Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Local Deep Hashing Matching of Aerial Images Based on Relative Distance and Absolute Distance Constraints

Aerial images have features of high resolution, complex background, and usually require large amounts of calculation, however, most algorithms used in matching of aerial images adopt the shallow hand-crafted features expressed as floating-point descriptors (e.g., SIFT (Scale-invariant Feature Transform), SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features)), which may suffer from poor matching speed and are not well represented in the literature. Here, we propose a novel Local Deep Hashing Matching (LDHM) method for matching of aerial images with large size and with lower complexity or fast matching speed. The basic idea of the proposed algorithm is to utilize the deep network model in the local area of the aerial images, and study the local features, as well as the hash function of the images. Firstly, according to the course overlap rate of aerial images, the algorithm extracts the local areas for matching to avoid the processing of redundant information. Secondly, a triplet network structure is proposed to mine the deep features of the patches of the local image, and the learned features are imported to the hash layer, thus obtaining the representation of a binary hash code. Thirdly, the constraints of the positive samples to the absolute distance are added on the basis of the triplet loss, a new objective function is constructed to optimize the parameters of the network and enhance the discriminating capabilities of image patch features. Finally, the obtained deep hash code of each image patch is used for the similarity comparison of the image patches in the Hamming space to complete the matching of aerial images. The proposed LDHM algorithm evaluates the UltraCam-D dataset and a set of actual aerial images, simulation result demonstrates that it may significantly outperform the state-of-the-art algorithm in terms of the efficiency and performance.
Marginal soft tissue recessions with and without attached gingiva. A five year longitudinal study.

Changes in the position of the labial/buccal soft tissue margin of gingival recessions were investigated. In twenty-five subjects, fifty-two teeth without attached gingiva and fifty-four teeth with attached gingiva were selected. On the average, changes were minimal over the five year period in both groups. Statistically significant loss of attachment was found in the group of teeth with attached gingiva. The validity of the assumption, that the presence of attached gingiva reduces the risk of further loss of attachment, appears to be questionable.
A DYNAMIC MODELLING OF BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR SERVO SYSTEM FOR ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATOR WITH DUAL REDUNDANCY TECHNIQUE

This paper presents, an Electro-Mechanical Actuator (EMA) based position control system with redundancy technique is being presented. The servo system is composed of two chains, a prime chain and a redundant chain, which includes the position servo system of the EMA. Only one chain works at a time, probably the main chain operates during normal condition of the system. A new, simpler fault detection and isolation (FDI) technique is being developed, which will be monitoring the prime chain continuously. If any type of fault occurs in the prime chain, the FDI isolates the prime chain from the system and switches to the redundant chain. Thereafter redundant chain will be driving the system. The system model is then simulated using MATLAB/Simulink, with trapezoidal waveforms of backemf. Using the DSP controller chip, TMS320F2812 as a control core, hardware implementation has been carried out.
Can it work? Does it work? Is it worth it?

General practice p 676 The British pioneer clinical epidemiologist Archie Cochrane defined three concepts related to testing healthcare interventions.1 Efficacy is the extent to which an intervention does more good than harm under ideal circumstances (“Can it work? ”). Effectiveness assesses whether an intervention does more good than harm when provided under usual circumstances of healthcare practice (“Does it work in practice? ”). Efficiency measures the effect of an intervention in relation to the resources it consumes (“Is it worth it? ”). Trials of efficacy and effectiveness have also been described as explanatory and management trials, respectively,2 and efficiency trials are more often called cost effectiveness or cost benefit studies. Almost all clinical trials assess efficacy. Such trials typically select patients who are carefully diagnosed; are at highest risk of adverse outcomes from the disease in question; lack other serious illnesses; and are most likely to follow and respond to the treatment of interest. This treatment will be prescribed by doctors who are most likely to …
Clinical Outcome of Critically Ill Patients Cannot Be Defined by Cutoff Values of Monocyte Human Leukocyte Antigen-DR Expression

ABSTRACT Septic shock is the most common cause of death in intensive care units. During the last two decades, new strategies have focused on the diagnosis and on the immunological changes in critically ill patients. There have been conflicting reports whether monocyte human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DR expression poses a useful parameter to characterize clinical outcome of these patients. To elucidate the role of monocyte HLA-DR expression, we hypothesized that low expression of HLA-DR on circulating human monocytes in critically ill patients correlates with higher mortality and that cutoff values of HLA-DR discriminate surviving from nonsurviving patients. In this retrospective study, monocyte HLA-DR expression in 413 critically ill patients was investigated during their intensive care unit stay. Human leukocyte antigen DR was determined in a quantitative and standardized procedure by flow cytometry (anti–HLA-DR monoclonal antibodies bound per cell [mABs/cell]) at least every third day or when clinical changes in the patients conditions were observed. Healthy probands served as control group to determine the range of “normal” values. As expected, HLA-DR expression was significantly higher in the group of survivors (n = 279) than in the group of nonsurvivors (n = 134; mABs/cell: 23,038 [SD, 11,150] vs. 18,070 [SD, 8,906]; P < 0.001). When minimal HLA-DR values per patient were compared, no cutoff values could be identified between the groups of survivors and nonsurvivors (mABs/cell: 19,611 [SD, 11,129] vs. 14,944 [SD, 8,013]; P < 0.001). In conclusion, in this sizable cohort we could again show that HLA-DR expression is decreased in critically ill patients but it is not suitable as a prognostic or predictive parameter for clinical outcome.
Fatty acid composition of commercially important fish from Brazil

