Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Association Between Serum Palmitic Acid and Thyroid Function

Aim Emerging evidence indicates that palmitic acid (PA) can regulate the progression and development of many diseases. However, the studies examining the association between PA and thyroid function remain sparse. We aimed to investigate the association between serum PA (sPA) and thyroid function in the US population. Methods In this retrospective study, a cross-sectional analysis was performed using the data pooled from the database of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2011 to 2012. The thyroid parameters investigated were mainly free triiodothyronine (FT3), free thyroxine (FT4), total T3 (TT3), TT4, thyroglobulin (Tg), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), anti-thyroglobulin antibody (TgAb), and anti-thyroperoxidase antibody (TPOAb). The central sensitivity to thyroid function was evaluated by the thyroid feedback quantile-based index (TFQI), thyrotrophin thyroxine resistance index (TT4RI), and thyrotropin index (TSHI). The FT3 to FT4 ratio (FT3/FT4) was employed to evaluate peripheral sensitivity to thyroid hormones. Multiple imputation was applied to handle the missing data, and weighted multivariable linear regression, subgroup, and interaction analyses were then employed to estimate the association between sPA and thyroid parameters. Results In the 737 adults, after adjusting covariates, we demonstrated a significant negative association between sPA and FT4 [β = -1.078, 95% confidence interval (CI): -1.729 to -0.427], as well as a positive relationship between sPA and FT3/FT4 ratio (β = 0.073, 95% CI: 0.044 to 0.102). These results did not change on multiple imputations. In the subgroup analyses, the associations were more significant in male and obese subjects. Conclusion This investigation demonstrated the significant correlation between sPA and thyroid dysfunction, which suggested the close relationship between lipotoxicity and hypothyroidism or subclinical hypothyroidism. Future research is required to confirm these findings.
Neural Effects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Psychiatric Disorders: A Systematic Review and Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis

Background Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a first-line psychotherapeutic treatment that has been recommended for psychiatric disorders. Prior neuroimaging studies have provided preliminary evidence suggesting that CBT can have an impact on the activity of brain regions and functional integration between regions. However, the results are far from conclusive. The present article aimed to detect characteristic changes in brain activation following CBT across psychiatric disorders. Method Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Scopus, and PubMed databases were searched to identify whole-brain functional neuroimaging studies of CBT through 4 August 2021. To be included in the meta-analysis, studies were required to examine functional activation changes between pre-and post-CBT. The included studies were then divided into subgroups according to different task paradigms. Then, an activation likelihood estimation algorithm (ALE) was performed in the different meta-analyses to identify whether brain regions showed consistent effects. Finally, brain regions identified from the meta-analysis were categorized into eight functional networks according to the spatial correlation values between independent components and the template. Results In total, 13 studies met inclusion criteria. Three different meta-analyses were performed separately for total tasks, emotion tasks, and cognition tasks. In the total task ALE meta-analysis, the left precuneus was found to have decreased activation. For the cognition task ALE meta-analysis, left anterior cingulate (ACC) and left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) were found to have decreased activation following CBT. However, the emotion task ALE meta-analysis did not find any specific brain regions showing consistent effects. A review of included studies revealed default mode network (DMN), executive control network (ECN), and salience network (SN) were the most relevant among the eight functional networks. Conclusion The results revealed that the altered activation in the prefrontal cortex and precuneus were key regions related to the effects of CBT. Therefore, CBT may modulate the neural circuitry of emotion regulation. This finding provides recommendations for the rapidly developing literature.
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Effects on Lamb Fecal Egg Count Estimated Breeding Values in Progeny-Tested Katahdin Sires

Estimated breeding values (EBV) for fecal egg counts (FEC) at 42–90 days of age (WFEC) and 91–150 days of age (PFEC) for 84 progeny-tested Katahdin sires were used to identify associations of deregressed EBV with single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) using 388,000 SNP with minor-allele frequencies ≥0.10 on an Illumina high-density ovine array. Associations between markers and FEC EBV were initially quantified by single-SNP linear regression. Effects of linkage disequilibrium (LD) were minimized by assigning SNP to 2,535 consecutive 1-Mb bins and focusing on the effect of the most significant SNP in each bin. Bonferroni correction was used to define bin-based (BB) genome- and chromosome-wide significance. Six bins on chromosome 5 achieved BB genome-wide significance for PFEC EBV, and three of those SNP achieved chromosome-wide significance after Bonferroni correction based on the 14,530 total SNP on chromosome 5. These bins were nested within 12 consecutive bins between 59 and 71 Mb on chromosome 5 that reached BB chromosome-wide significance. The largest SNP effects were at 63, 67, and 70 Mb, with LD among these SNP of r 2 ≤ 0.2. Regional heritability mapping (RHM) was then used to evaluate the ability of different genomic regions to account for additive variance in FEC EBV. Chromosome-level RHM indicated that one 500-SNP window between 65.9 and 69.9 Mb accounted for significant variation in PFEC EBV. Five additional 500-SNP windows between 59.3 and 71.6 Mb reached suggestive (p < 0.10) significance for PFEC EBV. Although previous studies rarely identified markers for parasite resistance on chromosome 5, the IL12B gene at 68.5 Mb codes for the p40 subunit of both interleukins 12 and 23. Other immunoregulatory genes are also located in this region of chromosome 5, providing opportunity for additive or associative effects.
OpenMatch: Open-set Consistency Regularization for Semi-supervised Learning with Outliers

