Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PATIENT EDUCATION IN THE FOOT CARE WITH ONYCHOCRYPTOSIS AN IMPORTANT CONDITION FOR CARE AND PREVENTION

: Patient education is an essential process of the whole concept of effective health care. The involvement of a patient as an active participant in his/her own health management is one of the major tasks of the World Health Organization. The idea is to ensure prevention and health safeguarding of society, and improve its welfare. The creation and use of materials for the education of patients aims to increase information, knowledge, and culture levels of health awareness behaviour, and their active involvement in the curative process for the personal health preservation. Similar other health conditions and diseases, and in people suffering from onychocryptosis, it is necessary to build habits for implementing the appropriate personal health care to assist the healing process and prevention. The education of patients/consumers with onychocryptosis can be addressed in several aspects: prevention - it includes information and training as to how to apply the appropriate hygienic and cosmetic care to the foot and toe-nails; home care, during the healing process - according to the individual condition and the treatment process, clear and specific guidelines need to be provided for the necessary care, that the patient should apply at home; partner involvement - in the cases, when the patient/customer is unable to personally implement the relevant instructions is necessary to train their relatives, they who are to participate in the healing process. The main objective of this report is to present a protocol for patients/consumers training, which is related to the prevention and reduction of the risk of complications of onychocryptosis. There are different methods of caring for these health conditions. But, we are discussing the way, in which the patient can be trained to take care of themselves. This protocol includes theoretical and practical training methods. The concept is based on good practices in the development of educational materials for patients/consumers, so that their participation in the care of their own health to be more effective and useful. Patient education materials offer a lot of benefits both to patients/customers and healthcare providers (physicians, healthcare professionals, medical and non-medical staff, etc), and also cost covering institutions (health funds, health insurance companies, personal sources, etc). Thus, patients are changing from passive customers of healthcare services in to active participants in their own health management. Such appropriately created materials and their proper use can significantly improve the ability of patients/customers to manage their own health status.
Probing the innermost regions of AGN jets and their magnetic fields with RadioAstron

Context. Supermassive black holes in the centres of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) can produce collimated relativistic outflows (jets). Magnetic fields are thought to play a key role in the formation and collimation of these jets, but the details are much debated. Aims. We study the innermost jet morphology and magnetic field strength in the AGN 3C 345 with an unprecedented resolution using images obtained within the framework of the key science programme on AGN polarisation of the Space VLBI mission RadioAstron. Methods. We observed the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 345 at 1.6 GHz on 2016 March 30 with RadioAstron and 18 ground-based radio telescopes in full polarisation mode. Results. Our images, in both total intensity and linear polarisation, reveal a complex jet structure at 300 μas angular resolution, corresponding to a projected linear scale of about 2 pc or a few thousand gravitational radii. We identify the synchrotron self-absorbed core at the jet base and find the brightest feature in the jet 1.5 mas downstream of the core. Several polarised components appear in the Space VLBI images that cannot be seen from ground array-only images. Except for the core, the electric vector position angles follow the local jet direction, suggesting a magnetic field perpendicular to the jet. This indicates the presence of plane perpendicular shocks in these regions. Additionally, we infer a minimum brightness temperature at the largest (u, v)-distances of 1.1 × 1012 K in the source frame, which is above the inverse Compton limit and an order of magnitude larger than the equipartition value. This indicates locally efficient injection or re-acceleration of particles in the jet to counter the inverse Compton cooling or the geometry of the jet creates significant changes in the Doppler factor, which has to be > 11 to explain the high brightness temperatures.
Spatial Design Network Analysis software

sDNA is world leading spatial network analysis software, compatible with both GIS and CAD and using industry standard network representation. We compute accessibility and predict flows of pedestrians, cyclists, vehicles and public transport users; these inform models of health, community cohesion, land values, town centre vitality, land use, accidents and crime. We provide a simpler alternative to transport models, particularly for sustainable transport
Transcultural Nursing in Zambia: A Challenge for the 21 st Century

This article attempts to describe the concept of transcultural nursing, its importance, culture and health care and methods to promote it. Zambia is a multicultural nation comprising different ethnic groups. There is therefore, a need for cultural competence among nurses. The provision of cultural competent care by nurses in the country will result into improved quality nursing care for the multicultural populations living in Zambia.
Manuscript ID: PSCI-15-1916-R4 IN PRESS: PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE (May 2016) Title: The bitter truth about sugar and willpower: The limited evidential value of the glucose model of ego depletion

