Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
High Gain, Broadband and Dual-Polarized Substrate Integrated Waveguide Cavity-Backed Slot Antenna Array for 60 GHz Band

In this paper, a compact substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity-backed slot antenna array with high gain, broadband, and dual-polarization performances is proposed for 60-GHz applications. An enhanced 17.1% impedance bandwidth was achieved by cutting semi-circle edges on the conventional slot radiator. A simplified SIW feed network is aperture-coupled vertically and constructed on a double-layered structure to implement the dual-polarization operation. By adopting innovative techniques on both radiating element and double-layered SIW feed networks, a high-gain, broadband, and dual-polarized $8\times8$ antenna array was designed on three-layered printed circuit board that allows for mass production. This configuration also resolves the trade-off between the bandwidth and gain of the existing 60-GHz dual-polarized antenna array. Its feasibility is proved by obtaining a measured gain in the range of 19.7–22.3 dB and an enhanced impedance bandwidth of 17.1% over 55.7–66.1 GHz for both horizontal and vertical polarizations. With advantages of high-gain, broadband, and dual-polarization performances in a low-cost low-profile structure, the proposed antenna array is a promising candidate for millimeter-wave wireless systems.
Pneumonia in a Captive Central Bearded Dragon With Concurrent Detection of Helodermatid Adenovirus 2 and a Novel Mycoplasma Species

A 4-year-old captive male central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) was presented for recurrent episodic dyspnea and anorexia with occasional expulsion of oral mucoid discharge. Despite empirical antimicrobial therapy and supportive care, the animal died and was submitted for autopsy. Defining histologic features included heterophilic and lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia, with occasional amphophilic intranuclear inclusions and prominent type II pneumocyte hyperplasia. Transmission electron microscopy revealed intranuclear 80-nm, nonenveloped, hexagonal viral particles within pneumocytes. Helodermatid adenovirus 2 (HeAdV2) was determined as the etiologic agent through pan-adenoviral consensus polymerase (PCR) chain reaction and sequencing. Nucleic acid from a novel Mycoplasma sp. (provisionally called Mycoplasma pogonae) was identified by pan-generic PCR targeting the mycoplasma 16S ribosomal RNA gene with sequencing and phylogenetic analysis. As bacteria morphologically consistent with Mycoplasma sp. were not observed by special stains and transmission electron microscopy, the detection of M. pogonae nucleic acid is of indeterminate significance; however, M. pogonae and HeAdV2 coinfection may have exacerbated disease.
Study on the interactive interface design of gaze input smart TV

In recent years, using eye movements as an input method to control smart TVs remotely has been gaining attention. In the past, eye control was mostly applied to assistive devices for specific ethnic groups due to the high cost. However, it is gradually being applied to computer games as well. This study summarizes the principles of interface design by analyzing the existing eye-controlled interfaces and attempts to apply it to the operation and interface design of smart TVs. Finally, based on heuristic evaluation by experts, the study explored the feasibility of applying eye control to smart TV operation and proposed a design of the eye control interface suitable for smart TVs.
A new background update algorithm for airborne camera in dynamic background

The technology of freeway vehicle detection and tracking based on airborne camera has wide applications in freeway monitoring and management. However, the image background is always changing in the aerial video so that it poses great challenges for object detection and tracking. In order to solve this problem, the paper studies background updating algorithm on basis of ViBe which focuses on the shortcomings of fixed threshold in Vibe background updating algorithm. The paper improves a new ViBe self-adaptive threshold algorithm. Distance threshold can update itself adaptively with the change of the sample value in the background model, and background learning rate can also adaptively adjust the speed of the background update with the change of the noise. Our algorithm has a better adaptability to illumination mutation, and it can quickly adapt to the background change and get accurate background model, which is helpful to the subsequent segmentation and extraction of vehicle contour.
Influence of noise on transfer learning in Chinese sentiment classification using GRU

