Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Combining feature selectors in a product advertisement classification system

Automated product advertisement classification can be utilized in various applications, such as category-specific search. The advertisements on the web contain several kinds of media sources that can be used for classification and the text information may be the most important source to indicate the semantic meaning of a given product advertisement. The text information of a product advertisement is typically noisy and the noisy words can be removed with some feature selection methods. These methods measure the goodness of a word from different perspectives and we think that the combination of them can improve the classification accuracy. We present a two-step algorithm to combine the feature selectors in this paper. The algorithm first intersects two global feature selection results and then performs a local feature selection. We evaluate it on a product advertisement dataset, which contains 3910 products of 100 categories crawled from the “amazon” website and we extract three kinds of textual information for classification. The experimental results show that our algorithm is superior to the existed combination method with a up to 0.019 Macro-F1 improvement.
Animal Food Production and Consumption in Stratum E5 at Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath

The initial analysis of the faunal remains from the late EB III (E5 Stratum) at Tell es -S âfi/Gath indicates an economy heavily oriented toward domestic livestock (90% of identifiable NISP). Most of the domestic remains belong to domestic caprines (71%), including goat (Capra hircus, 13%), sheep (Ovis aries, 7% of NISP), and sheep/goat (Ovis/Capra, 51.24%). Among caprines, goats are much more common than sheep (64:36% goat:sheep ratio). The next most common taxon is cattle (Bos taurus, 13.5%), followed by donkeys and pigs (0.57%, each; see table). In contrast, wild animals represent a very small percentage of the overall assemblage (10%), with gazelles as the most common. This is followed by fallow deer (Dama dama), hartebeest (Alcelaphus bucelaphus), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), and hare (Lepus capensis). Remains of hippopotamus were also found, but are restricted to dental (ivory) remains, which suggest they were trade items rather than hunted locally (Greenfield et al. 2016). It is necessary also to consider the age-at-death when reconstructing how animals were exploited. Cattle and goats were exploited similarly, and very differently from sheep. Cattle and goats were slaughtered much later in life than sheep. Approximately 50 percent of the cattle and goats were slaughtered as adults, as opposed to 24.6 percent of the sheep (see table). This age distribution suggests that goats and cattle were initially exploited for their secondary products (e.g., milk, wool, and traction) and only culled when their usefulness for such products had expired. In contrast, the sheep culling pattern suggests that they were slaughtered much younger in life, which suggests that they were exploited largely for their primary products (e.g., meat, hide, and bone). The older age-at-death for goats and cattle and the overwhelming emphasis upon goats over sheep suggests that milk production was an important consideration in their exploitation (Greenfield et al. 2016). However, one should not confuse animal production with exploitation. The domestic livestock were most probably raised in the countryside by pastoralists and/or local villagers, where the goal would have been to produce surplus animals for consumption and to sell their by-products to the urban population (Arnold et al. in press). The goal of the producers would have been to sustain herd maintenance and survival above all, while that of the urban population would have been as consumers. The animals reflected in the faunal assemblage reflects Taxa Sum of NISP %
Evaluation of Serum Interleukin-8 as a Marker of Disease Activity in Acute Asthma in Children

Cytokine-mediated interactions among the inflammatory cells may play a role in the pathogenesis of bronchial asthma. Interleukin-8 (IL-8) is a major cytokine in the recruitment of neutrophils to the area of inflammation. Serum IL-8 is a marker of disease activity and treatment efficacy in bronchial asthma. To understand the role of IL-8 in disease activity in acute asthma, changes in serum concentrations of IL-8 elaborated by activated eosinophil before and after prednisolone therapy with clinical improvement were determined in the present study. Circulating levels of IL-8 in 15 normal control subjects and in sera from 20 allergic asthmatic children with acute exacerbation and in stable condition were determined by using commercially available assay kits. The mean concentration of serum IL-8 was statistically significantly higher in asthmatic children with acute exacerbation (63.62 ± 11.41 pg/mL) and in stable asthmatics (64.22 ± 10.31 pg/mL) compared to the control group subjects (50.40 ± 30.70 pg/mL; p < 0.01). However, the difference was not statistically significant between the acute exacerbation and stable asthmatics groups (p > 0.05). Serum IL-8 is a poor indicator of disease activity in acute asthma; therefore, monitoring by serum IL-8 concentration is of limited value. The clinical value of serum IL-8 as a marker of disease activity remains to be established.
Neural Network Process Models Based on Linear Model Structures

