Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Propolis: a therapeutic alternative for oral cavity

Recent research in the field of the chemistry and pharmacology of propolis has allowed for its broader and more effective use in improving human health because of its sui generis biological activity and its ability to be a "natural product capable of behaving as a living product "with possibilities of establishing multiple synergistic combinations, conditioned by its exceptional richness in natural active principles, which exceed 150 constituents [7-9].
Big Table: Need of Cloud Big Table

This paper focuses on Big table, which is a circulated stockpiling framework for overseeing organized information that is intended to scale to an extensive size: peta bytes of information crosswise over a large number of product servers. Numerous activities at has been stored in Google store as big table which include web ordering Google Earth, Google Finance. These applications put altogether different requests on big table, both as far as information size and dormancy. In spite of these shifted requests, big table has effectively given an adaptable answer for these Google items.This paper portray the basic information give by Big table, which gives customers dynamic control over information design and arrangement and depicts the outline and execution of Big table.
Effect of computer animation on users' performance : A review

Avec les rapides avancees technologiques de la derniere decennie, les nouvelles formes de visualisation avancee, comme la realite virtuelle ou l'animation, ont prolifere. Contrairement a l'idee recue selon laquelle les animations ameliorent la qualite des interactions homme-ordinateur, les recherches ne font pas toujours etat de benefices sur le plan cognitif Dans cet article, nous presentons une revue de 17 recherches sur les effets de l'animation dans plusieurs domaines, et notamment en education, interaction homme-machine et psychologie. Deux types de recherches sont rapportees: 12 recherches experimentales, comparant une interface statique et une interface animee dans des conditions controlees, et 5 recherches de terrain, en milieu scolaire, comparant l'utilisation d'une interface animee a un cours traditionnel (en general pour la phase d'exercices). En termes de performance generale, parmi les 12 recherches qui comparent interface statique et interface animee, sept etudes rapportent un effet positif de l'animation sur les performances (en general, temps et exactitude dans des tâches qui suivent l'observation du dispositif). Les cinq etudes restantes ne trouvent aucune difference entre les deux types de dispositifs, De meme, trois des cinq etudes de terrain rapportent de meilleurs resultats pour le groupe beneficiant de l'animation par rapport a un apprentissage papier-crayon. Ainsi, les resultats ne permettent pas d'apporter de reponse tranchee ni pour conforter, ni pour infirmer l'utilite de l'animation dans le cadre du travail. Une meilleure attitude est d'evaluer la pertinence de l'utilisation d'une interface animee en fonction de la situation dans laquelle elle va etre utilisee. Cinq facteurs se sont averes d'une importance non negligeable: le type de contenu a transmettre, le niveau d'interactivite, l'objectif de l'animation, le design de l'interface animees et enfin les variabilites interindividuelles. Pour conclure, cette synthese souligne le manque de recherches de fond sur l'animation qui ne seraient pas dirigees par l'intuition mais par une reflexion sur les processus cognitifs que l'animation est supposee ameliorer. Neanmoins, deux principes de conception se degagent de ces recherches; 1/ le principe de concision, selon lequel l'information doit etre transmise de la facon la plus claire et simple possible, 2/ le principe de correspondance conceptuelle, selon lequel l'animation doit etre utilisee uniquement lorsque le contenu a transmettre implique un changement dans le temps.
The Role of Circadian Disruption in Prostate Cancer Development

s from 336 articles were reviewed, of which 252 were uninformative on the hypothesis or had been published in other languages than English. We further excluded 69 studies for the following reasons: they were commentaries or hypothesis-generating reports, reviews or letters not presenting original data, exposure did not involve circadian disruption, or they were experimental studies of genetics, animal models, cell lines, case series or interventions. Thus 12 epidemiologic studies were identified whereof two presented meta-analyses that combined included 4 eligible individual studies; both meta-analyses were also presented as combined estimates. Thus, 16 studies in total were reviewed.
Ultrasonographic assessment of spleen, kidney and liver size in licensed football players