Sentiment classification for product reviews is of great significance for business feedback for manufactures, sellers and users. However, since a large amount of training data for a specific product domain is not always available, transfer learning is often utilized to do sentiment analysis applications. Specifically, after a pre-training of the large Chinese corpus by a word-embedding method, a larger size of training data for a specific domain was trained using a Gated Recurrent Unit. And then the trained model was used for testing the sentiment classification for a smaller amount of product reviews. The performances of this transfer learning method was also examined, especially to testify different factors affecting the performance of the transfer learning. The experimental results showed that different wording in the review domain (which we call it “noise”) will have a greater impact on transfer learning. We also calculate the difference of the wording to verify our hypothesis. According to these results, we have explored the impacts of the dataset wording, while we are doing Chinese text sentiment classification. We also shed a light in optimizing the transfer learning effect in general.
Reducing inverse quantization numbers for video transcoding

In this paper, a complexity-quality analysis with transcoding architectures is proposed for reduced inverse quantization numbers. This architecture is different from conventional transcoding scheme, which neglects the relation between first and second quantized step size. However, our proposed transcoding architecture depends on the modulus of the ratio of second quantization and first quantization parameter. By analyzing quantized area of first quantization and second quantization parameter, we concluded the part of undoing first inverse quantization, to reduce computing complexity. From computer simulation we verify the merits of the proposed scheme over the conventional transcoding approaches, in terms of achieving better performance based on the computing complexity and objective (e.g., the peak signal-to-noise ratio) analysis.
Caspase recruitment domain-containing protein 9 (CARD9) knockout reduces regional ischemia/reperfusion injury through an attenuated inflammatory response

Ischemic heart disease remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Interventional reperfusion induces further damage to the ischemic myocardium through neutrophil infiltration and acute inflammation. As caspase recruitment domain-containing protein 9 (CARD9) plays a critical role in innate immune response and inflammation, we hypothesized that CARD9 knockout would provide protection against ischemia and reperfusion (I/R) injury through attenuation of acute inflammatory responses. C57BL/6 wild-type (WT) and CARD9-/- mice were subjected to 45 min left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery occlusion followed by 24-h reperfusion. Area at risk (AAR) and infarct size were measured by Evans blue and triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC) staining. Frozen heart sections were stained with anti-mouse GR-1 antibody to detect infiltrated neutrophils. Concentrations of cytokines/chemokines TNF-α, IL-6, CXCL-1 and MCP-1 were determined in heart tissue homogenate and serum by ELISA assay. Western immunoblotting analyses were performed to measure the phosphorylation of p38 MAPK. Our results indicate that following I/R, infarct size was significantly smaller in CARD9-/- mice compared to WT. The number of infiltrated neutrophils was significantly lower in CARD9-/- mice compared to WT. Levels of TNF-α, IL-6, CXCL-1 and MCP-1 were significantly reduced in heart tissue and serum from CARD9-/- mice compared to WT. CARD9-/- mice also exhibited significantly lower levels of phosphorylated p38 MAPK. Taken together, our results suggest that CARD9 knockout protects the heart from ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury, possibly through reduction of neutrophil infiltration and attenuation of CARD9-associated acute inflammatory signaling.
Clustering enhanced approach for network lifetime in wireless sensor network

Nowadays wireless sensor Networks (WSNs) have significant task into diverse field. Sensor network include several sensor nodes designed for the principle of sensing the information from the surroundings of a particular area. Sensor nodes include restricted battery time with their recharging be difficult. As a result, to rest the time span of WSNs various optimization techniques have been introduced. Cluster be the organized as a set of groups of sensor nodes. Clustering is a procedure toward utilize the energy of system resourcefully. The primary hierarchical based clustering algorithm was LEACH wherein Cluster Heads (CHs) are determined through means of probabilistic approach into a distributed method. several new protocols have be introduce which make use of select the cluster heads along with rotating them toward sense of steadiness the energy practice. In this paper investigates configuration of cluster, predominantly promote a novel scheme; mobility based LEACH-ERE along by Handover method is used for proficient cluster head choice for efficient the network life span.
Redundant Automation Monitoring: Four Eyes Don’t See More Than Two, if Everyone Turns a Blind Eye

