Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
QUINOA: NUTRITIONAL AND ANTI-NUTRITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

Her gecen gun degisen beslenme aliskanliklarina ragmen tahil ve urunleri dunya nufusunun beslenmesinde onemli bir yer tutmaya devam etmektedir. Ancak bugday, cavdar, arpa, tritikale ve yulaf gibi tahillar ile bunlarin islenmis urunleri bazi insanlarda rahatsizliklara neden olabilmektedir. Bu rahatsizliklardan birisi olan Colyak hastaligi, glutene karsi hassasiyet nedeniyle bagirsakta meydana gelen emilim bozuklugu olup, bu hastaligin en onemli ozelligi; yasam boyu surebilen tek gida alerjisi olmasidir. Bu nedenle gunumuzde en sik rastlanan beslenmeye dayali genetik hastalik olarak kabul edilmektedir. Bu problemle basa cikmak icin, genel olarak nisasta bazli, glutensiz olarak satisa sunulan bazi gida urunleri piyasaya surulmektedir ancak bu urunler nisasta bazli oldugundan besleyici degeri dusuk urunlerdir. Bu nedenle glutensiz diyet ile beslenmek zorunda kalan bireyler icin bu tur urunlerin zenginlestirilmesi de onem arz etmektedir. Glutensiz bir urun olan kinoa’ya son birkac yilda ilgili giderek artmistir. Kinoa; biyolojik degeri yuksek proteinleri, dusuk glisemik indeksli karbonhidratlari ve yine sahip olduklari fitosteroidleri, Omega-3 ve 6 yag asitleri nedeniyle, insan sagligi acisindan onemli faydalar saglayan, tahil benzeri (pseudocereal) bir urundur. Ozellikle de, doymamis yag asitlerini ve esansiyel aminoasitlerini yuksek miktarda icerirler. Bunlarin yani sira, mineral maddeler, vitaminler ve biyoaktif bilesenler gibi onemli mikro-besinsel bilesenlerini de yeterli ve dengeli miktarda icerirler. Ayrica diyet lifinin de onemli bir kaynagidir.
Systematic optimization of search engines for difficult queries

With the advent of Web, text information is being generated across the globe at an unfathomable rate and covering countless topics. This dramatic growth in text information and the increasing number of ways people can utilize it has influenced our daily lives in fundamental and profound ways. The widespread and multi-purposed use of search engines is one example of how transformed our lives have become in relation to text information. Although the vast majority of people's information needs can be served very successfully by current search engines, there is still a considerable number of queries that even the best search engines perform poorly on. In this dissertation, we propose a method of optimizing a search engine to better handle such “difficult queries”, which addresses issues and opportunities at three different stages of an interactive search. Specifically, we propose to improve search quality for difficult queries by: (1) Bridging the vocabulary gap by defining a semantic smoothing language model. A query can be difficult because it does not contain the optimal choice of related terms, or lacks sufficient discriminative terms. In the pre-retrieval stage, using semantic smoothing during query formulation can mitigate the effect of those omissions. (2) Incorporating user negative feedback, i.e., improving a search engine by learning from user feedback in the post-retrieval stage. When a query is so difficult that all the top retrieved results (e.g., top 10) are completely irrelevant, the feedback that a user can provide is solely negative. We propose a generalized optimization framework to learn from feedback on non-relevant documents to prune extensively, but carefully, a large number of non-relevant documents from the top of the ranking list. (3) Balancing priorities when learning from user interaction in order to optimize the whole session. When presenting the search results to the user, there is a tradeoff between promoting those with the highest immediate utility and promoting those with the best potential for collecting feedback information, which can be used to better serve the user over the course of the session (interactive search stage). We frame this tradeoff as a problem of optimizing the diversification of search results, and we propose a machine learning approach that adaptively optimizes each individual user query such that we maximize the overall utility of the entire session. In summary, this dissertation is expected to advance the state of the art of search engines by providing a suite of novel search algorithms, which use the listed approaches to improve a search engine's ability to handle difficult queries.
Project FORMUS: Sonoric Space-Time and the Artistic Synthesis of Sound

The author describes Project FORMUS, a computer audio processing system for professional composers that he developed on the basis of his creative principles. He considers problems involving the synthesis of complex music matter and the maintenance of close contact between the creator and the creative materials. He presents his concept of artistic sound synthesis and provides concrete examples from his own compositions.
Management of burns

