Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Disease modifying drugs in adult rheumatoid arthritis

SYNOPSIS Effective treatment of rheumatoid arthritis now involves starting disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs at the time of diagnosis. This aims to slow development of the irreversible joint damage that leads to long-term disability. Many patients are treated with methotrexate. This is effective, but like other disease modifying drugs it has serious adverse effects. Monitoring patients is important particularly if they are taking a combination of drugs for their arthritis.
Attack pattern ontology: A common language for attack information sharing between organizations

Cyber attack nowadays is increasingly being reported. Defenders need a good understanding of attacker’s perspective in order to accurately anticipate threats and effectively mitigate attacks. This understanding can be obtained through sharing attack pattern. However, in the existing researches the consideration about information sharing is not integrated into the attack pattern concept. In this paper, we propose an attack pattern ontology as a common language of information sharing; the goal is to demonstrate how this ontology may effectively support cyber security information sharing. Based on the existing theories about attack pattern, we developed an ontological model to present attack information. The research can be further developed to integrate attacker profile ontology with the attack pattern ontology, which enables more systematic analysis of cyber attacks.
FRAMEWORK FOR COMPARING SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS

The notion of a ‘Best’ segmentation does not exist. A segmentation algorithm is chosen based on the features it yields, the properties of the segments (point sets) it generates, and the complexity of its algorithm. The segmentation is then assessed based on a variety of metrics such as homogeneity, heterogeneity, fragmentation, etc. Even after an algorithm is chosen its performance is still uncertain because the landscape/scenarios represented in a point cloud have a strong influence on the eventual segmentation. Thus selecting an appropriate segmentation algorithm is a process of trial and error. Automating the selection of segmentation algorithms and their parameters first requires methods to evaluate segmentations. Three common approaches for evaluating segmentation algorithms are ‘goodness methods’, ‘discrepancy methods’ and ‘benchmarks’. Benchmarks are considered the most comprehensive method of evaluation. This paper shortcomings in current benchmark methods are identified and a framework is proposed that permits both a visual and numerical evaluation of segmentations for different algorithms, algorithm parameters and evaluation metrics. The concept of the framework is demonstrated on a real point cloud. Current results are promising and suggest that it can be used to predict the performance of segmentation algorithms.
GANESHA, a multiusage with large cache NFSv4 server

GANESHA is a user-space NFSv2, NFSv3, and NFSv4 server. It runs on Linux, BSD variants, and POSIXcompliant UNIXes. It is available under the CeCILL license, which is a French transposition of the GPL and is fully GPL-compatible. The protocol implementation is fairly complete, including GSSAPI security hooks. GANESHA is currently in production at our site, where, thanks to a large cache and a lot of threads, it delivers up to a hundred thousand NFS operations per minute. This paper describes the current implementation as well as future developments. This includes GANESHA as a NFS Proxy server and NFSv4.1 enhancements, but also the access to LDAP and SNMP information using the file system paradigm.
Replay-based Worm Detection System

A fuel delivery unit for an internal combustion engine including a housing, which includes a timing unit for shifting the point of injection of fuel into the combustion chambers of the internal combustion engine. An injection timing piston is accommodated in the timing unit, which is displaceably mounted in the timing unit and which encloses a trailing piston displaceably relative thereto. The timing unit contains a pressure chamber which may be pressurized/depressurized via an actuator, a cold start accelerator piston being movable via the pressure chamber, acting upon both the trailing piston via a spring element and, together with a spring-sleeve combination, influencing the injection timing piston.
APLICAÇÃO DE ALGORITMOS GENÉTICOS E MÉTODOS EVOLUCIONÁRIOS NA RESOLUÇÃO DO PROBLEMA DE ALOCAÇÃO DE TURMAS: CASO UFPR.

