Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Luteal progesterone level correlated with immunotherapy success of patients with repeated implantation failures

Immunotherapy using PBMC administration demonstrated relatively its effectiveness to treat RIF patients but it still unclear to explain some miscarriages. Luteal progesterone level (LPL) issued from corpus luteum after embryo implantation stage could be informative basis data to personalize immunotherapy for RIF patients predicting clinical outcomes. This randomized controlled study included 70 patients undergoing ICSI program presenting at least 3 RIF: 39 for Control of untreated patients and 31 for PBMC-test concerning treated patients with immunotherapy. For PBMC-test group, Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells (PBMCs) were isolated from patients on ovulation induction day and cultured three days to be administered to intrauterine cavity of patients two days before fresh embryo transfer. LPL was analyzed at day 15 after embryo transfer and clinical outcomes were calculated including implantation, clinical pregnancy and miscarriage rates. Clinical outcomes were doubly improved after immunotherapy including implantation and clinical pregnancy rates comparing Control versus PBMC-test (10% and 21% vs 24% and 45%). In the other hand, this strategy showed an increase over double in LPL (4ng/ml for Control vs 9ng/ml for PBMC-test) while the latter was correlated to clinical pregnancy. Bypassing the effectiveness of this immunotherapy approach for RIF patients, it is directly correlated to LPL proving the interactive reaction between immune profile of the treated patients and progesterone synthesis by corpus luteum.
Simulation-Assisted Augmentation of Missing Wedge and Region-of-Interest Computed Tomography Data

This study reports a strategy to use sophisticated, realistic X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) simulations to reduce Missing Wedge (MW) and Region-of-Interest (RoI) artifacts in FBP (Filtered Back-Projection) reconstructions. A 3D model of the object is used to simulate the projections that include the missing information inside the MW and outside the RoI. Such information augments the experimental projections, thereby drastically improving the reconstruction results. An X-ray CT dataset of a selected object is modified to mimic various degrees of RoI and MW problems. The results are evaluated in comparison to a standard FBP reconstruction of the complete dataset. In all cases, the reconstruction quality is significantly improved. Small inclusions present in the scanned object are better localized and quantified. The proposed method has the potential to improve the results of any CT reconstruction algorithm.
Division of Compensation Analysis and Support.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Section Page 1.0 Introduction . 4 2.0 Site Description and Operational History . 5 3.0 Process Description . 6 3.1 Uranium Concentration . 6 3.2 Monthly Production Rate . 7 3.3 Daily Production Rate . 8 4.0 Internal Dose . 8 5.0 External Dose . 10 5.1 Slag Barrel . 11 5.2 Concentrate Barrel . 11 5.3 External Dose from Surface Contamination . 12 5.4 External Dose Summary. 12 6.0 Residual Contamination . 13 7.0 Occupational Medical Dose . 14 8.0 References . 15
A history of forest management in the Ozark Mountains

The origins of modern forest management in the Ozark Mountains go back roughly 500 years. This history has five stages: pre-European conditions (prior to 1750), European settlement (1750–1880), the era of exploitation (1880–1920), forest recovery (1920–1950), and the era of modern forestry (1950–present). The greatest adverse influence on Missouri forests was the era of exploitation, during which virtually all of the presettlement forest of the Ozarks was commercially liquidated. Fire control and the creation of large forest reserves triggered the period of recovery, which includes the establishment of Pioneer Forest in 1951. Highlights of the era of modern forestry include management of forests for productive value and aesthetic appeal, use of voluntary best management practices, and a commitment to forest stewardship. The private owner and professional staff of Missouri’s Pioneer Forest have long embraced and applied these progressive attitudes and practices.
The Impact of Parental Relationship Dissolution on Children’s Problem Behaviors

