metodes seguents: Newton, Txebixev, Ostrowski i dues variants de Txebixev, fent servir multi-precisio.
Emergence and Development of New Food Processing Techniques in the Last Decade

COMMENTARY Life forms on this earth require nutrients and energy to survive and to proliferate. This energy and nutrients they get form food. It may be of plant or animal origin. As food is also of organic origin [1] it gets spoiled after a certain time period depending on its type. As human has come long way in the scientific development and invented new technologies, he also developed new ways to preserve food [2] from spoilage so that it can be consumed after a certain time period when its availability would be nil or because of some other reasons. Food items mostly get spoiled because of growth of some microorganisms i.e. bacterial or fungi [3]. Preservation of food may include several methods depending upon its nature. But these preservatives are mostly of chemical nature and can intimate certain pathways in immune system and may lead to different types of allergies and other complications [4]. Recent advances in milk treatment for its long term preservation included Nitrogen gas flushing in to the milk which could kill certain spoilage bacterial groups [5]. However, its side effects are unknown as this study is going on at pilot scale yet. Refrigeration and reheating can also alter some physical and chemical properties of preserved food. In a research by Nikoo M, et al. they represented this phenomena subjected to a fish species called kutum [6]. Lipid oxidation and fatty acid composition were observed in research. After refrigeration followed by microwave heating it was observed that that polyunsaturated fatty acids [7] were less and saturated fatty acids were increased. Frying also increased the TBA value. So, preservation subjected to refrigeration and then subsequent heating for its consumption certainly decreased the nutritive value of the fish. Wheat which is most likely a staple food in India after rice is consumed mostly in the form of chapatti which is a flat round baked product [8]. There are also some other forms of wheat made products which lasts long good for consumption for 24-36 hours only under some protective conditions. There are several attempts made to preserve this food with antimycotic agents [9]. Preservation was successful but it developed a strange bitter taste in it. After that a bio preservative Nisin was used for the same in combination with sorbic acid which is an antimycotic agent [10]. Through this chapattis were liked by the civilians in a trial but …
A Unified Cyber-Enhanced Approach for Detecting Cross-Site Scripting Attacks on Web Applications

vi TABLE OF CONTENTS . vii LIST OF TABLES . ix LIST OF FIGURES . xi CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION . 1 1.1 Problem Statement and Goal.1 1.2 Motivation . 2 1.3 Challenges . 2 1.3 Definitions, Acronyms, and Abbreviations.4 1.4 Organization . 5 CHAPTER 2: BACKGROUND . 6 2.1 Historical Overview of Cyber-Security and Cyberattacks.6 2.2 Techniques and Methods for Detecting and Preventing XSS Vulnerabilities . 11 2.3 Cyber-Enhanced Technologies . 19 CHAPTER 3: APPROACH . 25 3.
Visual Explanations

As an extension of his observations described in his earlier book, "Envisioning Information", Tuftes third installment of the trilogy turns the discussion to the display of dynamic information. Again, Tufte draws from numerous examples throughout history to illustrate his points. The chapter on Visual and Statistical Thinking contains some of the most poignant arguments in the book, including an engaging visual narrative of the 1854 Cholera Epidemic and a study on the Challenger space-shuttle tragedy. This book may not for everyone, however. It does not contain ready-to-use concepts nor does it present a comprehensive solution for displaying dynamic information. What it does contain, are keen observations and commentary on past attempts at dynamic information display. The relation of each chapter to the next is not readily apparent and is quite precarious in fact. What results, is a book that reads better if each chapter is taken independently. In short, this book will be more rewarding to those willing to spend time to ponder over Tuftes observations. Conversely, the book will appear to have a lack of focus to those in a rush to find solutions.
Calibración Basada en Medidas para Modelos de Trazado de Rayos en 3D para Ambientes Exteriores Urbanos andinos