Foram determinadas a gordura total e a composicao em acidos graxos de sete especies de peixes de agua doce e nove especies de peixes de agua salgada, comercialmente importantes do Brasil. O acido palmitico foi o acido predominante dentre os saturados tanto nos peixes de agua doce como salgada. Na gordura dos peixes de agua doce, o total de acidos graxos com 16 carbonos foi superior aos de agua salgada. O acido oleico foi o mais abundante dos monoinsaturados e foi encontrado em maiores niveis nos peixes de agua doce. Os dados revelaram que a maioria dos peixes de agua doce sao fontes deficientes dos acidos eicosapentaenoico (20:5) e docosahexaenoico (22:6). Dos peixes de agua salgada analisados, apenas sardinha e manjuba podem ser recomendados como fontes adequadas de acidos graxos n-3.
Mobile Shopping: The New Retailing Industry in the 21st Century

In the last decade, the popularity of shopping has been restricted to only two distribution channels. However with the transformation of mobile technologies, shopping no longer takes place between instore retailing and wired-internet computers but has also extended to mobile devices (m-devices). The adoption of m-devices has been proclaimed as a new medium for consumers to purchase products and services online. With m-devices induced to greater usage, the understandings of how consumer behaves have become increasingly more complex which warrant further investigation. Many observers predict that the 21st century to be the decade of mobile computing (Ko, Kim, & Lee, 2009; Mahatanankoon, Wen, & Lim, 2005). The characteristics of m-devices enables consumer to access shopping information and purchase using their m-devices in the absence of physical network connections. Archana and Mukherjee (2013) for example explained that consumers adopt m-devices to compare prices, obtain information about the store, research on products and services and to obtain coupons. Among the common products purchased using m-devices include electronic, apparel, housewares, books, tickets, music and video, housewares, health and beauty, food and grocery and tourism products and services (Agrebi & Jallais, 2015; Cheng & Huang, 2013; Cornerstoneadvisors.com, 2014; Im & Hancer, 2014; Ko, Kim, & Lee, 2009). While there is no accepted universal definition of mobile shopping (m-shopping), mshopping can be broadly defined as “any monetary transactions related to purchases of goods or services through internet enabled mobile phones or over the wireless telecommunication network” (Wong, Tan, Ooi, & Lin, 2015, p. 94). Zhang and Yuan (2002) constitutes m-shopping as a representation of a different business model, technology and service nature as opposed to electronic shopping (e-shopping). This is because m-shopping is founded on five dimensions namely “always on”, “convenience”, “customization”, “location centric” and “identifiably” (Ko, Kim, & Lee, 2009). Lai, Debbarma, and Ulhas (2012, p. 387) however provides a different definition whereby m-shopping “empowers shoppers with the ability to gather information on the spot from multiple sources, check on product availability, special offers and alter their selection at any point along the path to purchase”. Regardless of the different definitions, m-shopping has been proclaimed as the next service innovation in shopping and is expected revolutionized the landscape of the shopping industry and lifestyles of consumers. There are benefits Mobile Shopping: The New Retailing Industry in the 21st Century
Power Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

The main issue in WSN is energy limited characteristic of the sensor node. So the problem is to have the routing protocol in such the manner that it should be energy efficient in order to increase the life time of the whole WSN. Hierarchical routing architecture divides the whole network in to a group of cluster and only cluster head is responsible to forwarding the data to base station directly or via other cluster heads. In location based architecture of routing, localization of the sensor node is to be used to compute the path to the sensed data.During the creation of network topology, the process of setting up routes in WSNs is usually influenced by energy considerations, because the power consumption of a wireless link is proportional to square or even higher order of the distance between the sender and the receiver. Hierarchical routing can be centralized or non- centralized. In non-centralized hierarchical routing, the sensor nodes self-configures for the cluster head on the basis of selecting a random number. They don't consider the case of residual energy. But in centralized routing the base station is responsible to create cluster. In hierarchical routing architecture, sensor nodes self-configure themselves for the formation of cluster heads. The proposed work is to design a routing protocol which is energy efficient and the results will be compared with other routing protocols of same category.
New Hybrid Approach to Solve the 0 / 1 , Bounded Knapsack Problem

