Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Joint Feature Learning With Robust Local Ternary Pattern for Face Recognition

In the age of rising crime, there is a critical need for high security. Biometrics has now gained a lot of attention. Facial biometrics is a method that can identify a specific individual in a facial image by analyzing and comparing patterns. Hence position-specific discriminative information can be exploited for face representation using Joint feature learning method. Having learned these feature projections for different face regions, spatial pooling is performed for face patches within each region to enhance the representative power of the learned features. Moreover, JFL model is stacked into a deep architecture to exploit hierarchical information for feature extraction and it further improves the recognition performance. In this paper, the extension of LBP algorithm is proposed. LBP is normally sensitive to noise and Local Ternary pattern partially solves this problem by encoding the minimum pixel difference into a separate state. The minimal pixel difference may be easily overwhelmed by noise. Thus, it is difficult to accurately determine its sign and magnitude. In this paper, concept of uncertain state is introduced to encode the small pixel difference. Robust Local Ternary Pattern is combined with JFL for better feature extraction and to improve the robustness to image noise.
TWEET SUMMARIZATION IN REAL TIME EVENT ANALYSIS

: Short-text messages such as tweets are being created and shared at an unprecedented rate. Tweets, in their raw form, while being informative, can also be overwhelming. For both end-users and data analysts, it is a nightmare to plow through millions of tweets which contain enormous amount of noise and redundancy. In this paper, we propose a novel continuous summarization framework called Sumblr to alleviate the problem. In contrast to the traditional document summarization methods which focus on static and small-scale data set, Sumblr is designed to deal with dynamic, fast arriving, and large-scale tweet streams. Our proposed framework consists of three major components. First, we propose an online tweet stream clustering algorithm to cluster tweets and maintain distilled statistics in a data structure called tweet cluster vector (TCV). Second, we develop a TCV-Rank summarization technique for generating online summaries and historical summaries of arbitrary time durations. Third, we design an effective topic evolution detection method, which monitors summary-based/volume-based variations to produce timelines automatically from tweet streams. Our experiments on large-scale real tweets demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our framework.
GPU Implementation of Parallel SVM as Applied to Intrusion Detection System

--Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is an important and necessary component in ensuring network security that involves separation of attacks and Non-attacks. Support Vector Machine (SVM) is one of the most popular tools for solving general classification problems because of its high prediction accuracy. However, the training phase of nonlinear kernel based SVM algorithm is a computationally expensive task, especially for large datasets. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to solve large classification problems based on parallel SVM. The system utilizes powerful GPU device and Multithreading to improve the speed performance of SVM training phases. Initial experiments done with KDD CUP 1999 dataset show that the training time of SVM is shortened and the detection accuracy obtained by our method is exactly same or more than as that obtained by serial SVM.
Portal vein thrombosis in cirrhotic and non cirrhotic patients: from diagnosis to treatment

ABSTRACT Introduction: Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) may occur in non-cirrhotic and cirrhotic patients. It can be classified as acute (if a recent thrombus is present) and chronic (if portal cavernoma has developed). Patients can be symptomatic or may present signs and symptoms related to the development of portal hypertension. In rare cases bowel infarction may occur. Areas covered: This review provides an overview of the clinical presentation, complications, diagnostic challenges and available treatments for PVT in non-cirrhotic and cirrhotic patients (NCPVT). Expert opinion: Treatment of acute NCPVT aims at recanalizing the thrombosed veins and preventing intestinal infarction and portal hypertension. Anticoagulation should be started promptly and maintained for at least 6 months. Long-term anticoagulation should be implemented in the presence of underlying persistent thrombotic state. In chronic NCPVT, treatment aims at managing portal hypertension and portal cavernoma cholangiopathy and preventing new thrombotic events. In this setting, the indication for anticoagulation should be individualized. No formal recommendations can be given for PVT in cirrhosis, since there are no randomized controlled trials, prospective studies, or ad hoc guidelines. High quality studies, including randomized controlled trials, will be needed to provide robust evidence on the best treatment strategy.
APPROACHES TO PHARMACOLOGICAL CORRECTION OF ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION ASSOCIATED WITH METABOLIC ENDOTOXEMIA