The KBANN (Knowledge-Based Artificial Neural Networks) approach uses neural networks to refine knowledge that can be written in the form of simple propositional rules. This idea is extended by presenting the MANNIDENT (Multivariable Artificial Neural Network Identification) algorithm by which the mathematical equations of linear dynamic process models determine the topology and initial weights of a network, which is further trained using backpropagation. This method is applied to the task of modeling a nonisothermal chemical reactor in which a first-order exothermic reaction is occurring. This method produces statistically significant gains in accuracy over both a standard neural network approach and a linear model. Furthermore, using the approximate linear model to initialize the weights of the network produces statistically less variation in model fidelity. By structuring the neural network according to the approximate linear model, the model can be readily interpreted.
Characteristics of protein–carbohydrate interactions as a basis for developing novel carbohydrate‐based antirejection therapies

The relative shortage of human organs for transplantation is today the major barrier to a broader use of transplantation as a means of treating patients with end‐stage organ failure. This barrier could be partly overcome by an increased use of blood group ABO‐incompatible live donors, and such trials are currently underway at several transplant centres. If xenotransplantation can be used clinically in the future, the human organ shortage will, in principle, be eradicated. In both these cases, carbohydrate antigens and the corresponding anti‐carbohydrate antibodies are the major primary immunological barriers to overcome. Refined carbohydrate‐based therapeutics may permit an increased number of ABO‐incompatible transplantations to be carried out, and may remove the initial barriers to clinical xenotransplantation. Here, we will discuss the chemical characteristics of protein–carbohydrate interactions and outline carbohydrate‐based antirejection therapies as used today in experimental as well as in clinical settings. Novel mucin‐based adsorbers of natural anti‐carbohydrate antibodies will also be described.
A data processor to enhance robustness of networked control system for parallel-connected inverters

In this paper, a series of power-sharing strategy based on networked control for parallel-connected inverters is introduced. In order to enhance robustness of system, a novel data processor is proposed. By means of controlling control data flow, the different power-sharing methods are scheduled depending on communication situation and system operational state. Therefore, even in the case of module or communication failure, the system can work well. To describe the advantage of new data processor, an extended power-sharing strategy of networked control is described. The experimental results based on the fast networked control system demonstrate the validity of these schemes and show the superiority of new data processor.
Épidémiologie des candidémies au CHU de Bordeaux du 30 avril 2012 au 30 mars 2016

Ce travail rapporte les resultats d’une etude retrospective epidemiologique de l’ensemble des episodes de candidemie survenus au CHU de Bordeaux entre le 30 avril 2012 et le 30 mars 2016. Un total de 295 episodes correspondant a 309 isolats de Candida spp et concernant 276 patients ont pu etre analyses. L’incidence globale est de 0,64 episode pour 1000 admissions. Avec 35% des cas diagnostiques, les services de reanimation sont les plus concernes, alors que ceux d’Hematologie adulte ne totalisent que 6,1% des cas. La presence d’un catheter intravasculaire, une antibiotherapie large spectre, une colonisation (≥ 2 sites), une chirurgie recente notamment digestive et un âge ≥ 65 ans sont les facteurs de risque les plus retrouves. Candida albicans reste l’espece majoritaire mais 52,43 % des episodes sont dus a des especes non albicans. La prevalence de C. tropicalis et celle des especes rares semble en augmentation. La distribution des especes varie significativement en fonction du service d’hospitalisation, de l'âge, du sexe et de la pathologie sous-jacente. Meme si la prevalence de la resistance in vitro aux antifongiques est faible, 15,6% des C. tropicalis sont de sensibilite diminuee ou resistants au fluconazole, 43,4% des C. glabrata (provenant pour moitie de patients de reanimation) presentent une resistance croisee aux azoles, 2 des 5 Candida spp resistants aux 3 echinocandines provenant de patients pre-exposes a ces antifongiques, le sont egalement aux azoles. Malgre l’utilisation croissante des echinocandines (prescrites en premiere intention dans 65,66% des episodes), la publication de plusieurs recommandations pour la prise en charge des candidemies, le taux de mortalite globale a 30 jours est de 33,3% et est significativement augmente en cas d’âge avance, de candidemie a C. glabrata ou d’hospitalisation en reanimation. Une candidemie a C. tropicalis ou a C. parapsilosis ou l’hospitalisation dans un service de Medecine sont associes a un meilleur pronostic.
[177Lu‐DOTA0,Tyr3]octreotate for somatostatin receptor‐targeted radionuclide therapy