Knapsack problem is one of the combinatorial optimization problems, consisting of selecting a subset of given items in such a way that the total profit of the selected items doesn’t exceed the maximum of knapsack capacity. As well known that most of the famous algorithms published nowadays work on either dynamic or greedy system as greedy is a fast technique and dynamic systems can produce an optimal solution for the problem, however, as greedy function can solve the problem with high speed it cannot give an optimal solution and, sometimes, answers are relatively far from optimality. Therefore, the dynamic approach may solve the problem with optimal solution but it consumes much time and space. In order to merge advantages of these two approaches, in this proposed study we introduced an idea that generates a hybrid algorithm that is based on the two methods, the dynamic and the greedy, to get the best performance for finding the best proximity to the optimal solutions. KeywordsKnapsack; Greedy; Dynamic, Hybrid, Utilization __________________________________________________*****_________________________________________________
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: association of insulin resistance and mitochondrial abnormalities.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The pathogenesis of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that NASH is associated with 2 defects: (1) peripheral insulin resistance, which increases lipolysis, delivery of free fatty acids (FFA) to the liver, and hepatic fatty acid beta oxidation, thereby creating oxidative stress; and (2) an abnormality within the hepatocytes that might render them more susceptible to injury from oxidative stress. METHODS The hypothesis was tested by evaluation of (1) insulin resistance by a 2-step hyperinsulinemic (10 and 40 mU. m(-2). min(-1)) euglycemic clamp; (2) insulin effects on lipolysis by enrichment of [U-(13)C]glycerol; (3) frequency and severity of structural defects in hepatocyte mitochondria in vivo; (4) fatty acid beta oxidation from serum [beta-OH butyrate], release of water-soluble radioactivity from (3)H-palmitate by cultured fibroblasts and urinary dicarboxylic acid excretion; and (5) hepatic lipid peroxidation by immunohistochemical staining for 3-nitrotyrosine (3-NT). Subjects with NASH (n = 6-10 for different studies) were compared with those with fatty liver (n = 6) or normal controls (n = 6). RESULTS NASH and fatty liver were both associated with insulin resistance, with mean glucose infusion rates (normal/fatty liver/NASH) of step 1, 4.5/1.6/0.9; step 2, 9.5/7.7/4.5 (P < 0.03 for both steps). Although baseline rates of glycerol appearance were higher in those with NASH than in those with fatty liver (means, 14.6 vs. 21.6 micromol. kg(-1). min(-1); P < 0.05), neither group significantly suppressed glycerol appearance at insulin infusion rates of 10 mU. m(-2). min(-1). NASH was associated with loss of mitochondrial cristae and paracrystalline inclusions in 9 of 10 subjects, compared with 0 of 6 subjects with fatty liver. However, no evidence of a generalized defect in fatty acid beta oxidation was noted in any group. Also, mean [beta-OH butyrate] was highest in those with NASH (means, 90 vs. 110 vs. 160 micromol/L; P < 0.04). Increased staining for 3-NT was present in fatty liver, and even greater staining was seen in NASH. CONCLUSIONS These data indicate that peripheral insulin resistance, increased fatty acid beta oxidation, and hepatic oxidative stress are present in both fatty liver and NASH, but NASH alone is associated with mitochondrial structural defects.
A computer interview for psychiatric patient target symptoms.

A computer-conducted patient interview for measuring symptomatic change has been developed and pilot tested with ten inpatients,ten day-care patients, and ten outpatients. The interview is concerned with individualized target symptoms and a standardized symptom scale, the Hopkins Symptom Check List. Four repetitions of the interview are possible and a computer printout suitable for clinical use and summarizing all completed interviews for the patient is available immediately after each interview. Data, which are complete and standardized, are stored on magnetic tape in computer processable form for research analysis. Patients interact easily with the computer terminal and though reaction to the experiences is mixed, all patients were able to formulate and express their problems including painful personal material, in meaningful terms.
Improved atomic force microscope cantilever performance by ion beam modification

The performance of atomic force microscopy cantilevers, as measured by the resonant frequency and spring constant, is directly dependent on the shape of the cantilever. Here we have improved the performance of conventional silicon nitride cantilevers by using focused ion beam milling to minimize the width of the cantilever legs. The resonant frequency in solution for any given spring constant is increased by two- to threefold, and the thermal noise in a given bandwidth is correspondingly reduced.
Altered Expression Profile of Superoxide Dismutase Isoforms in Nasal Polyps from Nonallergic Patients

