Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Instrumentation of the sacroiliac joint with cylindrical threaded implants: A detailed finite element study of patient characteristics affecting fixation performance

The sacroiliac joint (SIJ) is a known pain generator that, in severe cases, may require surgical fixation to reduce intra‐articular displacements and allow for arthrodesis. The objective of this computational study was to analyze how the number of implants affected SIJ stabilization with patient‐specific characteristics such as the pelvic geometry and bone quality. Detailed finite element models were developed to account for three pelvises of differing anatomy. Each model was tested with a normal and low bone density (LD) under two types of loading: compression only and compression with flexion and extension moments. These models were instrumented with one to three cylindrical, threaded and fenestrated implants through a posterior oblique trajectory, requiring less muscle dissection than the more common lateral trajectory used with triangular implants. Compared with the noninstrumented pelvis, the change in range of motion (ROM) and stress distribution were used to characterize joint stabilization. Noninstrumented mobility ranged from 0.86 to 2.55 mm and from 1.37° to 6.11°. Across patient‐specific characteristics, the ROM reduction with one implant varied from 3% to 21% for vertical and 15% to 47% for angular displacements. With two implants, the ROM reduction ranged from 12% to 41% for vertical and from 28% to 61% for angular displacements. Three implants, however, did not further improve the joint stability (14% to 42% for vertical and 32% to 63% for angular displacements). With respect to patient characteristics, an LD led to a decreased stabilization and a higher volume of stressed bone (>75% of yield stress). A better understanding of how patient characteristics affect the implant performance could help improve surgical planning of sacroiliac arthrodesis.
Integration of Evaporative Gas Turbine with Oxy-Fuel Combustion for Carbon Dioxide Capture

This paper studied the integration of Evaporative Gas Turbine (EvGT) cycle with oxy-fuel combustion for CO2 capture. The impact of key parameters on system electrical efficiency, such as the oxygen purity, Water/Gas ratio (W/G) has been investigated concerning thermal efficiency. The performance of dry recycle and wet recycle also has be analyzed and compared. Simulation results shows that: (1) 97% can be considered as the optimum oxygen purity taking into account the trade-off between the air separation unit (ASU) consumption penalty of producing higher-purity oxygen and electrical efficiency; (2) there exists an optimum point of W/G for both EvGT and EvGT combined with oxy-fuel combustion CO2 capture technology; (3) dry recycle has a considerably higher electrical efficiency comparing with wet recycle, but more cooled water can be saved in the wet recycle. The performance of EvGT cycle was also compared to the combined cycle (CC) when CO2 capture was considered. The comparison shows that CC has a higher net power output and electrical efficiency than the EvGT cycle no matter if combined with oxy-fuel combustion CO2 capture technology or not.
Purification of Lactic Acid from Fermentation Broths by Ion-Exchange Resins

In this work, a novel process for lactic acid purification based on ion exchange is proposed. It consists of two stages: first, a strong cation resin was used to reduce the broth pH below the pKa of lactic acid (3.86) and remove the cations present in the solution; then lactic acid was separated from the other anions in the broth using a weak anion exchanger. The ion exchangers selected were Lewatit S2568H and Lewatit S3428 (Bayer, Germany). The Lewatit S2568H resin retained the cations in the broth with an apparent capacity of 1.7 equiv/L, reducing the broth pH below 3.86. It was able to decrease the pH of the broth to as low as 1.5, generating 4 bed volumes (BV) of acidified and partial demineralized broth. In the second step, the acidified broth was purified by the Lewatit S3428 resin, which retained the other anions present in the broth, producing an aqueous solution of lactic acid. This resin was able to produce 25 BV of purified lactic acid with selectivity higher than 99.9%. The final purity of la.
Behavior of Silver in Physiological Solutions

