Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Predictive value of the monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio in the diagnosis of prostate cancer

Abstract It has been reported that inflammation and immune system are related to prostate cancer. The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), as well as the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), have already been proposed as new indices to help diagnose prostate cancer (PCa). However, the monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR) with regard to PCa has rarely been mentioned. To investigate the capability of the MLR to predict PCa. Patients who were pathologically diagnosed with PCa in our hospital and healthy control subjects who conformed to the inclusion criteria were enrolled. Patient data were recorded, including age, complete blood counts, blood biochemistry, and serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels. The differences in these data between the groups were analyzed and the diagnostic value of the MLR was compared with PSA. Our study included a total of 100 patients with PCa and 103 healthy control subjects. Patients with PCa presented with a significantly higher NLR, MLR, and PLR compared to control subjects. However, the hemoglobin and lymphocyte levels were lower (P < .05) in PCa patients. The area under the curve (AUC) of PSA and ratio of free/total serum prostate-specific antigen were 0.899 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.857–0.942) and 0.872 (95% CI: 0.818–0.926), respectively, while the AUC of the MLR was 0.852 (95% CI: 0.798–0.906), which was higher than that of the NLR, PLR, and any other blood parameters. Additionally, the optimal cut-off value of the MLR for PCa was 0.264, with a specificity of 87.4% and a sensitivity of 72.0%. An evaluation of the diagnostic value of MLR + PSA gave an AUC of 0.936 (95% CI: 0.902–0.970). However, the AUC of MLR + PSA + f/tPSA was 0.996 (95% CI: 0.991–1.000). The diagnostic value of MLR + NLR + PSA gave an AUC of 0.945 (95% CI: 0.913–0.977), and the specificity is 0.971. PSA remains the most important diagnostic indicator. MLR combined with PSA and f/tPSA has the higher predictive value than PSA. It suggests that MLR may be another good predictive indicator of PCa. It can help reduce the clinical false positive rate.
Comparison of the outcomes between laparoscopic surgery and conventional open surgery in treating patients with stage II endometrial carcinoma

Abstract Background: Endometrial carcinoma is a prevalent form of cancer. In fact, its incidence ranks fourth among European and North American females. Moreover, it is the most common gynecological malignant disease. Laparotomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, total abdominal hysterectomy, etc were common methods adopted in conventional open surgery. Recent developments in laparoscopic surgery (LPS) has made it more effective. The present study aims to compare the outcomes between LPS and a conventional open surgical procedure to treat stage II endometrial carcinoma patients. Methods: A comprehensive search will be conducted on Cochrane library, PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE, and China National of Knowledge Infrastructure to collect LPS and conventional open surgery in treating stage II endometrial carcinoma. The search will consider all articles published since the inception of the databases till July 2021. A pair of scholars will perform independent screening of the literature and extracted data to evaluate the bias risk in the selected studies. Afterwards, RevMan5.3 software will be used to conduct a meta-analysis. Conclusion: This study will conduct a meta-analysis to compare the clinical efficacy of LPS and conventional open surgery in the treatment of stage II endometrial carcinoma.
What it Boils Down to... The Case for Event Analogies to Combat Complexity in Digital Libraries

Making sense of an increasingly complex world is becoming harder in particular when facing the flood of information available in digital libraries. Hence, actively supporting users in sense making activities is a new challenge that digital libraries have to face. A popular way for humans to succeed at making sense of the world is the usage of analogies: Analogies transfer some high-level meaning from one concept to another which eases the cognitive burden to understand the concept. In brief, they connect a known concept to the unknown. A prime example is to find analogies between current and historic events to make sense of current events, i.e., place them in contexts, assess their impact, and draw conclusions on what may happen next. In this position paper, we outline a system architecture showing what an event analogy system could look like. We utilize a conceptual narrative model and define narrative roles and prototypes as a possible solution for finding event analogies.
Beyond Mie Theory: Systematic Computation of Bulk Scattering Parameters based on Microphysical Wave Optics

