Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Seedling growth of Adenanthera pavonina L. in polluted soils of Karachi railway track

The seedling growth performance of Adenanthera pavonina L. in polluted soils of different railway tracks viz. Karachi Cantt. Station, Malir Halt, Malir 15, Landhi Junction and University Campus (control) was studied under in pots under natural field conditions. The results showed that the root, shoot and seedling size, number of leaves, plant cover, leaf weight ratio of A. pavonina seedlings were significantly (p<0.05) reduced in Karachi Cantt. Station soil as compared to University Campus soil. Similarly, shoot, root and seedling size, plant cover, seedling dry weight of A. pavonina were significantly (p<0.05) increased in soils of Landhi Junction as compared to soil of University Campus. A better seedling growth of A. pavonina was also found in soil of Malir 15 followed by Malir Halt. A significant variation in the the physico-chemical characteristics of the railway tract soil sample was observed. The soil of Malir Halt, Malir 15 and Landhi Junction railway tracks was sandy clay loam while the Karachi Cantt. Station and University Campus had clay loam textured soil. A significant variation in chemical characteristics of railway track soil such as maximum water holding capacity, bulk density, chloride contents, available sulfur, and exchangeable sodium as compared to University Campus soil observed. Whereas, porosity, calcium carbonate, organic matter, electrical conductivity, total dissolved salts and exchangeable potassium were low in railway tracks soil. The present study demonstrated that the growth of A. pavonina was significantly (p<0.05) reduced in Karachi Cantt. Station soil as compared to soils of other sites. Keywords: Adenanthera pavonina , railway track, pollution, seedling growth, soil
A SIMPLE FORMULA FOR CONDITIONAL WIENER INTEGRALS WITH APPLICATIONS

Yen's inversion formula for conditional Wiener integrals is very complicated to apply when the conditioning function is vector-valued. This paper gives a very simple formula for such integrals. In particular, we express the conditional Wiener integral directly in terms of an ordinary (i.e., nonconditional) Wiener integral. Using this new formula, it is very easy to generalize the Kac-Feynman formula and also to obtain a Cameron-Martin type translation theorem for general conditional Wiener integrals.
multiple myeloma and polymorphic lymphoma of recipient origin 2 months after kidney transplantation in a heart-transplant recipient

Lymphoproliferative disorders and other malignancies occur with a frequency of nearly 20% in immunosuppressed patients. Recent studies published by the Cincinnati Transplant Tumor Registry (CTTC), the Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplantation Centre, the Collaborative Transplant Study Group, and the Leeds Transplantation Centre [1-4] report a significant increase of neoplasias in transplant recipients. Although the pattern of malignancies differs widely between the studies the appearance of non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) in transplant recipients is closely related to the duration and dose of immunosuppression [5-8]. Patients requiring intensive immunosuppression, as in heart, lung or liver transplantation, are therefore at significantly higher risk of the development of lymphomas than kidney transplant recipients [1].
The effectiveness of MEWMA control chart with mild correlation

Since it is undeniable that whenever conventional control charts are used there is the implied presumption that this observations tend to be independently as well as identically distributed with time. However, in reality, this kind of observations generated through continuous as well as discrete production procedures tend to be serially correlated, which violates the independence assumption of conventional control charts in addition to affect the performance of control charts negatively. In this paper, we investigate the performance of MEWMA control chart with autocorrelated data with mild correlation being controlled. The generated data were applied to MEWMA control chart procedure and showed an in-control state, while the generated observations were subjected to normality tests from the assumptions and sensitivities for departure to normality, and turned out to be normal by all standard. Hence, this gives an alternative for the quality practitioners to adopt for the continuous and discrete production processes also the autocorrelation has no effect on the performance of MEWMA control limits when the mild correlation has been controlled.
Deterministic Sparse Suffix Sorting in the Restore Model