This paper presents an adaptation of genetic algorithm in solving the problem of allocating classes at the Polytechnic campus of the Federal University of Parana. Therefore, several methods were analyzed, wherein the chosen was, because of their efficiency and adaptability, the genetic algorithm. The developed algorithm, in addition to being tested with real and current data of the institution, was compared with the current process applied on the campus, obtaining more satisfactory results compared to the same. The created system managed to allocate, by the insertion of new concepts and adaptations of the genetic operators of the classic genetic algorithm, 1348 classes in 58 rooms at different times and days of the week quickly and efficiently in function of the restrictions and particularities of the problem.
Multiresistentie van Brachyspira hyodysenteriae in Nederland

This case study describes the isolation of a multiresistant strain of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae in April 2007 in a Dutch sow herd with recurrent diarrhoea. Examination of faecal samples taken from 7-month-old breeding gilts with diarrhoea revealed the presence of resistance against tiamulin, lincomycin, tplosin, doxycycline, and tylvalosin (the active substance in Aivlosin (R)) in four of five samples. Tiamulin resistance has not been reported in the Netherlands before. The repeated use of tiamulin on the affected farm was assumed to be the main cause of the development of resistance to the drug. The farmer was advised to adopt a medication strategy and to implement management practices that would prevent an ongoing cycle of infection on the farm. It is important that the Dutch swine industry appreciates that tiamulin-resistant strains of B. hyodysenteriae may be found on other farms as well. The appropriate and prudent use of antibiotics is essential in order to prevent the development of resistance against the last option left to cure B. hyodysenteriae infections. valnemulin.
Energy Aware Routing Protocol for Network Performance Optimization in MANET

In Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) all nodes are battery operated, as battery power or batter energy is limited resource therefore it requires special attention to minimize energy consumption in MANET. For MANETs, optimization of energy consumption has greater impact as it directly corresponds to lifetime of networks. The various factor related to of energy consumption include transmission power, receiving power, overhearing of nodes, packet size, random topology, idle state of nodes. In the present work has done to minimize energy consumption by making cluster head in network and provide medium access control (MAC) layer control approach to minimize energy consumption at idle/overhearing state of node. An algorithm is developed to achieve this goal which break ad hoc network into clusters and limit degree of node, uses energy efficient route to provide maximum throughput of network as compared to other protocols.
Building Web Solutions with ASP.NET and ADO.NET

From the Publisher: Most Web applications follow a simple "3F" pattern: fetch, format, and forward to the browser. With this in-depth guide, you'll take your ASP.NET and ADO.NET skills to the next level and learn key techniques to develop more complex Web applications. Discover how to build applications for ad hoc and effective Web reporting, applications that work disconnected from the data source and use XML to communicate with non-Microsoft.NET systems, and general purpose applications that take advantage of the data abstraction of ADO.NET. Along the way, you'll learn how to take advantage of code reusability, user controls, code-behind, custom Web controls, and other time-saving techniques employed by ASP.NET experts.
Reliable, Deniable, and Hidable Communication over Parallel Link Networks

We consider the scenario wherein Alice wants to (potentially) communicate to the intended receiver Bob over a network consisting of multiple parallel links in the presence of a passive eavesdropper Willie, who observes an unknown subset of links. A primary goal of our communication protocol is to make the communication "deniable", {\it i.e.}, Willie should not be able to {\it reliably} estimate whether or not Alice is transmitting any {\it covert} information to Bob. Moreover, if Alice is indeed actively communicating, her covert messages should be information-theoretically "hidable" in the sense that Willie's observations should not {\it leak any information} about Alice's (potential) message to him -- our notion of hidability is slightly stronger than the notion of information-theoretic strong secrecy well-studied in the literature, and may be of independent interest. It can be shown that deniability does not imply either hidability or (weak or strong) information-theoretic secrecy; nor does any form of information-theoretic secrecy imply deniability. We present matching inner and outer bounds on the capacity for deniable and hidable communication over {\it parallel-link networks}.
THE UNIVERSAL MEDIA BOOK

OF THESIS THE UNIVERSAL MEDIA BOOK We explore the integration of projected imagery with a physical book that acts as a tangible interface to multimedia data. Using a camera and projector pair, a tracking framework is presented wherein the 3D position of planar pages are monitored as they are turned back and forth by a user, and data is correctly warped and projected onto each page at interactive rates to provide the user with an intuitive mixed-reality experience. The book pages are blank, so traditional camera-based approaches to tracking physical features on the display surface do not apply. Instead, in each frame, feature points are independently extracted from the camera and projector images, and matched to recover the geometry of the pages in motion. The book can be loaded with multimedia content, including images and videos. In addition, volumetric datasets can be explored by removing a page from the book and using it as a tool to navigate through a virtual 3D volume.
A method of data encoding/decoding using variable low density parity check codes