En este articulo se investiga el efecto que produce la optimizacion de los valores de permitividad para calles, paredes y techos de edificios, con relacion a la precision en la estimacion de las perdidas de propagacion en un entorno exterior andino utilizando la tecnica de trazado de rayos en 3D.Para obtener un modelo viable del escenario tridimensional, es generalizado tomar los valores de sus propiedades desde investigaciones realizadas por otros autores, en donde se caracterizan materiales tipicos de otras ciudades, y a menudo la banda de frecuencias de operacion no corresponde con la banda de frecuencias utilizadas en la caracterizacion. Para analizar la dependencia del valor de la perdida de camino con respecto a la permitividad de los materiales, estimamos las perdidas de propagacion para diferentes valores de permitividad en los materiales y calculamos las estadisticas de error con respecto a medidas realizadas en el escenario COST de Cali (Colombia), tipico de la region andina. Finalmente, optimizamos los valores de la permitividad y obtenemos un modelo del ambiente tridimensional que mejora el desempeno del trazado de rayos en la estimacion de las perdidas de propagacion.
De verstaanbaarheid van natuurlijk snelle en kunstmatig versnelde spraak in het Nederlands

The debate whether natural fast speech is more intelligible than artificially time-compressed speech has not clearly been answered yet. For Dutch, for instance, it has been shown in a phoneme detection task that time-compressed speech is more intelligible than natural fast speech, while for Danish listeners, no difference between the intelligibility of natural fast speech and time-compressed speech was reported from a dictation task. This article further investigates these conflicting results by reporting on a dictation task with Dutch listeners. The results suggest that the reported differences are more likely to be language-related than task-related.
Curbing Real Earnings Management Decisions: Experimental Evidence on Pressure Effect

Prior research documented that managers are using a variety of real earnings management practices to manage earnings. We examined in a laboratory experiment which involves 51 undergraduate and master students the impact of pressure effect on operational opportunism. Our results confirmed the effect of pressure (i.e. legal consequences, financial press scrutiny and auditor scrutiny) on real earnings management decisions, showing that participants who received pressure treatment were less inclined to opportunistic behavior when compared to those who did not received pressure information. Overall, we found that pressure effect is helpful in curbing real earnings management decisions. The paper contributes to the debate on curbing operational opportunism.
Availability and Half-life of Web References Cited in Information Research Journal: A Citation Study

This article examines availability and half-life of URLs cited in articles published by Information Research journal. To do this, at first, we extracted all issues of Information Research from April 1995 to March 2008 and calculated number of all citations whether printed citations or Web ones. Afterwards, we checked availability of individual cited URLs. When we could not access directly URL inserted in any article by author(s), we tried to visit referred website. If this attempt seemed to be inadequate, search engine "Google" was employed to access the missing reference(s). Research findings indicated that 66% of articles have Web citations and rate of articles containing URL has increased from 17% in 1995 to 89% in 2008. Domains . net and . org have more stability and persistence compared to domains . edu, . gov, . uk and . com. Also, of 1761 cited URLs, 73% were accessible, and 27% were inaccessible. It is notable that using Google and searching missing URLs, accessible URLs increased from 73% to 86%. Finally, it was recommended that the best solution to prevent decay or disappearance of Web citations and diminish URLs decay is to make use of WebCite ® -enhanced reference.
Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer on Diffusion Weighted Imaging: A Technical Review

Worldwide, prostate cancer is one of the most diagnosed cancer of males. However, developing efficient diagnostic techniques for prostate cancer is very essential and has a great clinical impact. These techniques can enhance the benefits from treatment and improve the chance of patients' survival. Although, Transrectal Ultrasound (TRUS) guided biopsy is still the standard approach for prostate cancer diagnosing, it is not preferred due to its invasiveness. Therefore, there is a necessity to explore non-invasive methods that can detect the prostate cancer early. Several magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), e.g., T2 MRI, dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)MRI, and diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), have been vastly utilized for prostate cancer detection. The main goal of this paper is to provide an overview of latest non-invasive Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems for diagnosing prostate cancer using DWI, highlighting their implementation, experiments, and reported results. Moreover, the paper outlines the challenges of present diagnostic systems, and presents the current trends in solving these challenges.
ESTRATEGIAS UTILIZADAS POR LAS EMPRESAS CONSTRUCTORAS EN SINCELEJO PARA TENER VENTAJAS COMPETITIVAS