The current study intends to investigate the processes behind the link between parental relationship breakdown and children's issue behaviors (both internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors). Family interactions are centered upon marriage, and parental marital conflict has an impact on how children develop. A number of studies have demonstrated that marital disagreement between parents may significantly affect kids' emotional and social growth, resulting in undesirable behaviors like internalizing or externalizing tendencies. Additionally, complex mechanisms like mediation and moderation that affect how parental marital conflict affects children's development also play a role in this problem. The consequences of parental marital conflict on children's development are mostly facilitated by children's cognitive-emotional processes and family dynamics. Children's perception, attribution, and coping mechanisms, in addition to parental support, parent-child communication, and the general family environment, all work together to have an influence on this. Additionally, this effect varies based on the kid and surroundings, including gender, age, personality, life experiences, social support, etc. Future studies must simultaneously examine how parental marital conflict affects children's cognitive development, including intelligence, academic success, creativity, etc., further explore how mediating and moderating mechanisms affect children, including parenting styles, teacher support, peer acceptance, etc., and integrate multiple mechanisms to provide strong support for the formulation of intervention programs, such as family therapy, parent-child training, and other programs.
Identification des gènes de susceptibilité à l'asthme à l'aide d'un criblage génomique par association en utilisant des pools d'ADN

v Table des matières . vii Liste des tableaux . ix Liste des figures . xi Liste des abréviations et des sigles . xiii Remerciements . xix Avant-Propos . xxi CHAPITRE 1 L’asthme . 1 1.1 Définition de l'asthme . 2 1.2 Épidémiologie de l’asthme. 2 1.2.1 Prévalence . 2 1.2.2 Morbidité . 3 1.2.3 Mortalité . 3 1.2.4 Comorbidités . 4 1.3 Facteurs de risque . 4 1.3. 1 Facteurs génétiques . 4 1.3. 1.1 Sexe . 4 1.3. 1.2 Gènes de susceptibilité . 5 1.3. 2 Facteurs environnementaux . 6 1.3. 2.1 Grossesse et prématurité . 6 1.3. 2.2 Diète & Obésité . 6 1.3. 2.3 Infections . 7 1.3. 2.4 Allergènes . 7 1.3. 2.5 Pollution de l’air . 8 1.3. 2.6 Fumée de cigarettes . 8 1.3. 3 Interactions gènes-environnement. 8 1.4 Physiopathologie de l’asthme . 10 1.4. 1 Inflammation . 10 1.4. 2 L’hyperréactivité bronchique . 12 1.4. 3 Production de mucus . 13 1.4. 4 Contraction des muscles lisses entourant les voies respiratoires. 13 1.4. 5 Remodelage des voies respiratoires. 14 1.5 Phénotypes de l’asthme . 14 1.6 Diagnostic de l’asthme . 16 1.7 Prise en charge de l’asthme . 18 1.7. 1 Assainissement de l’environnement . 19
Avon Park Air Force Range project: distribution and abundance of sensitive wildlife species at Avone Park Force Range

Executive Summary. We surveyed for seven species ofsensitve wildlife (Florida gopher frogs, gopher tortoise, eastern indigo snake, eastern diamondback rattlesnake, Florida mouse, Florida roundtail muskrat, Sherman's fox squirrel) between October 1996 and May 1998 at Avon Park Air Force Range (APR). The presence of 87 other species ofamphibians, reptiles, and mammals also were detected. Selected species ofbirds were noted, particularly if they were found dead on APR roads. We recorded nine new county records ofamphibians and reptiles from Polk and Highlands counties, based on range maps presented in Ashton and Ashton (1981, 1985, 1988). We discuss a biogeographic model based on the vertebrates recorded from APR, the Lake Wales Ridge, and the low dune region along SR 64 to explain some of the distributional anomalies associated with the Bombing Range Ridge and vicinity. (199 page document)
Architectural 3D Modeling for a 3D GIS Web-Based System

We describes a 3D GIS system entirely founded on Google Earth (GE), designed to make available on this platform high-quality 3D models of one of the architect Andrea Palladio, conceived as a metaphor for navigating through the data and developed as a scalable applications able to allow the use of the same database for different user simply filtering the data according to the specific requirements
Enhancing Detection of Malicious Traffic Through FPGA-Based Frequency Transformation and Machine Learning