Title: The bitter truth about sugar and willpower: The limited evidential value of the glucose model of ego depletion Abstract Ego depletion is the idea that willpower draws on a limited mental resource, so that engaging in an act of self-control impairs self-control in subsequent tasks. To present ego-depletion as more than a convenient metaphor, Gailliot et al. (2007) have proposed that glucose is the limited resource that becomes depleted with self-control. However, there have been theoretical challenges to the glucose mechanism and the experiments that test it have found mixed results. We use a new meta-analytic tool, p -curve, to examine the reliability of the evidence from these experiments. We find that the effect sizes reported in this literature are possibly influenced by publication or reporting bias and that, even within studies yielding significant results, the evidential value of this research is weak. In light of these results, and pending further evidence, researchers and policy makers should refrain from drawing any conclusions about the role of glucose in self-control.
TOTAL VARIATION WITH GRADIENT HISTOGRAM: A NOVEL APPROACH TO IMAGE DENOISING

Images play important role in digital world for various research oriented applications and in day to day life, but these images are often available in defective conditions due to noise the gets mixed up with them while capturing and transmitting. Removal of noise from these defective images for better quality plays crucial role, and can be done by using various methods. Natural images have high total variation in them, that is, the integral of the absolute gradient of the signal is high. Image denoising done using Non-linear Total variation (TV) method smoothens the denoised image. To overcome this, a novel gradient histogram method is included in TV method to preserve the fine details of image. Experiments are conducted with various texture structures of image and proved that this method improves the quality of image when compared to earlier method.
PENERAPAN LEAN MANUFACTURING DENGAN PENDEKATAN VALUE STREAM MAPPING: STUDI KASUS PERUSAHAAN PERAKITAN KACA MOBIL

PT. X merupakan perusahaan manufaktur yang memproduksi berbagai jenis kaca, salah satunya kaca rakitan otomotif. Keterlambatan pengiriman produk terjadi karena belum selesainya kaca diproduksi yakni pada proses perakitan kaca. Proses produksi tidak efisien dan efektif disebabkan adanya aktivitas yang tidak memberikan nilai tambah yang merupakan sumber pemborosan (waste). Value Stream Mapping (VSM) memetakan proses Value Added dan non-Value Added untuk implementasi "lean manufacturing" dengan manggambarkan aliran informasi dan material terhadap suatu produk. Identifikasi waste diawali dengan pemetaan current state VSM kemudian dilakukan analisis 7 waste (Liker 2006). Setelah dilakukan analisis terhadap penyebab waste yang terjadi, kemudian diajukan beberapa alternatif perbaikan kepada perusahaan guna mendapatkan perbaikan yang terbaik. Waste yang terjadi di dalam proses produksi diantaranya transportasi yang membutuhkan waktu cukup lama, proses yang tidak efisien, job change yang lama dan terdapat beberapa delay (waktu menunggu). Tindakan perbaikan yang dilakukan untuk menghilangkan waste yakni: melakukan perancangan ulang tata letak (re-layout) pada beberapa lokasi, menggabungkan pekerjaan yang berulang, mengurangi pekerjaan irregular job, melakukan desain ulang terhadap kemasan palet dan memperbaiki metode kerja dalam membawa produk jadi ke gudang. Penelitian dan perbaikan yang dilakukan mengurangi production lead time sebanyak 15 % dan mengurangi value added time sebanyak 14 %. Kata Kunci: Lean manufacturing, Value Stream Mapping, 7 waste
Online Sequential Compressed Sensing With Multiple Information for Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging

We propose a novel strategy for applying compressed sensing (CS) to stepped frequency continuous wave synthetic aperture radars. The measurements are performed by adhering to a sequential measurement strategy. The sensor autonomously adapts, on the fly, the number of samples needed to reconstruct the reflectivity function and guarantees an imposed reconstruction quality. The measurements obtained at the previous scanning positions are added as side information into the reconstruction of the reflectivity function sensed by the radar at the current radar position. The algorithm attributes autonomous weights to each of these side information depending on the similarity with the signal to reconstruct. This approach is tested and evaluated on a series of simulated and real through-the-wall imaging radar measurements for detecting static human targets hidden behind a wall. The experiments first prove that the frequency sampling rate can be decreased far below the bound obtained by the common CS approach and, second, that the algorithm allows determining an accurate upper bound for the reconstruction error, and thus to autonomously decide online on the number of samples.
Smart Phone Based Indian Sign Language Maker for Aiding Deaf and Dumb People