Behavior of silver films of various origin, e.g., physical vapor deposited, electrodeposited, electroless, and metallurgical was investigated in a comparative way, using physiological solutions (0.85 % NaCl and calf serum). Only for certain thin silver films prepared by the physical vapor deposition did the open-circuit potential increase toward more negative potentials, until it reached a steady-state value in less than 100 s. These films exhibited a strong antimicrobial effect toward microorganisms such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus. Results in the present work suggest that the essential factor leading to antimicrobial effect is the presence of oxide(s) in the silver material. Electrochemically oxidized silver metal showed a behavior very similar to physical vapor deposited films in the open-circuit potential vs. time curves and in the antimicrobial effect. There was no evidence that pure metallic silver, no matter how it was prepared, showed a change in the open-circuit potential, nor did it exhibit an antimicrobial activity.
PRESENT SITUATION OF SUICIDE IN BANGLADESH: A REVIEW

The most important global cause of mortality is suicide. It is often neglected by researchers, health professionals, health policymakers, and the medical profession. This review was aimed to provide a narrative understanding of the present situation of suicide in Bangladesh based on the existing literature. We conducted a review combining articles and abstracts with full HTML and PDF format. We searched PubMed, PubMed Central, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect and BanglaJOL, google using multiple terms related to suicide without any date boundary and without any basis of types of studies, that is, all types of studies were scrutinized. Finally, 16 articles were selected for review. Report suggested that every day almost 32 people commit suicide in 2019 which was 29 and 30 in 2015 and 2017 respectively. The mortality rate of suicide found 39.6 per 100,000 in Bangladesh. The most common method is hanging followed by poisoning and jumping under the train. The most prevalent age group is age under 40 years. The rate of suicide in children is also increasing. In contrast to most Asian countries, more Bangladeshi women commit suicide than men. The mean age of male and female were 28.86 with SD 11.27 years and 25.31 with SD 7.70 years respectively. The most common associated factors of suicide are younger age, lower education, students, nuclear family, family history of suicide, use substance, problem in workplace, financial constraints, affair, domestic violence, divorce, and physical illness. Most of the suicidal event occurred at night, followed by morning (from 6 am to12 am), and evening. It is a criminal offence in Bangladesh. The source of information is mainly police, forensic reports, media and courts. Till now there is no nationwide survey of suicide is conducted. Besides, suicide surveillance strategy is yet to be established. Suicide is a neglected and under attended public health problem in Bangladesh with few research and paucity of literature. Now nationwide survey conduction and establishment of national suicide surveillance are a time demanded step.
Contact patterns and HPV-genotype interactions yield heterogeneous HPV-vaccine impacts depending on sexual behaviours: an individual-based model

Human papillomaviruses are common sexually transmitted infections, caused by a large diversity of genotypes. In the context of vaccination against a subgroup of genotypes, better understanding the role of genotype interactions and human sexual behavior on genotype ecology is essential. Herein, we present an individual-based model that integrates realistic heterosexual partnership behaviors and simulates interactions between vaccine and non-vaccine genotypes. Genotype interactions were considered, assuming a previous vaccine-genotype infection shortened (competition) or extended (synergy) the duration of a secondary non-vaccine-genotype infection. Sexual behavior determined papillomavirus acquisition and transmission: only 19.5% of active individuals with 0-1 partner during the year, but >80% of those with >1 partner, were infected before vaccine introduction. Genotype interactions, despite being silent during the pre-vaccination era, markedly impacted genotype ecology after vaccination started, with a significant increase/decrease of non-vaccine prevalence for competitive/synergistic interactions. These changes were more pronounced in individuals with <4 partners (up to 30% of prevalence modification assuming 65% vaccine coverage) but barely visible for individuals with >3 partners (at most 0.30%). Results suggest that considering genotype interactions, in conjunction with heterogeneous sexual behaviors, is essential to anticipate the impact of existing and future anti-papillomavirus vaccines targeting a subgroup of genotypes.
Direct Convert Glycerol into Alcohols by Disproportionation Reaction

The disproportionation reaction of glycerol over NaOH was reported in this article. The effects of reaction temperature, glycerol to NaOH mol ratio, glycerol concentration in calcium carbonate, and reaction time were investigated. Under the optimum conditions, 82.6% of glycerol conversion with 44.6% of total alcohol selectivity (propylene glycol, ethylene glycol, methanol, and ethanol) was obtained.
Behavioural responses of females of the eriophyoid mite, Aculops allotrichus, to the presence of injured conspecifics