Burns inflict serious injuries both psychologically and physically as a consequence of deformity and disfiguration (scarring) which is the most obvious and most probable outcome of burn injury. Thus the major challenge encountered by the healthcare team, as regards, burn management is not only in saving life but also in improving quality of life of psychologically and emotionally distressed and physically deformed patient, so that he is able to perform the day to day activities as nearly as possible, in the normal state of mental and physical health. To achieve the positive outcomes, an efficient coordination of healthcare team is required. For understanding the burn resuscitation, handling, transfer, management, medication and counseling for improvement in quality of life of patient, a study is carried out on thirty hospitalized patients (Mayo, Ganga Raam and Jinnah Lahore) by the use of well designed Performa and the data was evaluated. The results showed that mostly burns are encountered accidentally with adult males forming the major proportion, presenting 21-40%TBSA as a major surface area involved. Nelbine, ranitidine and amoxicillin came out to be the most commonly prescribed medicines for pain management; prophylaxis of stress induces ulcer and sepsis respectively. Septicemia came out to be the most fatal post burn complication. Most burn patients were satisfied at the care provided to them and there was a small mortality ratio among the burn victims, indicating provision of efficient burn care.
Intelligent search in Big Data

An approach to data integration, aimed on the ontology-based intelligent search in Big Data, is considered in the case when information objects are represented in the form of relational databases (RDB), structurally marked by their schemes. The source of information for constructing an ontology and, later on, the organization of the search are texts in natural language, treated as semi-structured data. For the RDBs, these are comments on the names of tables and their attributes. Formal definition of RDBs integration model in terms of ontologies is given. Within framework of the model universal RDB representation ontology, oil production subject domain ontology and linguistic thesaurus of subject domain language are built. Technique of automatic SQL queries generation for subject domain specialists is proposed. On the base of it, information system for TATNEFT oil-producing company RDBs was implemented. Exploitation of the system showed good relevance with majority of queries.
A study of CK 19 expression in papillary lesions of thyroid

INTRODUCTION: Papillary carcinoma is the most common thyroid malignancies. Sometimes papillary areas associated benign lesions may mimic papillary carcinoma thyroid such as multinodular goiter, graves disease etc. CK 19 is a simple intermediate filaments, helps in structural integrity of epithelial cells. Expression of CK 19 helps to distinguish between benign and malignant papillary lesions. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To study the usefulness of CK 19 to differentiate papillary carcinoma thyroid from benign lesions showing papillary areas. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 46 Cases were from collected from department of pathology, tirunelveli medical college during a period of 2015 -2017. Out of 46 cases 29 cases were papillary carcinoma thyroid, 17 cases were papillary hyperplasia. RESULTS: Out of 29 cases of papillary carcinoma, 28 cases show diffuse positivity, 1 case shows negative expression. Out of 17 cases of papillary hyperplasia, 12 cases of papillary hyperplasia in multinodular goiter, 4 cases of hashimotos thyroiditis with papillary areas, 1 case with graves disease. 14 cases show negative stain, 2 cases show focal positivity, 1 case shows diffuse positivity. CONCLUSION: Papillary carcinoma shows strong, diffuse cytoplasmic and membranous positivity. Papillary hyperplasia negative stain, some cases show focal positivity. CK 19 shows a 93 % sensitivity and specificity. CK 19 is a useful marker to differentiate papillary carcinoma from papiilary hyperplasia.
Extração de características de imagens médicas utilizando wavelets para mineração de imagens e auxílio ao diagnóstico

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) aim at storing all the patients data, including their images, time series and textual description, allowing fast and effective transfer of information among devices and workstations. Therefore, PACS can be a powerful tool on improving the decision making during a diagnosing process. The CAD (Computer-Aided Diagnosis) systems have been recently employed to improve the diagnosis confidence, and recent research shows that they can effectively raise the radiologists performance on detecting anomalies on images. Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) techniques are essential to support CAD systems, and can significantly improve the PACS applicability. CBIR works on raw level features extracted from the images to describe the most meaningful characteristics of the images following a specific criterium. Usually, it is necessary to put together several features to compose a feature vector to describe an image more precisely. Therefore, the dimensionality of the feature vector is frequently large and many features can be correlated to each other. The objective of this Master Dissertation is to build new image features, based on wavelet-generated subspaces. The features form the feature vector, which succinctly represent the images and are used to process similarity queries. The feature vectors are analyzed by the StARMiner system, under development in the GbdI-ICMC-USP, in order to find the most meaningful features to represent the images as well as to find patterns in the images that allow them to be classified into categories. The project developed was evaluated with three different image sets and the results are promising.
The Role of Diet in the Pathogenesis and Prognosis of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Background: Few studies have evaluated the association of diet and weight status with head and neck cancer (HNC) outcomes. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if pretreatment dietary patterns and weight status are associated with HNC prognosis. Design: This was a longitudinal study of 542 newly diagnosed HNC patients who completed food frequency questionnaires (FFQ) and health surveys prior to treatment. Clinical data were abstracted from medical records and the Social Security Death Index. Dietary patterns were identified using principal component analysis. Cox proportional hazard models were used to examine the association of derived dietary patterns (fit by quintiles of exposure) and weight status with time to recurrence and survival, controlling for covariates. Results: During the study period there were 229 deaths and 184 recurrences. Two dietary patterns were identified: a “whole foods pattern”, characterized by high intakes of vegetables, fruits, fish, poultry and whole grains, and a “Western pattern”, characterized by high intakes of red and processed meats, refined grains, potatoes and French fries. In multivariable
DC Fault Transient Characteristics and Fault Ride-through Control Strategy Based on Hybrid MMC-HVDC

