Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Preoperative automated ﬁbre quantiﬁcation predicts postoperative seizure outcome in temporal lobe epilepsy

Approximately one in every two patients with pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy will not be rendered completely seizure-free after temporal lobe surgery. The reasons for this are unknown and are likely to be multifactorial. Quantitative volumetric magnetic resonance imaging techniques have provided limited insight into the causes of persistent postoperative seizures in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. The relationship between postoperative outcome and preoperative pathology of white matter tracts, which constitute crucial components of epileptogenic networks, is unknown. We investigated regional tissue characteristics of preoperative temporal lobe white matter tracts known to be important in the generation and propagation of temporal lobe seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy, using diffusion tensor imaging and automated ﬁbre quantiﬁcation. We studied 43 patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy associated with hippocampal sclerosis and 44 healthy controls. Patients underwent preoperative imaging, amygdalohippocampectomy and postoperative assessment using the International League Against Epilepsy seizure outcome scale. From preoperative imaging, the ﬁmbria-fornix, parahippocampal white matter bundle and uncinate fasciculus were reconstructed, and scalar diffusion metrics were calculated along the length of each tract. Altogether, 51.2% of patients were rendered completely seizure-free and 48.8% continued to experience postoperative seizure symptoms. Relative to controls, both patient groups exhibited strong and signiﬁcant diffusion abnormalities along the length of the uncinate bilaterally, the ipsilateral parahippocampal white matter bundle, and the ipsilateral ﬁmbria-fornix in regions located within the medial temporal lobe. However, only patients with persistent postoperative seizures showed evidence of signiﬁcant pathology of tract sections located in the ipsilateral dorsal fornix and in the contralateral parahippocampal white matter bundle. Using receiver operating characteristic curves, diffusion characteristics of these regions could classify individual patients according to outcome with 84% sensitivity and 89% speciﬁcity. Pathological changes in the dorsal fornix were beyond the margins of resection, and contralateral parahippocampal changes may suggest a bitemporal disorder in some patients. Furthermore, diffusion characteristics of the ipsilateral uncinate could classify patients from controls with a sensitivity of 98%; importantly, by co-registering the preoperative ﬁbre maps to postoperative surgical lacuna maps, we observed that the extent of uncinate resection was signiﬁcantly greater in patients who were rendered seizure-free, suggesting that a smaller resection of the uncinate may represent insufﬁcient disconnection of an anterior temporal epileptogenic network. These results may have the potential to be developed into imaging prognostic markers of postoperative outcome and provide new insights for why some patients with temporal lobe epilepsy continue to experience postoperative seizures.
How do Germany’s Internet Users seach the Web? – A User-Focused Study of Search Behavior and Satisfaction

: The internet has developed into the number one port for communication and information. With the millions of websites available, search engines play a vital role in filtering information online. Over time, both search engines and technical equipment have been changing: web-enabled devices have been getting smaller, new search engines were launched, new search featuresadded, and the presentation of the search resultshas undergone modifications. Users have been changing their search habits, too, they have been getting more experienced in searching the web. Analytical search engine studies, e.g. logfile analyses,are numerous. User-focused studies of search engine behavior and user satisfaction, on the other hand, are still rare. However, certain scenarios, such as exploratorysearches, and the users’ subjective satisfaction may not be captured in those analyses. Nonetheless, the users’ subjective opinions and skills eventually decide upon the achieved search performance and the success of a search engine.The last user-focused search engine studies in Germany are from more than a decade ago. This study investigates user search engine behavior and satisfaction from the perspective of internet users in Germany. An survey was conductedto learn about search engine usage frequency, preferred search engines, and priorities for search engine selection, and to assess specificsearch habits, such aspreferred search query language, customization of the search engine language settings, and the necessity for repetitive searches and query rephrasing as perceived by the users. The survey also evaluated the users’ satisfaction with the search results in general, the search results on the first page, as well as the results retrieved with German versus English search queries. Where possible, the paper compares the findings with theuser-focused studies from 2003 and 2005.
Graduate Teaching Assistants' Views on Teaching 1

