Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Self-Organizing Fuzzy Rule-Based Approach for Dealing with the Classification of Indoor Environments for IoT Applications

Atualmente, grande parte dos sensores utilizados em Internet das Coisas adota tecnologia sem fio, a fim de facilitar a construção de redes de sensoriamento. Neste sentido, a classificação do tipo de ambiente no qual estes sensores estão localizados exerce um importante papel no desempenho de tais redes de sensoriamento, uma vez que pode ser utilizada na determinação de níveis mais eficientes de consumo de energia dos sensores que as compõe. Assim, neste trabalho é apresentada uma abordagem baseada em Classificadores Fuzzy Auto-organizáveis para a classificação de ambientes internos a partir de medições em tempo real do sinal de radiofrequência de uma rede de sensoriamento sem fio em um ambiente real. Os resultados experimentais apresentados mostram que a abordagem proposta obteve alto desempenho com baixo custo computacional na solução do problema apresentado.
Étude d'association entre certains gènes candidats et l'asthme dans une cohorte familiale originaire du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean : réflexion sur l'analyse d'interaction gène-gène

Selon le Global burden of asthma (2004), l'asthme est une maladie inflammatoire chronique des voies respiratoires des plus frequentes qui affecte environ 300 millions de personnes dans le monde. Cette maladie touche les individus de tous âges et de toutes conditions, bien que de proportion plus elevee chez les enfants. L'asthme est aujourd'hui considere, dans l'ensemble de la litterature, comme un trait complexe qui apparait probablement suite a l'influence de facteurs environnementaux chez des individus genetiquement predisposes. En raison de la grande heterogeneite phenotypique et genetique observee dans l'asthme, aucun gene de susceptibilite « majeur » a l'asthme n'est reconnu a ce jour. Les objectifs de cette etude sont donc de mettre en evidence des genes associes a cette affection ainsi que les interactions gene-gene possibles entre eux, en employant l'approche par genes candidats. La methodologie repose sur l'emploi d'une population dite a « effet fondateur » (cohorte originaire du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean) dans le genotypage de ces genes ainsi que d'une demarche statistique originale basee sur la creation de pseudotemoins a partir des trios familiaux de la cohorte dans l'analyse des interactions (effectuee a l'aide du test de desequilibre de transmission version haplotype, du odd ratio et de l'analyse de regression). Des cinq genes candidats testes, seulement PPARG a montre une association significative avec l'asthme (p = 0,016) et suggestive avec l'atopie (p = 0,042). Concernant les analyses d'interaction, les trois approches statistiques ont permis d'identifier des interactions potentielles entre les genes PPARG et IL 13 ou IL4RA et entre les genes IL4RA et IL4 ou IL1B dans l'asthme, ce qui suggere l'emploi de ce type d'analyse dans la recherche de determinants genetiques pour l'asthme.
Biodiversity in drinking water distribution systems:a brief review

In drinking water distribution systems, three groups of living organisms are usually found in the biofilm and circulating water: heterotrophic bacteria, free-living protozoa, and macro-invertebrates. Indirect evidence suggests that protozoa grazing in distribution systems can partially eliminate biomass production and accidental microbiological pollution. This paper examines the biodiversit in drinking water distribution systems.
Effect of immobilization on production of ethanol using yeast cells

Sugar is converted to ethanol and CO2 by yeast during the fermentation process. Ethanol has various uses like it used as fuel, help in preserving biological sample, used as solvent, manufacture of acetaldehyde, ethanoic acid, etc. Use of yeast cells in fermentation industry on economic grounds proposes entrapment of yeast cell and their utilization. Immobilization of yeast cells offers many advantages as compare to free cells like easy recovery of product, its cost effectiveness, stability, yeast cells can reuse in further fermentation process etc. In this study, three yeast strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae NCIM 3570, Candida shehatae NCIM 3500, Dekkera naardenensis NCIM 3575 were immobilized using 3% Sodium alginate. The calcium alginate beads thus formed were used as inoculums for ethanol production independently where free cell inoculums of respective strain were taken as control. The initial glucose concentration in fermentation media for S. cerevisiae and D. naardenensis was 10% where as for C. shehatae it was 5% glucose along with 5% xylose. Amount of ethanol was estimated by HPLC analysis using Hiplex-H Agilent column having Column and Detector Temperature 57°C and 50°Crespectively, flow rate 0.7 ml/min, mobile phase 1 mM H2SO4 using refractive index detector. Also, viability of immobilized yeast cell stored in different condition like 4°C, room temperature, used bead at 4°C for 45 days was checked by plating on MGYP agar plates. Effect of immobilization on ethanol production was compared between both free cell and encapsulated cell. Ethanol concentration in immobilized S.cerevisiae was found to be higher (194.69) g/l as compared to the free cell (81.24 g/l). In case of D. naardenensis and C. shehatae the ethanol produced in immobilized cell is less as compare to free cell. Good numbers of colonies were found in case of 4°C, room temperature and one time-utilized beads stored at 4°C was checked after 45 days and found that the cells retained viability.
Is Subsidized Childcare Associated with Lower Risk of Grade Retention for Low-Income Children? Evidence from Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Records Linked to the American Community Survey