Receptor‐targeted scintigraphy using radiolabeled somatostatin analogs such as octreotate is being used with great success to demonstrate the in vivo presence of somatostatin receptors on various tumors. A new and promising application for these analogs is radionuclide therapy. Radionuclides suitable for this application include the Auger electron‐emitter 111In and the β‐emitters 90Y (high energy) and 177Lu (low energy). We investigated [DOTA0,Tyr3]octreotate, labeled with the lanthanide 177Lu, in biodistribution and radionuclide therapy experiments using male Lewis rats bearing the somatostatin receptor‐positive rat CA20948 pancreatic tumor. Biodistribution studies in Lewis rats showed the highest uptake in the rat pancreatic CA20948 tumor and sst2‐positive organs, which include the adrenals, pituitary and pancreas, of [177Lu‐DOTA0,Tyr3]octreotate in comparison with 88Y‐ and 111In‐labeled analogs. Kidney uptake of [177Lu‐DOTA0,Tyr3]octreotate could be reduced by approximately 40% by co‐injection of 400 mg/kg D‐lysine. In radionuclide therapy studies, a 100% cure rate was achieved in the groups of rats bearing small (≤1 cm2) CA20948 tumors after 2 doses of 277.5 MBq or after a single dose of 555 MBq [177Lu‐DOTA0,Tyr3]octreotate. A cure rate of 75% was achieved after a single administration of 277.5 MBq. In rats bearing larger (≥1 cm2) tumors, 40% and 50% cure rates were achieved in the groups that received 1 or 2 277.5 MBq injections of [177Lu‐DOTA0,Tyr3]octreotate, respectively. After therapy with [177Lu‐DOTA0,Tyr3]octreotide in rats bearing small tumors, these data were 40% cure after 1 injection with 277.5 MBq and 60% cure after 2 repeated injections. In conclusion, [177Lu‐DOTA0,Tyr3]octreotate has demonstrated excellent results in radionuclide therapy studies in rats, especially in animals bearing smaller tumors. This candidate molecule shows great promise for radionuclide therapy in patients with sst2‐expressing tumors. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Family Members' Perceptions of the Quality of Long-Term Care

The aim of the study is to assess family members' perceptions of the quality of nursing care of older people and its relationships between demographic factors and family involvement. Data were gathered from family members of four residential homes (N= 474) using structured questionnaires. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, and predictive analyses. The results imply that family members' perceptions of quality were fairly positive. Age, educational background, and the frequency of visits on the ward were related with the quality perception. The association between quality perceptions and family involvement in care proved to be strong. The information and support from the staff and possibilities to participate in decision making were associated with high-quality ratings. The results demonstrate the need for formulating ward policies and training the nursing staff to allow increased family involvement and to support it in an appropriate way.
Background Traffic Analysis for Social Media Applications on Smartphones