Objectives: The aim of this study was to find out the effect of training on dimensions of spleen, kidney and liver in licensed football players. Methods: The study group consisted of 53 licensed male football players and 52 male non-athlete controls. The visceral organ measurements were evaluated by ultrasonography. Independent samples t test and linear regression analysis were used for statistical analysis. Results: The mean age was 22.11±3.36 years in footballers and 22.71±3.92 years in controls. The spleen’s transverse axis length (4.89±0.52 cm) and liver’s anteroposterior length (11.9±2.35 cm) were significantly higher in the footballers compared to the controls (4.42±0.65 cm and 10.39±1.9 cm; p<0.001 and p<0.001; respectively). However, the lengths of the long axis of the right kidney (10.3±0.86 cm), long axis of the left kidney (10.4±0.77 cm) and the transverse axis length of the right kidney (4.05±0.57 cm) were significantly lower in the footballers compared to the controls (10.69±0.68 cm, 10.97±0.68 cm, 4.35±0.74 cm; p=0.012, p<0.001, p=0.02; respectively). Furthermore, weekly training time was negatively correlated with transverse axis lengths of the right kidney (Beta=0.656; p<0.001) and of the left kidney (Beta=-0.275; p=0.042). Conclusion: We consider that knowing the normal sizes of the visceral organs of footballers will be useful in determining the appropriate diagnosis and treatment and in accelerating the footballers to come back to competitions.
Semi-supervised learning of types of temporal meanings in the Spanish lexicon

Resumen —This paper presents a series of semi-supervised learning algorithms which were designed to classify words or expressions with temporal meanings. The algorithms use a set of pre-tagged temporal expressions and a set of semantic classes which were deﬁned within a research project on the lexical coding of temporal meaning in Spanish. The algorithms in this article are mostly based on word embeddings, but they also make use of other methods. The results obtained strongly depend on the temporal classes considered, but, for some classes, results have reached 90 % precision or above.
Les usagers de cannabis et la prise de risque sur la route

Cannabis use and driving under the influence of cannabis have become a growing concern in today’s society. The aim of the present study was to further examine the relationship between the use frequency of cannabis among young adults and on-road risk taking. Participants (n=48) were all men aged between 18 and 26 years old who were asked to complete questionnaires and to perform in a simulation task. Results indicate that the use frequency of cannabis is positively associated with self-report of risky driving and suggest a trend with observed risk taking behaviour during the simulation. When comparing the different cannabis users, participants who consumed daily or multiple times a week seem to take more risk on the road than those who use cannabis once a week or less and less than monthly. Moreover, it seems that marijuana users who consume more frequently have a tendency of adopting more permissive attitudes toward smoking cannabis and taking the wheel. Implications for interventions are discussed.
An Internet of Things Platform with Google Eddystone Beacons

Consumer adoption of Internet of Things devices is increasing rapidly. About 66% of consumers mean to buy an associated home gadget by 2019. Beacon technology helps in providing actionable insights to businesses through visual heat maps generated by the consumers and these maps are further processed by machine learning algorithms. Google’s open source Eddystone beacon format released in 2015, mitigates the problem of high cost and provides an open source alternative for developers. The aim of the proposed work is to provide a low cost, reliable, flexible, scalable and open source alternative for small and medium scale enterprises. In the proposed work, an Internet of Things platform is configured and developed. The Raspberry Pi is configured as an Eddystone beacon through a NodeJs server. An android app is developed which is the front end of the platform and web services are deployed on the cloud.
Implant cochléaire et retard de développement linguistique

