Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Model of Network Information Propagation Based on Quantum Game

Quantum game has wide applicability in many aspects of our lives, such as politics, economics, culture and so on. Combining the quantum game with network information propagation, the model of network information propagation based on the quantum game was established in this paper. From an information propagator’s perspective, the liquidity of network information transmission and trust mechanism were taken into account. We construct the model of network information propagation. The information propagator is the decision body and the trust mechanism is the decisive factor. We find the Nash Equilibrium in this game through the simulation experiment to gain maximum returns.
Parasitic (Protozoan) cardiomyopathy: A review and pooled analysis of pathophysiology, diagnosis and clinical management

Human parasitic infections constitute a substantial but neglected disease burden. Protozoa and helminths are two parasites groups known to be pathogenic to the human heart. Trypanosoma cruzi, Trypanosoma brucei, toxoplasma, plasmodium and Leishmania are the most frequent protozoa that can establish infections in human resulting in a wide spectrum of cardiac manifestations. The involvement of the myocardium can manifest as protozoan cardiomyopathy in many resource-constrained countries. However, at present, resource-rich countries are encountering diagnoses of parasitic infections with cardiac involvement attributable to increasing travel and migration, blood transfusions, growing numbers of immunodeficient patients – a worldwide epidemic of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), and increasing transplant recipients and use of immunosuppressive agents. Clinicians across the globe need to be aware of the potential cardiac involvement after parasitic infection in vulnerable individuals and in endemic areas. This paper reviews published evidence on protozoal parasites that can infect the myocardium, including the pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of protozoan cardiomyopathy. The paper also highlights areas of limited knowledge that could benefit from additional research. *Correspondence to: Aref Albakri, St-Marien hospital Bonn Venusberg, Department of Internal Medicine, Bonn, Germany, E-mail: arefalbakri@yahoo. com
A mini review of inhaled beta 2 agonists in acute decompensated heart failure requiring respiratory support

Acute decompensated heart failure (HF) results in over one million hospital admissions per year, many requiring invasive or noninvasive mechanical ventilation for respiratory/cardiovascular support. Inhaled beta-2 adrenergic receptor agonists have been shown to be effective at clearance of extravascular lung water in HF patients. However, studies done in the late 1990s and early 2000s, prior to standardization and wide adoption of guideline directed medical therapy for HF, suggested that inhaled beta-2 agonist use increased admissions for HF exacerbations as well as in-hospital mortality. One study even attempted to utilize intravenous Beta-2 agonists in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome patients, however the study was stopped prematurely due to an 11% increased mortality in the treatment group. More recently however, studies examining patients who have concurrent diagnoses of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and HF showed that beta-2 agonist therapy resulted in similar or better outcomes compared to controls. Likewise, in-vitro studies, animal models, and studies utilizing chronic heart failure patients treated with nebulized beta-2 agonists with no concurrent respiratory diagnosis had a therapeutic effect of treatment over controls. These studies have the advantage of being performed with the standardization of guideline directed HF medical therapy. In conclusion, while we continue to recommend the use of Beta-2 agonist therapy in patients with concurrent COPD and HF requiring respiratory support, further studies, preferably single or double blinded prospective trials, will need to be performed to determine whether Beta-2 agonist therapy offers morbidity and mortality benefits in patients with strictly acute decompensated heart failure requiring respiratory support.
Epidemiological Studies of Waterborne Diseases in Relation to Bacteriological Quality of Water