Background: In safety-critical and highly automated environments, more than one person typically monitors the system in order to increase reliability. Objective: We investigate whether the anticipated advantage of redundant automation monitoring is lost due to social loafing and whether individual performance feedback can mitigate this effect. Method: In two experiments, participants worked on a multitasking paradigm in which one task was the monitoring and cross-checking of an automation. Participants worked either alone or with a team partner on this task. The redundant group was further subdivided. One subgroup was instructed that only team performance would be evaluated, whereas the other subgroup expected to receive individual performance feedback after the experiment. Results: Compared to participants working alone, those who worked collectively but did not expect individual feedback performed significantly less cross-checks and found 25% fewer automation failures. Due to this social loafing effect, even the combined team performance did not surpass the performance of participants working alone. However, when participants expected individual performance feedback, their monitoring behavior and failure detection performance was similar to participants working alone and a team advantage became apparent. Conclusion: Social loafing in redundant automation monitoring can negate the expected gain, if individual performance feedback is not provided. Application: These findings may motivate safety experts to evaluate whether their implementation of human redundancy is vulnerable to social loafing effects.
Muscarinic Acetylcholine Type 1 Receptor Activity Constrains Neurite Outgrowth by Inhibiting Microtubule Polymerization and Mitochondrial Trafficking in Adult Sensory Neurons

The muscarinic acetylcholine type 1 receptor (M1R) is a metabotropic G protein-coupled receptor. Knockout of M1R or exposure to selective or specific receptor antagonists elevates neurite outgrowth in adult sensory neurons and is therapeutic in diverse models of peripheral neuropathy. We tested the hypothesis that endogenous M1R activation constrained neurite outgrowth via a negative impact on the cytoskeleton and subsequent mitochondrial trafficking. We overexpressed M1R in primary cultures of adult rat sensory neurons and cell lines and studied the physiological and molecular consequences related to regulation of cytoskeletal/mitochondrial dynamics and neurite outgrowth. In adult primary neurons, overexpression of M1R caused disruption of the tubulin, but not actin, cytoskeleton and significantly reduced neurite outgrowth. Over-expression of a M1R-DREADD mutant comparatively increased neurite outgrowth suggesting that acetylcholine released from cultured neurons interacts with M1R to suppress neurite outgrowth. M1R-dependent constraint on neurite outgrowth was removed by selective (pirenzepine) or specific (muscarinic toxin 7) M1R antagonists. M1R-dependent disruption of the cytoskeleton also diminished mitochondrial abundance and trafficking in distal neurites, a disorder that was also rescued by pirenzepine or muscarinic toxin 7. M1R activation modulated cytoskeletal dynamics through activation of the G protein (Gα13) that inhibited tubulin polymerization and thus reduced neurite outgrowth. Our study provides a novel mechanism of M1R control of Gα13 protein-dependent modulation of the tubulin cytoskeleton, mitochondrial trafficking and neurite outgrowth in axons of adult sensory neurons. This novel pathway could be harnessed to treat dying-back neuropathies since anti-muscarinic drugs are currently utilized for other clinical conditions.
Prevalence of extended spectrum beta lactamase and plasmid mediated quinolone resistant genes in strains of Klebsiella pneumonia, Morganella morganii, Leclercia adecarboxylata and Citrobacter freundii isolated from poultry in South Western Nigeria