— Sign language is the native language of deaf and dumb people which they prefer to use it on their daily life. This paper describes architecture of a smart phone based Indian sign language maker for aiding deaf and dumb people (special people). This system comprised of two features namely, speech to gesture (Indian Sign Language) and text to speech. The speech to gesture can be done with the help of Speech recognizer, semantic analyzer, gesture sequence generator and gesture player. The text to speech is done with the help of Google text to speech engine. The aim of the project is to aid special people by translating the speech to Indian Sign Language and converting text to voice. Speech recognition and semantic analysis is done with the help of the Google voice. Gesture sequence generation and gesture playing is the place where we focused our work. Gesture sequence is generated based on the semantic analyzer output in which the gesture sequence generator can recognize. Gesture sequence generator will produce sequences read by gesture player which is nothing but an animated human agent who will perform hand signs corresponding to the input given. This gesture sequence generator will also learn from the user if the speech is not properly recognized or the words are not found in the sequence generator dictionary. This paper is an initial work of the project in which, gesture generation is done for particular domains like railway, airport and bus transport kiosk where a deaf person can respond to the phone calls from various customers. The future work will be a complete system which can produce hand signs for any domain.
In-Vitro Toxicology Approach to Explore Nicotine Effects in Oral Mucosal Culture

Objective: To measure the effect of in vitro nicotine on reconstituted oral mucosal culture and to study its effect after 5 minutes and 24 hours in normal healthy uninflammed oral mucosa. Material and Methods: This observational study was conducted at Department of Oral Pathology, Barts and London Queen Mary University London to measure the effect of in vitro nicotine on reconstituted oral mucosal model. The reconstituted human epithelium model was used and was supplied by Skin Ethic Laboratories, Nice, France. Cells viability was assessed by MTT assay. Working solutions (10μM, 100µM, 1mM, and 10mM) of nicotine were primed from 2.5M stock solution (Sigma,UK). The effect of nicotine was studied after 5 minutes and 24 hours in normal healthy uninflamed oral mucosa. Results: It was found that that application of nicotine after 5 minutes and 24 hours’ treatment on uninflamed oral mucosal model and did not significantly affect the viability at all concentrations used. Conclusion: Nicotine did not show any effect on uninflamed mucosa and also had no momentous effect after 5 minutes and 24 hours respectively. Further workup on proteomics and genomics is suggested to confirm our observations.
TECHNOPARKS AND SCIENCE-INTENSIVE PRODUCTION: AN ADVANCED EXPERIENCE

The development of science-intensive technologies is crucial for the social and economic stability of the nation. The current technological system calls for a unification of scientific and technological approaches in the innovation-driven development. The introduction of innovations is necessary for moderni-zation of the national economy and for making Russian companies more efficient. Without the constant development of science and education, there is a threat of social and cultural stagnation; while the world trend of changing and improving the production involves the emergence of new formats of economic interac-tion in which the science-intensive and convergent technologies play the key role. The science-intensive development requires the full-fledged institutional interaction, the joint activity of stakeholders, i.e. the devel-opment of special territories where economic, infrastructural and social-cultural conditions allow the intro-duction of new technologies. Technoparks represent one of the most popular formats of such territories. Today the Russian Federation has several technoparks. However, their work is not always satisfactory and needs optimization, especially for the greater efficiency of the science-intensive technologies. To identify the most effective ways of upgrading the Russian technoparks, the authors studied the experience of 12 most successful technoparks abroad, and make recommendations for improving the management system of tech-noparks and enhancing their scientific and innovative activities. The article describes the features of sci-ence-intensive technologies; the challenges the innovative organizations face; the role of technoparks in ensuring the growth of the innovative potential of the state; the formats and structure of technoparks as well as the recommendations for making them more effective in developing science-intensive technolo-gies. The article also presents the results of the studies of the Russian technoparks over the last ten years. The authors try to identify the main methods for optimization and modernization of technoparks to increase their role in the innovation-driven development of the state.
The NoXi database: multimodal recordings of mediated novice-expert interactions. In:

We present a novel multi-lingual database of natural dyadic novice-expert interactions, named NoXi, featuring screen-mediated dyadic human interactions in the context of information exchange and retrieval. NoXi is designed to provide spontaneous interactions with emphasis on adaptive behaviors and unexpected situations (e.g. conversational interruptions). A rich set of audio-visual data, as well as continuous and discrete annotations are publicly available through a web interface. Descriptors include low level social signals (e.g. gestures, smiles), functional descriptors (e.g. turn-taking, dialogue acts) and interaction descriptors (e.g. engagement, interest, and fluidity).
The Effects Of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles On The Pluripotent Cell Line P19

