Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) in 8-Year-Old Girl: A Case Report

Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) are clinically associated with the development of non-malignant tumors throughout the body. The clinical presentation of TSC is highly variable among individual in which make the diagnosis is challenging too. Based on the 2012 International TSC Consensus Group guidelines, diagnosis is made either by genetic diagnosis or clinical diagnosis. Managing Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) is as challenging as diagnosis. Multiple organs are affected, it requires multidisciplinary approach to deal with. An 8-year-old girl consulted from Dermato-venerology department with chronic facial angiofibroma with suspicion of TSC. The symptoms at the time of examination were face lump and decreased ability to concentrate at class subjectively reported by parents. Investigation were carried and revealed that patient had a history of seizure during infancy, had finished anti epilepsy medication and has been remaining symptoms free up to this case were investigated. Diagnosis were made by matching investigation result to clinical diagnosis of the 2012 International TSC Consensus Group guidelines. Several supporting examinations had been done, with result: subependymal nodule from head CT Scan; Rhabdomyoma from echocardiograph; multiple mass on kidney from USG; and EEG abnormality. Management were emphasized on treating the rose symptoms and prioritization of the most potential result that might possess significant burden. TSC possess potential challenge starts from case presentation to management. Thorough investigation and multidisciplinary approached are required to successfully manage the case and eventually reduce the burden of the disease.
PASSIVE NOISE REDUCTION HEADPHONE FOR AN INTERACTIVE AND AUTOMATED HEARING SCREENING DEVICE (i-AHEAD)

Portable hearing screening systems have a positive significant impact on people’s health, especially those who live in remote areas or in developing countries. In this study, i-AHEAD with modified TDH-49 was improved to allow a hearing screening test outside a sound-treated booth without a skilled operator. circumaural cups with an acoustic absorption material were used to enhance the passive noise reduction (PNA) in TDH-49 headphones. A microphone was attached to the headphone to monitor the surrounding noise in real-time. The improved version of the i-AHEAD system was calibrated and then tested in a field trial on 186 participants at test frequencies of 500, 1000, 2000 and 4000 Hz and screening cut-off levels of 40 and 25 dB hearing level (dB HL). The screening test using i-AHEAD was performed in a typical seminar room and validated with a diagnostic hearing assessment in the soundproof audiology booth. The specificity and sensitivity were 91% and 95%, respectively, at 40 dB screening cut-off point. However, the specificity decreased to 38.9% at 25 dB HL when the 500-Hz test tone was included. i-AHEAD with the modified TDH-49 headphones is useful for screening significant hearing loss at 40 dB HL, but further improvement is needed for this tool to be able to screen mild hearing loss at 25 dB HL cut-off level.
POST-EARTHQUAKE RESIDUAL CAPACITY OF DAMAGED REINFORCED

Many buildings experience intermediate levels of damage during seismic events. In these situations, a detailed assessment of the building in its damaged state is required for owners and other stakeholders to make informed decisions about the building’s future. The aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010-2011 brought into sharp attention the lack of available resources for engineers conducting detailed assessments of damaged buildings. In this paper, a proposed framework for the post-earthquake assessment of damaged reinforced concrete buildings is presented. Within the bounds of this framework, the need for models estimating the residual strength, stiffness, and deformability of damaged reinforced concrete components is also discussed. Preliminary results are presented from an experimental program evaluating the residual capacity of damaged and repaired reinforced concrete beams. This work is part of an effort funded by the New Zealand Government to develop guidelines for assessing the post-earthquake residual capacity of damaged structures.
A Comparative Study of Detection of Phishing URL

: In the recent times collecting information has become a trend over the online portals through URL based forms or cookies saving techniques. This paper list out the various techniques of detecting phishing URL using different approaches based on Machine Learning or over the database modeling. A phishing website (sometimes called a "spoofed" site) tries to steal your account password or other confidential information by tricking you into believing you're on a legitimate website. You could even land on a phishing site by mistyping a URL (web address).
Evaluation of comparative efficacy of herbal gel and spray in sub clinical mastitis in bovines

Subclinical mastitis represents a major proportion of the burden of mastitis. Determining somatic cell count of milk are useful approaches to detect sub clinical mastitis. Four hundred and seventy-two milk samples from 259 lactating dairy cattle were screened in this study for subclinical mastitis using california mastitis test, mastrip and subsequent bacterial isolation. Comparison of indirect test was assessed by somatic cell count. Incidence of mastitis was evaluated in terms milk yield, month of lactation, involvement of quarter and parity. Comparative evaluation of efficacy of herbal spray and gel were done in two treatment groups having 10 animals in each groups. Mastitis was evaluated in these groups by somatic cell count. Overall prevalence of subclinical mastitis was 14.29%. Incidence of udder infection in cattle appeared to increase with the increase in average daily milk yield. Maximum incidence was observed during fourth lactation and 3 parity. Main causative agent was staphylococcus followed by streptococcus, micrococcus 6 and E. coli. Application of herbal spray showed the more efficacies over herbal gel on subclinical mastitis.
The Human Papilloma Virus and its capacity to cause various Cancers