For the problem that converters without DC fault clearing capability limit the widespread application and development of overhead lines in flexible DC transmission, the fault mechanism and DC fault current transient characteristics of the DC short-circuit fault on the DC side of the flexible HVDC transmission system are analyzed in detail. For the hybrid modular multilevel converters based on half bridge submodules and full bridge submodules, the blocking converter DC short-circuit fault clearing strategy and the non-blocking converter DC short-circuit fault ride-through strategy after DC short-circuit fault are studied in contrast. A judgment condition for restart of non-blocked converter after clearance of DC short circuit fault is proposed. Finally, the simulation model of DC power grid is built on PSCAD/EMTDC platform to verify the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed control strategy.
A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The grammaticalisation of processing principles 3. Early Immediate Constituents 4. Testing EIC's performance predictions 5. Testing EIC's grammatical predictions 6. Grammaticalised node construction 7. Conclusions References Index of names Language index Subject index Abbreviations.
OriginStamp: A blockchain-backed system for decentralized trusted timestamping

Abstract Currently, timestamps are certified by central timestamping authorities, which have disadvantages of centralization. The concept of the decentralized trusted timestamping (DTT) was developed by Gipp et al. to address these drawbacks. The paper provides insights into the architecture and implementation of a decentralized timestamp service taking the integration of multiple blockchain types into account. Furthermore, the components are introduced and the versatile application scenarios are presented. A future direction of research is the evaluation of blockchain technology and their suitability for timestamping.
Pattern of eye diseases at the primary health centers in a Pakistani district

Introduction: Pakistan has an extensive network of public facilities aimed to provide primary health care including eye care. Yet no data exist on the number and purpose of eye visits to these facilities. Objective: This study aimed to describe the pattern of eye diseases in public primary care hospitals in a district in Pakistan′s Sindh province. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in 14 randomly selected government primary health care centers 10 Basic Health Units and 4 Rural Health Centers in district Nawab shah, a central district of Sindh province. Doctors in these centers were trained in diagnosis and management of common eye diseases at the primary level and requested to record data prospectively on the total number of patient visits, total number of eye consultations and reasons for eye consultation. Data were entered and analyzed using EPI Info Software. Results: Over a period of one month, 9759 visits were made to the 14 selected primary health care centers. Eye diseases accounted for 1.8% of the total visits. Adults were more likely to have an eye consultation compared with children (Odds Ratio: 2.96; P < 0.01). Conjunctivitis (34.1%), cataract (22.0%), and corneal problems (6.9%) were the most common reasons for eye consultations. Conclusion: Despite solid evidence of a high burden of eye diseases at the community level in Pakistan, eye diseases accounted for only a very small proportion of the total consultations in the primary health care facilities. Efforts are needed to assess barriers to optimal utilization of existing primary health care services for eye diseases.
Terapias psicológicas y oclusales en pacientes bruxómanos

An intervention study is done for assessing the effectiveness of psychological therapies and occlusal in patients with bruxism. The universe was constituted by 50 patients with clinical diagnosis of bruxism. Two study-groups were established: In Group 1 was implemented psychological therapy with transitional nasal shutter and the Group 2 occlusal therapy using occlusal splint. The study already done reveals several changes that modify the state of health on patients with bruxism, with the introduction of behavior modification therapy with the use of nasal transitional shutter.
The interactive generation of facial images on a crt using a heuristic strategy.

3. When a map, drawing or chart, etc., was part of the material being photographed the photographer followed a definite method in "sectioning" the material. If is customary to begin photoing at the upper left hand corner of a large sheet and to continue photoing from left to right in equal sections with a small overlap. If necessary, sectioning is continued again — beginning below the first row and continuing on until complete.
An Efficient Technique to Design Elasticity and Reliable Content Based Publish/Subscribe System in Cloud