How teachers learn their craft has been a perennial puzzle for educational research. Existing studies include numerous investigations of teachers beginning their careers in elementary and secondary settings (Veenman, 1984). Other research documents the career stages of university professors (Baldwin & Blackburn, 1981; Blackburn, 1979; Cyntrynbaum, Lee, & Wadner, 1982; Mathis, 1979; Ralph, 1973). Little is known, however, about graduate students as they begin work as teachers. This paper examines how Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) view their early teaching experiences and interprets their views in light of recent research on teaching and professional socialization. The position of teaching assistant has attracted criticism over the years. Berelson, for example, notes three shortcomings of the teaching assistantship: "(a) not all potential teachers have the experience [of being a teaching assistant]; (b) many have it far too long; and (c) the experience is insufficiently directed and planned" (1960, p.66). But teaching is not the only job for which newcomers are inadequately oriented and trained. In fact, Goffman contends that such inadequate orientation to new positions is the norm.
PENGARUH PENYUNTIKAN PREGNANT MARE SERUM GONADOTROPHIN . KELAHIRAN KEMBAR PADA KAMBING DARA PERANAKAN ETAWAH

AtmmNGSIH, N . M . ,B . PuRwANTARA, R . K.ACmADJ, and 1-K.SuTAMA . 1996 . Effectofpregnant mare serum gonadotrophin injectionon litter sizein young Etawah-cross does.Jurnal Ilmu Ternak dan Veteriner2(l); The incidence of twins and/or multiplebirthsin20 heads of young Etawah-cross does was studiedfollowing oestrous synchronizationusing intravaginalsponges containing60 mg medroxyprogesterorle acetate(Repromap) for 15 days.Twenty fourhours priorto sponges withdrawal, the does were injectedwith pregnant mare serum gonadotrophin (PMSG) atdose ratesof 0 (Group A), 10 (Group B), 15 (Group C) and 20 iu/kg (Group D) body weight. A mature buck fittedwith an apron was used to detectthe onset of oestrusat every four hours. The oestrousdoe was naturallymated twice, 12 hours afteronset of oestrusand 10 hours later. About 3-5 days afteroestrus,alldoes were subjected to mid-ventral laparoscopy todetectovulation rate.Two months aftermating alldoes were subjectedtopregnancy testusing diagnosticultrasonography.Results showed thatalldoes exhibited clear sign of oestrus. The onset of oestrusoccurred 15-43 hours aftersponges withdrawal or 39-59 hours after PMSG injection.Does injectedwith PMSG (Groups B, C and D) showed oestrus 16-21 hours earlier(P 0 .05)than thatof control(Group A) . However, therewas no significantdifferencesamong thePMSG-treated groups.Ovulation ratesincreased from 1.0in Group A to 1.8 inGroup B and 2.6 inbah Groups C and D . Average littersizeinGroups A, B,C and D were 1.0,1.8,2.4and 1.0, respectively.Itwas concluded thatinjectionof 15 iu PMSG/kg body weight gave the bestresultforincreasinglittersizein young Etawah-cross does.
Antiadhesive properties of biosurfactant against Pseudomonas aeruginosa

- Biofilms, which are formed by the majority of micro organisms in natural environments, are structures with low sensitivity to drugs. Many laboratories are synthesizing or isolating new compounds preventing the formation of biofilms or causing their elimination. Adhesion is the first stage of biofilm formation and the best moment for the action of antiadhesive and anti-biofilm compounds. Biosurfactants are promising compounds often showing antimicrobial and antiadhesive properties and sometimes penetrating and removing mature biofilms. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Development of Wireless Power Transfer for Low Voltage Application