Aim of the Study: Waterborne diseases are global burden with the increase in a number of cases more especially in rural areas of developing countries. We investigated the epidemiological distribution of waterborne diseases and bacteriological quality of water in Bodinga Sokoto Nigeria. Research Design: The study used a retrospective design and determined the prevalence of some selected waterborne diseases and sanitary inspection. An experimental design was used for the determination of bacterial pollution in some water sources. Place and Duration: The study was conducted at the General Hospital Bodinga and Department of Microbiology Sokoto State University within the period of one year. Methods: A retrospective data of health records were collected from an out-patient register in Bodinga General Hospital, covered a period of three years from January to December (2015 -2017). A number of samples of water were collected from different sources in Bodinga, Danchadi, and Takatuku and were analyzed using the standard method. Results: We found the most common waterborne diseases in the area are dysentery, 517(40.7%) typhoid 375(29.5%), gastroenteritis 202(15.9%) and diarrhoea 105(8.3%), while skin infection and cholera account for 36(2.8%) each. We observed that the diseases are widely distributed in the rainy season with high occurrence of 732(57.59%) cases than a dry season having 539(42.41%) cases. Male are more prone to diseases with 706 cases than female having 565 cases and 25-above years, as well as Children below the age of 5, are more vulnerable to diseases with the occurrence of 481 and 331 respectively. Conclusion: This study suggests a possible strong relationship between waterborne diseases and poor water quality which contributed to the spread of diseases in the study area.
Electronic Nose System for Safety Monitoring at Refineries

In this paper an Electronic Nose (ENose) is presented which is designed for both at identifying the gas type and if it is pure or not, and at estimating the concentrations of the components of that mixture of LPG gases (Methane, Hexane, or Hydrogen) and Hydrogen Sulfide produced always inside the refineries. Our system contains 8 sensors, 5 of them are gas sensors (of the class TGS from FIGARO USA, INC., the sensing element of two of them is catalytic (TGS-6810 and TGS-6812), the other two its sensing element is a tin dioxide (SnO2) semiconductor (TGS-825 and TGS-2611) and the last one is an oxygen sensor (KE-50)), the remaining three sensors are auxiliary sensors for measuring a temperature and humidity (HTG–3535), and a pressure sensor (XFAM from Fujikura Ltd.). The proposed hardware–software system uses some least squares principles for classification and regression to identify at first a new gas sample, if it is pure or mixture, and then to estimate their concentrations, respectively. In particular we adopt a training model using the least squares approach to teach the system how to discriminate among different gases. Then we apply another training model using also the least squares but this time for regression, to predict their concentrations. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed binary mixture of the organic vapor (Methane, Hydrogen, or Hexane) and toxic gas (Hydrogen Sulfide) classifier is effective in the identification of the tested gases.
Causes of Culling and Disease Incidences At First Production Year of Imported Brown Swiss and Simmental Cows From Austria

Calismanin amaci, Isvicre Esmeri ve Simmental irki gebe duvelerin buzagilama oncesi ve sonrasi donemde karsilastiklari hastaliklarin insidenslerini ve ineklerin suru disi edilme sebeplerini belirlemektir. Arastirmanin materyalini Avusturya’nin Innsbruck bolgesinden Turkiye’nin batisinda bulunan Manisa iline getirilen 70 bas Isvicre Esmeri ve 282 bas Simmental irklarindan inekler olusmustur. Isvicre Esmeri ve Simmental inekler dogum oncesinde %8,57 ve %9,57 oranlarinda degisik hastaliklar ile karsilasmislar, %16,67 ve %81,48 oranlarinda tedavi basarisi elde edilmistir. Buzagilama sonrasi donemde Isvicre Esmerlerinin hastalanma orani %75,39 olurken, Simmental ineklerin orani %64,26 olarak tespit edilmistir. Sindirim ve genital sistem problemleri buzagilama oncesinde, genital sistem ve meme problemleri buzagilama sonrasinda daha yogun olarak ortaya cikmistir. Buzagilama oncesi donemde Simmental ineklerin tedavi basarisi daha yuksek olurken (P<0,05), buzagilama sonrasinda her iki irktan ineklerin tedavi basari oranlari birbirine yakin bulunmustur. Isvicre Esmeri ineklerin %7,14’u buzagilama oncesinde, %23,08’i buzagilama sonrasinda degisik sebeplere bagli olarak suru disi edilmistir. Simmentallerde ayiklama orani buzagilama oncesinde %1,77 ve buzagilama sonrasinda %14,08 olarak tespit edilmistir. Genel olarak, Simmental ineklerin hastaliklara karsi daha direncli olmuslar, uygulanan tedaviye daha yuksek oranda pozitif yanit vermisler ve daha az oranda ayiklamaya tabi tutulmuslardir.
Boosting-based approaches for Arabic text detection in news videos