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is an effective means to leverage unlabeled data to improve a model's performance. Typical SSL methods like FixMatch assume that labeled and unlabeled data share the same label space. However, in practice, unlabeled data can contain categories unseen in the labeled set, i.e., outliers, which can significantly harm the performance of SSL algorithms. To address this problem, we propose a novel Open-set Semi-Supervised Learning (OSSL) approach called OpenMatch. Learning representations of inliers while rejecting outliers is essential for the success of OSSL. To this end, OpenMatch unifies FixMatch with novelty detection based on one-vs-all (OVA) classifiers. The OVA-classifier outputs the confidence score of a sample being an inlier, providing a threshold to detect outliers. Another key contribution is an open-set soft-consistency regularization loss, which enhances the smoothness of the OVA-classifier with respect to input transformations and greatly improves outlier detection. OpenMatch achieves state-of-the-art performance on three datasets, and even outperforms a fully supervised model in detecting outliers unseen in unlabeled data on CIFAR10.
Reflexos econômicos de perdas quantitativas por abcessos vacinais em carcaças de bovinos abatidos no estado da Bahia, Brasil

Vaccine abscesses are key factors to condemn beef cattle carcasses. Often, economic losses can compromise the profitability of both slaughter house and rural producer. This study aimed to quantify the losses in beef production by carcass parts damnation due to vaccine reactions. The study was conducted in partnership with the slaughter house located in Itapetinga (BA, Brazil). From a total of 7,033 slaughtered animals, 5,225 carcasses were evaluated (74.3% of total). Excised parts of carcasses due to vaccine reaction were separated, weighed and later discarded to rendering plant. The percentage of carcasses with some loss was greater than 98%. Disposal by vaccine reaction exceeded 0.500 kg/carcass. The average loss of total slaughtered animals reached 0.24% of the carcass. Considering only the studied slaughter house, there was an economic loss of R$ 29,978.75 in just 13 days of operation, or, the equivalent in american dollars of US$ 7,457.40 (exchange of 01/14/2016). Tissues removed from carcasses due to abscess formation cause significant loss for both slaughter houses and rural producers.
PERHITUNGAN CRITICAL CLEARING TIME MENGGUNAKAN PERSAMAAN SIMULTAN BERBASIS TRAJEKTORI KRITIS TANPA KONTROL YANG TERHUBUNG DENGAN INFINITE BUS

In the electric power system is very important to pay attention to transient stability. It can be seen in the event of a disruption. In the event of interruption, protection reley will work to open the circuit breaker in the 200-300 ms. This is not guarantee system will be stable again after the disruption, it caused there are critical clearing time (CCT). If the interruption is terminated before the critical clearing time, then the generator will back stable. However, if the disruption were disconnected after critical clearing time, then the generator will be unstable. With TDS (Time Domain Simulation) value of CCT brings only a value of the upper limit and lower limit. In this final project will be calculated the value of CCT on multi-machines using simultaneous equations based on critical trajectory without control which is connected to infinite bus. This method is accurate enough to determine the direct value of the CCT at any point disruption.
Understanding home networks with lightweight privacy-preserving passive measurement

OF DISSERTATION UNDERSTANDING HOME NETWORKS WITH LIGHTWEIGHT PRIVACY-PRESERVING PASSIVE MEASUREMENT Homes are involved in a significant fraction of Internet traffic. However, meaningful and comprehensive information on the structure and use of home networks is still hard to obtain. The two main challenges in collecting such information are the lack of measurement infrastructure in the home network environment and individuals’ concerns about information privacy. To tackle these challenges, the dissertation introduces Home Network Flow Logger (HNFL) to bring the lightweight privacy-preserving passive measurement to home networks. The core of HNFL is a Linux kernel module that runs on resourceconstrained commodity home routers to collect network traffic data from raw packets. Unlike prior passive measurement tools, HNFL is shown to work without harming either data accuracy or router performance. This dissertation also includes a months-long field study to collect passive measurement data from home network gateways where network traffic is not mixed by NAT (Network Address Translation) in a non-intrusive way. The comprehensive data collected from over fifty households are analyzed to learn the characteristics of home networks such as number and distribution of connected devices, traffic distribution among internal devices, network availability, downlink/uplink bandwidth, data usage patterns, and application traffic distribution.
Marrow Transplantation Accelerates T Cell Reconstitution after Bone Prior to Recovery of Thymopoiesis and Flt3 Ligand Expands Lymphoid Progenitors

