Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Prostate Cancer Classification: a Transfer Learning Approach to Integrate Information from Divers Body Parts

Julien Clément, Johan Jobin Prostate Cancer Classification: A Transfer Learning Approach to Integrate Information From Diverse Body Parts Automating the detection of cancer contributes to an early detection and treatment, which increases the chances of recovery. Recent algorithms in artificial intelligence relying on deep learning have shown promising results in this field. Indeed, the usefulness of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for segmentation or classification tasks is no longer to be proven. However, the performance of these models is often limited by the amount of data which is available to train the algorithm. This thesis first presents a state-of-the-art convolutional neural network for prostate lesion classification. All the steps from the data processing to the smallest detail regarding the neural network training are explained, ensuring a complete reproducibility of the experiment. This model is then evaluated on the official SPIEAAPM-NCI Prostate MR Classification Challenge dataset, achieving an AUC of 0.76. This result constitutes a solid baseline and confirms the proper functioning of the implementation. On top of this implementation, a new transfer learning approach using lesions of multiple body parts (brain and lung) is built. This method shows that integrating information from diverse datasets improves automated prostate cancer diagnosis. Indeed, it appears that cancerous lesions coming from various body parts share lowlevel features that can be used to increase the generalization ability and performance of the prostate lesion classifier. This technique provides a concrete solution to the lack of available data for prostate classification and suggests that many other types of cancers can be taken advantage of. Thanks to this technique, the AUC achieved on our test set increases by 18% (from 0.68 to 0.80).
Web Table Annotation Using Knowledge Base

This master thesis describes how to automatically link the structured information in Web tables to the Knowledge Base. The Web has over 100 million tables which provide a valuable source of relational data. These tables can be used for Web table search and Knowledge Base augmentation if we understand them semantically. Lack of a unique schema for Web tables makes it a challenge to use this useful source of information and to convert the Web tables into a machine-understandable knowledge. Additionally, lack of table header for a vast majority of these tables and the ambiguity of the table entities are considered as a barrier for this task. Web table annotation aims to solve this problem by presenting additional information for the HTML tables and deﬁning their entities by the Web Knowledge source embedded in the Knowledge Bases. Our work presents two unsupervised approaches to tackle this problem. First, we study the use of Lookup-based methods as a scalable solution and second, we use the word Embeddings to understand the semantics of the Web table and provide the corresponding row annotations. We show that our proposed method signiﬁcantly outperforms the existing Semantic Embedding methods. Moreover, we compare diﬀerent Node Centrality measures which can not only be used in Web Table annotations, but also for any graph-based applications. Finally, we contribute by presenting an updated version of Limaye Gold Standard with annotations from DBpedia.
Comparative Evaluation of Speciation of Heavy Metals in Irrigation Farm of Railway Quarters, Bauchi Metropolis, Bauchi State, Nigeria

Untreated water is widely used for irrigation in water scarce regions in several States of Nigeria including Bauchi State. The nutrients contained in the wastewater are considered as beneficial to agriculture, the contaminants present in it can pose environmental and health risk. Irrigated farms could be used to improve the food productivity in the country. The concentrations of heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni and Pb) in irrigation and non-irrigation soils of Railway Quarters, Bauchi were analysed using fractionation methods and determined using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry. In the exchangeable bound fraction, the results revealed the highest concentrations (mg/kg) of Cd (0.22), Cu (60.00) and Mn (33.00) in the irrigation soil, whilst those of Cu (20.00) and Cd (0.33) in non–irrigation soil. The highest concentrations (mg/kg) in the residual bound fraction was observed in Cr, Ni and Pb in the irrigation soil, as well as Cr, Mn, Ni and Pb in non–irrigation soil. The fractional sum of all the metals in the six fractions (exchangeable, carbonate, manganese oxide, iron-manganese, organic matter sulphide and residual) were found to be (mg/kg): lead (29.00), copper (298.00), cadmium (0.66), chromium (11.00), manganese (167.00) and nickel (72.00). The results revealed that all the observed concentrations are within the permissible limits of DPR (2002) and WHO/FAO (2001) with the exception of that of copper and nickel. The non-irrigation soil showed the cumulative sum of the levels (mg/kg) of the heavy metals in the six fractions: Pb (10.00), Cu (44.30), Cd (0.36), Cr (5.65), Mn (67.27) and Ni (6.00) are within the threshold levels of WHO/FAO (2001) and DPR (2002) respectively. The observed values to some extent do not pose health threat to the inhabitants and consumers.
Analysis of the Factors Influencing Smallholder Ric e Farmers’ Access to Credit in the Upper East Region of Ghana