Given a text T of length n, we propose a deterministic online algorithm computing the sparse suffix array and the sparse longest common prefix array of T in O(c √ lg n + m lg m lg n lg* n) time with O(m) words of space under the premise that the space of T is rewritable, where m ≤ n is the number of suffixes to be sorted (provided online and arbitrarily), and c is the number of characters with m ≤ c ≤ n that must be compared for distinguishing the designated suffixes.
XPOSURE TO TICKS AND PREVENTIVE ACTIONS IN THE SCOPE OF LYME DISEASE AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE NORTHERN PART OF LUBLIN PROVINCE ( EASTERN POLAND )

Authors’ contribution Wkład autorów: A. Study design/planning zaplanowanie badań B. Data collection/entry zebranie danych C. Data analysis/statistics dane – analiza i statystyki D. Data interpretation interpretacja danych E. Preparation of manuscript przygotowanie artykułu F. Literature analysis/search wyszukiwanie i analiza literatury G. Funds collection zebranie funduszy Summary Background. The ticks are the main vector of pathogens of infectious diseases both for people and animals. At present, tick-borne infections spread in the entire Europe. Lyme disease dominates among diseases spreading through ticks. The aim of the research was to determine the frequency of exposures to ticks of the subjected young people, applied ways of removing the ticks and the frequency of using the selected methods of Lyme disease prevention. Material and methods. The study involved 1150 people from the northern part of Lublin province (eastern Poland) at the age between15-20 years. The research tool applied was authors’ own survey questionnaire. Results. Over half of the surveyed young people (58.9%) stated that they had been bitten by ticks before (mostly people who live in the rural areas). Most frequently, the ticks were removed by wringing with tweezers (24.5%), grasping with fingers and tearing out (21.7%) and with tweezers with a swift, steady movement (21.6%). Over half of the surveyed (57.4%) stated that they do not use repellents against ticks while staying on the green areas, and 33.2% of the surveyed rarely use them. 18.3% of the surveyed do not examine the body after the return from the green areas and 34.8% rarely do it. The surveyed who had been bitten by ticks (especially several times) claimed that they more often use the analysed methods of prevention. Conclusions. Among the examined young people the risk of being bitten by ticks has been revealed and the risk is significantly greater among people who live in the rural areas. The ticks attached to skin were often removed improperly. The frequency of using the prevention against Lyme disease is insufficient. The increase of the range of its usage, as well as the promotion of the right method of removing ticks requires educational activities in the society.
Impact of Input and Output Market Development Interventions in Ethiopia

This study estimated the impact of input and output market development interventions of the IPMS project at Alaba and Dale PLW, SNNPR on institutional and organizational changes of agricultural markets, marketed surplus and market orientation of the participant households. The study has used cross-sectional sampled household survey. A propensity score matching method was applied. The intervention has resulted in positive and significant effect on marketed surplus and to be market oriented in contrast to the non-participant households on top of improving institutional and organizational setup of agricultural markets in the study areas. Based on the results obtained scaling out or the extension of such market development interventions, both input and output market, has a paramount importance for the achievement of growthÂ and transformation plan of the country in the short run and welfare improvement in the long run. Key words : Input and output market development intervention, propensity score matching, Pilot learning woreda
Study on clinical profile, electrolyte and electrocardiographic abnormalities in patients with yellow oleander poisoning