In this paper, we propose two boosting-based approaches for Arabic embedded text detection in news videos. The first approach uses Multi-Block Local Binary Patterns features whereas the second one relies on Haar-like features. Both approaches learn text and non-text classes using a multiexit asymmetric boosting cascade. Bootstrap has also been used in order to improve the rejection ability of the classifiers. Text localization is performed by a sliding window search on a multiscale pyramid of the input image. The proposed approaches have been evaluated on a large database of images coming from 4 different Arabic TV channels.
Security Analysis of x86 Processor Microcode

Modern computer processors contain an embedded rmware known as microcode that controls decode and execution of x86 instructions. Despite being proprietary and relatively obscure, this microcode can be updated using binaries released by hardware manufacturers to correct processor logic aws (errata). In this paper, we show that a malicious microcode update can potentially implement a new malicious instructions or alter the functionality of existing instructions, including processor-accelerated virtualization or cryptographic primitives. Not only is this attack vector capable of subverting all software-enforced security policies and access controls, but it also leaves behind no postmortem forensic evidence due to the volatile nature of write-only patch memory embedded within the processor. Although supervisor privileges (ring zero) are required to update processor microcode, this attack cannot be easily mitigated due to the implementation of microcode update functionality within processor silicon. Additionally, we reveal the microarchitecture and mechanism of microcode updates, present a security analysis of this attack vector, and provide some mitigation suggestions. A tool for parsing microcode updates has been made open source, in conjunction with a listing of our dataset.
Transradial access approach for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary procedures – A new dawn

Historically, transfemoral approach (TFA) was the main access site for percutaneous coronary procedure. Over the past decade, transradial approach (TRA) has been gaining popularity over (TFA). With frequent use of TRA, we have recognized the advantage of TRA over TFA. Multiple trials have been conducted to investigate TRAs’ benefits and risk. We have performed a literature search on TRA vs TFA, on the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. A total of 140 citations were identified but only 38 filled our eligibility criteria. In this review, we found that TRA is associated with reduction of access site complication, time to ambulation and cardiac related death. However, lack of training and hesitancy of older interventionalist to switch approach is an impediment to the increased use of TRA. While the transfemoral approach has a higher access site complication rate, it is still integral as an access option. *Correspondence to: Andrew E. Ajani, Department of Cardiology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Grattan Street, Parkville, 3050, Australia, Tel +61 3 93295093; Fax +61 3 9347 6760; E-mail: andrew.ajani@mh.org. au
Novel management of glioma by molecular therapies, a review article

The most frequent type of brain tumors is Glioma which commonly appears initially in the neuroglia in the central nervous system. They grow steadily and generally do not outspread to neighboring tissue of the brain. By applying dominant remedial regimens, the patients would have negligible survival rates. Despite the achieved advances in conventional glioma therapy, it proved that a proper medication for glioma is not easily reachable. The glioma penetration nature and accumulate resistance considerably limit the remedial options. Superior explanation of the glioma complex pathobiology and characterization of biological proteogenomic may finally open new approaches for the outlining of extra artificial and impressive combination regimens. This aim could be achieved by exclusively outfitting advanced techniques of neuroimaging, terminating synthesis of DNA via genes that activated via prodrugs, experimental technique of gene therapy via conciliating genes of gliomagenesis, targeting miRNA-mRNA activity of oncogenic, applying stem cell therapy for combining inhibitors of Hedgehog-Gli, adaptive transmission of chimeric immunoreceptors T cells, incorporate inhibitors of regulators of the immune system with conventional remedial modalities and additionally using tumor cell lysates as sources of antigen for efficient evacuation of particular stem cells of tumor via cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Consequently, in this study the authors trying to survey the latest progressions related to the molecular procedures connected with the formation of glial tumors in addition to the radiation, surgery and chemotherapy limitations. Additionally, the novel strategies of molecular remedies and their procedure for the prosperous treatment of glioma will be discussed.
GPU-accelerated alignment of bisulfite-treated short-read sequences