Les annees 90 ont vu se developper l'implant cochleaire chez l'enfant sourd congenital. Avec le recul, il apparait qu'une rehabilitation auditive de qualite n'est pas toujours garante d'un developpement du langage oral parallele. Des pathologies specifiques linguistiques sont observee dans environ 15% des cas apres implantation cochieaire. L'implant n'est pas la cause mais bien le revelateur de la dysphasie. Il doit etre considere comme un atout supplementaire dans la prise en charge orthophonique. L'implant cochleaire permet de mettre en evidence de facon precoce les troubles dysphasiques de l'enfant sourd profond, encore faut-il savoir s'alerter devant les premiers signes cliniques: non progression linguistique apres 24-36 mois d'implantation, discordance entre l'excellente reconnaissance des bruits, et celle limitee de la panole. L'implant permet an outre une prise en charge specifique de la dysphasie. La voie auditive peut-etre utilisee pour la memorisation de messages oraux en s'appuyant sur l'apprentissage automatique, en cas de dissociation automatico volontaire. Le diagnostic precis de la dysphasie passe par le bilan neurolinguistique. Celui-ci permet de comprendre quels sont les elements deficitaires et les mecanismes preserves et donc d'adapter reeducation orthophonique et pedagogie a chaque entant.
New Shades of the Vehicle Routing Problem: Emerging Problem Formulations and Computational Intelligence Solution Methods

This paper presents an overview of recent advances in the field of the vehicle routing problem (VRP), based on papers published in high-quality journals during the period from January 2015 to July 2017. A distinctive feature of the presented survey is its focus on new versions of the VRP, which have recently emerged or gained momentum, and the corresponding new solution methods, with particular emphasis on computational intelligence (CI) approaches. The list of newly proposed or currently popular VRP formulations include <italic/>last mile and same day delivery<italic/>, <italic/>crowdshipping<italic/>, <italic/>bike sharing systems<italic/>, <italic/>post-disaster response plans<italic/>, <italic/>local routing in large production or cargo plants<italic/>, <italic/>customer-centric VRP<italic/>, <italic/>autonomous delivery<italic/>, <italic/>unnamed aerial vehicle delivery<italic/>, <italic/>green VRP<italic/>, <italic/>waste collection VRP<italic/>, <italic/>rich VRP,<italic/> or <italic/>VRP with backhauls<italic/>. Simultaneously, an adequate increase of interest in the application of traditional CI methods (e.g., <italic/>genetic<italic/>, <italic/>memetic<italic/>, <italic/>ant colony or particle swarm optimization<italic/>, <italic/>simulated annealing<italic/>, or their various <italic/>hybrid<italic/> versions) can be observed in the VRP domain. At the same time, approaches proven efficient in other optimization areas (e.g., <italic/>hyperheuristics<italic/>, methods based on <italic/>Monte Carlo simulations<italic/>, algorithms rooted in <italic/>game theory and bi-level optimization—Stackelberg games, or <italic/>cognitively motivated methods<italic/>) have lately entered the VRP field and become a viable alternative to more traditional techniques. Since VRP is one of the fastest growing fields in the operations research area, we believe that an analysis of the recently published VRP papers from the perspective of their novelty in problem formulation and/or applied solution method can provide a true value for the CI community, especially young researchers entering the field and seeking challenges in this interesting and fast developing research area.
Anormalidades da substância branca em pacientes com epilepsia de lobo temporal com ou sem crises refratárias

Introducao: Pacientes com epilepsia de lobo temporal mesial (ELTM) tem anormalidades cerebrais difusas de substância cinzenta e substância branca. Entretanto, os mecanismos envolvidos neste dano estrutural nao estao bem definidos. Objetivo: Avaliar as anormalidades da arquitetura de substância branca em pacientes com ELTM livres de crise ou farmaco-resistentes com ou sem esclerose hipocampal (EH). Metodos: Imagem por tensor de difusao (DTI) foi adquirida em um equipamento de Ressonância Magnetica (RM) de 3T e a tecnica de tractografia foi realizada em grupo de 123 pacientes consecutivos com diagnostico clinico-eletroencefalografico de ELTM e em 113 controles saudaveis. Os pacientes foram divididos em quatro grupos de acordo com a resposta as drogas antiepilepticas e a presenca de EH na RM: 68 ELT-EH refratarios a medicacao (rELTM-EH); 14 ELTM-EH livres de crises (benignos) (bELTM-EH); 28 ELTM-NL refratarios a medicacao (rELTM-NL); 13 ELT-NL livres de crises (bELTM-NL). Nos utilizamos um metodo semi-automatico deterministico para medir a anisotropia fracionada (FA), a difusividade media (MD), axial (AD) e radial (RD) do fasciculo do cingulo, corpo do corpo caloso, fornix, fasciculo fronto-occipital inferior e fasciculo uncinado. A lateralidade do foco epileptico foi definida de acordo com EEG ictal e inter-ictal e o lado da EH. Resultados: O grupo rELTM-EH demonstrou diminuicao de FA e aumento de RD em todos os tratos ipsi e contralaterais ao foco epileptogenico. O grupo bELTM-EH mostrou diminuicao de FA e aumento de RD no corpo do corpo caloso e fornix bilateral, e no fasciculo do cingulo ipisilateral. Os grupos rELTM-NL e bELTM-NL tiveram diminuicao de FA e aumento de RD apenas no fasciculo do cingulo ipsi e contralateral ao foco epileptogenico. Conclusao: Pacientes do grupo ELTM-EH refratarios e os livres de crises tem alteracao difusa de substância branca, mas nos pacientes refratarios esta alteracao e mais nitida. Ja os pacientes com ELTM-NL tem anormalidades de substância branca mais restritas independentemente do controle de crises. Nossos achados sugerem que a presenca de EH e o principal fator associado as anormalidades de substância branca em pacientes com ELTM. Abstract
The Spatial Theory of Voting: An Introduction