As the data arriving from the day to day applications was being increasing from the internet, several problems arise to disseminate the data. The major problem that was being observed recently was to supply the required data to the user who want the exact data from the vast existing data in the internet. The present proposed model was one of the mostly used mechanisms for achieving this task. As the data is huge, the size of the system increases numerously. The cloud computing is the latest technology which was being used to solve such types of problems and provides great opportunities for the users. In this paper, the ESCC Technique which was used to solve such type of problems was discussed in detail. A two layer pub/sub system was developed and analyzed to achieve this task in the environment of cloud computing.
Ascertaining barriers to compliance: Policies for safe, effective and cost-effective use of medicines in Europe

The ABC Project is the EU-funded research initiative to improve patient adherence to medication in Europe. The strategic goal of the project is to produce evidence-based policy recommendations for improving patient adherence, and thus raising the effectiveness of medications use by Europeans. The project’s findings are expected to help health policymakers take right decisions to minimize the negative impact of non-adherence. ABC Project was launched on January 1, 2009 and will run until December 31, 2011. www.ABCproject. eu
Barriers to Mental Healthcare Across Age and Education Level

This study examined the relationship between age and education and perceived barriers to mental health care as measured by the Barriers to Access to Care Evaluation (BACE-III). Age ranged from 18-92 and ages were divided into three groups (25 and younger, 26-55, 56 and older). Education ranged from no high school diploma (or its equivalent) to doctoral degrees. A moderation analysis was conducted using each BACE-III factor as well as the BACE-III total. A qualitative analysis was also performed. The results indicated little or no relationship existed between age and education level and perceived barriers to mental health care. The qualitative analysis revealed 78% of respondents in the present study would seek care should they need it. A possible explanation for the lack of significant results could be there are not barriers that prevented the sample from seeking care. A more diverse sample might provide different results. Other implications of the findings from the present study are discussed such as a need for further education regarding mental health care and a need for reduction of cost or a change in the perception of cost of care.
Electronic Measurement Techniques in Anaesthesia and Surgery.

This excellent monograph is well organized for the purpose of orienting and educating the surgeon and anesthesiologist to electronic equipment in the areas of monitoring, measuring, and scanning. This book contains (A) "Recording Systems and Signals," (B) "Pressure Transducers and Myograph," (C) "Measurement of Respiratory Function," (D) "Measurement of Blood Flow," (E) "Electrodes," (F) "Gas and Vapor Analysis," (G) "Electrode Systems for pH, Pco2, Po2," (H) "Cardiac Output," (I) "Defibrillators," (J) "Pacemakers," (K) "Diathermy and Electrical Safety," (L) "Temperature," and (M) "Isotopes. " Electronic Measurement Techniques in Anaesthesia and Surgery is based on the author's lecture series. The references are largely British and equipment as well, but most of the common or popular American equipment is covered adequately. There are up-to-date references at the end of each chapter and a good index at the end of the book, clear line drawings to illustrate the principles involved in most
Application of the optimal brain surgeon pruning strategy to a real-aperture radar detection algorithm

We have applied the Optimal Brain Surgeon (OBS) pruning strategy to a polynomial discriminator in order to reduce the number of coefficients it employs. The polynomial discriminator multiplies various combinations of test features by the respective coefficients and then sums the products to obtain a discriminant that is compared to a threshold. The test features are derived from the radar data associated with the cell under test, while the coefficients are determined a priori by minimizing the mean-squared error (MSE) between the actual and the desired value of the discriminant over the training set. The OBS pruning strategy examines the Hessian matrix of a network's error surface-- derived from the training data--to determine which coefficients can be eliminated without adversely affecting the MSE. Besides simplifying the network, such a reduction may also allow for improved network performance when an unseen test data is input. We present the application of the OBS pruning strategy to reduce the dimensionality of a polynomial discriminator and show that the reduction in dimensionality does not adversely affect performance.
BulkTree: An overlay network architecture for live media streaming

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are now very popular. Current P2P systems are broadly of two kinds, structured and unstructured. The tree structured P2P systems used technologies such as distributed hash tables (DHT) and hierarchical clustering can search the required target quickly, however, in a tree, the internal node has a higher load and its leave or crash often causes a large population of its offspring's problems, so that in the highly dynamic Internet environment the tree structure may still suffer frequent breaks. On the other hand, most widely used unstructured P2P networks rely on central directory servers or massive message flooding, clearly not scalable. So, we consider both of the above systems' advantages and disadvantages and realize that in the P2P systems one node may fail easily, but that when a number of nodes organized as a set, which we call "super node", the set is robust. Super nodes can be created and updated aware of topology-aware, and used with simple protocol such as flooding or "servers" to exchange information. Furthermore the entire robust super node can be organized into exquisite tree structure. By using this overlay network architecture, P2P systems are robust, efficient, scalable and secure. The simulation results demonstrated that our architecture greatly reduces the alteration time of the structure while decreasing the average delay time, compared to the common tree structure.
Stereo and Colour Vision Techniques for Autonomous Vehicle Guidance

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