The alignment of bisulfite-treated DNA sequences (BS-seq reads) to a large genome involves a significant computational burden beyond that required to align non-bisulfite-treated reads. In the analysis of BS-seq data, this can present an important performance bottleneck that can potentially be addressed by appropriate software-engineering and algorithmic improvements. One strategy is to integrate this additional programming logic into the read-alignment implementation in a way that the software becomes amenable to optimizations that lead to both higher speed and greater sensitivity than can be achieved without this integration. We have evaluated this approach using Arioc, a short-read aligner that uses GPU (general-purpose graphics processing unit) hardware to accelerate computationally-expensive programming logic. We integrated the BS-seq computational logic into both GPU and CPU code throughout the Arioc implementation. We then carried out a read-by-read comparison of Arioc's reported alignments with the alignments reported by the most widely used BS-seq read aligners. With simulated reads, Arioc's accuracy is equal to or better than the other read aligners we evaluated. With human sequencing reads, Arioc's throughput is at least 10 times faster than existing BS-seq aligners across a wide range of sensitivity settings. The Arioc software is available at https://github.com/RWilton/Arioc. It is released under a BSD open-source license.
Efek High Fructose Fat Diet (HFFD) pada Histologi Aorta Kelinci New Zealand White Model Hewan Coba Aterosklerosis

Aterosklerosis merupakan penyebab utama kematian pasien DM. Peningkatan kadar profile lipid adalah faktor yang berperan dalam meningkatkan risiko Aterosklerosis pada DM. Petanda proses Aterosklerosis pada pasien DM hiperlipidemia yaitu melalui proses inflamasi dan stress oksidatif. DM Hiperlipidemia merangsang peningkatan peroksidasi lipid. Peroksidasi lipid akan mendegradasi lemak dan memperparah stres oksidatif. Stres oksitif merangsang pembentukan LDL teroksidasi dan mengakibatkan endotel mengekspresikan perlekatan monosit dan berubah menjadi makrofag kemudian menempel pada endotel. Selanjutnya makrofag akan memfagositosis LDL teroksidasi, dan terakumulasi pada dinding pembuluh darah membentuk sel busa. Makanan tinggi fruktosa dan lemak akan memicu DM hiperlipidemia. Penelitian ini membuktikan HFFD menstimulus pembentukan plak aterosklerosis pada kelinci New Zealand White(NZW) DM Hiperlipidemia. Jenis penelitian eksperimen laboratorik dengan disain only post test design terhadap 27 kelinci New Zealand White jantan, berat badan 1.500-2.500 gram. Hewan coba dibagi tiga kelompok. Semua kelompok diberi pakan Champion Rabbit Feed dan diet HFFD. Kelompok perlakuan 1 dan 2 diberi antiarterosklerosis selama 90 hari, sedangkan kelompok kontrol hanya diberi HFFD tanpa pemberian antiarterosklerosis. Data diolah menggunakan Ancova test. Hasil uji Ancova menunjukkan ada pengaruh HFFD terhadap penebalan tunika intima p=0,048, terbentuknya sel busa p=0,040, skor keliling aorta p=0,010. Simpulan HFFD menyebabkan gambaran plak aterosklerosis pada histologik aorta kelinci NZW p<0,05.
A computational method for solving n-person game

The nonzero sum n-person game has been considered. It is well known that the game can be reduced to a global optimization problem [5; 7; 14]. By extending Mills’ result [5], we derive global optimality conditions for a Nash equilibrium. In order to solve the problem numerically, we apply the Curvilinear Multistart Algorithm [2; 3] developed for finding global solutions in nonconvex optimization problems. The proposed algorithm was tested on three and four person games. Also, for the test purpose, we have considered competitions of 3 companies at the bread market of Ulaanbaatar as the three person game and solved numerically.
ENERGY-EFFICIENT CRYPTOGRAPHIC PRIMITIVES