In recent years, with the development of modern network, in order to avoid threats caused by cyber attacks, it is important to understand how to implement effective security measures. Malicious traffic detection is an advanced technique, it employs several approaches to distinguish traffic whether it is benign or malicious. Traditional malicious traffic detection methods are usually based on pre-defined signatures. However, limited by the size and timeliness of the signature library, they are usually unable to detect unknown cyber attacks such as zero-day attacks or new malware variants. In order to solve this problem, we propose a machine learning based method to detect realtime malicious traffic. It is divided into two parts: feature extraction on FPGA and abnormal traffic detection on Linux host machine. On the feature extraction part, instead of using conventional network traffic features, we propose a frequency transformation based feature extraction method to extract frequency domain features from network traffic. At the same time, in order to improve the speed of feature extraction and reduce CPU resource usage, we implement the processes required for feature extraction inside the FPGA board. On the abnormal traffic detection part, we use AF-Packet and ring buffer to capture the features, and load a pre-trained model into the CatBoost framework in advance to execute inference process. We evaluate our proposed system on a Xilinx Alveo U50 accelerator card and a Linux host machine. The evaluation results show that we achieve about 0.98 detection accuracy with low resource usage and good realtime detection throughput.
NECROCAPITALISMO E ANGOLA: petróleo e corrupção sob a retórica corporativa

Este artigo parte da necessidade de repensar os sujeitos das Relações Internacionais e as dinâmicas onde estão inseridos, chamando a atenção para a importância da construção de análises que consigam absorver complexidades e diminuir silenciamentos históricos. A escolha metodológica foi pelo estudo de caso e a análise de bibliografias e documentos, neste sentido, apresentamos uma discussão sobre possíveis tendências e mecanismos que reproduzem estruturas necrocapitalistas em contextos pós-coloniais, a partir do caso específico de Angola e de como o país tem lidado com os recentes casos de corrupção e espoliação envolvendo o setor petroleiro. A análise sugeriu que as dinâmicas coloniais, ao fazerem parte do cotidiano angolano, ressignificaram dinâmicas e sofisticaram processos de cooptação, viabilizando a entrada e a evasão de capitais. A retórica do enfrentamento à corrupção foi outro exemplo de vigor das práticas coloniais, e pode ser evidenciada nas problemáticas relações de poder entre corporações e elites burocráticas estatais. A partir de um ferramental teórico que traz elementos da Teoria Crítica e do Pós-Colonialismo, o artigo buscou explorar tais dinâmicas em dois níveis: a interação entre as corporações e os Estados e a mediação das organizações internacionais.
Appariement de matrices de dissimilarités

Résumé. Dans cet article, nous comparons différentes méthodes qui permettent de trouver dans un ensemble fini S, sur lequel on a défini une dissimilarité, un sous-ensemble d’éléments qui s’apparient au mieux aux éléments d’un ensemble cible C également muni d’une dissimilarité. La qualité de l’appariement est mesurée par la distance observée entre les matrices de dissimilarités définies sur les sous-ensembles de S et sur C. Différents algorithmes sont présentés et les performances sont commentées.
Insect detection and nitrogen management for irrigated potatoes using remote sensing from small unmanned aircraft systems

Remote sensing with small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) has potential applications in agriculture because low flight altitudes allow image acquisition at very high spatial resolution. We set up experiments at the Oregon State University Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center with different platforms and sensors to assess advantages and disadvantages of sUAS for precision farming. In 2013, we conducted an experiment with 4 levels of N fertilizer, and followed the changes in the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) over time. In late June, there were no differences in chlorophyll content or leaf area index (LAI) among the 3 higher application rates. Consistent with the field data, only plots with the lowest rate of applied N were distinguished by low NDVI. In early August, N deficiency was determined by NDVI, but it was too late to mitigate losses in potato yield and quality. Populations of the Colorado potato beetle (CPB) may rapidly increase, devouring the shoots, thus early detection and treatment could prevent yield losses. In 2014, we conducted an experiment with 4 levels of CPB infestation. Over one day, damage from CPB in some plots increased from 0 to 19%. A visual ranking of damage was not correlated with the total number of CPB or treatment. Plot-scale vegetation indices were not correlated with damage, although the damaged area determined by object-based feature extraction was highly correlated. Methods based on object-based image analysis of sUAS data have potential for early detection and reduced cost.
Evaluating sustainable aspects of hazardous waste remediation