The article considers possible pathogenetic mechanisms of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and potential ways of early prevention and correction them. A special place in the article have been paid to the role of proinflammatory cytokines and Toll-like receptor 4 type and a review of the main groups of drugs (monoclonal antibodies to proinflammatory cytokines and antagonists of Toll-like receptor type 4) for carrying out targeted high-tech treatment of metabolic endotoxemia .
MOBILE TECHNOLOGY FOR HEARING IMPAIRED

approach of an alternate way of communication through mobile for the people with hearing disabilities. The system mainly focuses in the subject that the deaf people to communicate via mobile phone without any chance of disturbances. Usually people in cases of hard hearing, will use aid devices for hearing purposes. But while communicating through cellular phones will result in degradation in hearing aid performance and sometimes results in worst cases due to interference of radiation. The biomedical engineering is going to help here to understand the human auditory peripheral system where the project is going to make use of the cochlear nerve. The cochlear nerve is a nerve that connects teeth nerve or carnial nerve and inner ear drum. So without the help of outer ear drum vibration, inner ear drum will function independently when cochlear nerve is vibrated or stimulated. The artificial stimulation of cochlear nerve is done through external application of vibration through transducers with better accuracy to achieve high dynamic range in terms of decibels. So this project suggests an alternate way which totally provides a better utilization of mobile technology.
Coronary-intercostal steal syndrome, a rare connection between the left circumflex coronary artery and intercostal arteries: A case report

A 60-year-old female patient presented with typical anginal pain on exertion and relieved by rest for about one month. Percutaneous coronary angiography was done and showed an abnormal left circumfl ex coronary artery connecting to intercostal artery. Embolization of that abnormal connection was done successfully and the patient discharged from hospital after 24 hours. This case shows a new form of coronary steal syndrome. This cause could be missed if not put under the differential diagnosis of typical anginal pain with normal coronary arteries.
A NOTE ON DEGREE DISTANCE INDEX

In this note, we give an upper bound for degree distance index of a graph in terms of vertex Padmakar-Ivan index, first Zagreb index, diameter and number of triangles. Also, we give a lower bound for degree distance index of a graph in terms of vertex Padmakar-Ivan index and number of triangles.
Detection and Tracing source of Denial of Service attack using Hybrid Trace back Mechanism

:- Denial of service attack is one of the problems faced in networking which results in unavailability of resources to the network users.Tracing denial-of-service (DoS) attacks back to their source is a difficult task for network administrators. The source of attacks, sometimes, comes from a single source or multiple sources that makes harder to an investigator to trace attackers back to their original computer. This work provides a detection and IP trace route mechanism that can be able to identify a source of DoS attacks. The detection process is done by a NIDS called Snort and a hybrid trace back scheme is used to trace back the source of the IP. Altogether the system can monitor, detect and trace back the source of the DoS attack.
Effect of Isotretinoin on Nuclear Maturation and Fertilization Rate of Bovine Oocyte

The blastulation rate following in vitro maturation, fertilization and culture of bovine oocytes is generally low. Numerous studies have reported that oxidative stress (OS) has detrimental effects on quality of gametes and embryos under culture conditions. Thus, adding some substances to IVM and IVF media could protect oocytes and early embryos against oxidative stress. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether enriching the oocyte in in vitro maturation medium with isotretinoin (13-cis-retinoic acid) would improve the in vitro embryo production efficiency in cattle. To this end, 250 oocytes were collected and divided into five groups of 50 oocytes: Group 1: Washing medium (WM) and maturation medium (MM) without retinoic acid; group 2: The WM supplemented with 5 nm isotretinoin and the MM without retinoic acid; group 3: The WM without retinoic acid and the MM plus 5 nm isotretinoin; group 4: The WM supplemented with 5 nm isotretinoin and the MM plus 5 nm isotretinoin; and group 5: The WM without retinoic acid and the MM plus 10 nm isotretinoin. The results showed that nuclear maturation in the groups 3 and 4 had higher percentage than that in the groups 1, 2 and 5. The percentage of oocytes reaching the metaphase II stage significantly increased (P<0.05) in the 5 nm RA-treated groups compared to groups without retinoic acid (58.30%) and 10 nm RA (50%). RA supplementation significantly improved the fertilization rate (76%) compared with groups without retinoic acid (56%). The results demonstrated that addition of 5 nm isotretinoin to the in vitro oocyte maturation medium enhanced the maturation and fertilization rates of bovine oocyte.
Polytherapy as first-line in status epilepticus: should we change our practice? “Time is brain”!