Our society greatly depends on services and applications provided by mobile communication networks. As billions of people and devices become connected, it becomes increasingly important to guarantee security of interactions of all players. In this talk we address several aspects of this important, many-folded problem. First, we show how to design cryptographic primitives which can assure integrity and conﬁdentiality of transmitted messages while satisfying resource constrains of low-end low-cost wireless devices such as sensors or RFID tags. Second, we describe counter measures which can enhance the resistance of hardware implementing cryptographic algorithms to hardware Trojans.
The Detection and Molecular Evolution of Francisella tularensis Subspecies

The Detection and Molecular Evolution of Francisella tularensis Subspecies Mark K. Gunnell Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, BYU Doctor of Philosophy Francisella tularensis is the etiological agent of tularemia, a zoonotic disease with worldwide prevalence. F. tularensis is a highly pathogenic organism and has been designated as a potential biothreat agent. Currently there are four recognized subspecies of F. tularensis: tularensis (type A), holarctica (type B), mediasiatica, and novicida. In addition, genomic studies have further subdivided type A tularensis into two subclassifications, type A.I and type A.II. These two subclassifications differ in geographic distribution with type A.I appearing mainly in the Eastern United States and type A.II appearing mainly in the Western United States. Because of differences of virulence among the subspecies, it is important to be able to quickly identify each of the subspecies rapidly and accurately. This work describes the development of a multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay which was shown to be ~98% successful at identifying the known subspecies of F. tularensis. Furthermore, F. tularensis is thought be a genome in decay (losing genes) because of the relatively large number of pseudogenes present in its genome. We hypothesized that the observed frequency of gene loss/pseudogenes may be an artifact of evolution in response to a changing environment, and that genes involved in virulence should be under strong positive selection. Eleven arbitrarily chosen virulence genes were screened for positive selection along with 10 arbitrarily chosen housekeeping genes. Analyses of selection yielded one housekeeping gene and 7 virulence genes which showed significant evidence of positive selection. Our results suggest that while the loss of functional genes through disuse could be accelerated by negative selection, the genome decay in Francisella could also be the byproduct of adaptive evolution, as evidenced by several of its virulence genes which are undergoing strong, positive selection.
Role of Spirometry in Early Diagnosis of COPD among Smokers

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a major cause of chronic morbidity and mortality throughout the world. Many people suffer from this disease for many years and die prematurely from it or its complications. COPD is a preventable and treatable pulmonary disease. In early stage, diagnosis of COPD is difficult because sign & symptoms are minimum. Only history of mild dyspnea, cough and/or sputum production or prolong smoking, exposure to occupational dusts or biomass fuels are present without any sign. Spirometry is the tool to diagnose COPD. If we can diagnose COPD in early stage then it is treatable and can prevent progression of the disease. Spirometry is a simple tool to diagnose COPD at any health care level. So this study was done to diagnose COPD in early stage among smokers. This study was carried out in Department of Medicine (Indoor & outdoor) of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital from March, 2010 to February, 2011. 255 smoker having exposure to >10 pack year smoking fulfilling inclusion and exclusion criteria were included and 300 apparently healthy non-smoker also were included as control. Both male & female were included with age of the study population were from 30 years to 70 years. All of that study population was free from diseases which alter spirometric measurement. This exclusion was done by history, thorough clinical examination and relevant investigations. Among smokers, clinically 9(4.03%) were diagnosed to have COPD only and the spirometry also diagnosed these 9 smokers and other 32 smokers more to have COPD and thus diagnose 41(18.38%) smokers to have COPD. The difference between clinical and spirometric diagnosis of COPD is statistically highly significant. The test done was Fisher’s Exact Test, where p value is 0.000. So, spirometry is considered as a simple valuable instrument to diagnose COPD in early stage among smokers. TAJ 2019; 32(1): 33-38