El presente articulo es de revision bibliografica, tiene como objetivo mostrar las estrategias que utilizan las empresas de la construccion, en la ciudad de Sincelejo (Sucre, Colombia), para la generacion de ventaja competitiva. Para ello, se consultaron, aproximadamente, 60 fuentes secundarias entre Journals, revistas cientificas indexadas, y libros fisicos y electronicos de diferentes autores e investigaciones relativos a la tematica planteada. Posteriormente, se realizo un analisis, obteniendose como resultado las diferentes estrategias utilizadas por las empresas del sector de la construccion, para lograr ventaja competitiva. ABSTRACT This article of bibliographical review aimed to show the strategies used in the construction companies in the city of Sincelejo, (Sucre), Colombia, in order to gain competitive advantage. To achieve this purpose, 60 secondary sources of indexed scientific journals were consulted, as well as physical and electronic books of different authors and research projects with regard to the aforementioned subjectmatter. A further analysis was conducted obtaining as a result of this review, the different strategies used by the companies of the construction sector togain competitive advantage.
Robustness of Two-Layered Feedforward Neural Network

In this paper a two-layer feedforward network is studied, a network that stores an association between two sequences in the two layers. Our work shows that neuronal sequences in one area can robustly trigger sequences in the second area if the association between the sequences is stored in the network. A more detailed incorporation into the biological aspects of neural network in the network dynamics may help to improve neutral networks in engineering applications.
Memory formation in matter

Many forms of memory can be stored in the materials around us. Examples are hysteresis in magnets, aging and rejuvenation in glasses, shape memory in alloys, and echoes in spin systems and capillary waves. Once the material is fully equilibrated, memory of the system's initial conditions or previous history is completely lost. Memory is thus intimately connected to out-of-equilibrium behavior. This paper reviews examples where specific inputs can be stored in condensed-matter systems and then retrieved by appropriate protocols. It describes some common principles and questions that emerge from looking for the underlying shared elements in these apparently disparate systems.
Modified SVPWM Algorithm for 3-Level Inverter Fed DTC Induction Motor Drive

In this paper, a modified space vector pulse width modulation (MSVPWM) algorithm is developed for 3-level inverter fed direct torque controlled induction motor drive (DTC-IMD). MSVPWM algorithm simplifies conventional space vector pulse width modulation (CSVPWM) algorithm for multilevel inverter(MLI), whose complexity lies in sector/subsector/sub-subsector identification; which will commensurate with number of levels. In the proposed algorithm sectors are identified as in two level inverter and subsectors/sub-subsectors are identified by shifting the original reference vector to sector 1 (S1). This is valid due to the fact that a three level space vector plane is a composition of six two level space planes, and are symmetrical with reference to six pivot states. Switching state/sequence selection is also very important while dealing with SVPWM strategy for MLI. In the proposed algorithm out of 27 available switching states apt switching state is selected based on sector and subsector number, such that voltage ripple is considerably less. To validate the proposed algorithm, it is tested on a three level neutral point clamped (NPC) inverter fed DTC-IMD. The performance of the MSVPWM algorithm is analyzed by comparing no load stator current ripple of the three level DTC-IMD with two level DTC-IMD. Significant reduction in steady state torque and flux ripple is observed. Hence, reduced acoustic noise is a distinctive facet of the proposed method.
The UK's finance curse? Costs and processes

The UK’s Finance Curse? Costs and Processes suggests that the total cost of lost growth potential for the UK caused by ‘too much finance’ between 1995 and 2015 is in the region of £4,500 billion. This total figure amounts to roughly 2.5 years of the average GDP across the period. The report provides the first ever numerical estimate for the scale of damage caused by the UK’s finance sector growing beyond a useful size. Of the £4,500 billion loss in economic output, £2,700 billion is accounted for by the misallocation of resources where resources, skills and investments are diverted away from more productive non-financial activities into finance. The other £1,800 billion arises from the 2008 banking crisis.