ABSTRACT In many animal taxa, the presence of injured conspecifics triggers escape or freezing behaviour. We examined these anti-predatory responses in the eriophyoid mite Aculops allotrichus from Robinia pseudoacacia. The mite was tested on leaflets in cages with two leaf chambers connected by a tunnel, on compound leaves, on which only two opposite leaflets remained, and on leaf discs placed on glass. We released females onto a site with freshly pierced individuals and allowed them to move to a “safe” place. Females did not escape from dangerous patches in any of our tests. They did not refrain from oviposition or become motionless in the presence of damaged conspecifics, either. On the contrary, in the test with old leaf discs, females prolonged their stay on “risky” patches. Additionally, after five hours the proportion of females in chambers with pierced conspecifics was significantly higher than in the control, and only after 24 hours were there no differences between the two combinations. It indicates that the presence of injured conspecifics is not a cue of predation risk for A. allotrichus. In contrast, the eriophyoid can be arrested on “dangerous” leaves, and possible factors underlying this phenomenon are discussed.
Sun compass neurons are tuned to migratory orientation in monarch butterflies

Every autumn, monarch butterflies migrate from North America to their overwintering sites in Central Mexico. To maintain their southward direction, these butterflies rely on celestial cues as orientation references. The position of the sun combined with additional skylight cues are integrated in the central complex, a region in the butterfly's brain that acts as an internal compass. However, the central complex does not solely guide the butterflies on their migration but also helps monarchs in their non-migratory form manoeuvre on foraging trips through their habitat. By comparing the activity of input neurons of the central complex between migratory and non-migratory butterflies, we investigated how a different lifestyle affects the coding of orientation information in the brain. During recording, we presented the animals with different simulated celestial cues and found that the encoding of the sun was narrower in migratory compared to non-migratory butterflies. This feature might reflect the need of the migratory monarchs to rely on a precise sun compass to keep their direction during their journey. Taken together, our study sheds light on the neural coding of celestial cues and provides insights into how a compass is adapted in migratory animals to successfully steer them to their destination.
Proteolytic activity of the proteasome is required for female insect reproduction

Non-ATPase regulatory subunits (Rpns) are components of the 26S proteasome involved in polyubiquitinated substrate recognition and deubiquitination in eukaryotes. Here, we identified 15 homologues sequences of Rpn and associated genes by searching the genome and transcriptome databases of the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens, a hemipteran rice pest. Temporospatial analysis showed that NlRpn genes were significantly highly expressed in eggs and ovaries but were less-highly expressed in males. RNA interference-mediated depletion of NlRpn genes decreased the proteolytic activity of proteasome and impeded the transcription of lipase and vitellogenin genes in the fat bodies and ovaries in adult females, and reduced the triglyceride content in the ovaries. Decrease of the proteolytic activity of the proteasome via knockdown of NlRpns also inhibited the transcription of halloween genes, including NlCYP307A2, NlCYP306A2 and NlCYP314A1, in the 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) biosynthetic pathway in the ovaries, reduced 20E production in adult females, and impaired ovarian development and oocyte maturation, resulting in reduced fecundity. These novel findings indicate that the proteolytic activity of the proteasome is required for female reproductive processes in N. lugens, thus furthering our understanding of the reproductive and developmental strategies in insects.
A User-Centric Mechanism for Sequentially Releasing Graph Datasets under Blowfish Privacy

In this article, we present a privacy-preserving technique for user-centric multi-release graphs. Our technique consists of sequentially releasing anonymized versions of these graphs under Blowfish Privacy. To do so, we introduce a graph model that is augmented with a time dimension and sampled at discrete time steps. We show that the direct application of state-of-the-art privacy-preserving Differential Private techniques is weak against background knowledge attacker models. We present different scenarios where randomizing separate releases independently is vulnerable to correlation attacks. Our method is inspired by Differential Privacy (DP) and its extension Blowfish Privacy (BP). To validate it, we show its effectiveness as well as its utility by experimental simulations.
A simplified model of a multi-jointed mechanical finger calibrated with experimental data by vision system