A serious concern is arising on the coexistence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) and plasmid mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) producing bacteria in animal husbandry, which could be transferred to humans, especially in strains that may not be routinely screened for resistance. This study therefore tested the prevalence of ESBL and PMQR genes in selected bacteria isolated from poultry faeces. Faecal droppings of birds were collected from 11 farms in five states in South Western Nigeria. Bacteria were isolated from the samples on cefotaxime supplemented plates and identified with MALDI-TOF. The MIC was determined using VITEK system and resistance genes were detected with PCR. A total of 350 strains were isolated from different samples and selected strains were identified as 23 Klebsiella pneumonia, 12 Morganella morganii, seven Leclercia adecarboxylata and one Citrobacter freundii. All the species were resistant to gentamycin, trimethoprim/sulphamethaxole, tobramycin, piperacillin, cefotaxime and aztreonam (except Morganella morganii strains which were mostly susceptible to aztreonam). All the tested strains were susceptible to imipenem, meropenem and amikacin. All Leclercia adecarboxylata strains were resistant to ceftazidime, cefepime and fosfomycin while all Morganella morganii strains were resistant to fosfomycin, moxifloxacin and ciprofloxacin. All tested species were generally sensitive to ciprofloxacin except Morganella morganii strains which were resistant to ciprofloxacin. The resistance to ciprofloxacin, ceftazidime, cefepime, tigercylin, colistin and fosfomycin were 65%, 40%, 23%,, 7%, 33%, 48% respectively while the prevalence of SHV, TEM and CTX genes were 42%, 63%, 35% respectively. 9.3% of the isolates had the three ESBL genes, 2.33% had qnrA gene, 4.65% had qnr B gene while none had qnrS gene. The most prevalent PMQR gene is Oqxb (25.58%) while 6.98% had the qep gene. Klebsiella pneumoniae generally had both ESBL and PMQR genes. The high prevalence of extended spectrum beta-lactamase genes in the studied strains calls for caution in the use of beta lactam antibiotics in poultry feeds. This is the first report of the occurrence of extended spectrum beta-lactamase and plasmid mediated quinolone resistance genes in Morganella morganii and Leclercia adecarboxylata strains isolated from poultry faeces.
Common Change Factors and Mediation of the Alliance–Outcome Link During Treatment of Depression

Objective: Alliance, Mastery/Self-Efficacy, Problem Actualization, and Problem Clarification exemplify common or nonspecific factors of change in psychotherapy (Grawe, 1997). In this study, we tested the hypothesis that other change factors mediate the alliance–outcome link on a within-person level over the treatment course. Method: Our sample consisted of 193 patients with major depression undergoing intensive inpatient cognitive–behavioral-based therapy. Each week, we assessed depressive symptoms (using the Beck Depression Inventory-II) and change factors during individual therapy. Multilevel mediation models were used to test our hypothesis. Results: As expected, within-person change in Alliance (differentiated into Emotional Bond and Contentment with the Therapist) as well as Mastery/Self-Efficacy and Problem Clarification predicted symptom change over the course of therapy. Moreover, the relation between Contentment with the Therapist and subsequent change in depression was mediated by increased Mastery/Self-Efficacy on a within-person level. Conclusions: Our data suggest that within-person change of alliance and other general change factors precede symptom change in depressive patients, and that the link between alliance and outcome may be partially mediated by enhanced Mastery/Self-Efficacy. Future studies should further elucidate the mechanisms responsible for the alliance–outcome link.
Off-center cardiac rehabilitation focused on extended emotional relationship and common health gains

1Clinical Research Development Center, Imam Reza Hospital, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran 2Lifestyle Modification Research Center, Imam Reza Hospital, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran 3Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Imam Ali Hospital, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran Correspondence to: Mozhgan Saeidi, Email: m_saeidi20@yahoo.com
Satisfaction in complete denture wearers with and without adhesives: A randomized, crossover, double-blind clinical trial