: The development of wireless power transfer for low voltage application is proposed inthis paper. The main objective of this project is to transfer electrical energy wirelessly without connected by wire from source to load. Furthermore, this project aim to help on reduce cable wasted on the Earth, this is because wireless use lesser wire and doesn’t require to plug in and plug out frequently and help to tidy up mixed power cable of electronics. Then also achieve the effective range for wireless power transfer for more than direct touching (0cm). The concept of the wireless phone charger is using 2 copper coil which designed to transmit and receive voltage over air medium. It also use diode and capacitor on the receiver side to maintain a stable voltage over time to charge the phone. The projects will to reduce cable been throw away and easier the charging of mobile phone. Some practical studies on effect of coil diameter and range between transmitter, Tx and receiver, Rx has been done to figure out the optimum electrical energy transfer to the load, result was 2cm coil diameter had been selected as transmitter.
Lateral vehicle dynamics control and vehicle state estimation: A tyre force measurement based approach

In assessing and controlling vehicle dynamics, tyre forces are the most important variables as they are the only point of interaction with the road. Estimating tyre forces is difficult because of their nonlinear characteristics. Therefore, most of the lateral vehicle dynamics controllers and estimators in the literature use a tyre model that introduces modeling error because of the tyre model nonlinearities and uncertainties. This may degrade the controller and estimator performance. On the other hand, modeling with tyre force measurements improves the model accuracy and therefore might improve the controller and estimator performance. The primary objective of this PhD research is to study the benefits of tyre force measurement on lateral VehicleDynamics Control (VDC) and Vehicle State Estimation (VSE). The lateral VDCs and VSEs studied in this dissertation are therefore based on tyre force measurement. This PhD research is a part of an ongoing research at TU Delft on Load Sensing Bearing (LSB) based VDC. The LSB technology is invented at SKF and it measures individual tyre forces. In the previous PhD dissertation, longitudinal VDC using the LSB technology has been the main focus of research. In this PhD dissertation, lateral VDCs and VSEs using tyre forcemeasurements are studied. This dissertation shows that the force based methods can be adapted to many VDC aspects. In particular, the contributions of this dissertation are the proposed Tyre Utilization Coefficients Control using steering actuators, yaw rate control using braking actuators, vehicle sideslip estimator and the road-tyre friction estimator considering combined tyre slip. The estimators are also validated using test data. Overall, this dissertation offers a positive recommendation on LSB based VDC and VSE but more work needs to be done on the LSB technology.
SEISMIC AMELIORATION OF EXISTING REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS: STRATEGY TO OPTIMIZE THE AMOUNT OF REINFORCEMENT FOR JOINTS

Most of the existing Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings in Italy were built according to obsolete regulations that were not enough aware of issues related to seismic design so that they need to be upgraded by pursuing either amelioration or full seismic rehabilitation. In doing that, the first step is to figure out what is, based on the results of the initial analysis of the structure in its ante-operam version, the best overall dissipative mechanism that could be obtained by a number of suitable and economically convenient local interventions. The choice of the overall dissipative mechanism strongly affects the amount of reinforcement to be adopted for the beam-column joints. For new buildings, the current adopted capacity design philosophy pursues an overall beam-sway mechanism in which plastic hinges first form in beams and at last at the base of the columns. On the contrary, for existing ones, often very irregular and gravity-load-dominated, pursuing such overall mechanism may result either uneconomic or even extremely difficult to implement due to the amount of reinforcement to be inserted in the joints. In such cases, an overall dissipative mechanism allowing, at some extent, columns flexural plasticization should be accepted and clearly identified in advance. Anyway, such approach needs to be addressed properly in order to avoid the formation of column-sways at one story only that would result very dangerous due to the excessive demand of plastic rotations on the resulting hinges. This paper presents two simple models that may help the designer in dealing with the operations above. The former is a model that allows to understand if, given the existing RC building case-study, either the beam-sway or a hybrid beam-column-sway mechanism should be conveniently pursued during the design of the retrofitting intervention. The latter is a model that allows to design a hybrid beam-column-sway overall mechanism involving a suitable number of stories such as to guarantee a uniform and reasonable demand of plastic rotations in the involved columns. 2823 Available online at www.eccomasproceedia. org Eccomas Proceedia COMPDYN (2017) 2823-2842 © 2017 The Authors. Published by Eccomas Proceedia. Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of COMPDYN 2017. doi: 10.7712/120117.5609. 18106
Effects of Intestinal Modiﬁcation by Antibiotics and Antibacterials on Utilization of Methionine Sources by Broiler Chickens 1