Smart phones represent one of the fastest growing markets, providing significant software improvements every few months. Growth in Social media applications (Face book, Skype, QQ) running on smart phones lead to explosive growth in traffic over cellular networks and of course taxing on the smart phones battery, among the different types of traffic, background traffic keeps exchanging data with corresponding server, even when the user is not actively using the application. This work attempts to study the characteristic of these applications when they are running without user intervention. Since the diverse range of data characteristics is assumed to be causing drain in User Equipment (UE) battery and overhead in NW signaling, the analysis will help in developing appropriate new power saving mechanisms in future releases of cellular networks.
Design and fabrication of buckled metal strain gauges using shape memory polymer and inkjet additive microfabrication

This paper reports on the design and fabrication of buckled metal strain gauges formed using a thermally contracting shape memory polymer (SMP) via inkjet printed silver nanoparticles to create sensors realized in a large initial compressive stress state. Printed devices are placed into an oven to simultaneously sinter the nanoparticles and shrink the substrate into its final dimensions creating devices with feature sizes unobtainable by direct printing. An unconventional offset serpentine strain gauge geometry is presented which overcomes the local anisotropy of SMP contraction. A prototype process is then employed to realize and demonstrate functional strain gauges using printed silver on SMP. The simple fabrication process allows for the realization of metal strain gauges pre-compressed through a substrate size contraction of 2.5 for the first time.
Cyclical Parthenogenetic Reproduction in the Russian Wheat Aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the United States: Sexual Reproduction and Its Outcome on Biotypic Diversity

ABSTRACT In 1986, the Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Kurdjumov) (Hemiptera: Aphididae), became an invasive species of United States. Nearly 20 yr later, new biotypes appeared that were capable of overcoming most sources of resistance and became a renewed threat to wheat, Triticum aestivum L. , production. Cyclical (CP) and obligate (OP) parthenogenesis enables aphids to both adapt to changing environments and exploit host resources. We documented these forms of reproduction for Russian wheat aphid in wheat and wild grasses in the Central Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions during falls 2004–2009. Colonies from sample sites also were held under unheated greenhouse conditions and observed for the presence of sexual morphs and eggs through the winter. Russian wheat aphid populations were mainly OP and attempted to overwinter as adults, regardless of region sampled. A few populations contained oviparae but no males (gynocyclic) and were not specific to any particular region. Observation of the Russian wheat aphid colonies under greenhouse conditions failed to produce males or eggs. In spring 2007, CP was confirmed in a small population of Russian wheat aphid that eclosed from eggs (fundatricies) on wild grasses and wheat near Dove Creek, CO, in the Colorado Plateau region where other aphid species undergo CP. Lineages from ninety-three fundatricies were screened against 16 resistant and susceptible cereal entries to determine their biotypic classification. A high degree of biotypic diversity (41.4%) was detected in this population. Although CP was a rare in Russian wheat aphid populations, genetic recombination during the sexual cycle creates new biotypes and can have significant effects on population genetics.
Varicocele repair for low testosterone

Purpose of review Several recent clinical studies have added to the existing literature on the impact of varicocelectomy on serum testosterone levels. These studies were not included in the most recent previous review of this topic and strengthen considerably the evidence base supporting the claim that varicocele repair can reliably restore below-normal testosterone levels. Recent findings Three studies were published in 2011 on the effect of varicocele repair on testosterone levels. These studies were all adequately powered to detect statistically significant changes in testosterone preprocedure and postprocedure, and all demonstrated significant increases in testosterone levels in patients who had low preprocedure testosterone levels. Summary Varicocele repair can restore testosterone to the eugonadal range in hypogonadal patients with either unilateral or bilateral varicocele.
Punjabi Dialects Conversion System for Majhi, Malwai and Doabi Dialects

In today's modern era of technology, more number of people use internet for the purpose of expressing their opinions, thoughts and ideas through social media as well as articles. This leads to increased informal text available for public access. Such text may also be available in different dialectal forms of the specific language and may attract natives of that region. Moreover, literature, local news, articles, etc. written in a particular dialectal form of language is more expressive. For this purpose, dialect conversion systems plays vital role. This paper describes the dialect conversion system for Punjabi language that converts input text to either of three Punjabi dialects namely Majhi, Malwai and Doabi. A rule based approach is adopted for defining the conversion rules and bilingual dictionary is also used for this purpose.
Patterns of impairments in AOS and mechanisms of interaction between phonological and phonetic encoding.

