Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Utility of fine-needle aspiration cytology as a screening tool in diagnosis of breast lumps

Background: Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has proved to be a rapid, safe, cost effective and good screening or initial diagnostic tool for early diagnosis and management of palpable breast swellings. The present study was conducted to describe and categorize various breast lesions on FNAC. The study also aimed to find out the diagnostic accuracy of FNAC procedure. Methods: This study was carried out on 175 patients who presented with palpable breast swellings in Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India and subsequently referred to Pathology Department of Govt. Hospital Gandhi Nagar over a period of two years and eight months from January 2013 to September 2015. Lesions were categorized as per cytomorphological features obtained on FNAC. Histopathological correlation was done on 68 cases inclusive of all malignant cases. Results: 156 (89%) cases were categorized as benign and 19 cases (11%) as malignant on FNAC out of 175 cases. The most common benign lesion was fibro adenoma (41%) and the most common breast carcinoma was ductal carcinoma (65%). Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, LR+ and LR- came out to be 85%, 95.8%, 89%, 93.8%, 20.4 and 0.15 respectively. Conclusions: FNAC is a good screening procedure for initial diagnosis of breast lumps. It is highly useful procedure in secondary care centres due to its cost effectiveness, rapid and safe nature.
Screening of fungal potentiality in removing heavy metals of industrial waste water

Fungal activities to remove and/or degrade heavy metals in industrial waste water were studied. Water samples were collected from the waste water main drain station in industrial area in Port Said. A total of 55 isolates were grown on 4 types of cultures media. Macroscopically and morphological examination results also showed that among these isolates15are belonging to fungi; 12 isolates are belonging to actinobacteria, whereas 28 isolates are belonging to bacteria. The 15 fungal isolates were screened for their ability to degrade some heavy metals reported in industrial waste water. Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus flavus were reported as the most active organisms in degrading of heavy metals detected in industrial waste water.
Literacy, Education and Economic Development in Contemporary China

Literacy has been conceptualized traditionally as having a major role in developing a nation. Literacy helps to spread awareness among the people of their rights. People with good literacy skills enjoy a higher standard of living, have better opportunities of finding jobs, and are able to continue to learn new skills that will help them in the workplace. A nation with high literacy rate is more likely to attract a large pool of investors and entrepreneurs as well as the inflow of money which in turn have a great impact on the nation’s economy. A society’s economic prosperity and literacy have great influence on each other as they jointly grow together. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of literacy in the economic development of contemporary China. Five variables, i.e. number of the illiterate and self-educated, primary school enrolment, secondary school enrolment, university and college enrolment and the education length were chosen based on empirical studies, especially the Solow model. Quantitative data were analyzed across China’s twenty-two provinces, five autonomous regions, and four municipalities which are under the direct control of the central government. On the other hand, qualitative data were generated by hypotheses or tested assumptions. The paper reveals that there is a significance relationship between the above-named variables and the economic development as well as the effect of structural changes on the education system, and that literacy is the key to move China forward. However, due to funding inequalities and certain aspects of government policies, some regions and provinces in China remain underdeveloped. Comparison of literacy rates between eastern, central and
Bright spots: pathways to ensuring food security and environmental integrity

In Bossio, Deborah; Geheb, Kim (Eds.). Conserving land, protecting water. Wallingford, UK: CABI; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water & FoodComprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 6
Flood Forecasting Using Artificial Neural Networks: an Application of Multi-Model Data Fusion technique

Floods are among the natural disasters that cause human hardship and economic loss. Establishing a viable flood forecasting and warning system for communities at risk can mitigate these adverse effects. However, establishing an accurate flood forecasting system is still challenging due to the lack of knowledge about the effective variables in forecasting. The present study has indicated that the use of artificial intelligence, especially neural networks is suitable for flood forecasting systems (FFSs). In this research, mathematical modeling of flood forecasting with the application of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and data fusion technique were used in estimating the flood discharge. Sensitivity analysis was performed to investigate the significance of each model input and the best MLP ANN architecture. The data used in developing the model comprise discharge at different time steps, precipitation and antecedent precipitation index for a major river basin. Application of model on a case study (Karun River in Iran) indicated that rainfall-runoff process using data fusion approach produces results with higher degrees of precision.
Potenciales aplicaciones de Moringa oleifera. Una revisión crítica