Fig. 1. We introduce a new technique to compute bulk scattering parameters (i.e., the extinction and scattering coefficients as well as the single-scattering phase function) in a systematic fashion. By considering wave optical effects and particle (scatterer) interactions at the microscopic level, our technique enjoys the generality of supporting a wide range of media (e.g., isotropic, anisotropic, and correlated). In this figure, we show renderings of thin slabs lit with a small area light from behind (top). Additionally, we show visualizations of the corresponding particle distributions (middle) as well as per-cluster particle counts N cls and radii ai (bottom).
Emotion Detection for Spanish by Combining LASER Embeddings, Topic Information, and Offense Features

This paper describes the system submitted by WSSC Team to the EmoEvalEs@IberLEF 2021 emotions detection competition. We propose a novel model for Emotion Detection that combines transformers embeddings with topic information and oﬀense features. The system classiﬁes social media text emotions leveraging its context representations. Our results show that, for this kind of task, our model outperforms baselines and state-of-the-art text classiﬁcation methods. As for the leader-board, our classiﬁcation model achieved a macro weighted averaged F1 score of 0.661427, and a overall accuracy of 0.675725, reaching the 9th and 10th place respectively.
Rapprochement Urbanism: An Exploration into the Rewilding of Jackson, Mississippi

Rapprochement urbanism addresses how wild environments can be accommodated in urban spaces to create more sustainable and resilient cities. Referring to the dual realities of wilderness and urbanity, this design strategy explores the interaction of their two structures to replace the misconception that cities are built “on” the natural environment, with the assertion that cities are built “in” it. Jackson, Mississippi currently treats adjacent vibrant ecological habitats as forgotten back alleys rather than urban assets. Utilizing interventions within a holistic plan, rapprochement urbanism combats urban sprawl and “back alley” attitudes, mitigates stormwater challenges, and facilitates human and animal spatial needs. Rapprochement urbanism, through the rewilding of Jackson, MS, allows architects to more directly impact and improve the ecological sustainability of this city of 170,000 inhabitants.
Treatment Effects in Bunching Designs: The Impact of the Federal Overtime Rule on Hours

The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act mandates overtime premium pay for most U.S. workers, but limited variation in the rule has made assessing its labor market impacts difﬁcult. With data from individual paychecks, I use the extent to which ﬁrms bunch workers at the overtime threshold of 40 hours in a week to estimate the rule’s effect on hours. Generalizing previous methods, I show that bunching at a choice-set kink partially identiﬁes an average causal response to the policy switch at the kink, under nonparametric assumptions about preferences and heterogeneity. The bounds indicate a small elasticity of demand for hours. * of Economics, of Georgia. I thank my PhD co-advisors Simon Lee and Suresh Naidu, as well as Michael Best, Daniel Hamermesh, and Bernard Salanié for their gracious advice and support throughout this project. I have also beneﬁted from discussions with Christopher Ackerman, Doug Almond, Joshua Angrist, Jushan Bai, Iain Bamford, Marc Bellemare, Sandra Black, Carol Caetano, Brant Callaway, Ivan Canay, Gregory Cox, Junlong Feng, Bhargav Gopal, Jonas Hjort, Wojciech Kopczuk, Bentley MacLeod, Matthew Masten, Serena Ng, José Luis Montiel Olea, Dilip Ravindran, Ian Schmutte, Miguel Urquiola, and seminar participants at Columbia, Duke, Lehigh, Microsoft, the University of Calgary, the University of Georgia, the University of North Carolina Greensboro, the US Census Bureau, and Washington State University, as well as audiences at the Canadian Economics Association and Southern Economics Association meetings, and the European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society. I thank my main data provider as well as Ted To and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Full set of appendices available here .
Microsoft Word-5786-21981-2-LE-5