Smallholder rice farmers in the Upper East Region of Ghana lack access to credit and this can hinder adoption of technologies introduced in the region, eventually impacting on productivity of rice which is one of the major cereals cultivated and consumed in Ghana. A total of 140 rice farmers Original Research Article Denkyirah et al.; AJAEES, 10(4): 1-11, 2016; Article no.AJAEES. 24768 2 were sampled for the study in Kassena-Nankana district in the Upper East Region using a multistage sampling technique. This study employed the probit model to estimate factors that influence rice farmers’ access to credit. The result of the study revealed that rice farmers invested the credit they access from formal and informal sources into non-agricultural activities which are mostly not what the credit was taken for. This implies a diversionary behaviour of farmers from what is expected. Also, majority of the farmers received cash credit below GH¢ 1000. The probit result revealed that age, marital status, membership of farmer based organisation, extension visit, record keeping and farm income were the significant variables that influenced rice farmers’ access to credit. Age and farm income negatively influenced farmers’ access to credit while marital status, member of farmer based organisation, record keeping and extension visit positively influenced farmers’ access to credit. The study recommends that rice farmers should be encouraged and sensitized to use the credit for agricultural activities in order to increase productivity. Extension agents should train rice farmers on record keeping since record keeping was seen to be a key factor that positively influenced farmers to receive credit especially from formal credit sources. Lastly, rice farmers should be encouraged to form groups, given that it also positively influenced farmers’ access to credit.
Effect of storage condition on physiochemical and sensory properties of papaya jam

The objective of present study was to evaluate the effect of storage condition on physiochemical and sensory properties of jam prepared from ripe and unripe papaya. Jam was prepared by traditional Open Kettle method. Jams were stored at ambient condition and low temperature for 60 days. Results exhibited that moisture, TSS, pH, total sugar and phenolics content of jam gradual changed during storage. There was decrease in the moisture, pH and phenolics content during storage period. However, TSS and total sugar content increased during the 60 days of storage period. Papaya jam also exhibited changes in sensory characteristics. There was gradual decrease in taste, flavor and overall acceptability during storage. Jams stored at ambient condition exhibited more significant changes in physiochemical and sensory properties than jams stored at low temperature. Thus, suggesting that jam prepared from ripe and unripe papaya cannot be stored for long period at ambient condition. Storage not only brings about physiochemical changes but also influence sensory characteristics of papaya jam.
Nutritional genomics: A review

Nutritional Genetics is the combination of two areasnutrigenomics and nutrigenetics. Nutrigenomics is the study of how foods influence gene expression and how individual genetic variation affects the way an individual responds to nutrients in food. It will determine the association between diet and chronic diseases which will help to understand the etiologic aspects of chronic diseases such as cancer, type-2 diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease (CVS). In contrast nutrigenetics is the tool that helps to reveal the association between the genetic makeups of a particular person with the diet. It also gives an idea why and how a person reacts or responds differently by a particular food ingredient. Thus, present review highlights the interaction of genetic background with the diet and how these two areas interfere in the development of life threatening disease in both developing and developed countries.
Ocean conditions in transient climate simulations