Moringa oleifera es un arbol originario de la India al que se le atribuyen multiples beneficios para el bienestar humano. Es de crecimiento rapido, de relativamente poca exigencia hacia el suelo y se cultiva en toda la franja intertropical. Uno de los principales usos de sus hojas y de la torta de prensado de su semilla es en la formulacion de raciones para la alimentacion animal. Sin embargo, practicamente todas las partes del arbol tienen diversas aplicaciones, sobre lo cual existen testimonios que se remontan a la Antiguedad. En este trabajo se hace una revision de la literatura disponible sobre la utilizacion de esta planta. Se presentan distintos campos de aplicacion de M. oleifera a la luz del creciente interes cientifico que ha generado en los ultimos lustros. El objetivo es presentar las evidencias aportadas por la literatura cientifica que confirman y explican las propiedades y aplicaciones de la moringa, las cuales se distancian de versiones sin confirmar aportadas por la literatura popular y la publicidad.
KU-ISPL TRECVID 2015 Multimedia Event Detection System

This paper describes the KU-ISPL Multimedia Event Detection (MED) system employed for competing in the TRECVID 2015 hosted by NIST. The proposed system utilizes diverse audio/visual information source components which consist of a combination of low-level and semantic-level features and adopts an optimized information fusion technique for accurate and robust video event detection. In particular, the local descriptors of the system are composed of the heterogeneous features extracted from the audio/visual information sources of video contents. The fusion process combines the information source at either low-level or semantic-level so that the individual detection score for video events can be judicially appraised in terms of meaningful representation and significance. The results from self-test and the official evaluation have indicated that the proposed system outperforms the previous version.
Characteristics and frequency of large submarine landslides at the western tip of the Gulf of Corinth

Abstract. Coastal and submarine landslides are frequent at the western tip of the Gulf of Corinth, where small to medium failure events (10 6 –10 7 m 3) occur on average every 30–50 years. These landslides trigger tsunamis and consequently represent a significant hazard. We use here a dense grid of high-resolution seismic profiles to realize an inventory of the large mass transport deposits (MTDs) that result from these submarine landslides. Six large mass wasting events are identified, and their associated deposits locally represent 30 % of the sedimentation since 130 ka in the main western basin. In the case of a large MTD of ∼ 1 km 3 volume, the simultaneous occurrence of different slope failures is inferred and suggests an earthquake triggering. However, the overall temporal distribution of MTDs would result from the time-dependent evolution of pre-conditioning factors rather than from the recurrence of external triggers. Two likely main pre-conditioning factors are (1) the reloading time of slopes, which varied with the sedimentation rate, and (2) dramatic changes in water depth and water circulation that occurred 10–12 ka ago during the last post-glacial transgression. Such sliding events likely generated large tsunami waves in the whole Gulf of Corinth, possibly larger than those reported in historical sources considering the observed volume of the MTDs.
Book of Pitches: UQAPS 2017 Pitching Research Competition Final

Similar to Faff et al (2017a & 2017b), the current paper documents the pitches presented by finalists of a “pitching research” (Faff, 2015, 2018a, 2018b) competition held in November 2017, at the University of Queensland. The competition was co-sponsored by the UQ Association of Postgraduate Students (UQAPS) and the UQ Business School. Like its predecessors, the 2017 event was truly expansive – capturing the full spectrum of academic discipline areas made possible in a comprehensive university setting: Marketing; Advanced Imaging; Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences; Health and Rehabilitation Sciences; Education; Neuroscience; Biological Sciences. Along with Faff et al (2017a & 2017b), this paper serves as a useful guiding resource for any novice researchers embarking on a new journey in any area of scholarly endeavor.
Effects of Aloe vera as Leaf Protein Concentrate on Growth Performance of Cockerels

2 Abstract: The study investigated the effects of Aloe vera as leaf protein concentrate for cockerels. It was conducted with 72 - day old cockerels which at 3 weeks of age were randomly allotted to 3 dietary treatments of 24 birds each with 3 replicates per treatment. The rations were standard commercial feed 0% (T1), 5% (T2) and 10% (T3) inclusion levels of Aloe vera respectively. The design of the experiment was a completel y randomized design and the birds were fed for 42 days with their respective experimental diets. Records were kept on feed intake, body weight gain, feed conversion ratio and mortality trend to the end of the experiment. Results showed that there were significant differences (p 0.05) on feed intake. Highest overall profit was obtained from the T2 group. The inclusion of Aloe vera at 5% level supports feed absorption and growth in cockerels. This can therefore be used as a good leaf protein concentrate in cockerel nutrition for improved productivity and therefore, profitability.
The effects of school-based management and standards-based accountability on student achievement: evidence from PISA 2006