R. Madhavan Nayar Center for Comprehensive Epilepsy Care (RMNC), Department of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, Kerala, India Correspondence to: Dr. Ashalatha Radhakrishnan. Consultant Neurologist & Epileptologist, R. Madhavan Nayar Center for Comprehensive Epilepsy Care (RMNC), Department of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum 695011, Kerala, India. Email: drashalatha@sctimst.ac. in or ashalatharadhakrishnan@gmail.com. Provenance: This is a Guest Commentary commissioned by Editor-in-Chief Rafael Rosell, MD, PhD [Cancer Biology and Precision Medicine Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Ctra Canyet, Badalona (Barcelona), Spain]. Comment on: Navarro V, Dagron C, Elie C, et al. Prehospital treatment with levetiracetam plus clonazepam or placebo plus clonazepam in status epilepticus (SAMUKeppra): a randomised, double-blind, phase 3 trial. Lancet Neurol 2016;15:47-55.
ENHANCING COMMUNICATION THROUGH MULTI USERS OFDM SYSTEM EFFICIENCIES BY MODULATION IMPLEMENTATION

Digital communications systems require each channel to operate at a specific frequency and with a specific bandwidth. In fact, communication systems have evolved so that the largest amount of data can be communicated through a finite frequency range. In this document we will focus on the recent evolution of communications systems into using various mechanisms for effectively using the frequency spectrum. More specifically, we will describe how frequency division multiplexing (FDM) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) are able to effectively utilize the frequency spectrum.
Implementation of Opinion Mining Based Movie Rating System

This paper presents an experimental work on a document-level sentiment analysis of movie reviews. A linguistic feature oriented scheme that analyses the textual reviews of a movie review and assign it a sentiment label on each sentimental keyword has been devised. The scores from multiple reviews are then collected and a net sentiment profile of the movie is generated. A keyword-label based scheme with two different semantic feature selections containing adjectives, adverbs and n-gram feature mining is used. Also this keyword-label scheme has been used to compute the document-level sentiment for each movie reviewed. This paper explains the steps involved in sentiment analysis and its application on automated movie rating system to rate movies based on reviews quoted by people
RESEALED ERYTHROCYTES: A NOVEL AND PROMISING DRUG CARRIER

Targeted drug delivery, known as smart drug delivery focuses on targeting the medicaments by increasing the residence time and the concentration of drug at the target site of the body (organs, cells, tissues) thus improving the efficacy of treatment and reducing the side effects. Various carriers that can be used in this type of delivery are liposomes, nanoshells, erythrosomes and resealed erythrocytes. In this Innovation era, resealed erythrocytes have become the choice of drug delivery system because of its excellent biocompatibility, biodegradability and ability to entrap several molecules. The promising aspect of resealed erythrocytes makes them useful as a drug carrier. They have reduced toxicity, improved pharmacokinetic properties that help in transport of active ingredient to the targeted site. This property makes them superior as compared to the conventional drug delivery system. The method of isolation involves collection of sample from the interest, then separating the plasma and finally resealing it. Erythrocytes are prepared by using methods like hypotonic dilution, hypotonic dialysis, pre-swelling, osmotic lysis, endocytosis and chemical penetration. The tremendous potential to achieve site specific drug delivery makes them as first choice of drugs in areas like enzyme therapy, cancer, hepatic tumours and antiviral. The present article includes methods, applications, evaluation, future aspects of resealed erythrocytes and highlights its applications with particular stress in areas of cancer, hepatic tumours and enzyme therapy. INTRODUCTION: The drug delivery is a method in which the pharmaceutical ingredient is transported to the targeted site without loss of the chemical entity. Targeted drug delivery, sometimes called smart drug delivery, is a method of delivering drug to the patient in a manner that increases the concentration of drug in targeted parts of the body. Targeted drug delivery system is based on a method which delivers a certain amount of a therapeutic agent for a prolonged period of time to a targeted area within the body 1 .
Soluble Tachyzoite Antigen Immunization Can Protect Mice from Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis Via Induction of programmed death-1

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common autoimmune neurodegenerative disorder that affects young aged people causing many disabilities and financial burdens to patients. Immunotherapy is a main line of MS treatment. Induction of programmed death-1 (PD-1) proved effectiveness in many studies. This protein is induced in many protozoal chronic infections. Aim: assessment of Toxoplasma gondii soluble tachyzoite antigen (STAg) as an immunotherapeutic agent for experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) and the role of PD-1 in this protection. Methods and results: Four mice groups were used. Third and fourth groups represented the EAE model. Others served as controls. Fourth group was immunized by STAg. Disease condition was assessed clinically (by recording days of disease onset and mean clinical scores), immunologically (by measuring proinflammatory cytokines and antibodies) and histopathologically (by recording brain inflammation and demyelination scores). PD1expression on immune cells was assessed by immunohistochemistry. It was found that STAg immunized EAE group had an improved condition with lower clinical, immunological and histopathological scores. PD-1 expression was higher in STAg-EAE group. It also correlated negatively with all other assessed parameters. Conclusion: STAg immunization can protect from EAE by induction of PD-1 on immune cells. [Shaimaa Ahmed Sharaf EL-Deen, Reham Mustafa Brakat, Asmaa Shams El Dein Mohamed. Soluble Tachyzoite Antigen Immunization Can Protect Mice from Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis Via Induction of programmed death-1. J Am Sci 2018;14(3):1-13]. ISSN 1545-1003 (print); ISSN 2375-7264 (online). http://www.jofamericanscience. org. 1. doi:10.7537/marsjas140318.01.
International Journal of Applied Sciences and Biotechnology