ABSTRACT Background: Poisoning occurs following the ingestion of crushed seeds or fruits of yellow oleander. Objectives of the study were to investigate various arrhythmias and electrolyte abnormalities seen in patients with yellow oleander poisoning and to find out the correlation between various arrhythmias, duration and form of exposure of oleander. Methods: Fifty patients from the toxicology ward in the Institute of Internal Medicine, Madras Medical College and Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai, who fulfilled the eligibility criteria, were enrolled for this prospective and observational study among the patients admitted for the ingestion of yellow oleander. Results: Oleander seed poison was most prevalent in the 21-40 years of age. Incidence was more among the young males. Mortality was independent of the number of seeds consumed. More the crushed seeds consumed and delay to admission to the hospital, poorer was the outcome. ECG abnormalities were found in majority of the individuals. Electrolyte disturbances (hyperkalemia and hypermagnesemia) were found in significant proportion of the patients. Conclusions: Prognosis was poor among those who presented with bradycardia, electrolyte disturbances and complex arrhythmias. The arrhythmias produced by this poisoning might range from sinus bradycardia to complete heart block and ventricular tachycardia. Sinus bradycardia was the most common arrhythmia seen in this study. As there are no standard guidelines at present to recommend the indications for temporary pacemaker in the management of oleander induced arrhythmias, uniform guidelines have to be formulated.
VinJect: Toolkit for Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Scanning

Penetration testing plays an important role in the development of secure software products and electronic systems. Sustainability of commercial systems is ensured through the regular scans of vulnerability. In this era where quality assurance and testing organizations become increasingly widespread, the effectiveness of the used tools and methods are critical. This article describes the architecture of the software named VinJect, which is developed for efficient penetration testing and vulnerability scanning. The primary goal of this application is to detect vulnerable locations in a shorter time with running in a multi-threaded structure. Our proposed application uses Wapiti and SQLmap applications’ services in the background. With user-friendly interfaces, it is also aimed to remove the bad user experience (UX) that these applications running on the command line have. In the tests we performed, WinJect was found to be more efficient in completing the vulnerability scans in a much shorter time.
36 glycoprotein Ehrlichia canis Use of an automated system for detection of canine serum antibodies against

Ehrlichia canis is the most common cause of monocytotropic ehrlichiosis in dogs around the world. The purpose of the present study was to validate a new automated fluorescence system (Accuplex4TM BioCD system; Antech Diagnostics, Lake Success, New York) to detect antibodies against the E. canis immunodominant glycoprotein 36 (gp36). Sera and blood samples (ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid) were collected from mixed sex beagles (n = 8) on days 0, 3, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 28, 42, 49, 56, 63, 70, 77, 84, and 98 after intravenous inoculation with culture-derived E. canis. Sera were assayed using the Accuplex4 BioCD system (Accuplex4), an E. canis indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT), and a commercially available kit. A complete blood cell count and a proprietary E. canis polymerase chain reaction (PCR) were performed on each blood sample. On the day thrombocytopenia was first detected for each dog, E. canis DNA was amplified from blood of all dogs. At those times, E. canis antibodies were detected in 7 of 8 dogs by the Accuplex4, 1 of 8 dogs by the commercial kit, and 4 of 8 dogs by IFAT. Ehrlichia canis DNA was amplified from blood before seroconversion in any antibody assay for 6 dogs. Antibodies against gp36 were detected by Accuplex4 within 3 days of PCR-positive test results and were detected up to 25 days sooner than the commercial kit. After starting doxycycline treatment, E. canis DNA was no longer amplified by PCR assay, but serum antibodies remained detectable by all assays.
Enhanced Bandwidth Small Square Slot Antenna with Circular Polarization Characteristics for WLAN / WiMAX and C-Band Applications

─ This article proposes a novel printed slot antenna with circular polarization characteristics using an L-shaped slot in the ground plane and an L-shaped radiating stub with a pair of -shaped slits for simultaneously satisfying wireless local area network (WLAN), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX), and C-Band applications. The operating frequencies of the proposed antenna are 5.2/5.8 GHz, which covers WLAN system, 5.5 GHz for WiMAX system, and 4 GHz for C-Band system. The desired resonant frequencies are obtained by adjusting the length of -shaped slits in the both sides of tapered microstrip feed-line. The measured results show good agreement with the numerical prediction. The designed antenna has a small size of 20 × 20 mm. Index Terms ─ Circular polarization performance, -shaped slit, and printed square slot antenna.
A Comparison Between Two Assays for the Redox Status in Plasma