agnet barium ferit merupakan salah satu jenis magnet permanen yang masih mempunyai potensi untuk dikembangkan, salah satunya dengan pemberian doping untuk mempengaruhi sifat magnetiknya. Dalam penelitian ini, telah dilakukan penambahan doping MnO dan MnO2 pada barium ferit. Metode pembuatan barium ferit yang dilakukan adalah dengan metode metalurgi serbuk dan diberikan penambahan doping MnO dan MnO2 dengan variasi % berat. Hasil yang diperoleh yaitu sampel dengan doping MnO2 mempunyai karakteristik sifat magnetik yang lebih tinggi jika dibandingkan dengan doping MnO. Nilai doping MnO2 terbaik pada komposisi 1,5 % dengan nilai Br 1,91 kG, Hcj 3,073 kOe dan BHmax 0,76 MGOe. Dari penelitian ini, dapat disimpulkan doping MnO2 relatif lebih baik digunakan untuk meningkatkan sifat magnetik magnet barium ferit.
Ultra-Sonographic Evaluation and Growth Factors Measurement of Using Tendon Derived Hydrogel and Hyaluronic Acid in Tendon Repair in Rams

The present study was planned to evaluate the efficacy of tendon derived hydrogel and hyaluronic acid in repair of experimentally induced superficial digital flexor tendon defect in rams, ultrasonographically with detection of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) in blood. Thirty six adult rams were divided randomly into three equal groups: First group (control group) rams were subjected to partial removal of the superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT), second group (tendon derived hydrogel group): rams were subjected to the same procedure as mentioned in first group except that the tendon defect was filled with tendon derived hydrogel directly, while third group (hyaluronic acid group): same procedure as in first group but the tendon defect was filled with hyaluronic acid directly. Clinically there was no pain, no infection, no signs of rejection and all wounds had healed completely in all rams, normal body temperature, except for the swelling which appeared in the first group in one ram at 30 days post operatively and two rams in third group at 60 days post operatively, all animals were able to stand and showed normal gait. Ultrasonographic results at 120th day post operation in first group showed, hypoechoic to hyperechoic regions at the site of the defect. At the same period for the second group the sonogram showed, well-aligned echoic tendon structure, while in the third group at the same period there were hypoechoic areas at the site of the defect. The results of bFGF and VEGF detection showed significant differences between the periods in first group at P≤0.05, while in second and third groups there were significant differences at P≤0.01for bFGF. The results of detection VEGF showed, significant differences in the mean values among the periods at P≤0.01in first group, also second group there was significant differences at P≤0.01. And in third group there was a significant difference at P≤0.05. Also there were significant differences among all groups P≤0.01in at 60th day postoperatively. In conclusion the tendon derived hydrogel matrix and the hyaluronic acid have a regenerative effect in repair of tendons injuries, but the superiority is for tendon derived hydrogel matrix.
A Comparative Study between Conventional Pap Smear and Liquid-Based Cytology: A Clinco-Cytological Study of Iraqi Women with Some Health Problems of Cervix

A cervical screening by Pap test is necessary in recognizing precancerous and cancerous cases to reduce mortality due to cervical cancer among women. Regular screening and follow up can make it easier to early diagnose and eventually, to treat and control cervical cancer. This study aimed to detect atypical pathological changes of the vagina and uterine cervix of a sample of Iraqi women by macro- and micro-examination, and to determine the link with the demographic features. Also the study aimed to evaluate the two Pap smear techniques; the conventional and the base liquid methods. The study included 50 women with genital health problems (18-50 years old) who were referred to the National Cancer Research Center (NCRC), the University of Baghdad, during the period from 1st April to 30st of September 2018. Both visual inspection of the uterine cervix and Papanicolaou smear were performed for all of the participants. The results showed that most patient women (96%) were married and sexually active, with 51% being married under 20 years of age . Visual inspection of the cervix showed that 30% of the women had translucent, opaque or erosion lesions. Upon cytology examination, 92% of the women showed nonspecific inflammation, 70% revealed reactive squamous metaplasia, 10% had Koilocytotic atypia, and 8% suffered from cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN1) or low grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LGSIL). Contraception was used by 82% of the patients, while 36% used pills. The causes of the referral to the centre were abnormal vaginal discharge (44%) and post-coital bleeding "and\or" dyspareunia (20% each). Lastly, 74% of the participants did not make this test previously. Liquid-based cytology technique outperformed conventional pap smears because of improved fixation, decreased impurities factors, and standardization of cell transfer. We conclude that routine screening and Pap smear testing for uterine cervix and vagina might be useful to prevent the occurrence of precancerous lesions in the genital system of sexually active women. We recommend to apply this test before and after treatment and to activate the cellular examination in the basal fluid method
SciCap: Generating Captions for Scientific Figures