Deﬁcient thymopoiesis and retarded recovery of newly developed CD4 (cid:1) T cells is one of the most important determinants of impaired immunocompetence after hemopoietic stem cell transplantation. Here we evaluated whether Fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 (Flt3) ligand (FL) alone or combined with IL-7 affects T cell recovery, thymopoiesis, and lymphoid progenitor expansion following bone marrow transplantation in immunodeﬁcient mice. FL strongly accelerated and enhanced the recovery of peripheral T cells after transplantation of a low number of bone marrow cells. An additive effect on T cell recovery was not observed after coadministration of IL-7. Lineage (cid:2) sca-1 (cid:1) c-kit (cid:1) ﬂt3 (cid:1) lymphoid progenitor cell numbers were signiﬁcantly increased in bone marrow of FL-treated mice before recovery of thymopoiesis. Thymocyte differentiation was advanced to more mature stages after FL treatment. Improved T cell recovery resulted in better immunocompetence against a post-bone marrow transplantation murine CMV infection. Collectively, our data suggest that FL promotes T cell recovery by enhanced thymopoiesis and by expansion of lymphoid progenitors. The Journal of Immunology, 2007, 178: 3551–3557. data was performed using the SPSS software package (SPSS, Inc.). Differences between the different cytokine treat-ments were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test. Spearman’s (cid:5) test was used to analyze the bivariate correlation between the numbers of T, B, and NK cells in the peripheral blood and mCMV plasma viral load. Kaplan-Meier plots were used for survival after mCMV infection.
ACCOUNTING CHOICES, CORPORATE CHARACTERISTICS AND ADOPTION OF IFRS IN TWO PHASES

The aim of this study is to evaluate which corporate characteristics, representative of economic, contractual and institutional incentives, are associated with the realization of multiple accounting choices in large companies in Brazil, peculiar environment of accounting transition to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in more than one phase. To achieve this objective, a diagnosis of accounting choices was made in 75 large companies (listed and unlisted companies) during the period 2008 to 2013, as well as a survey of the corporate characteristics that may be associated with these choices. The technique used was correspondence analysis. The main contribution of the study is the analysis of several accounting choices simultaneously, in an IFRS transition environment in more than one phase. Unlike most previous accounting choice studies, evidence has been found that institutional features are more closely associated with making accounting choices than economic and contractual features, both during the transition period (2008-2009), as after full adoption (2010-2013). Possible explanations for this result may be related to the level of development of the Brazilian market and the accounting institutional learning curve.
Recent developments in turbomachinery component materials and manufacturing challenges for aero engine applications

In the recent years the development of turbomachinery materials performance enhancement plays a vital role especially in aircraft air breathing engines like turbojet engine, turboprop engine, turboshaft engine and turbofan engines. Especially the transonic flow engines required highly sophisticated materials where it can sustain the entire thrust which can create by the engine. The main objective of this paper is to give an overview of the present cost-effective and technological capabilities process for turbomachinery component materials. Especially the main focus is given to study the Electro physical, Photonic additive removal process and Electro chemical process for turbomachinery parts manufacture. The aeronautical propulsion based technologies are reviewed thoroughly where in surface reliability, geometrical precession, and material removal and highly strengthened composite material deposition rates usually difficult to cut dedicated steels, Titanium and Nickel based alloys. In this paper the past aeronautical and propulsion mechanical based manufacturing technologies, current sophisticated technologies and also future challenging material processing techniques are covered. The paper also focuses on the brief description of turbomachinery components of shaping process and coating in aeromechanical applications.
Validation of a Modified Version of the German Sedentary Behavior Questionnaire