The food in childhood determines the health in old age. We analyzed the difference in the food habit and physical activities of urban and rural children and their effect in the development of old age diseases. The consumption of breakfast is more in urban area than rural children, similarly the consumption of meals is more in rural children comparing to urban one and the consumption of dinner is more in urban than rural one. The leafy vegetable and non-leafy vegetable consumption is more by rural children as compared to urban, but underground stem consumption is more by urban children than rural one. Fish and mutton consumption is also more in the case of urban children as compared to rural children. The consumption of chicken is less in urban children as compared to rural children. This difference in the underground stem and non-vegetable food consumption may be reason behind the excess weight gain and more old age diseases in the urban area. These facts must be cross checked with other factors for better interpretation. Our study indicates that urban children involved in physical activities less time comparing to rural one (51, 37 minutes) respectively for less than 30 minutes. But rural people involved in physical activities greater than 1 hour or two hour is more. This shows that rural children getting better physical work than the urban counterpart. This difference in physical activity will correlate the old age disease. Therefore to prevent various diseases in old age and provide better old age life a well planned awareness program must be initiated in all the preprimary and primary educational institutes without delay.
Photosynthetic Behavior of Gmelina Arborea Genotypes in Rooted Mini-Cuttings Stage under Nursery Conditions, at South Pacific of Costa Rica

The aim of this study was to determine and interpret the photosynthetic capacity of five clones of Gmelina arboreaat the stage of mini-cuttings rooted in INISEFORgreenhouse. The light response curve of the clones as well as their performance in gas exchange wasevaluated, with no statistically significant differences among them. Statistical analysis was performed using InfoStat software, an analysis of variance and comparison of means by Tukey test wasperformed. Average values were recorded for net photosynthesis (An), stomatal conductance (Gs), transpiration (E) and water use efficiency (WUE) with values of 9.63 μmol m -2 s -1 , 142.83 mmol m -2 s -1 , 2.40 μmol m -2 s -1 y 4.16 μmol m -2 s -1 ,respectively. Clone 6 obtained greater physiological values for net photosynthesis (An) and stomatal conductance (Gs), and that also was located in the second place with respect to transpiration (E) and water use efficiency (WUE).
Grid Connected Solar Power Generation System with a Multi-Level Inverter by using Fuzzy logic Controller

The new solar power generation system, which is composed of a dc/dc power converter and a new seven-level inverter. The dc/dc power converter integrates a dc–dc boost converter and a transformer to convert the output voltage of the solar cell array in to two independent voltage sources with multiple relationships. This new seven-level inverter is configured using a capacitor selection circuit and a fullbridge power converter, connected in cascade. The capacitor selection circuit converts the two output voltage sources of dc–dc power converter into a three-level dc voltage, and the full-bridge power converter further converts this three-level dc voltage into a seven-level ac voltage. In this way, the proposed solar power generation system generates a sinusoidal output current that is in phase with the utility voltage and is fed into the utility. The salient features of the proposed seven-level inverter are that only six power electronic switches are used, and only one power electronic switch is switched at high frequency at any time to generate the seven-level output voltage. This reduces the switching power loss and improves the power efficiency. The voltages of the two dc capacitors in the proposed seven-level inverter are balanced automatically. Keywords— Fuzzy logic controller, Grid connected, Multilevel inverter, PWM inverter
Privacy in Map Reduce Based Systems: A Review

—Today, every organisation generates and adds huge amount of data to the cloud. This vast amount of data which cannot be effectively captured, processed and analysed by traditional database and search tools is called Big Data. The processing of big data is made possible by using Map Reduce, a programming model and an associated implementation, introduced by Google. MapReduce process d a t a , w h i c h are located at different data nodes. It pushes computations to where the data r e s i d e s rather than t h e opposite. So, Map Reduce Framework or source codes may leak sensitive data during computation process. In current i m p l e m e n t a t i o n (Airavat) Mapper code is written by user and Reducer code is selected from a list provided by the system. If these codes are given by the system itself, usability may become low. Therefore, in the proposed s ys t em both Map and Reduce codes can be written by the user. So usability will be high. A Computation System ensures the privacy leak through storage channels (network connections, files) or privacy leak through the output of the computation is stopped. Use SELinux is used to prevent storage channel leaks. Leaks through the output of the computations are checked by using differential privacy mechanisms.