Background The purpose of this study was to compare the satisfaction of patients regarding retention, stability and accumulation of particles with a randomized, double-blind crossed method in users with complete dentures with and without adhesive. Material and Methods Seventeen edentulous individuals were randomized and received new upper and lower complete dentures. After a period of adaptation, they participated in some masticatory tests and clinical revisions, after use the protheses with and without the use of two denture adhesives: Adhesive A (Fittydent, Fittydent International GmbH) and adhesive B (Corega, GlaxoSmithKline) at 0, 7 and 14 days. Satisfaction was measured immediately after each test through a survey using a VAS scale (0-10) and data were analyzed with McNemar’s test with Bonferroni correction. Results The results showed significant differences (p<.01) between the study groups with adhesive A - B and the group without adhesive, but no significant differences were found between the two stickers for any of the variables studied. Conclusions Complete denture adhesives significantly improved the satisfaction of patients because a better retention, stability and less accumulation of particles of the food substitute between the denture and the mucosa is obtained compared with non-use of complete denture adhesives. Key words:Complete dentures, patient satisfaction, denture adhesives, clinical trials.
Management of somatic symptom disorder

This review paper gives an overview of the management of somatic symptom disorder. It starts with a description of the clinical problem of patients with persistent bodily distress, discusses classificatory, epidemiological, and etiological issues and then describes the evidence and practical principles of dealing with these patients who are often seen as “difficult” to treat. It is concluded that the best-suited approach is stepped care with close cooperation of primary care, a somatic specialist, and mental health care professionals operating on the basis of a biopsychosocial model of integrating somatic as well as psychosocial determinants of distress and therapeutic factors.
Rare Case Of Primary Congenital Glaucoma With Hypoplasia Corpus Callosum.

Primary congenital glaucoma is a rare disease that causes elevated intraocular pressure within the first three years of life. Few studies have explored the association of primary congenital glaucoma with malformation of corpus callosum. We report on a six-month-old female presenting with unilateral primary congenital glaucoma associated with hypoplasia of corpus callosum in Indonesian infant. The patient had already undergone trabeculectomy surgery. However, there no obvious improvement following the procedure given the severity of the condition. CONCLUSION The failure rate of surgery in severe primary congenital glaucoma conditions is still very high, and therapy can usually preserve vision if early identification of mild or moderate form is made.
Automata Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks for Use in Assistive Technologies for the Visually Impaired

Our goal is to evaluate the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) in the recognition of automata images and to create a model that can be used in the construction of assistive tools. Visually impaired individuals that are studying Computer Science have difficulty in accessing and learning diagrams. Despite the solutions available in the literature to make diagrams accessible to blind students and allow the creation and manipulation of such material, we seek to give access to images of didactic materials and books. The method used consists of two steps: classification of the data using three types of CNN and the combination of the results to make a final decision. Two approaches were chosen to be tested: recognition of the type of automaton and recognition of the number of states of the automaton. Our best result was using late fusion of the three CNNs by the product rule, which resulted in an accuracy of 97% for the automaton type recognition and 91% for the recognition of the number of states of the automaton.
Implicit reward associations impact face processing: Time-resolved evidence from event-related brain potentials and pupil dilations

The present study aimed at investigating whether associated motivational salience causes preferential processing of inherently neutral faces similar to emotional expressions by means of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and changes of the pupil size. To this aim, neutral faces were implicitly associated with monetary outcome, while participants (N = 44) performed a subliminal face-matching task that ensured performance around chance level and thus an equal proportion of gain, loss, and zero outcomes. Motivational context strongly impacted processing of all – even task-irrelevant – stimuli prior to the target face, indicated by enhanced amplitudes of subsequent ERP components and increased pupil size. In a separate test session, previously associated faces as well as novel faces with emotional expressions were presented within the same task but without motivational context and performance feedback. Most importantly, previously gain-associated faces amplified the LPC, although the individually contingent face-outcome assignments were not made explicit during the learning session. Emotional expressions impacted the N170 and EPN components. Modulations of the pupil size were absent in both motivationally-associated and emotional conditions. Our findings demonstrate that neural representations of neutral stimuli can acquire increased salience via implicit learning, with an advantage for gain over loss associations.