Objective/Hypothesis: Nasal polyposis (NP) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the upper respiratory tract. The pathophysiology is unknown but has been shown to be multifactorial. Free radical‐mediated damage has been implicated in the pathogenesis of NP. Superoxide dismutases (SODs) are the first and the most important line of antioxidant enzyme defense against reactive oxygen species. Moreover, isozymes of the SOD family are critical for modulating the activity of nitric oxide, a gaseous free radical that is believed to play roles in the physiology and pathology of respiratory tracts. However, the expression profile of SOD isoforms in NP remains unclear. We aimed to investigate the expression profile of the SOD isoforms in nasal polyps from nonallergic patients.
Single Crystals of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Formed by Self-Assembly

We report the self-assembly of single crystals of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) using thermolysis of nano-patterned precursors. The synthesis of these perfectly ordered, single crystals of SWCNTs results in extended structures with dimension on the micrometer scale. Each crystal is composed of an ordered array of tubes with identical diameters and chirality, although these properties vary between crystals. The results show that SWCNTs can be produced as a perfect bulk material on the micrometer scale and point toward the synthesis of bulk macroscopic crystalline material.
Microbiology of the Poultry Carcass and Processing Plant

Unlike the situation with red meat animals, bacteria are not found in the deep muscle tissue of the healthy bird following slaughter and the majority of organisms on a processed carcass are distributed unevenly over the outer surface and that of the abdominal cavity. The distribution is such that the neck skin and the areas under the wing and around the vent tend to be more heavily contaminated than the surface of the breast but, as a general rule,
Cybernetic Approach for Interdepartmental Cause-effect Relationship Modelling

In response to a growing complexity within the value creation in companies as well as in supply chain networks, corporate decision making tasks are primarily organized in a function-oriented way. This functional orientation is inevitably reflected in departmental objectives and corresponding objective systems which define the possible optimization strategies with respect to the decision making tasks of individual departments. Based on such department-specific objective systems, the development of conflicts of objectives between departments can be observed. This paper proposes a model-based approach to create systematization for describing interdepartmental conflicts of objectives. Based on actuating variables, control variables, result variables and objectives, the objective systems and measures of individual departments are interlinked and integrated in a cybernetic model. This cybernetic model allows the description of significant cause-effect relationships between the departments in order productions. Additionally, the impacts of the decisions of individual departments on the objective systems of other departments can be derived from the model. The model as developed is restricted to the objective system of order productions but can be transferred by way of pertinent adaptations and extensions of the specific objective system to other order fulfillment processes. The transparent presentation of interdepartmental cause-effect relationships makes it possible to increase collaboration between departments. Departments are empowered in the cybernetic model to align and optimize their actions to reflect overall corporate goals and the objective systems of other departments. Furthermore, in addition to the existing empirically motivated studies, the introduced model can expand the systematic development of collaboration in companies.
The catalytic valorization of lignin for the production of renewable chemicals.

Biomass is an important feedstock for the renewable production of fuels, chemicals, and energy. As of 2005, over 3% of the total energy consumption in the United States was supplied by biomass, and it recently surpassed hydroelectric energy as the largest domestic source of renewable energy. Similarly, the European Union received 66.1% of its renewable energy from biomass, which thus surpassed the total combined contribution from hydropower, wind power, geothermal energy, and solar power. In addition to energy, the production of chemicals from biomass is also essential; indeed, the only renewable source of liquid transportation fuels is currently obtained from biomass.
Subclinical hypoxia of infants with intrauterine growth retardation determined by increased serum S100B protein levels

To test the hypothesis that serum S100B levels could be useful in detecting neurological damage in infants with intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR). Materials and methods: The study group consisted of infants with IUGR and the control group consisted of age-matched healthy infants. S100B protein levels were measured after birth and compared between groups. Results: For this study, 43 infants with IUGR and 25 infants as a control group were recruited. Gender, gestational age, type of delivery, and maternal age of the groups were statistically insignificant, with the exception of the mean birth weights (2120 ± 450 g in the IUGR group and 3096 ± 570 g in the control group (P < 0.001), respectively). S100B protein levels of the IUGR infants (1.13 ± 0.54) were significantly higher than those of the control group (0.45 ± 0.13) (P < 0.001). IUGR infants treated with antenatal steroids showed lower S100B levels than IUGR infants that did not receive antenatal steroid treatments (P < 0.05). The study group infants were divided into 2 groups, for growth retardation (GR) that was asymmetric (n = 15) and symmetric (n = 28). The asymmetric and symmetric GR infants’ S100B levels were 1.14 ± 0.47 pg/mL and 1.21 ± 0.34 pg/mL, respectively, and no significant differences were found between the 2 groups in terms of S100B levels (P = 0.32). Conclusion: The results of this study favor the opinion that there is an existing intrauterine hypoxia causing hypoxic brain tissue damage in IUGR infants, even when followed up with modern obstetrical screening protocols. Measurements of S100B may be useful in the prediction of outcome in these infants.