Constraining Antarctica’s climate evolution since the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (~18 ka) remains a key challenge, but is important for accurately projecting future changes in Antarctic ice sheet mass balance. Here we perform spatial and temporal analysis of two transient deglacial climate simulations, one using 20 a fully coupled GCM (TraCE-21ka) and one using an intermediate complexity model (LOVECLIM DGns), to determine regional differences in deglacial climate evolution and identify the main strengths and limitations of the models in terms of climate variables that impact ice sheet mass balance. The greatest continental surface warming is observed over the continental margins in both models, with strong correlations between surface albedo, sea ice coverage and surface air temperature along the coasts, as well as regions with the greatest 25 decrease in ice surface elevation in TraCE-21ka. Accumulation-temperature scaling relationships are fairly linear and constant in the continental interior, but exhibit higher variability in the early to mid-Holocene over coastal regions. Circum-Antarctic coastal ocean temperatures at grounding line depths are highly sensitive to the meltwater forcings prescribed in each simulation, which are applied in different ways due to limited paleoconstraints. Meltwater forcing associated with the Meltwater Pulse 1A (MWP1A) event results in sub-surface 30 warming that is most pronounced in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Sea sector in both models. Although modelled centennial-scale rates of temperature and accumulation change are reasonable, clear model-proxy mismatches are observed with regard to the timing and duration of the Antarctic Cold Reversal (ACR) and Younger Dryas/early Holocene warming, which may suggest model bias in large-scale ocean circulation, biases in temperature reconstructions from proxy records, or that the MWP1A and 1B events are inadequately 35 represented in these simulations. The incorporation of dynamic ice sheet models in future transient climate simulations could aid in improving meltwater forcing representation, and thus model-proxy agreement, through this time interval.
Determinants of customer satisfaction of E-shopping: A study on special reference to Idukki District

Online shopping is the process whereby consumers directly buy goods, services, etc. from a seller interactively in real-time without an intermediary service over the internet. Online shopping is the process of buying goods and services from merchants who sell on the Internet. Since the emergence of the World Wide Web, merchants have sought to sell their products to people who surf the Internet. Shoppers can visit web stores from the comfort of their homes and shop as they sit in front of the computer. Consumers buy a variety of items from online stores. As far as an e-Commerce business is concerned, ensuring a high level of online customer satisfaction remains an integral, eternal element in achieving and maintaining long-term business success. This study is intended to study customer satisfaction using E-commerce based on a sample from Idukki district. And also analyze and summaries the specific elements of E-commerce customer satisfaction and the various elements of customers’ expectations and perceptions. Keywords— Online shopping, ecommerce, Customer satisfaction
A Prospective Cohort Study on Selenium Status and the Risk of Lung Cancer1

Selenium has been suggested tu be anticarcinogenic and to play a role in the cellular defense against oxidative stress. The association between toenail selenium (a marker of long-term selenium status) and lung cancer was investigated in a cohort study of diet and cancer that started in 1986 among 120,852 Dutch men and women aged 55â€”69years. After 3.3 years of follow-up, 550 incident cases of lung carcinoma were detected. Toenail selenium data were available for 370 lung cancer cases and 2459 members of a randomly selected subcohort. The rate ratio of lung cancer for sub jects in the highest compared to the lowest quintile of toenail selenium, after controlling for age, gender, smoking, and education, was 0.50 (95% confidence interval, 0.30-0.81), with a significant inverse trend across quintiles i /' = 0.006). The protective effect of selenium was concentrated in subjects with a relatively low dietary intake of ÃŸ-carotene or vitamin C. The rate ratio in the highest compared to the lowest quintile of selenium was 0.45 in the low ÃŸ-carotenegroup (95% confidence interval, 0.22-0.92; trend P = 0.028) and 0.36 in the low vitamin C group (95% confidence interval, 0.17-0.75; trend P < 0.001). The results of this study support an inverse association between selenium status and lung cancer and suggest a modification of the effect of selenium by the antioxidants ÃŸ-caroteneand vitamin C.
General Overview of Multivariable Special Functions