This chapter presents a methodology to calculate the social cost of sustainability metrics with environmental footprint evaluation tools. Measuring the impacts of a remediation project on society is challenging because the methods by which these impacts can be measured have not been established. To perform a complete sustainability assessment of a project’s life cycle, costs borne by society in terms of environmental, economic, and community impacts must be evaluated. Two knowledge gaps have been identified among the sustainability assessments currently being performed during a remediation project’s life cycle: (1) lack of methodologies available to evaluate impacts on the socio-economic aspects of remediation; and (2) lack of sustainability assessments conducted during the site characterization stage. Sustainability assessments were conducted on two case studies using the methodology proposed in this paper: one during the site characterization stage and the other during remedial action. The results of this study demonstrated that costs borne by society from a remediation project are significant and metric specific. This study also highlighted the benefits of conducting a sustainability assessment at the site characterization stage using environmental footprint analysis tools, cost benefit analysis, and an evaluation of costs borne by society.
Improving Cardiovascular Risk in Postmenopausal Women with an (−)-Epicatechin-Based Nutraceutical: A Randomly Assigned, Double-Blind vs. Placebo, Proof-of-Concept Trial

Background: Age-adjusted rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are higher in men than in women. CVD risk-factor outcomes are underrecognized, underestimated, and undertreated in women because the clinical expressions in women differ from those of men. There are no universally accepted recommendations on what to do in women when the values of fasting glucose, blood pressure, and lipids are only slightly altered or at borderline values. We reported the positive effects on CVD risk markers using cacao by-products, showing that alternative approaches can be used to prevent cardiovascular disease in women. The objective was to evaluate the changes in lipoprotein subfractions induced by three months of treatment with an epicatechin-enriched cacao supplement. Methods: A double-blind, placebo-controlled proof-of-concept study was developed to evaluate the effects of 3 months of treatment with an (−)-epicatechin-enriched cacao supplement on lipoprotein subfractions. Results: The usual screening workshop for postmenopausal women could be insufficient and misleading. Assessing the effect of a (−)-epicatechin-enriched cacao supplement employing a lipoprotein subfractionation profile analysis suggests a decrease in cardiovascular risk. Conclusions: A simple, low-cost, safe (−)-epicatechin-enriched cacao supplement product can improve the cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal women.
Transcending Boundaries: Exploring Nordic Education Models for Enhancing China's Educational Landscape

When the Nordic countries are mentioned, they are often regarded as examples of social democratic welfare systems with certain unique qualities. In modern times, education has been recognized as one of the cornerstones of the welfare state. Through Finland's impressive performance when the results of the first international PISA test were released in December 2000, the Nordic model of education, including the Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish education systems, has come to be frequently referred to and recognized as a model for education in the world. This paper analyses the Nordic education system based on existing data and literature, with the aim of suggesting its applicability to China's education system by analyzing the sophistication of the Nordic countries' educational philosophies and teaching methods. Despite the differences between the Nordic countries and China, this paper proves that some of the advanced policies and concepts of the Nordic education system can be applied to China's education system and gives the following four recommendations. (1) Emphasis on teacher evaluation literacy enhancement; (2) Teachers and parents value equality and inclusion in education; (3) Accurately grasping the function of comprehensive student assessment; (4) Developing a diversified curriculum to enhance quality.
Mapeamento do conhecimento no processode atribuição de aulas em Escolas Técnicas