Reliable data transfer is ensured by using channel d et cting and correcting errors coding schemes. Low density parit y check (LDPC) codes are being suggested for use in a variety of transmission system, such as satellite communica tions, wireless transmissions, fiber optics, and in storage media [ 1, 7]. The LDPC code can be described by a parity check mat rix H dimension of (n-k)×n, where k is the systematic bits number and n is a total value of the systematic bits and the pa rity bits number (or codeword length). A generator matrix G corresponded to the parity check matrix H. An input data encoding method is generally used H instead of G. So matrix H is the most important factor in the encoding/decoding method on base of LDPC codes [3]. Meanwhile, in the latest mobile and wireless commun ication system a variable code rate r (r = k/n) scheme is generally employed. It reduces probabilities of errors and increases channel bandwidth [5]. The paper presents a method and apparatus for dynam ically (in transmission) changing the low density parity check code matrix. It leads to possibility of code rate, code block le ngth and H matrix density control. For example, with the good channel status parity bits reducing scheme can be applied. In case of poo r channel status it can increase the row and/or column weight of H matrix and number of check bits in codeword, which leads to co de rate decreasing. Such LDPC encoder/decoder provides multi ple block lengths and code rates by supporting a different pa rity check matrixes. The can be called as variable LDPC (VLDPC) codes.
PREVENTION OF POSTOPERATIVE PAIN

УДК 617-089.168. 1-06:616-009.7]-07 DOI 10.31379/2411.2616. 11.1. 12 Филипп Шерперель ПРЕДУПРЕЖДЕНИЕ ПОСЛЕОПЕРАЦИОННОЙ БОЛИ Патрик Уолл в редакционной статье “Pain” в 1988 г. с воодушевлением рассматривал концепцию упреждающей аналгезии по предотвращению послеоперационной боли аналгетиками, применявшимися до операции. Фактически, идея предотвращения хирургической боли была предложена Crile в “Lancet” в 1913 г. , и многие анестезиологи использовали этот принцип, давая морфин или петидин в премедикации. Многие испытания, проведенные без адекватной методологии, дали сопоставимые результаты. Kissin в 1996 г. заметил, что последствия не всегда очевидны, а реальность довольно разочаровывает. В последнее время несколько метаанализов, основанных на публикациях по правильной методике и применению новых лекарств, особенно ингибиторов NDMA-рецепторов (декстрометорфан, кетамин) и ингибиторов, зависимых от напряжения кальциевых каналов (габапентин, прегабалин), открыли новые горизонты. Ключевые слова: боль, NDMA-рецепторы, премедикация.
Dendroklimatologische Untersuchung von Buche und Fichte

In Anbetracht des Klimawandels wachst das Interesse an Vorhersagen zur zukunftigen Waldentwicklung. Die Haufung von Witterungsextremen wird einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf das Wachstum und die Vitalitat der Baume haben. Wichtig sind daher Untersuchungen zu den physiologischen Wachstumsgrenzen der Geholze, die sich besonders deutlich an deren Verbreitungsgrenzen nachweisen lassen. Groses Interesse herrscht an okonomisch wichtigen Arten wie der Fichte und der Buche. Die Autorin untersuchte deren Wachstum in naturlichen Mischwaldern an den derzeitigen Arealsgrenzen beider Arten in Sudschweden. Mittels dendroklimatologischer Analysen wurden die wesentlich beeinflussenden Witterungsvariablen bestimmt und deren Veranderung uber die Zeit untersucht. Dendrookologische Methoden erlauben einen Blick in die vergangene Entwicklung der Mischbestande und auf das Konkurrenzverhalten der Arten. Beide Methoden sind retrospektiver Natur und ermoglichen eine Interpretation des vergangenen Wachstums. Doch erlauben beobachtete Trends in der Vergangenheit eine vorsichtige Prognose der zukunftigen Entwicklung von Waldbestanden auf vergleichbaren Standorten.
EXTENDING LINKED OPEN DATA RESOURCES EXPLOITING WIKIPEDIA AS SOURCE OF INFORMATION