A brief analysis and assessment has been done in acquiring information and knowledge regarding the human papilloma virus and its capacity to cause various cancers. The understanding of HPV and its capacity to cause various cancers has been acknowledged. This article includes HPV family and clinical significance, pathogenesis and mode of action, mode of infection, molecular diagnosis, and biological activity of oncoproteins, capacity of HPV in cancer development, and finally HPV vaccination and prevention. The article mainly focused on the main mechanism of action of HPV in causing cancer in the host.
Substrate gelatin zymogrophy analysis of matrix metalloproteinase-2 and -9 (gelatinase A and B) in sera from patients with benign and malignant prostate disease

Background: it is widely recognized that the measurement of serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels as a biomarker of prostate cancer is imperfect, in that it can have many false positive elevations attributable to benign hyperplasia and subclinical prostatic inflammation. There is increasing data that support a positive correlation between gelatinases (MMP-2 and MMP-9) activity and tumor cell invasion and tumor aggressiveness. Objectives: we evaluated gelatinolytic activities in the sera of patients with prostate carcinoma (PCa) and benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) in order to verify whether MMP-2 and MMP-9 might have a potential as non-invasive biomarkers. Methods: by gelatin zymography, we verified MMP activity in a total of 42 patients. Of these, 8 had benign prostate hyperplasia and 34 had carcinoma. A total of 16 normal healthy volunteers with no concomitant illnesses were used as controls. Results: four dominant proteinases were detected migrating at ~ 240, 130, 92 and 72 kDa. The most abundant lytic activity is at 92 kDa (MMP-9); whereas MMP-2 is present in smaller quantities. MMP-9 activity is significantly enhanced in the sera from patients with cancer compared with control individuals (p=0.003). Moreover, MMP-9/MMP-2 ratio was able to discriminate cancer patients from healthy subjects as well as from BPH, and the ROC curve showed that the ratio was a significant predictor for prostate cancer with sensitivity of 80% and specificity of 87%. Discussion: these results suggest that the inexpensive measurement of MMPs in serum may serve as a suitable supplementary tool to distinguish patients with prostate cancer from patients with BPH, and the addition of these enzymes to currently available PSA and/or f-PSA/t-PSA ratio might provide clinicians additional objective information on prostate carcinomas.
Disruption of Gypsy Moth (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) Mating with Disparlure

Field tests were conducted in sparsely infested areas of Massachusetts to evaluate the effectiveness of microdispersable formulations of racemic disparlure in disrupting mating of Lymantria dispar (L.). The incidence of mating of laboratory-reared female moths placed in treated plots was significantly less than that in control plots, and the degree of mating disruption was correlated with the amount of disparlure applied. The number of male moths captured in (+)-disparlure-baited traps was also correlated with the incidence of mating. In plots treated with 50 g/ha, only 2% mating was observed, compared with 65% mating in control plots.
Innovative-entrepreneurial universities in the postmodern world concept: possibilities of implementation

In the article, they analyze the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship in the transformation of universities into entrepreneurial institutions, understanding university institutions as organizations that, in a macro concept of their management is represented in its most general expression; that is the production and application of knowledge. In this sense, the characteristic features of commercial, academic activities in innovative and entrepreneurial universities are analyzed, and the optimal organizational and economic mechanisms for the development of this model are studied, in order to use even more positive experience in systems of higher education in countries with less innovative-entrepreneurial development.
Standard Auction Revisited 1

This paper tries to find out a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a symmetric and increasing equilibrium bidding strategy for buyers in a standard auction. The paper considers a standard auction with one seller (whose valuation of the object is zero) and shows that an increasing bidding strategy constitutes a symmetric Bayesian Nash equilibrium if and only if the bidding strategy, derived from the first order condition of expected payoff maximization, is increasing in valuations. We also provide two examples to illustrate our results.
Study of online service recovery quality’s impacts on eWOM

This study explores the impacts of online retailer’s service recovery quality on customers’ electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) and the mediating effect of cultural values. A relationship model is proposed and tested by using structural equation modeling method. Our results show that contact, responsiveness and compensation all have direct positive effect on customers’ positive eWOM; satisfaction of service recovery (SSR) has a complete or a partial mediating effect on the relationship between online retail service recovery quality and positive eWOM. People with different cultural value perceive the importance of service recovery quality differently. Responsiveness is the most important quality dimension for individualists, while contact is the most important dimension for collectivists.
Coordination among Ministries/Institution in the Context of Reducing Poverty