The development of suitable models for mechanical fingers, whether they are part of prosthetic device or of a robotic hand, is a powerful tool to predict the behaviour of their components since the early stages of design, especially for underactuated mechanisms. Experimental data can improve the reliability of such models and promote their application to build proper control strategies especially for prosthetic hands. Here, we have developed a multi-jointed model of a mechanical finger. The finger is part of the Federica hand: an underactuated mechanical hand that was conceived for prosthetic purpose. The model accounts for friction phenomena in the finger and it is tuned with experimental data acquired through a digital image correlation device. The model allowed us to write kinematics relations of the phalanges and evaluate finger configurations in relation to the closure velocity. Moreover, it was possible to estimate the tendon force and the work analysis occurring during the closure tasks, both in free mode and in presence of objects.
First-Principles Study of Nonmetal-Doped Titanium Oxides

The electronic structures of anatase titanium oxides (TiO2) substitutional doping with N, F, C, P and S for O have been studied by first-principles method based on the density functional theory. The lattice distortion and densities of states of nonmetal-doped anatase TiO2 as well as photocatalytic activity were discussed. Comparing the effects of these five nonmetal ions (N, F, C, P and S) in the anatase TiO2, the substitutional doping of N is the most effective to get better visible-light activity because of its least lattice distortion and a large band-gap narrowing effect and the suitable relative position of the impurity states in band gap.
Reduced Expression Level of GPX2 in T1 Bladder Cancer and its Role in Early-phase Invasion of Bladder Cancer

Background/Aim: The role of glutathione peroxidase 2 (GPX2) expression in urothelial carcinoma (UC) is rarely reported. The aim of this study was to assess the expression status of GPX2 in UC of the bladder. Materials and Methods: We collected samples from 112 patients treated with radical cystectomy for immunohistochemical study. Results: Following immunohistochemical analysis of the specimens, 86 (76.8%) had weak GPX2 expression. In cases with consistent GPX2 expression within the same lesion, the levels of GPX2 showed significant decreases from pTa to pT1 (47.1%) compared to those from pT1 to pT2 (5.9%) (p=0.017). Specimens obtained with transurethral resection before cancer progressed to muscle invasive bladder cancer showed that pT1 had a lower expression for GPX2 than that of pTa (63.3% vs. 93.3%; p=0.009). Conclusion: The decrease in GPX2 expression among those with UC of the bladder may be involved in the early step of cancer invasion.
The environmental benefits of water recycling and reuse

The world's supply of fresh water is finite and is threatened by pollution. Rising demands for water to supply agriculture, industry and cities are leading to competition over the allocation of limited fresh water resources. This paper examines how water reuse increases the available supply of water and enables human needs to be met with less fresh water. The paper is illustrated with water reuse case studies in agriculture, urban areas, industry and water resource supplementation in Australia and other countries. The links between water reuse and sustainable water management are examined. Water conservation and water reuse produce substantial environmental benefits, arising from reductions in water diversions, and reductions in the impacts of wastewater discharges on environmental water quality. Some examples are presented demonstrating the environmental benefits in quantitative terms. The paper also describes the economic and environmental benefits identified in a number of recent integrated water cycle planning studies in Australia.
Adsorption of Phthalate Esters from Aqueous Solution by Mg–Al Layered Double Hydroxide

Mg–Al layered double hydroxide (Mg–Al LDH) was investigated for adsorption of dimethyl phthalate (DMP), di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) and dioctyl phthalate (DOP) from water samples. The adsorption capability of the Mg–Al LDH was compared with that of activated carbon. Adsorption of the three phthalate esters (PAEs) fitted pseudo-second-order kinetics, and the Langmuir or Freundlich equations described the adsorption isotherms. Adsorption of the PAEs was exothermic, and was mainly dominated by physical interactions including dispersion, induction, orientation and hydrogen bond forces. Compared with activated carbon, the Mg–Al LDH removal efficiency of the relatively small PAE, DMP, was about 20 % lower. The removal efficiencies of the larger PAEs, DEHP and DOP, were about the same on both sorbents. After three regeneration cycles of the Mg–Al LDH at 300 °C for 2 h, its adsorption capacity remained above 90 %. The infrared (IR) spectra and the X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns for the Mg-Al-LDH before and after regeneration showed no large differences, which indicates that the structure of the Mg–Al LDH does not change after regeneration.
La Transcription Orthographique-Phonetique De La Langue Arabe