A study was conducted to determine if the response to different sources of Met was inﬂuenced by the presence or absence of antibiotics and antibacterials that might alter intestinal microﬂora. A Met-deﬁcient diet (0.33% by analysis), based on corn and soybean meal, was fed with or without a mixture providing 200 g/ton of bacitracin methylene disalicylate, 200 g/ton of chlortetracycline, 100 g/ton of penicillin, and 100 g/ton of sulfaquinoxaline. Diets were fortiﬁed with DL -Met or the liquid form of 2-hydroxy-4-methylbutanoic acid (HMB) to provide supplemental levels of Met ranging from 0.0 to 0.20% in increments of 0.04%, based on 99% activity for DL -Met and 88% activity for HMB. The experimental treatments consisted of a 2 × 2 × 6 factorial arrangement of treatments with 2 diet types (medicated and unmedicated), 2 Met sources ( DL -Met and HMB) at 6 levels of supplementation for a total of 24 dietary treatments. Each of these was fed to 6 replicate pens of 5 male chicks from 0 to 21 d, stratiﬁed across tiers in the battery. Feeding the medicated diets resulted in a signiﬁcant reduction in intestinal bacterial as measured by total aerobic plate count of ileal contents, with signiﬁcant improvements in BW and feed conversion. However, there were no signiﬁcant interactions between the medications and the response to the 2 sources of Met. There was no difference in BW or feed conversion related to the 2 different sources of Met when fed to provide equimolar amounts of Met activity. Chicks responded to increasing levels of Met, but there was no interaction between source and level of Met for BW or feed conversion. Peak response appeared to occur at approximately 0.08% supplemental (0.41% total) Met, somewhat below current NRC recommendations. It does not appear that a difference in antibiotic content of test diets is responsible for the discrepancy in reported responses to the 2 sources of Met.
Comparing automated and non‐automated machine learning for autism spectrum disorders classification using facial images

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder associated with cognitive and neurobehavioral disorders. It affects the person's behavior and performance. Autism affects verbal and non‐verbal communication in social interactions. Early screening and diagnosis of ASD are essential and helpful for early educational planning and treatment, the provision of family support, and for providing appropriate medical support for the child on time. Thus, developing automated methods for diagnosing ASD is becoming an essential need. Herein, we investigate using various machine learning methods to build predictive models for diagnosing ASD in children using facial images. To achieve this, we used an autistic children dataset containing 2936 facial images of children with autism and typical children. In application, we used classical machine learning methods, such as support vector machine and random forest. In addition to using deep‐learning methods, we used a state‐of‐the‐art method, that is, automated machine learning (AutoML). We compared the results obtained from the existing techniques. Consequently, we obtained that AutoML achieved the highest performance of approximately 96% accuracy via the Hyperpot and tree‐based pipeline optimization tool optimization. Furthermore, AutoML methods enabled us to easily find the best parameter settings without any human efforts for feature engineering.
Performance analysis of DSSS‐ and CSS‐based physical layer for IoT transmission over LEO satellites