Statistics Indonesia's report 2005-2017 shows Indonesia has succeeded in reducing poverty. However, the decline of poverty level rate was not comparable with the budget increase allocated for the poverty reduction program. The massive budget allocated for the program and the group of ministries/institutions executing the program were expected to resolve the poverty problems shortly. However, the rate of poverty reduction has become at stagnante state, with a near-zero decline per year since 2012. This study aims to analyze coordination among ministries/institutions in the context of reducing poverty in Indonesia from the perspective of the Whole-of-Government and factors affecting coordination among ministries/institutions in the context of poverty reduction in Indonesia. This study applied the post-positivism method as an approach to analyzing the problem and utilized the data from the survey. This study concluded that a Whole-ofGovernment approach is needed as a solution to the problem of coordination among existing stakeholders.
Reference Model as a Factor of Quality Improvement of Management Under Uncertainty

— The subject of the research is to study the improvement of the quality of the management process, which is inextricably linked with the digitalization of management activities. The purpose of this work is to develop a simulation model that includes a reference model of an object, which allows analyzing the quality of control of various systems with probabilistic loss of information about the state of the control object. Computer simulation of control systems with a network channel for transmitting information was carried out for various probabilities of loss of information from the measuring device. It was assumed that the transmission of information over a network channel during the quantization period is carried out with a given probability. If the data packet from the measuring device is not transmitted in one quantization cycle to the control device, then it is considered to be lost. The control device processed the incoming information sequentially. It is shown that the developed simulation model allows analyzing the quality of transients of control systems using network stochastic information transmission channels. The examples considered show that a network management system with low probabilities of information loss provides a satisfactory quality of the transition process. However, with an increase in the probability of information loss, the control system without using the reference model of the control object significantly worsens the quality indicators of the control process and may even lose stability. The study showed that the use of a reference model of the control object significantly improves the quality of transients. The innovation of the developed simulation model is in the fact that its development is based on modeling both the probability of losing information about the state of the control object and the reference model of the object itself. Modeling the functioning of the network control system was carried out in the Simulink environment of the Matlab system.
Effect of suspended sediment on fertilization success in the scleractinian coral Pectinia lactuca

The effect of increased levels of suspended sediment on fertilization success in the scleractinian coral Pectinia lactuca was investigated in a laboratory experiment following a mass coral spawning event on reefs off Singapore. Egg–sperm bundles were collected from tank-spawned coral colonies collected from the field several days prior to the anticipated mass spawning. Eggs and sperm from each colony were separated and distributed systematically across replicated treatments (N = 9) with three concentrations of fine suspended sediment. Spawning and embryo development in Pectinia lactuca followed a pattern similar to other scleractinian coral species. There was a significant effect of increased suspended sediment concentration on fertilization success (P < 0.05). Both high- (169 mg l−1) and medium- (43 mg l−1) suspended sediment treatments decreased fertilization success compared to controls. These results imply that increased turbidity levels (whether chronic, such as in the waters around Singapore, or short-term, caused by a dredging operation)—when coinciding with the coral spawning season—may affect the reproductive success of corals and compromise coral recruitment and recovery of degraded reefs.
A closed-loop and ergonomic control for prosthetic wrist rotation

Beyond the ultimate goal of prosthetics, repairing all the capabilities of amputees, the development line of upper-limb prostheses control mainly relies on three aspects: the robustness, the intuitiveness and the reduction of mental fatigue. Many complex structures and algorithms are proposed but no one question a common open-loop nature, where the user is the one in charge of correcting errors. Yet, closing the control loop at the prosthetic level may help to improve the three main lines of research cited above. One major issue to build a closed-loop control is the definition of a reliable error signal; this paper proposes to use body compensations, naturally exhibited by prostheses users when the motion of their device is inaccurate, as such. The described control scheme measures these compensatory movements and makes the prosthesis move in order to bring back the user into an ergonomic posture. The function of the prosthesis is no longer to perform a given motion but rather to correct the posture of its user while s/he focus on performing an endpoint task. This concept was validated and compared to a standard open-loop scheme, for the control of a prosthetic wrist, with five healthy subjects completing a dedicated task with a customized transradial prosthesis. Results show that the presented closed-loop control allows for more intuitiveness and less mental burden without enhancing body compensation.
Fast-charging of lithium iron phosphate battery with ohmic-drop compensation method

Developing fast-charging protocols for Li-ion batteries is a key issue for a wider deployment of electric vehicles and portable electrical devices. In this study, fast-charging of lithium iron phosphate batteries is investigated with different protocols. High charging rates are used with an extended constant current period thanks to a higher limit voltage based on the ohmic-drop compensation principle. This study shows that a compromise has to be found between the charging time and the durability of the battery. As an example a 6C charge with 57% ohmic-drop compensation allows to reach 95% of charge in 11 min and the full charge in half an hour. With this protocol, more than 1500 cycles are reached before getting below 80% of state of health. ã 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Implementing standardised flow: navigating operational and professional dependencies