DBpedia is a project aiming to represent Wikipedia content in RDF triples. It plays a central role in the Semantic Web, due to the large and growing number of resources linked to it. Currently, the information contained in DBpedia is mainly collected from Wikipedia infoboxes, a set of attribute-value pairs that represent a summary of the Wikipedia page. The extraction procedure requires to manually map Wikipedia infoboxes into the DBpedia ontology. Thanks to crowdsourcing, a large number of infoboxes in the English Wikipedia has been mapped to the corresponding classes in DBpedia. Subsequently, the same procedure has been applied to other languages to create the localized versions of DBpedia. However, (i) the number of accomplished mappings is still small and limited to most frequent infoboxes, as the task is done manually by the DBpedia community, (ii) mappings need maintenance due to the constant and quick changes of Wikipedia articles, and (iii) infoboxes are manually compiled by the Wikipedia contributors, therefore in more than 50% of the Wikipedia articles the infobox is missing. As a demonstration of these issues, only 2.35M Wikipedia pages are classified in the DBpedia ontology (using a class different from the top-level owl:Thing), although the English Wikipedia contains almost 4M pages. This shows a clear problem of coverage, and this issue is even worse in other languages (like French and Spanish). The objective of this thesis is to define a methodology to increase the coverage of DBpedia in different languages, using various techniques to reach two different goals: automatic mapping and DBpedia dataset completion. A key aspect of our research is multi-linguality in Wikipedia: we bootstrap the available information through cross-language links, starting from the available mappings in some pivot languages, and then extending the existing DBpedia datasets (or create new ones from scratch) comparing the classifications in different languages. When the DBpedia classification is missing, we train a supervised classifier using DBpedia as training. We also use the Distant Supervision paradigm to extract the missing properties directly from the Wikipedia articles. We evaluated our system using a manually annotated test set and some existing DBpedia mappings excluded from the training. The results demonstrate the suitability of the approach in
Estrutura, metabolismo e funes fisiolgicas da lipoprotena de alta densidade

Several experimental, clinical and epidemiological researches have shown the incontestable causal relationship between low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) plasma concentrations and cardiovascular pathology on an atherosclerotic basis. Low HDL levels characterize about 10% of the general population and they represent the most frequent dyslipidemia in patients with coronary artery disease. Reduced HDL concentrations would be unable to effectively eliminate the cholesterol excess at the vascular wall, contributing to the inflammatory phenomenon that characterizes the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis since its initial phases. Results of numerous studies reasonably allow supposing that HDL is able to exert, also directly, anti-inflammatory actions through the modulation of expression of diverse acute phase proteins. Furthermore, HDL also exerts several other atheroprotective effects, such as antioxidants affects, inhibition of platelets aggregation and monocytes migration. This paper is a review on recent literature data about HDL metabolism and its role in the prevention of coronary artery disease.
TÜKETİCİLERİN ORGANİK GIDA SATIN ALMA TERCİHLERİNİ ETKİLEYEN FAKTÖRLER

Organik gidalara olan talep son yillarda giderek artmaktadir. Bunun en temel sebebi bireylerin giderek bilinclenmesi neticesinde hem kendi sagliklarini hem de cevreyi korumak istemeleridir. Dunya’da oldugu gibi ulkemizde de organik gidalara olan tale p artmakta, ic pazar yavas da olsa gelismeye calismaktadir. Ic pazarin gelismesi , tuketicileri n taninmasi ve davranislarinin anlasilmasiyla mumkundur. Organik gida tuketen kisilerin kim olduklari, bu kisilerin organik gida satin aliminda hangi faktorlerden etkilendikleri konulari uzerinde durulmasi gereken onemli konulardir. Bu calismada; literaturde yer alan yerli ve yabanci calismalardan yola cikarak organik gida satin aliminda genel olarak tuketicileri etkileyen faktorler tespit edilmis ve bu faktorler incelenerek yorumlanmaya calisilmistir.
Valor prognóstico da infiltração perineural e invasão muscular em carcinoma epidermoide avançado da boca e orofaringe