Preface 1. Spatial voting models: the behavioural assumptions 2. The unidimensional spatial voting model 3. A two-dimensional spatial model 4. A general spatial model of candidate competition 5. The influence of candidate characteristics and abstention on election outcomes 6. Voting on budgets 7. Models of voter uncertainty 8. Institutions 9. Empirical testing of the spatial theory of elections 10. Concluding observations References Answers to selected problems Index.
Calving of the experimental reindeer herd in Kaamanen during 1970 - 85

Calving and calf production were studied in an experimental reindeer (Rangifer tarandus L) herd in Inari, Kaamanen (69°10'N) in northern Finland. Most of the calving took place between May 10 and 29; 50% of the calves were born up to 22.5. and 90% up to 29.5. The percentage of calves (calves/hinds proceeding year) was on average 79.2%. The newborn sex ratio was 1:1. There was a large range (1.8 to 8.5 kg) in the birth-weight of newborn calves; male calves weighed about 0.3 kg more than female. The total loss of calves during summer and autumn was about 34.5% (range 6.3 to 100.0%). During the calving period 111 calves (12.2%) died. They were usually younger than one day, and on average weighed 1.3 kg less at birth than calves who lived until autumn. The hinds of calves dying very early were usually young and calving for the first time. The autumn-weight of hinds correlated significantly (r = 0.49) with the birth-weight of their calves. Over-5-year-old and over 80 kg hinds bore the heaviest calves (mean weight 6.3 kg) and the survival of these calves was very good. The first hinds to calve in the spring (calving up to 22.5.) are 5-year-old and older, which arc also the heaviest and produce the most vital calves.
Research on data mining clustering algorithm in cloud computing environments

Cloud computing is a model of business computing and it distribute computing tasks in a resource pool which constitutes by a large computers, so it can provide users with ondemand computing power, storage capacity and application service capabilities. The cloud computing provides cheap and efficient solutions for massive data storage and analysis. Data mining is finding potentially useful information and knowledge people do not know in advance from a large number of incomplete, noisy, fuzzy, random practical application data. And it played a guiding role in many areas of scientific research and business decisions, with far-reaching social and economic significance. The research on data mining clustering algorithm in cloud computing environments has an important theoretical significance and application value.
Tourism expenditure according to mode of transportation: A comparative study between 2009 and 2012

Understanding how tourists move through time and space has become especially important since tourist has become more attentive to prices. This paper explores the issue of changing expenditures as part of understanding tourist’s travel patterns and their role in booking accommodation. The State tourism survey containing information from a sample of 497,466 foreign tourists who visited Slovenia in 2009 and 639,756 who visited in 2012 was used to ensure the representativeness. Analysis of variance was used to test the differences in expenditure made by foreign tourists traveling to Slovenian in 2009 and 2012. The results show that transportation expenditure has increased dramatically, but tourism expenditures on accommodation showed a significant downtrend. Beside the fuel prices other causes of these trends and future implications are discussed. Planners may use data presented here to understand how economic trends will affect future transport activity in relation to booking options.
Conception et réalisation de micro-résonateurs piezoélectriques sur substrat de silicium sur isolant