To determine a suitable waveform for Internet of Things (IoT) transmission over low‐Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, this paper reports the results of a performance comparison between chirp spread spectrum (CSS)‐based LoRa and direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS)‐based Ingenu. The performance of both waveforms was measured in terms of the packet error rate, throughput, and packet loss rate, considering the Doppler effect caused by the high speed of LEO satellites and the interference among multiple terminals. Simulation results indicate that the DSSS scheme is more suitable than the CSS scheme for high‐traffic IoT services because of its robustness against interference among multiple terminals. However, the CSS scheme is more suitable than the DSSS scheme for high‐mobility IoT services because of its robustness against the Doppler effect. We discuss various solutions, such as the preprocessing of Doppler effect and avoidance of packet collision, to enhance the performance of the DSSS and CSS schemes. The simulation results of the proposed solution show that the enhanced DSSS scheme can be a proper waveform in IoT transmission over LEO satellites for both the high‐traffic and high‐mobility services.
Festival attendees’ perceptions of green hotel practices Festival attendees’ perceptions of green hotel practices

linen program; use of environmentally-friendly paper products; bulk dispensers for guest supplies and amenities; energy efficient lighting; timers, motion, or light-sensitive controls for lighting; programmable thermostats for HVAC systems; air filtration system; reduced-flow toilets, faucets, shower heads; rainwater or gray-water capture for reuse in irrigation; biodegradable chemicals; renewable energy (solar/wind); recycling (paper/plastic/aluminum); and recycling used cooking oils.
Comparative Nano-indentation Creep Study of Ductile Metal, Ductile Polymer and Polymer-fly Ash Composite

A new study is conducted under same experimental creep conditions to investigate and compare the response of dissimilar materials (metals, polymers and composites) in relation to properties such as hardness and (unloading) ‘reduced modulus’ on changing the nano-indentation test parameters. The research uses nano-indentation technique to determine the resistance to plastic deformation in these broadly different materials as a function of maximum load, holding time and loading rate. Wear rate and cutting efficiency of these materials are examined and it is found that only maximum load alters these properties in the three materials. Hardness and ‘reduced modulus’ are found to be directly affected by increase or decrease in maximum load, holding time and loading rate.
Token-Based Authorization and Authentication for Secure Internet of Vehicles Communication

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) communication platform provides seamless information exchange facilities in a dynamic mobile city environment. Heterogeneous communication is a common medium for information exchange through autonomous resources distributed and accessed using infrastructure units. Cyber-security is a primary concern in accessing autonomous information from the distributed resources due to anonymity and different types of targeted adversaries. This article proposes token-based authorization and authentication (TAA) for securing IoV communications. The proposed method relies on blockchain technology and random forest learning for authorization and key management for authentication, respectively. In this process, frequent change in tokens and key update features are restricted in a view to maximize the seamlessness in information exchange. Authentication is preceded by knowledge of the data classification without errors to prevent additional overhead. Blockchain-based authorization helps to update specific fields of the tokens to retain the communication ratio by reducing vehicle-to-vehicle losses. The performance of the proposed method is assessed using appropriate simulations for these metrics by varying vehicle density, error rate, and classification sets.
Paranoid posting

General paranoia is the term that best describes a user's social media experience. The spaces we go to socialize online are full of suspicion, potential bad-faith actors, and advertisements that seem to know your every move. This attention-grabbing, habit-forming culture is sold on dreams of limitless love between family, friends, and community (as promised by the Facebook slogan "bring the world closer together"). Genuine connection can be found online, but the heart of this network lies outside fiber optic cables.
Making Together Across Space & Time: Mapping Participatory Making when Co-Designing Asynchronously and/or without Colocation

Designers construct a material sensibility through ‘making’ within a design process; a sensibility which is co-constructed by giving shape to artefacts and systems together with other stakeholders in a participatory design process. Complex research contexts have required reconsideration of the ways in which this ‘making’ takes place. Particularly during recent pandemics, requirements of having to collaborate across different places and/or time periods prompted designers to adapt their praxes, generating reflective insight into how the materiality of participatory making (which includes sketches, toolkits, probes, samples, role play performances, prototypes, and others) may support or challenge the co-construction of shared material sensibilities. In this workshop, we invite PD designers and researchers to reflect on and play with the materiality of participatory making while apart in order to co-create a constellation or network of design practices, materials, and audiences which can provide important insights for designers who face restrictions on meeting stakeholders face-to-face.