PurposeThe purpose of this study had two aims: (1) to extend insight regarding the challenges of implementing standardised work, via care pathways, in a healthcare setting by considering interactions with other operational (i.e. resource sharing, portfolio alignment) and professional (i.e. autonomous expertise) dependencies and (2) to develop novel insights regarding a specific flow mechanism, the stroke nurse practitioner, a form of flow “pilo” or guide.Design/methodology/approachThis was a longitudinal case study of implementing the acute stroke care pathway in a National Health Service hospital in England based on 185 hours of non-participant observations and 68 semi-structured interviews. Archival documents were also analysed.FindingsThe combined flow, operational and professional dependency lens extends operations management understanding of the challenge of implementing standardised work in healthcare. One observed practice, the process pilot role, may be particularly valuable in dealing with these dependencies but it requires specific design and continuous support, for which the authors provide some initial guidance.Research limitations/implicationsThe research was a single case study and was focussed on a single care pathway. The findings require replication and extension but offer a novel set of insights into the implications of standardised work in healthcare.Originality/valueIn addition to confirming that a multidependency lens adds conceptual and practical insight to the challenges of implementing standardised work in a healthcare setting, the findings and recommendations regarding flow “pilots” are novel. The authors' analysis of this role reveals new insights regarding the need for continued improvisation in standardised work.
The carnivorous habit of members of the septibranch genus Cuspidaria (Mollusca: Bivalvia)

Abstract The septibranch bivalves Cuspidaria rostrata and Cuspidaria obesa are carnivores. The food-capturing organ is the inhalant siphon, which can be suddenly protruded towards potential prey such as copepods and ostracods, while simultaneously a strong inhalant current is created. When the septum is rapidly contracted blood is forced from mantle sinuses into the rostral and siphonal sinuses, causing the protrusion of the inhalant siphon. The septal contraction also leaves negative pressure in the infra-septal palliai chamber and produces the inhalant current. The stimulus for the directional food-capturing response is a low-frequently vibration which acts upon mechanoreceptors situated in the siphonal tentacles. Small crustaceans are the most frequent prey. Protein digestion is initiated extracellularly in the stomach.
1 Experimental Results on ImageNet

We evaluate our method on the large-scale dataset, i.e. the ImageNet dataset [2], to further validate its effectiveness. In previous researches for robust classification against adversarial examples, this challenging dataset has been seldom evaluated on. For fair comparison, we use the network of ResNet-101. We compare with the Adversarial Logit Pairing (ALP) method [1], of which the results are shown in Table 1. Note that our experiments are conducted on a single GPU. With a large number of GPUs, e.g. 128 GPUs, the top-5 accuracy can be boosted to 49.7% using a very large batch size such as 4096 as in [3]. However, we do not intend to pursue the improvement through such large-scale distributed training. We concentrate on the effectiveness of the novel bidirectional likelihood regularization for improving the robustness of classification models.
A Model for Auto-Calibration of Stereo Camera and Lidar Based on Neural Networks

—The methodologies of cameras and Lidar fusion is widely researched over recent years, and the fusion of both sensors can provide us essential information from surrounding environment. However, it is not a straightforward task to utilize two sensor data due to the calibration challenges that align Lidar point cloud with the camera image pixels. One could calibrate both camera and Lidar before using, but in reality, errors are cumulated along with the time because of vibration or distortion of the platforms that sensors settled on. In this paper, we implemented a methodology to auto-calibrate stereo cameras with a Lidar sensor using a deep neural network. The neural network takes two depth maps generated from stereo cameras and Lidar sensor as the input. Next, two separate convolutional neural network will extract features from the inputs. The features will be fused and fed to a global regression net, which will infer the calibration errors between two depth maps. Our evaluation showed that auto calibration network managed to ﬁx the errors with different error ranges and a iterative calibration method is used to ﬁx the cumulated error gradualy.
Transmon qubit design for a cavity dimer in circuit QED

Recent developments in superconducting circuits o er new possibilities for quantum simulation based on cavity quantum electrodynamics. For example onedimensional arrays of coupled non-linear resonators allow to investigate interesting properties of phase transitions in quantum many-body systems. In this thesis I will describe the design of a superconducting "transmon" arti cial two-level system for non-linear circuit QED resonator arrays. Based on electrostatic simulations, the resonator-transmon interaction is estimated and adjusted for a Dimer sample fabrication. Furthermore, the implementation of a potential in-situ tunable resonator-resonator coupling element is discussed.