Background: Physical inactivity and excessive sedentary behavior (SB) are growing public health issues that require surveillance, guidelines, and targeted interventions. In addition to a variety of sophisticated technical methods, questionnaires are still an attractive method for quick, easy, comprehensive, and cost-effective estimation of SB. The aim of this study was to validate a modified version of the widely used Sedentary Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) compared to waist-worn accelerometers as an objective measurement. Contemporary explanations covering the use of smart devices have been added to the original instrument, and sitting while handwriting was explicated in more detail. Methods: Cross-sectional data from an adult sample (n = 64, 20–85 y, 25 m, 39 f) were used in this first validation study. Based on prior investigations of the SBQ, analyses were conducted in a gender-specific manner. Criterion validity was assessed using Spearman’s Rho coefficients. The Bland–Altman method was used to test the agreement between self-reported and accelerometer-measured SB time. Results: Using the modified SBQ (mSBQ), a significant gender difference in weekly sedentary time was found. Women estimated their sedentary time to be almost 50% higher than men (median 74.5 h vs. 51.0 h). No correlation was found between the questionnaire and accelerometer data for both subgroups (rho ≤ 0.281, p ≥ 0.174). Individual differences in daily SB estimation between both methods (in relation to accelerometry) were +3.82 h ± 4.36 h for women and +0.48 h ± 2.58 h for men (p < 0.001). Conclusion: The modifications to the SBQ did not improve the correlation between self-assessment of SB and objective determination. The reasons for the presented gender-specific overestimation of the participants’ own sedentary time, which contradicts the findings of other studies, remain unclear and need to be investigated further.
Oral and Laryngeal Articulation Control of Voicing in Children with and without Speech Sound Disorders

Voicing contrast is hard to master during speech motor development, and the phonological process of consonant devoicing is very frequent in children with Speech Sound Disorders (SSD). Therefore, the aim of this study was to characterise the oral and laryngeal articulation control strategies used by children with and without SSD as a function of place of articulation. The articulation rate and relative oral airflow amplitude (flow) were used to analyse how children controlled oral articulation; fundamental frequency (fo), open quotient (OQ), and a classification of voicing were used to explore laryngeal behaviour. Data from detailed speech and language assessments, oral airflow and electroglottography signals were collected from 13 children with SSD and 17 children without SSD, aged 5; 0 to 7; 8, using picture naming tasks. Articulation rate and flow in children with and without SSD were not significantly different, but a statistically reliable effect of place on flow was found. Children with and without SSD used different relative fo (which captures changes in fo during the consonant-vowel transition) and OQ values, and place of articulation had an effect on the strength of voicing. All children used very similar oral articulation control of voicing, but children with SSD used less efficient laryngeal articulation strategies (higher subglottal damping and more air from the lungs expelled in each glottal cycle) than children without SSD.
Task-Rate-Related Neural Dynamics Using Wireless EEG to Assist Diagnosis and Intervention Planning for Preschoolers with ADHD Exhibiting Heterogeneous Cognitive Proficiency

This study used a wireless EEG system to investigate neural dynamics in preschoolers with ADHD who exhibited varying cognitive proficiency pertaining to working memory and processing speed abilities. Preschoolers with ADHD exhibiting high cognitive proficiency (ADHD-H, n = 24), those with ADHD exhibiting low cognitive proficiency (ADHD-L, n = 18), and preschoolers with typical development (TD, n = 31) underwent the Conners’ Kiddie Continuous Performance Test and wireless EEG recording under different conditions (rest, slow-rate, and fast-rate task). In the slow-rate task condition, compared with the TD group, the ADHD-H group manifested higher delta and lower beta power in the central region, while the ADHD-L group manifested higher parietal delta power. In the fast-rate task condition, in the parietal region, ADHD-L manifested higher delta power than those in the other two groups (ADHD-H and TD); additionally, ADHD-L manifested higher theta as well as lower alpha and beta power than those with ADHD-H. Unlike those in the TD group, the delta power of both ADHD groups was enhanced in shifting from rest to task conditions. These findings suggest that task-rate-related neural dynamics contain specific neural biomarkers to assist clinical planning for ADHD in preschoolers with heterogeneous cognitive proficiency. The novel wireless EEG system used was convenient and highly suitable for clinical application.
Fingerprint minutiae detection using improved Tamura’s thinning

This study proposes a new fingerprint minutiae detection method with a short processing time and high accuracy. This method removes spurs, thus preserving the connectivity of the original image following the Tamura thinning. In the proposed method, the fingerprint minutiae can be correctly detected by inspecting pixels in the 8-connection of the pixel of interest, even if the line width is not equal to one. Experimental results demonstrated that the detection rates of the proposed and conventional methods are approximately the same, while the processing time of the proposed method is 1/30th of that of the conventional method.
Immersive 3D flow visualization based on enhanced texture convolution and volume rendering

In this paper, we proposed a texture-based 3D flow visualization method in an immersive environment. The algorithm uses line integral convolution to display the directional information of the flow fields. The algorithm enhances the contrast between streamlines by injecting a certain percentage of random noise into the convolution-generated texture. We introduce a high-pass filtering process to improve the quality of enhanced rendered texture further. In addition, this paper designs a volume rendering transfer function for the immersive environment, which can effectively extract the significant features of the flow field in the immersive environment and highlight the features areas of interest to users.