Notre article présente les composants nécessaires à la synthèse de la parole arabe. Nous nous attarderons sur la transcription graphème phonème, étape primordiale pour l’élaboration d’un système de synthèse d’une qualité acceptable. Nous présenterons ensuite quelques-unes des règles utilisées pour la réalisation de notre système de traitement phonétique. Ces règles sont, pour notre système, stockées dans une base de données et sont parcourues plusieurs fois lors de la transcription.
WordNet Troponymy and Extraction of “Manner-Result” Relations

Commonsense knowledge bases need to have relations that allow to predict the consequences of specific actions (say, if John stabbed Peter, Peter might be killed) and to unfold the possible actions for the specific results (Peter was killed. It could happen because of poisoning, stabbing, shooting, etc.) This kind of causal relations are established between manner verbs and result verbs: manner-result relations. We offer a procedure on how to extract manner-result relations from WordNet through the analysis of the troponym glosses. The procedure of extraction includes three steps and the results are based on the analysis of the whole set of verbs in WordNet.
Calcul de réseaux phrastiques pour l’analyse et la navigation textuelle (Computing sentence networks for textual analysis and navigation)

Le travail présente une méthode de navigation dans les textes, fondée sur la répétition lexicale. La méthode choisie est celle développée par le linguiste Hoey. Son application manuelle à des textes de grandeur conséquente est problématique. Nous proposons dans cet article un processus automatique qui permet d’analyser selon cette méthode des textes de grande taille ; des expériences ont été menées appliquant le processus à différents types de textes (narratif, expositif) et montrant l’intérêt de l’approche.
Apport des outils de TAL à la construction d’ontologies : propositions au sein de la plateforme DaFOE

La construction d’ontologie à partir de textes fait l’objet d’études depuis plusieurs années dans le domaine de l’ingénierie des ontologies. Un cadre méthodologique en quatre étapes (constitution d’un corpus de documents, analyse linguistique du corpus, conceptualisation, opérationnalisation de l’ontologie) est commun à la plupart des méthodes de construction d’ontologies à partir de textes. S’il existe plusieurs plateformes de traitement automatique de la langue (TAL) permettant d’analyser automatiquement les corpus et de les annoter tant du point de vue syntaxique que statistique, il n’existe actuellement aucune procédure généralement acceptée, ni a fortiori aucun ensemble cohérent d’outils supports, permettant de concevoir de façon progressive, explicite et traçable une ontologie de domaine à partir d’un ensemble de ressources informationnelles relevant de ce domaine. Le but de ce court article est de présenter les propositions développées, au sein du projet ANR DaFOE 4app, pour favoriser l’émergence d’un tel ensemble d’outils.
Inférence de règles de réécriture pour la traduction de termes biomédicaux

Dans le domaine biomédical, le caractère multilingue de l’accès à l’information est un problème d’importance. Dans cet article nous présentons une technique originale permettant de traduire des termes simples du domaine biomédical de et vers de nombreuses langues. Cette technique entièrement automatique repose sur l’apprentissage de règles de réécriture à partir d’exemples et l’utilisation de modèles de langues. Les évaluations présentées sont menées sur différentes paires de langues (français-anglais, espagnol-portugais, tchèque-anglais, russe-anglais.). Elles montrent que cette approche est très efficace et offre des performances variables selon les langues mais très bonnes dans l’ensemble et nettement supérieures à celles disponibles dans l’état de l’art. Les taux de précision de traductions s’étagent ainsi de 57.5% pour la paire russe-anglais jusqu’à 85% pour la paire espagnol-portugais et la paire françaisanglais.