Introducao: O carcinoma epidermoide da boca e orofaringe apresenta multiplos fatores histopatologicos e clinicos que explicam suas altas taxas de recorrencia loco-regional. Objetivo: Correlacionar a infiltracao perineural e o padrao de invasao muscular com a evolucao dos pacientes submetidos a tratamento cirurgico. Metodo: Apos a escolha de 33 casos de acordo com o criterio de elegibilidade entre 103 pacientes com tumor avancado, a presenca de infiltracao perineural e o tipo de invasao muscular foram avaliados. Resultados: Dos 33 casos, 48,5% foram positivos para infiltracao perineural, enquanto 84,9% apresentaram invasao muscular. O tipo mais comum de invasao muscular foi cords, com 33,3%. Quando comparada a presenca da doenca, recorrencia da doenca e a metastase a distância, a infiltracao perineural nao mostrou significância estatistica. A invasao muscular tambem nao apresentou significância estatistica quando comparada a situacao. A significância estatistica foi observada quando da comparacao entre os tipos de invasao muscular e a presenca de metastase a distância. Conclusao: Ha um pior prognostico para casos com invasao muscular do tipo dissociation. Pacientes com infiltracao perineural e invasao muscular apresentam uma menor taxa de sobrevivencia. Introduction: Oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma presents multiple clinical and histopathological factors, which explain its high rates of loco-regional recurrences. Objective: To correlate perineural infiltration and muscular invasion pattern in advanced mouth and oropharynx squamous cell carcinoma, with the outcome of patients who underwent surgical treatment. Method: Thirty-three cases were selected from 103 patients with advanced tumors, according to the eligibility criteria. The presence of per neural infiltration and the type of muscular invasion were evaluated. Results: From the 33 cases, 48.5% were positive for per neural infiltration, whereas 84.9% presented muscular invasion. The most common type of muscular invasion was the cords type, with 33.3%. When compared to the presence of the disease, the recurrence of the disease and distance metastasis, per neural infiltration did not show any statistical significance. The muscular invasion did not present any statistical significance when compared to the KPS as well. Statistical significance was observed when comparing the types of muscular invasion and the presence of distance metastasis. Conclusion: There is a worse prognosis for cases with muscular invasion classified as dissociation. Patients with perineural infiltration and muscular invasion present a lower survival rate.
H-NAMe: specifying, implementing and testing a hidden-node avoidance mechanism for wireless sensor networks

The hidden-node problem has been shown to be a major source of Quality-of-Service (QoS) degradation in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to factors such as the limited communication range of sensor nodes, link asymmetry and the characteristics of the physical environment. In wireless contention-based Medium Access Control protocols, if two nodes that are not visible to each other transmit to a third node that is visible to the formers, there will be a collision – usually called hidden-node or blind collision. This problem greatly affects network throughput, energy-efficiency and message transfer delays, which might be particularly dramatic in largescale WSNs. This technical report tackles the hidden-node problem in WSNs and proposes H-NAMe, a simple yet efficient distributed mechanism to overcome it. H-NAMe relies on a grouping strategy that splits each cluster of a WSN into disjoint groups of non-hidden nodes and then scales to multiple clusters via a cluster grouping strategy that guarantees no transmission interference between overlapping clusters. We also show that the HNAMe mechanism can be easily applied to the IEEE 802.15. 4/ZigBee protocols with only minor add-ons and ensuring backward compatibility with the standard specifications. We demonstrate the feasibility of H-NAMe via an experimental test-bed, showing that it increases network throughput and transmission success probability up to twice the values obtained without H-NAMe. We believe that the results in this technical report will be quite useful in efficiently enabling IEEE 802.15. 4/ZigBee as a WSN protocol. H-NAMe: Specifying, Implementing and Testing a Hidden-Node Avoidance Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks Anis Koubâa, Ricardo Severino, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar 1 IPP-HURRAY! Research Group, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, School of Engineering (ISEP-IPP) Rua Antonio Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal 2 Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud University, Computer Science Dept., 11681 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia {aska, rars, mjf, emt}@isep.ipp. pt