This study investigates whether low-income young children’s experience of Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)-subsidized childcare is associated with a lower subsequent likelihood of being held back in grades K-12. High-quality childcare has been shown to improve low-income children’s school readiness. However, no previous study has examined the link specifically between subsidized care and grade retention. I do so here by matching information on children from CCDF administrative records to later observations of the same children in the American Community Survey (ACS). I use logistic regression to compare the likelihood of grade retention between CCDF-recipient children and non-recipient children who also appear in the ACS in the years 2008-2014 (N=2,284,857). I find strong evidence for an association between CCDF-subsidized care and lower risk of grade retention, especially among non-Hispanic Black children and Hispanic children. I also find evidence that receiving CCDF-subsidized center-based care in particular is associated with a lower risk of being held back than CCDF-subsidized family daycare, babysitter care, or relative care, again with the largest apparent benefit to non-Hispanic Black children and Hispanic children.
Performance of crossbred (Landrace x local Indian) grower pigs on maize replaced wheat bran and deoiled rice bran based diets

A study was conducted on 6 groups of8 crossbred piglets in each to spare grain from the diet of pigs. The animals were of about 7 week of age and 6.33±0.14 kg mean body weight. The animals in groups, WL 1 , WL 2 and WL) were fed 40,62 and 85% wheat bran based and 0,50 and 100% rhaize replaced diets. Wheat bran of these diets was replaced (W/W) with deoiled rice bran (DORB) in groups, RL" RL2 and RL. Average growth pattern was similar in the animals on wheat bran based diets with comparable average daily feed intake, ADG and feed/gain ratio. On feeding DORB based diets all these responses were adversely affected and therefore DORB fed animals could attain only 16.5 to 26.3 kg body weight by 112th day of feeding in comparison to 35.24 to 37.15 kg in wheat bran based diets after 105 day of feeding. The overall digestibility of organic nutrients, except for CF, was significantly (P<0.01) higher in wheat bran based diets than DORB based diets with the marginal difference in CP digestibility. It can, thus, be concluded that crossbred grower pigs can be fed on low grain or gainless wheat bran based diet, but not on deoiled rice bran incorporated diet, without adversity affecting growth and nutrient utilization.
Effective utilization of processors in computer cluster when solving problems of various parallelizable scales

In this paper, eﬀective utilization of processors in computer cluster is investigated. Generally, a computer cluster is treated as a specially designed system only for solving speciﬁc computationally intensive and time consuming problems. Commonly, computers in oﬃces and universities are idle for a considerable proportion of the time. Therefore, in this research, we focus on exploitation of such computational resources. The experimental investigation shows that when executing multiple processes in each CPU core allows to solve computationally intensive problems more precisely compared to the case, where the number of processes is equal to the number of CPU cores, meanwhile the same amount of energy is consumed in both cases.
Modulation techniques for GPR System Radargram

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system ability to detect embedded object underground is dependent on the ultra-wideband antenna use. Based on this antenna type, the fractional bandwidth used by the GPR system is usually greater or equal to 1. On the other hand, the GPR system using fractional bandwidth less than 1 will produce unsmooth GPR radargram, as the consequences of high signal ripples generated in the system output signals. Based on fractional bandwidth parameter, this study focuses in developing a digital signal processing of the GPR system to produce a smooth GPR radargram. The proposed GPR signal processing system is based on envelope detector technique of Asynchronous Half-Wave (AHW), Asynchronous Full-Wave (AFW) and Asynchronous Real Square Law (ARSL). The Pulse Modulation (PM), Stepped Frequency Continuous Wave (SFCW) and Hybrid GPR system simulation are modeled using CST Studio Suite and MATLAB software. The selected fractional bandwidth of the GPR system simulation modeled is 0.46 and 0.4 for Microstrip Vivaldi and Horn antennas respectively. In addition, a practical implementation of the SFCW and Hybrid GPR system using fabricated Microstrip Vivaldi antenna having a fractional bandwidth of 0.46 and VNA equipment, was conducted. Based on the analysis results of the proposed PM GPR system simulation, the AFW technique produces clearer PM GPR radargram. The detection rate for PM GPR system simulation using AFW technique is 87% and 51.3% using Horn and Microstrip Vivaldi antennas respectively. Practical implementation of SFCW and Hybrid GPR systems using AFW technique and Microstrip Vivaldi antenna can detect an iron and a bottle filled with water object.
Contrast-induced acute kidney injury