This article has the objective to describe the importance of management knowledge. And, for that, we have done a study upon a case, based on the mapping of the process of classes distribution in the Escolas Técnicas do Centro Paula Souza. The management of knowledge is a way to provide it to the people, considering that 1 Mestrando do Programa de Pós Graduação em TV Digital da Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação (FAAC) da Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” – UNESP, campus de Bauru. 2 Professor Doutor Departamento de Ciências da Computação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” – UNESP, campus de Bauru. 3 Professora Doutora Departamento de Artes e Representação Gráfica Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação – UNESP, campus de Bauru. knowledge becomes a fundamental and necessary resource to the development of the privante or public organizations. The use of knowledge maps becomes a crucial factor in this process of transformation of tacit knowledge into explicit, because having a high knowledge level, and socialize it, is as essential and important as all the other resources that exist within the institutions. Key-Words: Knowledge Management, Knowledge Maps; Transformation.
Assessing the feeding value of pea straw and evaluating biological methods to improve its utilization by ruminants

TABLE OF CONTENTS 2.2 LOW QUALTTY ROUGHAGES 2.2. 1 Availability of low quality roughages. 2-2.2 General characteristics and nutritive potential of crop residues. 2.2. 3 Factors affecting straw quality. 2.2. 3.1 Genotype. 2.2. 3.2 Environment and management. Comparison of legume with cereal crop residues. --. Agronomic an<i nuffitional evaluation of peas and pea straw. 2-2.5. I Peas their importance. 1 iv
Seismic velocity changes associated with aseismic deformations of a fault stimulated by fluid injection

Fluid pressure plays an important role in the stability of tectonic faults. However, the in situ mechanical response of faults to fluid pressure variations is still poorly known. To address this question, we performed a fluid injection experiment in a fault zone in shales while monitoring fault movements at the injection source and seismic velocity variations from a near‐distance (<10 m) monitoring network. We measured and located the P and S wave velocity perturbations in and around the fault using repetitive active sources. We observed that seismic velocity perturbations dramatically increase above 1.5 MPa of injection pressure. This is consistent with an increase of fluid flow associated with an aseismic dilatant shearing of the fault as shown by numerical modeling. We find that seismic velocity changes are sensitive to both fault opening by fluid invasion and effective stress variations and can be an efficient measurement for monitoring fluid‐driven aseismic deformations of faults.
Comparative Study of Risk in General-Finance and Production-Service Categories of NEPSE Market

Background: The study of risk in investment in the stock market has become a popular area of research since last few decades. The inherent nature of risk that is associated with volatile behavior of stock prices as well as of returns of investment makes investors to think more than once before investing in stock markets. In this regard, this research is focused on comparison of risk associated with investment in General-Finance and Production-Service groups of the NEPSE market. Objective: Primary objective of this research is to assess and compare risk present in the ‘General-Finance’ group and the ‘Production-Service’ group of the NEPSE market. Materials and Methods: Different companies enlisted in the NEPSE stock market are categorized into ten groups. Some of the groups are related to direct financial activities and they are placed in the ‘General-Finance’ group. Other groups which are related to production and service activities are placed in the ‘Production-Service’ group. Daily means of NEPSE indices for these groups, available from official website of NEPSE are used to fit ARIMA model to the indices of ‘General-Finance’ and to ‘Production-Service’ groups. It is attempted to compare risks in these two groups with respect to the variance of error terms of the fitted models. Moreover, GARCH models are employed to describe conditional heteroscedasticity present in observations. Results: It is observed that ARIMA (1, 1, 3) is the optimal model for daily indices of ‘General-Finance’ group with variance of errors terms observed to be 4636.1933. For the ‘Production-Service’ group the optimal model resulted is ARIMA (1, 1, 1) with variance of error terms being 1335.0058. Conditional heteroscedasticity and volatility clustering are observed to have GARCH (1, 1) model for both the groups. Conclusion: After observing variance of error terms of optimal ARIMA models for ‘General-Finance’ and ‘Production-Service’ group and coefficients of GARCH models, it is concluded that ‘General-Finance’ group owes more risk in investment than that in ‘Production-Service’ group.