This paper provides new evidence on the effects of School-Based Management and Standards-Based Accountability, separately and jointly, on student achievement. The data used in the analysis comes from PISA 2006 that assesses the performance in reading, mathematics and science of around 400.000 15 year-olds-students from 57 countries. We build a Structural Equation Model to investigate the relationship between student achievement and the other latent variables. Our findings indicate that the joint adoption of School-Based Management and Standards-Based Accountability has a significant positive effect on student achievement.
Auditory Saliency Classification Using EEG Data

We investigate if starting from EEG signals it is possible to classify salient audio events. We set up an experiment and collected EEG data with proper audio stimuli. We trained several kNN classiﬁers. As the EEG signals under diﬀerent frequency bands are related to diﬀerent brain activities, we analyzed EEG data from each single electrode and for each single frequency band, as well as EEG data from combined electrodes and frequency bands. From our preliminary analysis we found that for each frequency band there is a set of electrodes that permits to achieve better classiﬁcation results and these electrodes are related to speciﬁc brain regions. We propose a cross-subject approach, where diﬀerent classiﬁers are trained on each single individual, and tested on data collected from all the others. This initial investigation suggests several hints to improve this classiﬁcation task.
Identifying Controversial News using Sentiment Analysis

: sentiment analysis also known as opinion mining refers to the use of natural language processing[2], text analysis and computational linguistics to identify and extract subjective information in source materials. Sentiment analysis is widely applied to reviews and social media for a variety of applications, range from marketing to customer service. Generally speaking, sentiment analysis aims to determine the attitude of a speaker or a writer with respect to some topic or the overall contextual polarity of a document. The attitude may be his or her judgment or evaluation, affective state that is to say, the emotional state of the author when writing, or the intended emotional communication that is to say, the emotional effect the author wishes to have on the reader.
On cloud ice induced absorption and polarisation effects in microwave limb sounding

Abstract. Microwave limb sounding in the presence of ice clouds was studied by detailed simulations, where clouds and other atmospheric variables varied in three dimensions and the full polarisation state was considered. Scattering particles were assumed to be horizontally aligned oblate spheroids with a size distribution parameterized in terms of temperature and ice water content. A general finding was that particle absorption is significant for limb sounding, which is in contrast to the down-looking case, where it is usually insignificant. Another general finding was that single scattering can be assumed for cloud optical paths below about 0.1, which is thus an important threshold with respect to the complexity and accuracy of retrieval algorithms. The representation of particle sizes during the retrieval is also discussed. Concerning polarisation, specific findings were as follows: Firstly, no significant degree of circular polarisation was found for the considered particle type. Secondly, for the ±45° polarisation components, differences of up to 4 K in brightness temperature were found, but differences were much smaller when single scattering conditions applied. Thirdly, the vertically polarised component has the smallest cloud extinction. An important goal of the study was to derive recommendations for future limb sounding instruments, particularly concerning their polarisation setup. If ice water content is among the retrieval targets (and not just trace gas mixing ratios), then the simulations show that it should be best to observe any of the ±45° and circularly polarised components. These pairs of orthogonal components also make it easier to combine information measured from different positions and with different polarisations.
Pengaruh Keterbukaan Diri terhadap Penerimaan Sosial pada Anggota Komunitas Backpacker Indonesia Regional Surabaya dengan Kepercayaan terhadap

Korespondensi: Septalia Meta Karina. Departemen Psikologi Kepribadian dan Sosial Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Airlangga Surabaya. Jalan Dharmawangsa Jalan Dharmawangsa Dalam Selatan Surabaya 60286, Telp. (031) 5032770, (031) 5014460, Fax (031) 5025910. Email: septalia-m-k-08@fpsi.unair. ac.id Abstract. This study has three aims. First, it aims to analyze the impact of self-disclosure to social acceptance at the members of Backpacker Indonesia Community regional Surabaya Indonesia. Secondly, to analyze the impact of trust on cyberspace to social acceptance at the members of Backpacker Indonesia Community Surabaya regional. Third, to analyze the impact of self-disclosure to social acceptance in at the members of Backpacker Indonesia Community Indonesia Surabaya regional with trust on cyberspace as intervening variable. The author adds trust on cyberspace as intervening variable, because Backpacker Indonesia Community, which is the context of this study, is virtual community. The research was conducted at Backpacker Indonesia Community Surabaya regional. Subjects in this study were members who have joined at least for a year that has been chosen randomly. Scale data collection tool in the form of self-disclosure, social acceptance, and trust on cyberspace by the authors. The data was analyzed by using path analysis with the help of SPSS 16.0 for windows. Based on the data analyzed obtained three results. First, there is an impact between self disclosure to social acceptance at members of Backpacker Indonesia Community regional Surabaya. Second, there is no impact between trust of cyberspace to social acceptance at members of Backpacker Indonesia Community regional Surabaya. Three, there is no impact between self disclosure to social acceptance at members of Backpacker Indonesia Community regional Surabaya with trust on cyberspace as intervening variable.
The Welfare Cost of the EMU for Transition Countries

Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland are set to join the European and Monetary Union (EMU) in the near future. This paper offers a framework for the quantitative evaluation of the economic costs of joining the EMU. Using an open economy dynamic general equilibrium model with sticky prices, we investigate the economic implications of the loss of monetary policy flexibility associated with EMU for each of these economies. The main benefit of this general equilibrium approach is that we can directly evaluate the effects of monetary policy in terms of welfare. Our findings suggest that the Czech Republic and Poland may experience sizable welfare costs as a result of joining the EMU. Results for Hungary are less striking as welfare costs in this country seem to be negligible in the benchmark economy. Nevertheless, costs of joining the EMU are higher if government shocks are important and when the trade share with the EMU is small.
Children¡¯S Health Gradient In Developing Countries: Evidence From Indonesia

Using data of children under age fifteen in Indonesia, I examine how the health gradient among children evolves over age. It is found that health status is strongly correlated with household income among children younger than seven, but not so among the older school-aged children. I find evidence that schooling explains partly the pattern, as schooling has a positive impact on health status of children of low-income families, but little impact on health status of children of high-income families. Accessibility to healthcare providers is found to play a significant role in shaping the gradient, but it does not explain directly the observed evolving pattern of the gradient.
ON THE DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF POLYIMIDE FILMS

The paper presents results of dielectric measurements of polyimide films with C60 and C70 fullerenes added in various ratios. Changes of capacitance and dielectric losses were measured in frequency range 102-106 Hz, at the temperature of 300K. Relaxation analysis was based on Havriliak-Negami equation. Influence of type and amount of fullerene in samples on dielectric properties was observed. Even its minimal amount (0.05%) increases capacitance from 10 to 20% depending on type of fullerene. Dielectric losses coefficient is decreasing while C60 and C70 carbon contents is increasing. Approximation of dielectric spectra with Havriliak-Negami equation allowed to estimate changes of time constants of β-relaxation process. Modification of polyimid with carbon C70-type has no significant influence on time constants, while increasing amount of carbon C60-type leads to shorter β-relaxation times.
Application of Radio Frequency Identification Positioning Technology in Valuables Monitoring

With the development of positioning services, an increasing number of people and companies pay attention to the management and protection of the precious goods which they possess, through the determination of its location to achieve the management purpose [1]. At present, the main positioning way is to use the global positioning system (GPS), but many of the valuable items are stored in the indoor, and it's hard to receive a satellite signal in the room, so it cannot be accurate positioning. As a new short distance wireless data recognition technology at present, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) indoor positioning technology is very suitable for the indoor positioning. Because it has many characteristics: large amount of data storage, readable and writable, strong penetrating power, long recognition distance, fast read-write speed and the use of the characteristics of long service life and good adaptability to the environment, etc. Among the RFID indoor positioning technology of many positioning algorithms, the three sides positioning algorithm is commonly used, and more mature. At the same time, the storage space of most valuable items is simple, and the environmental factors have little influence on the signal interference. So it is feasible to use the three sides positioning algorithm of RFID positioning algorithms to locate the valuables in the indoor.
Route planning for soft modes of transport - Healthy routes

The application of sustainability principles on the definition of policies and actions for urban mobility relies on the promotion of less pollutant, economic, and more equitable modes of transport, such as walking and cycling, also known as smooth modes of transport. In this paper, a methodology is presented and described under the concept of healthy route generation. This integrates the contamination of the smooth modes of transport network, according to the noise levels and air pollution indices of the urban environment in which it is located, with the main objective of reducing the exposure level and the risk of development of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Healthy routes can be applied to attract and promote the use of smooth modes of transport in a regular basis in urban environments.