Nanoparticles (NPs) have a wide range of biological, medical and industrial applications. The rapid development of NPs has brought attention to the advancements it brings to the global society but has also raised major concerns around the adverse effects NPs pose to the environment and human health. One nanoparticle in particular cerium oxide (CeO2) is widely used in a variety of applications, for example, in 2001 it was reported that CeO2 nanoparticle emission would be around 22 million pounds. This increase in the release and availability of CeO2 NPs into the environment has brought on an interest in the evaluation of these NPs in biological systems is meaningful and pertinent to human health. The elucidation of the positive and negative benefits of CeO2 NPs appears to be inconclusive. CeO2 nanoparticles have been shown to have antioxidant properties. In contrast, studies have explained how CeO2 NPs generate oxidative stress and induce apoptosis in human lung epithelial cells. These findings on CeO2 NPs indicate cytotoxic and potential genotoxic effects upon cellular internalization. It has been reported that CeO2 NPs of various sizes show significant toxic effects on E. coli, human hepatoma and PC12 cells, related to oxidative stress. However, there are opposing scientific findings that have claimed that CeO2 NPs of small sizes do not cause any adverse effect but can protect cells from harmful effects of radiation and oxidative stress. There are numerous distinct elements that must be evaluated to truly determine the effects of nanoparticles, such as toxicity and the proteomic effects. In this study we hypothesize P19 pluripotent stem cells exposed to cerium oxide nanoparticles will modulate cellular changes in protein profiles. This study evaluated the protein profiles of P19 pluripotent stem cells exposed to cerium oxide nanoparticles utilizing 2D-Gel electrophoresis.
Masters Thesis: Analysis of the Robust Performance of Large-Scale Linear Systems using a Hierarchical Approach: PLL Network Application

Large-scale systems have become more important in the last years and will probably continue to do so due to the increasing complexity of nowadays problems. One example of such a system is a clock distribution network consisting of several phase locked loop systems deployed in an array. It is possible to obtain a (nominal) linear model describing the dynamical behaviour of a phase locked loop system around an operating point and to design a controller such that desired performance is achieved for this model and the overall linear model of the large-scale system. Although the phase locked loop systems are produced on an industrial scale, they will never be exactly equivalent. These dispersions can be captured by including uncertainty blocks in the model which results in a set of models describing the large-scale system. It is interesting to check if after including uncertainty in the model, certain performance can still be ensured. Analysing performance for such a set of mathematical models is called analysis of the robust performance. A method to perform robust performance analysis called μ-analysis or the direct approach exists though is relatively time consuming. Since the time computation is significant and crucial when applying the direct approach, it is interesting to study another method which can decrease the computation effort. M. Dinh, A. Korniienko and G. Scorletti have, after an idea of M.G. Safonov, developed a frequency dependent method to perform robust performance analysis on a linear large-scale system in several steps which can reduce the computation time needed though can give more conservative results with respect to the direct method. This new method is called the hierarchical approach. In this thesis we will explain the hierarchical approach and compare the robust performance analysis results obtained with the direct approach and with the hierarchical approach. We will also illustrate that the latter approach contains a trade-off between computation time and conservatism. We then introduce the two contributions of this thesis. First, an additional mathematical tool will be presented which can be used in the hierarchical approach to reduce the conservatism in the results. Then we will introduce a method which allows us to perform analysis of the robust performance not only for one specific frequency but also for a range around this frequency. Master of Science Thesis Sjoerd Boersma
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Tiger Hash Attribute Encryption for Secured Cloud Service Provisioning

: Cloud Computing facilitates organization to share various operation services in a high secure manner. In cloud based communication, the confidentiality of the systemis the major concern. Hence, the secured message communication is to prevent unauthorized access of confidential information. Several encryption approacheshave been developed for cloud service provisioning. But, cloud users still have major security and confidentiality about their outsourced data due to unauthorized access within the service providers. In order to improve the confidentiality in cloud service provisioning, Tiger Cryptographic Hash Function based Attribute Encryption and Decryption (TCHF-AED) technique is introduced. Tiger is a cryptographic hash function for achieving higher confidentiality rate in cloud service provisioning. Initially, the attribute cloud request is sent from the users to cloud server. Next, Tiger Cryptographic Hash Function is used to achieve cloud data confidentiality based on output of hash value.TheAttribute Encryption is performed for converting actual message into cipher textand the hash value of each encrypted message is calculated. The encrypted message with hash value is stored in cloud server. Whenever the cloud user accesses the data from cloud server, the hash value is recomputed to achieve the correctness of the message. If the correctness is achieved the decryption is performed to attain the confidentiality. The Attribute Decryption is carried out to decrypt the cipher text and achievean original message. This helps to improve the confidentiality rate and reduces the communication overhead. Experimental results shows that the proposed TCHF-AED technique achieves better performance in terms of Communication overhead, encryption time, memory consumption and confidentiality rate compared to the state-of-the-art works.