ABSTRACT Contrast-induced acute kidney injury is not a rare event after exposure to contrast media, and affects approximately 1 to 2% of patients in general radiological imaging procedures. The incidence of contrast-induced acute kidney injury is even higher among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, and ranges from 3 to 19% according to the patient’s risk profile. It is associated with increased morbidity, mortality, hospital length-of-stay and healthcare costs. Hence, since there is no targeted treatment after its onset, identifying high [. ]
Assessment of family impact in pediatric chronic pain

Pediatric chronic pain causes significant interference in daily functioning for children and their families. While parents and families have been examined in previous research, gaps exist in the current literature base, particularly related to accurate conceptualization and assessment of family functioning. The current study sought to develop a measure of family impact of pediatric pain and examine the effects that pain severity, functional disability, and parent and child psychosocial functioning have on family functioning. Results indicated parents of children with chronic pain appear to be impacted across several domains, with psychological distress in the child and parent being a significant predictor of parent functioning, above and beyond pain severity and functional disability. Though these findings provide contributions to the current literature, a thorough understanding of family impact is limited by a lack of validated assessments examining this construct within pediatric chronic pain populations. While still in the early stages of the development, the Family Impact of Pediatric Pain (FIPP), which was developed for the current study, attempts to fill several gaps that exist within the literature related to accurate conceptualization and assessment of family functioning in chronic pain populations.
The physiology and ecology of diapause under present and future climate conditions in the blow fly, Calliphora vicina

Virtually all temperate insects overwinter in diapause, a pre-emptive response to adverse environmental conditions and for many species a pre-requisite of winter survival. Increased global temperatures have the potential to disrupt the induction and maintenance of diapause. In the first part of this thesis, a four year phenological study of the blow fly, \(Calliphora\) \(vicina\), identifies that diapause is already being delayed due to high temperatures experienced by larvae within the soil layer. Laboratory studies identified that non-diapause life stages are capable of heightening cold tolerance through a rapid cold hardening ability, and winter acclimated adults maintain locomotion at lower temperatures than summer acclimated adults. A previously unrecognised threat, however, is that higher adult temperatures have the transgenerational effect of reducing the cold tolerance of diapausing progeny. In the second part of this thesis, the relationship between diapause and cold hardiness was investigated. The amino acid, alanine, was up-regulated as part of the diapause programme. Non-diapause larvae developed on an alanine augmented-diet expressed cold tolerance phenotypes similar to those of their diapausing counterparts. This adds to a growing body of evidence to suggest that amino acids have a direct role in insect cold tolerance.
Utility of Functional MRI and 3D Tractography in Presurgical Planning in Patients with Glioblastoma

Copyright: © 2018 Ammar C, et al. This is an open-access content distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Accepted: December 05, 2018; Published: December 07, 2018 Utility of Functional MRI and 3D Tractography in Presurgical Planning in Patients with Glioblastoma
Automatic detection of colorectal polyps larger than 5 mm during colonoscopy procedures using visual descriptors

New evidence suggests 25% - 26% of colon polyps may be missed during a routine colonoscopy[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. These polyps or hyperplastic lesions are currently considered as pre-neoplastic lesions that must be detected. In this context, automatic strategies are appealing as second readers or diagnostic supporting tools. However, this task is challenging because of the huge variability and multiple sources of noise. This paper introduces a strategy for automatic detection of polyps larger than 5 mm. The underlying idea is that polyps in a sequence of frames are those locations with smaller frame-to-frame variance. The method starts by segmenting an input frame into a set of superpixels, i.e., clusters of neighbor pixels with minimal luminance variance. Each of these superpixels in characterized by a concatenated vector of 57 features collecting texture, shape, and color. A Support Vector Machine with a linear and Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel was used as a supervised learning model. The evaluation was carried out using a set of 39 cases belonging to two datasets (6.594 frames: 3.123 with polyps and 3.471 without polyps) under a Leave-One-Out Cross Validation scheme and obtaining a 0.73 of accuracy. In addition, the data set was split into 70%-30% between train and test respectively and obtaining a 0.87 of accuracy.
Various Building Algorithm For The Y Bus & Z Bus

A general and procedural algorithm forY matrix building is proposed in this paper. We know that the procedure for obtaining Y bus or Z bus matrices in any frame of reference Requires Matrix Transformation Involving Inversion And Multiplications. It Could Be Very Laborious And Time Consuming Process For Large System Involving Hundreds Of Nodes Or Buses. Such an algorithm would be very convenient for various manipulations that may needed while the system is in operation such as addition of line, removal of lines and change in parameters. The bus impendence matrix can be directly found by using building algorithm.
STOCHASTIC APPROXIMATION WITH ADAPTIVE STEP SIZES FOR OPTIMIZATION IN NOISY ENVIRONMENT AND ITS APPLICATION IN REGRESSION MODELS