Researchers use figures to communicate rich, complex information in scientific papers. The captions of these figures are critical to conveying effective messages. However, low-quality figure captions commonly occur in scientific articles and may decrease understanding. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end neural framework to automatically generate informative, high-quality captions for scientific figures. To this end, we introduce SCICAP, a large-scale figure-caption dataset based on computer science arXiv papers published between 2010 and 2020. After pre-processing - including figure-type classification, sub-figure identification, text normalization, and caption text selection - SCICAP contained more than two million figures extracted from over 290,000 papers. We then established baseline models that caption graph plots, the dominant (19.2%) figure type. The experimental results showed both opportunities and steep challenges of generating captions for scientific figures.
Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Fowl Adenoviruses Associated with Inclusion Body Hepatitis-hydropericardium Syndrome in Broiler Chickens in Egypt. World Vet. J., 11 (3): 333-342

Avian adenoviruses are an extremely diversified group of pathogens that recently triggering a variety of problems for poultry production. In particular, Inclusion Body Hepatitis-Hydropericardium Syndrome (IBH-HPS), which has been observed in broiler birds from 3 to 6 weeks of age and is associated with anemia, hemorrhagic disorders, hydropericardium, and high mortality. The disease has been reported worldwide, and recently it was reported in many Egyptian farms, causing severe economic losses. Therefore, the current study aimed to isolate, and genetically type the most common Adenovirus serotypes associated with this syndrome in Egyptian farms. A total of 50 broiler chicken farms (3-6 weeks old) located in different Egyptian governorates were examined. Macroscopically, the diseased flock revealed hydropericardium, enlarged friable livers with ecchymotic hemorrhages, and varying mortality rates (1 to 7.5%). Histopathologically, severe diffuse necrotizing enteritis, hepatitis, pericarditis, and diffuse lymphoid depletion of the spleen were the most prominent lesions. Liver tissues and cloacal swabs were collected from all examined flocks for FAdVs detection by conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting the L1 loop in the hexon gene. The PCR products were sequenced for typing of the detected viruses. It was found that 10 out of 50 flocks examined were PCR positive for FAdVs (20%). Phylogenetic analysis of the sequenced genes revealed that the obtained viruses clustered with reference strains belonging to FAdV type D and E serotype 2, 11, and 8a respectively. The isolation of both FAdV type D and FAdV type E were carried out on a primary cell culture chicken embryo liver cell (CEL) and the presence of these viruses was confirmed by PCR after the appearance of cytopathic effect (CPE). From this study, it could be concluded that both FAdVs types D and E are the most common adenoviruses circulating in poultry farms suffering from hydropericardium and inclusion body hepatitis.
Effect of Wastewater Irrigation on Heavy Metal Accumulation, Growth and Yield of Vegetables