PURPOSE One reason why the diagnosis of apraxia of speech (AOS) and its underlying impairment are often debated may lie in the fact that most patients do not display pure patterns of AOS. Mixed patterns are clearly acknowledged at other levels of impairment (e.g., lexical-semantic and lexical-phonological), and they have contributed to debate about the degree of interaction between encoding levels; by contrast, mixed impairments and mechanisms of interaction are less acknowledged at the levels of phonological and phonetic processes. Here, the author aims at bringing together empirical evidence in favor of an interaction between phonological and phonetic encoding and of the predominance of mixed patterns of impairment over pure phonetic impairment. METHOD The author reviews empirical results from acoustic and psycholinguistic studies, both with healthy speakers and speakers with brain damage, favoring independent phonological and phonetic encoding and separable impairments as well as recent research pointing to an interaction between phonological and phonetic encoding processes and overlapping patterns of impairments. CONCLUSIONS Acknowledging interaction between phonological and phonetic processing has clear consequences on the definition of patterns of impairment. In particular, phonetic errors have not necessarily a phonetic origin, and most patterns of impairment are bound to display both phonological and phonetic features.
Traumatic Brain Injuries Associated With Consumer Products at Home Among US Children Younger Than 5 Years of Age

This study investigated the epidemiology of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) occurring to young children, associated with consumer products at home in the United States. Data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System were analyzed. There were an estimated 2 292 896 (95% CI = 1 707 891-2 877 900) children <5 years of age treated in US emergency departments for a TBI associated with a consumer product at home during 1991-2012, which equals an annual average of 104 223 (95% CI = 77 631-130 814) children. During the 22-year study period, the number and rate of TBIs increased significantly by 283.3% (estimated annual rate of change, m = 7182.6; P < .001) and 266.5% (m = 0.35; P < .001), respectively. The number of TBIs decreased with increasing age of the child. Falls from household products were the leading mechanism of injury (53.7%). To our knowledge, this is the first nationally representative study of TBIs associated with consumer products at home among young children. These findings underscore the need for increased prevention efforts.
Frequency of Metabolic Complications in Infants Born to Diabetic Mothers at KRL Hospital , Islamabad

Objective: To determine the frequency of metabolic complications in infants of diabetic mothers (IDMs) Patients & Methods: This descriptive study was conducted at KRL Hospital Islamabad. Infants born to diabetic mothers (n=80) were enrolled in the study and kept in neonatal unit for first 24 hours of life. Serial blood glucose monitoring was done using glucose sticks. Serum calcium and magnesium levels were done from lab at 6 and 24 hours of age. Results: Out of total 80 IDMs, 52.5% were male while 47.5% were female. Mean gestational age was 37.58 ±1.35 SD weeks. Birth weight was between 2.5 to 3.99 kg in majority (73.8%). The most frequent metabolic complication noticed was hypoglycemia that occurred in 32(40%) babies. Hypocalcemia was documented in 10(12.5%) and hypomagnesemia in (5%). Conclusion: Metabolic complications are the commonly occurring complications in IDMs. Their monitoring and early treatment is very important; so that the overall outcome in these babies can be improved and many future complications could be avoided that are likely to occur as consequences of severe metabolic derangements.
[Immune tolerant phase of chronic HBV infection-breaking or not].

对慢性HBV感染自然史的研究发现,母婴垂直传播或幼年期感染HBV后,绝大多数感染者会出现一种被称之为免疫耐受状态的现象,即ALT正常、HBeAg阳性、HBV DNA持续高水平且肝组织没有或仅有轻微的病变. 根据目前的慢性乙型肝炎防治指南,对这些感染者在临床上暂时不予抗病毒治疗. 然而,在这些人群中,随着时间的推移,这种免疫耐受状态会自发地完全或不完全被打破而出现免疫清除,造成肝组织免疫损伤,使疾病逐渐进展,甚至隐匿进展为肝硬化或肝细胞癌. 关键词：肝炎病毒,乙型;免疫耐受