We propose a generalization of recently proposed stochastic approximation method with adaptive step sizes for optimization problems in noisy environment. The adaptive step size scheme uses only a predeﬁned number of last noisy functional values to select a step size for the next iterate and allows diﬀerent intensities of inﬂuence of the past functional values. The almost sure convergence is established under suitable assumptions. Numerical results indicate a good performance of the method. Application of the method in regression models is presented.
Burden Of Mycobacteriumulcerans Disease (Buruli ulcer) In Ogbaru District, Anambra State, Nigeria

Background: The burden of Buruli ulcer in four communities of Ogbaru district, Anambra State, Nigeria was investigated. Methods: Swabs were collected from the undermined edges of ulcerative lesions. Diagnosis was made by direct smear microscopy according to the WHO guidelines. Results: Eleven new Buruli ulcer cases were identified. Age of the patients ranged from 4 to 75 years, with a mean age of 15.5 years. Overall, 81.8%of cases presented with one lesion and 18.2% cases with two lesions. The lesions occurred mostly on the leg (91%) and arm (9%). Majority of the lesions (90.9%) were ulcers and males were more infected. The main reasons for not seeking diagnosis and treatment in a hospital were that Buruli ulcer was attributed to witchcraft and the belief that treatment of Buruli ulcer in hospital was ineffective. Conclusion: Buruli ulcer is prevalent in Ogbaru. Enhanced enlightenment of the populace will be a good measure to infection prevention and control.
Phylogenetic Analysis and Virulence Characteristics for Chinook Salmon, Rainbow Trout, and Steelhead of L Genogroup Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus (IHNV) from the Feather River, California

Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) is a significant pathogen of young salmonid fishes worldwide but particularly within the historical range of the Pacific Northwest and California. In the Sacramento and San Joaquin River drainages of California, IHNV outbreaks in juvenile Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha have been observed regularly at large production hatcheries, including Coleman National Fish Hatchery (established in 1941) and Feather River State Fish Hatchery (FRH; established in 1967), since facility operations began. Recent severe epidemics at the FRH in 1998, 2000–2002 prompted investigations into the characteristics and potential sources of virus at this facility. Both phylogenetic analyses of a variable portion of the glycoprotein gene and serologic comparisons based on neutralization with three polyclonal rabbit sera were used to characterize 82 IHNV isolates from the Feather River watershed between 1969 and 2004. All isolates examined were in the L genogroup and belonged to one of three serologic groups typical of IHNV from California. The IHNV isolates from the Feather River area demonstrated a maximum nucleotide sequence divergence of 4.0%, and new isolates appeared to emerge from previous isolates rather than by the introduction of more diverse subgroups from exogenous sources. The earliest isolates examined from the watershed formed the subgroup LI, which disappeared coincidently with a temporal shift to new genetic and serologic types of the larger subgroup LII. Experimental challenges demonstrated no significant differences in the virulence for juvenile Chinook salmon and rainbow trout O. mykiss from selected isolates representing the principal types of IHNV found historically and from recent epidemics at FRH. While most isolates
Activity and Safety Recognition using Smart Work Shoes for Construction Worksite

Workers at construction sites are easily exposed to many dangers and accidents involving falls, tripping, and missteps on stairs. However, researches on construction site monitoring system to prevent work-related injuries are still insufficient. The purpose of this study was to develop a wearable textile pressure insole sensor and examine its effectiveness in managing the real-time safety of construction workers. The sensor was designed based on the principles of parallel capacitance measurement using conductive textile and the monitoring system was developed by C# language. Three separate experiments were carried out for performance evaluation of the proposed sensor: (1) varying the distance between two capacitance plates to examine changes in capacitance charges, (2) repeatedly applying 1 N of pressure for 5,000 times to evaluate consistency, and (3) gradually increasing force by 1 N (from 1 N to 46 N) to test the linearity of the sensor value. Five subjects participated in our pilot test, which examined whether ascending and descending the stairs can be distinguished by our sensor and by weka assessment tool using k-NN algorithm. The 10-fold cross-validation method was used for analysis and the results of accuracy in identifying stair ascending and descending were 87.2% and 90.9%, respectively. By applying our sensor, the type of activity, weight-shifting patterns for balance control, and plantar pressure distribution for postural changes of the construction workers can be detected. The results of this study can be the basis for future sensor-based monitoring device development studies and fall prediction researches for construction workers.