Use of wastewater for irrigation is on the rise in India and other developing countries. Wastewater contains plant nutrients that favour crop growth but leave a burden of heavy metals which can enter the food chain and is a cause of great concern. This study was conducted to explore the possibility of using wastewater to grow four vegetables fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.), spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.), radish (Raphanus sativus L.) and carrot (Daucus carotaL.). Two aspects namely (1) effect on plant growth and yield (2) accumulation of cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb) and zinc (Zn) in leaves and roots of the plant have been presented in this paper. The physico-chemical analysis of the wastewater showed that it was rich in total suspended and dissolved solids with large amount of BOD and COD. The higher amount of Cl-, Ca++, Mg++ and K+ were also present in the effluent. The heavy metal (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn) content in wastewater is comparatively more than groundwater (GW). The values of these heavy metals were slightly higher in the soil irrigated with wastewater. The effluent severely affects crop plants and soil properties when used for irrigation. The growth characteristics (plant length, plant fresh and dry weight, leaf number and leaf area) as well as yield characteristics (seed number, 1000 seed weight and seed yield) of all the plants, irrigated with 100% wastewater, were more than that with groundwater. The pattern of increase for the plants was fenugreek> radish> spinach> carrot. Though the wastewater contains low levels of the heavy metals, the soil and plant samples show higher values due to accumulation, but their level was under permissible limits in plants. The trend of metal accumulation in wastewater-irrigated soil is in the order: Pb> Ni> Zn> Cu> Cr> Cd. Of the four plants that are grown, the order of total heavy metal accumulation in roots is Carrot> Radish, while in leaves the order is Spinach> Fenugreek. The enrichment factor (EF) of the heavy metals in contaminated soil is in the sequence of Ni (3.1)>Pb (2.6)> Cd (2.35)> Zn (2.18)> Cu (1.66)> Cr (1.05), while in plants EF varies depending upon the species and plant part. Radish and carrot show a high transfer factor (TF >1) for Cd signifying a high mobility of Cd from soil to plant whereas the TF values for Pb are very low as it is not bioavailable. Thus, it may be concluded that wastewater may be used profitably for the cultivation of these vegetables and could effectively supplement not only the nutrient requirement of the crop but may also act as the source of water.
Fruit and seed physiological quality changes during seed development and maturation in African eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum L.)

This work aimed at determining the optimum harvest time of African eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum L.) seeds, cv. Oforiwa and cv. Kpando for maximum physiological seed quality under tropical (TCC) and temperate oceanic climatic (TOC) conditions. Fruit morphological metrics such as fruit weight and size were also related to seed physiological quality. Seeds were harvested at different maturation stages from 20 to 82 days after anthesis (DAA). Seed quality was assessed according to moisture content, dry seed weight, seed length, thousand seed weight, percentage germination and emergence. The results indicated that seeds harvested precociously (20 and 34 days after anthesis), did not germinate or recorded very low percentage germination (0-20%). Considering all the fruit morphological traits and seed quality variables measured, the results indicate that maximum seed quality (that is, germination, emergence, seed weight and mean germination time) are obtained from fruits harvested at 76 DAA. The physiological maturity (PM) (maximum seed dry weight) for cv. Oforiwa was attained at 62 DAA while cv. Kpando took 14 days more to reach physiological maturity but coincided with maximum germination at 76 DAA. The results further showed that fruit characteristics such as weight and size are associated with seed physiological quality in African eggplant. It is thus recommended that fruits of African eggplant cv. Oforiwa and cv. Kpando should be harvested at 70 to 76 DAA for maximum seed germination and emergence.
Gene Selection using a Hybrid RFE Along with LASSO for Cancer Classification

Gene expression profiling using microarray technology has done with the chip based phenomena. For studying gene expression data are more helpful in knowing various diseases and more useful in finding diseases. Recently in the bioinformatics field, cancer prediction using gene expression data had made the assuring area. Samples having the gene attributes will not surely give the efficient amount of classification. Overcoming these contribution, a strong method is required for selecting the relevant gene features for building the classification model effectively. Basically least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) and Recursive feature elimination (RFE) are automatic gene feature selection methods used for classification. Here in our proposed work, we use these two methods as a hybrid one for selecting the features and later it applied into the Support vector machine (SVM) for easy classification. It made best when compared to the existing techniques by their performance measures, were regulated on six publically available cancer datasets. Just out it gives the good awareness in the selection of features.
Gaussian Approximations of SDES in Metropolis-Adjusted Langevin Algorithms

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are a cornerstone of Bayesian inference and stochastic simulation. The Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithm (MALA) is an MCMC method that relies on the simulation of a stochastic differential equation (SDE) whose stationary distribution is the desired target density using the Euler-Maruyama algorithm and accounts for simulation errors using a Metropolis step. In this paper we propose a modification of the MALA which uses Gaussian assumed density approximations for the integration of the SDE. The effectiveness of the algorithm is illustrated on simulated and real data sets.