The redox status is an important tool in determining the physiological state of the body, especially for the elderly and with hypertension and heart failure [1-4]. A reflection of the redox status in the circulation can be measured by the level of free thiol groups in proteins in serum or plasma samples. There are several assays described in the literature for the evaluation of the redox status in serum or plasma. In these simple assays, a reaction of thiol groups of proteins takes place with a chromogen. The most used assay is based on the reaction of 5,5′-dithiobis-(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB), with thiol groups which can be easily performed with home-made materials [5,6]. However, for quality control during large-scale studies, commercially available assays are preferred due to the long-term delivery and stability of the assay components and the availability of quality control materials. This test can be performed either by high performance liquid chromatographic methods [7-9] or in micro plate format [10] and was also programmed and applied to clinical analyzers [11-14]. The use of auto-analyzers allows measurement of large sets of samples in epidemiological studies under the required quality during longer periods. Another advantage is the possibility to combine the assay with the measurement of other biomarkers in the same small volume of sample [15].
Measuring the accuracy of page-reading systems

Given a bitmapped image of a page from any document, a page-reading system identifies the characters on the page and stores them in a text file. This "OCR-generated" text is represented by a string and compared with the correct string to determine the accuracy of this process. The string editing problem is applied to find an optimal correspondence of these strings using an appropriate cost function. The ISRI annual test of page-reading systems utilizes the following performance measures, which are defined in terms of this correspondence and the string edit distance: character accuracy, throughput, accuracy by character class, marked character efficiency, word accuracy, non-stopword accuracy, and phrase accuracy. It is shown that the universe of cost functions is divided into equivalence classes, and the cost functions related to the longest common subsequence (LCS) are identified. The computation of a LCS can be made faster by a linear-time preprocessing step.
Sparse Unmixing using an approximate L0 Regularization

Recently, sparse unmixing focuses on finding an optimal subset of spectral signatures in a large spectral spetral library. In most previous work concerned with the sparse unmixing, the linear mixture model has been widely used to determine and quantify the abundance of materials in mixed piexels(1). In this paper, we propose a new sparse unmxing method based on an approximate sparsity regularization model(2). The approximate sparsity regularizer is much easier to solve than the L0 regularizer and has stronger sparsity than the L1 regularizer. What's more, a variable splitting and augmented Lagrangian methods introduced in to solve the proposed problem. Our numerical results on sparse unmixing illustration the efficiency of approximate sparsity a under the SUnSAL algorithm framework, compared to the L1 norm.
Human cholesterol 7a-hydroxylase (CYP7A1) deficiency has a hypercholesterolemic phenotype

Bile acid synthesis plays a critical role in the maintenance of mammalian cholesterol homeostasis. The CYP7A1 gene encodes the enzyme cholesterol 7a-hydroxylase, which catalyzes the initial step in cholesterol catabolism and bile acid synthesis. We report here a new metabolic disorder presenting with hyperlipidemia caused by a homozygous deletion mutation in CYP7A1. The mutation leads to a frameshift (L413fsX414) that results in loss of the active site and enzyme function. High levels of LDL cholesterol were seen in three homozygous subjects. Analysis of a liver biopsy and stool from one of these subjects revealed double the normal hepatic cholesterol content, a markedly deficient rate of bile acid excretion, and evidence for upregulation of the alternative bile acid pathway. Two male subjects studied had hypertriglyceridemia and premature gallstone disease, and their LDL cholesterol levels were noticeably resistant to 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase inhibitors. One subject also had premature coronary and peripheral vascular disease. Study of the kindred, which is of English and Celtic background, revealed that individuals heterozygous for the mutation are also hyperlipidemic, indicating that this is a codominant disorder. Article Genetics
CHARACTERISTICS OF DAIRY SUPPLY CHAINS: THE CASE OF THE BALTIC STATES