The theory of one-variable (ordinary) hypergeometric and basic hypergeometric series goes back to work of Euler, Gauss and Jacobi. The theory of elliptic hypergeometric series is of a much more recent vintage [20]. The three theories deal with the study of series ∑ k≥0 ck with f (k) := ck+1/ck a rational function in k (hypergeometric theory), a rational function in qk (basic hypergeometric theory), or a doubly periodic meromorphic function in k (elliptic hypergeometric theory, see [21, Ch. 11] for an overview). Examples of elementary functions admitting hypergeometric and basic hypergeometric series representations are
Untersuchung der unterschiedlichen Funktionen des Neuregulin-1 im Hinblick auf die Myelinisierung des peripheren und zentralen Nervensystems

Understanding the control of myelin formation by oligodendrocytes is essential for treating demyelinating diseases. Neuregulin-1 (NRG1) type III, an EGF-like growth factor, is essential for myelination in the PNS. It is thus thought that NRG1/ErbB signaling also regulates CNS myelination, a view suggested by in vitro studies and the overexpression of dominant-negative ErbB receptors. To directly test this hypothesis, we generated a series of conditional null mutants that completely lack NRG1 beginning at different stages of neural development. Unexpectedly, these mice assemble normal amounts of myelin. In addition, double mutants lacking oligodendroglial ErbB3 and ErbB4 become myelinated in the absence of any stimulation by neuregulins. In contrast, a significant hypermyelination is achieved by transgenic overexpression of NRG1 type I or NRG1 type III. Thus, NRG1/ErbB signaling is markedly different between Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes that have evolved an NRG/ErbB-independent mechanism of myelination control.
Web(-like) Protocols for the Internet of Things

This paper describes the motivation for and implementation of two Web­oriented protocols for the Internet of Things. While building upon the ubiquity and flexibility of the Web, WebSockets and STOMP minimise headers to the benefit of payload, thus adapting to the scarce resources available in IPv6 mesh networks. The websocket library provides a high­level interface to open client connections and further exchange data, along with the building blocks necessary to upgrade incoming connections to a WebSocket in servers. The STOMP library offers a near­complete implementation of the latest STOMP specification, together with a simple broker for integration in existing applications.
Effect of salicylic acid on growth, bio-chemical changes and yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under different date of sowing condition

The present investigation entitled “Effect of salicylic acid on growth, bio-chemical changes and yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under different date of sowing condition” was conducted at Students Instructional Farm of the Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Faizabad (U.P.) during rabi seasons of 2014-15 and 2015-16. The experiment was planned under RBD (Randomized Block Design) with three replications. The treatment consisted of two date of sowing viz;25th November and 25th December with two varieties NW-5054 and NW-2036 with ten salicylic acid treatment viz; (T1)Control, (T2)Seed soaking in (0.25mM) salicylic acid, (T3)Foliar spray of (0.25mM) salicylic acid at 30 DAS, (T4)Seed soaking in (0.25mM) salicylic acid + Foliar spray of (0.25mM) salicylic acid at 30 DAS,(T5)Seed soaking in (0.50mM) salicylic acid, (T6)Foliar spray of (0. 50mM) salicylic acid at 30 DAS, (T7) Seed soaking in (0.50mM) salicylic acid + Foliar spray of (0.5mM) salicylic acid at 30 DAS,(T8)Seed soaking in (0.75mM) salicylic acid, (T9)Foliar spray of (0.75mM) salicylic acid at 30 DAS, (T10)Seed soaking in (0.75mM) salicylic acid + Foliar spray of (0.75mM) salicylic acid at 30 DAS. When late sown variety was planted timely all the growth attributes showed drastic reduction with respect to late sowing (25th December). However, NW-5054 showed comparatively good performance in terms of growth attributes at timely sown (25th November). Performance of NW-5054 was very good as compared to NW-2036 due to delayed sowing on 25th December. Application of salicylic acid significantly increased all growth attributes in both varieties under both timely and late sown. Time of sowing decreased substantially almost in all the yield components and enzyme activity measured viz; number of ear per plant, ear length, number of grains per plant, test weight, grain yield per plant, straw yield, catalase activity, peroxidase activity, 50% flowering and days to physiological maturity which caused severe reduction in yield. Overall, T10 (Seed soaking in (0.75mM) salicylic acid + Foliar spray of (0.75mM) salicylic acid at 30 DAS) treatment showed best result and T2 Seed soaking in (0.25mM) salicylic acid gave least. All the salicylic acid treatments reduced the detrimental effect of heat stress on both the varieties by improving physiological traits which ultimately helped in obtaining higher yield.
SEApp: Bringing Mandatory Access Control to Android Apps