Les ondes acoustiques, demontrees theoriquement en 1885 par le scientifique anglais Lord Rayleigh, constituent de nos jours un sujet de recherches tres interessant. Elles sont devenues indispensables a la fabrication des systemes de telecommunication miniatures et performants, tels que par exemple les filtres, les oscillateurs ou encore les capteurs. Les dispositifs fonctionnant grâce aux ondes acoustiques sont connus sous le nom de « dispositifs piezoelectriques » puisqu’ils transforment les signaux RF en ondes acoustiques, et vice versa, grâce au phenomene piezoelectrique direct. Le developpement de ces dispositifs piezoelectriques a ete indispensable pour repondre aux exigences particulieres et extremes des systemes de telecommunication actuels (selectivite, miniaturisation, faible cout, facilite de fabrication et d’integration). Cette these s’inscrit dans une demarche generale de developpement des dispositifs piezoelectriques, notamment des micro-resonateurs piezoelectriques qui en constituent la derniere generation. Deux axes principaux ont ete developpes au cours de ces travaux de recherches : l’etude theorique des micro-resonateurs piezoelectriques a travers une modelisation electrique d’une part, et, d’autre part, la description des procedes de fabrication realises en salle blanche du laboratoire d’XLIM.
Estimating Permanent and Transitory Components of Economic Recovery: A Case of Banking Crises

This dissertation aims to understand the the general recovery process of real GDP from banking crises from the perspective of permanent and transitory components of output. In chapter 1, we investigate the general long-term effects of systemic banking crises on real GDP using a sample of a number of economies over 1960-2012. Our methodology is to estimate the response of the level of real GDP to a banking crisis by decomposing it into permanent and transitory components using the statistical framework of the Unobserved Components (UC) model (Harvey 1985 and 1989, Clark 1987). Our main empirical findings are summarized as follows. First, we reconfirm that the negative impact of banking crises on output is generally persistent. Second, and more importantly, advanced economies tend to be more adversely affected in magnitude of an output loss, but experience a stronger rebound from recessions. Third, an output loss in countries with well-developed financial markets is largely transitory, while for countries with less developed financial markets, the loss reflects mainly the permanent component. In chapter 2, we investigate the effect of expansionary monetary policy on the recovery process of real GDP in response to a banking crisis using the empirical framework of the UC model. Our sample includes three major economies: US, Japan, and UK. We find that expansionary monetary policy can play an important role in the process of economic recovery. A positive shock of an increase in the money supply reduces more than 50 percent of the transitory losses during the first 4 quarters for the US and Japan, while the impact from monetary policy in the UK is very limited.
The feminine auto perception of sporting competences and aspirations achievements: the feminine auto perception.

The aim of this study was an attempt to describe the perception of competence and aspirations of sports- women. We studied a group of young athletes involved in fencing, including women (N-29) and men (N-41), at approximately the same age (average ~ 18 years) and length of involvement in the competition (average ~ 6 years). We applied questionnaire techniques to measure: a) the motives of sporting competition (7-factor MRS scale), b) the motivational task orientation - ego (Competence Perception Scale), c) self-assessment of sporting predispositions and the opportunities for future success (Likert and Thurston type scale). It turned out that women's perception of the high chance of sporting success was much rarer a phenomenon than in the case of men. Only every fourth woman had such a prospect of success, and additionally every fifth female competitor decidedly believed to have low chances of success. The women with poor prospects of success were characterised by a strong ego motivational orientation (ego) and low self assessment of their sporting predispositions. Generally, regardless of the gender, belief in success appeared con- currently to a stronger task orientation and higher assessments of sporting predispositions. Also, regardless of gender, the internal sporting motives were more important than the external strengths. This regularity significantly describes women who compared to men were even more motivated by the internal needs.