There are significant differences in retail food markets in the Baltic States in terms of consumer habits, economic conditions and market participants; however, it is not possible to analyse trade in packaging for dairy products only within one country, as the largest retailers and producers of dairy products operate in all the three countries, implementing single supply operations and other supply chain operations. In the present research, the authors examine further development opportunities for the logistics of and packaging for dairy products in the three Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – in the dairy supply chain. There are several reasons for such a research study, which are related to the composition of the dairy retail supply chain and the specifics of primary packaging for dairy products. The research aim is to examine the dairy supply chain in the Baltic States in order to identify opportunities for the development of packaging. To achieve the aim, the following research tasks were set: 1) to describe the dairy supply chains in the Baltic States from the aspect of retail trade; 2) to examine the characteristics of the dairy supply chain that affect logistics and the development of packaging in logistics. The research found that a situation has emerged in the Baltic States that a fragmented diversity of returnable packaging is specific to the dairy supply chain, which makes the logistics of packaging for dairy products inefficient. The diversity of returnable packaging hinders reverse logistics, the key hindering operations of which are: sorting, storage and washing of containers ready for transport and other
Merced Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Title Computational Comparison of Children and Apes on a Non-Verbal False Belief Task Permalink

The key difference between the cognitive abilities of humans and other animals may be the ability to reason relationally; models of relational reasoning are one way to demonstrate this proposed difference. The present work uses the DORA model to simulate a task designed to assess the theory of mind capabilities of 4and 5-year-old children and apes. In the original experiment, the apes and children successfully completed a number of control tasks in which they used cues from an experimenter to reason about the hiding location of a reward. However, only the children succeeded on the critical manipulation in which it was necessary to infer what the experimenter knew. The simulations presented herein demonstrate that the apes’ performances across all tasks can be accounted for by simple rule use. Conversely, the 4-yearolds succeeded via relational inference and learning; 5-yearolds alone had the requisite relational structures predicated beforehand.
Optimizing the fundamental Neumann eigenvalue for the Laplacian in a domain with small traps

An optimization problem for the fundamental eigenvalue $\lam_0$ of the Laplacian in a planar simply-connected domain that contains $N$ small identically-shaped holes, each of radius $\eps\ll 1$, is considered. The boundary condition on the domain is assumed to be of Neumann type, and a Dirichlet condition is imposed on the boundary of each of the holes. As an application, the reciprocal of the fundamental eigenvalue $\lam_0$ is proportional to the expected lifetime for Brownian motion in a domain with a reflecting boundary that contains $N$ small traps. For small hole radii $\eps$, a two-term asymptotic expansion for $\lam_0$ is derived in terms of certain properties of the Neumann Green's function for the Laplacian. Only the second term in this expansion depends on the locations $x_{i}$, for $i=1,\ldots,N$, of the small holes. For the unit disk, ring-type configurations of holes are constructed to optimize this term with respect to the hole locations. The results yield hole configurations that asymptotically optimize $\lam_0$. For a class of symmetric dumbbell-shaped domains containing exactly one hole, it is shown that there is a unique hole location that maximizes $\lam_0$. For an asymmetric dumbbell-shaped domain, it is shown that there can be two hole locations that locally maximize $\lam_0$. This optimization problem is found to be directly related to an oxygen transport problem in skeletal muscle tissue, and to determining equilibrium locations of spikes to the Gierer–Meinhardt reaction-diffusion model. It is also closely related to the problem of determining equilibrium vortex configurations within the context of the Ginzburg–Landau theory of superconductivity.
ISOLATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF BERGENIN FROM SYZYGIUM CUMINI STEM BARK

Diabetes is one of the major health problems, the world is facing today and its rising rate necess itat es alternative treatment methods. An anti - diabetic chemical constituent of Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels , bergenin was chosen for the study . The present study aims to isolate, characterize and quantify bergenin from methanol extract of stem bark of S. cu mini. This compound was extracted , characterized by spectroscopic methods and estimated quantitatively by HPTLC.