Mandatory Access Control (MAC) has provided a great contribution to the improvement of the security of modern operating systems. A clear demonstration is represented by Android, which has progressively assigned a greater role to SELinux since its introduction in 2013. These beneﬁts have been mostly dedicated to the protection of system components against the behavior of apps and no control is offered to app developers on the use of MAC. Our solution overcomes this limitation, giving developers the power to deﬁne ad-hoc MAC policies for their apps, supporting the internal compartmentalization of app components. This is a natural evolution of the security mechanisms already available in Android, but its realization requires to consider that (i) the security of system components must be maintained, (ii) the solution must be usable by developers, and (iii) the performance impact should be limited. Our proposal meets these three requirements. The proposal is supported by an open-source implementation.
Endoscopic Urethrotomy Vs Open Urethroplasty for Men With Bulbar Urethral Stricture: The Open Randomised Trial Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 

Background: Bulbar urethral stricture is a common cause for urinary symptoms in men and its two main treatment options both have drawbacks with little evidence on their relative cost-effectiveness. Current guidelines on the management of recurrent bulbar urethral stricture have been predominantly based on expert opinion and panel consensus.Objective: To assess the relative cost-effectiveness of open urethroplasty and endoscopic urethrotomy as treatment for recurrent urethral stricture in men.Methods: Set in the UK National Health Service with recruitment from 38 hospital sites, a randomised controlled trial of open urethroplasty and endoscopic urethrotomy with 6-monthly follow-up over 24 months was conducted. Two hundred and twenty-two men requiring operative treatment for recurrence of bulbar urethral stricture and having had at least one previous intervention for stricture were recruited. Effectiveness was measured by quality- adjusted life years (QALYs) derived from EQ-5D 5L. Cost-effectiveness was measured by the incremental cost per QALY gained over 24 months using a within trial analysis and a Markov model with a 10-year time horizon. Results: In the within trial, urethroplasty cost on average more than urethrotomy (cost difference: £2148 [95% CI: 689, 3606]) and resulted in a similar number of QALYs on average (QALY difference: -0.01 [95% CI: -0.17, 0.14)] over 24 months. The Markov model produced similar results. Sensitivity analyses using multiple imputation, suggested that the results were robust, despite observed missing data.Conclusions: Based on current practice and evidence, urethrotomy is a cost-effective treatment compared with urethroplasty. Trial registration: ISRCTN: 98009168 (date: 29 November 2012) and it is also in the UK NIHR Portfolio (reference 13507).
Multi-modal longitudinal follow-up of diabetic retinopathy with deep learning

Statistics from the International Diabetes Federation reveal that the global prevalence of diabetes in 2019 is around 9.3% (463 millions) of the world population and will rise to 10.9% by 2045 (700 millions). As a common and high-risk complication of diabetes, diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of visual impairment and blindness worldwide [1]. Although regular screening is crucial for preventing blindness, the expected increase in the number of patients with diabetes means that the burden of screening and follow-up represent a substantial challenge [2].
Analysis of Interest Point Distribution in SURF Octaves

—Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) is a state-of-the-art, scale-and rotation-invariant feature extraction technique with the potential for real-time execution. Although SURF has been extensively employed for multi-scale computer vision applications since its inception, there are still some areas of this computationally complex algorithm that have not been fully explored and require detailed analysis to enable algorithm-level optimization of SURF for real-time execution. In particular, the distribution of interest points in SURF octaves is a topic that requires thorough investigation. Contrary to the present perception, this paper demonstrates that there is a possibility of higher octaves being more significant than the lower octaves in terms of detected interest points for real-life images. The paper also shows that variation of blob response threshold has a significant effect on interest point distribution. The results presented highlight the need of developing a systematic approach to SURF octave selection.