Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An Automatic Measurement Method of Test Beam Response Based on Spliced Images

Information such as cracks and deflections is the important basis for structural safety. Existing methods have not achieved simultaneous detection. In most existing computer vision measurement systems, the view is fixed due to the fixed position of the camera. Thus, it is difficult to obtain the structures’ overall crack and deflection information. An automatic response measurement method is proposed in this study including ( 1 ) continuous image acquisition and signal transmission system based on self-walking bracket and Internet of Things (IoT), ( 2 ) an image splicing method based on feature matching, and ( 3 ) a crack and deflection measurement method. The self-walking bracket allows the industrial camera to move at a fixed distance to obtain the continuous image of the beam. Next, the spliced image is obtained through the PCA-SIFT method with a screening mechanism. The cracks’ information is acquired by the dual network model. The simplified AKAZE feature detection algorithm and the modified RANSAC are used to track the natural features of the structures. The curve fitting is performed to obtain the deflection curve of the beam under different loads. Experimental results show that the method can directly reflect the crack and deflection information of the beam. The average deviation of width is 11.76%, average deviation of length is 8.18%, and the average deformation deviation is 4.50%, which verifies the practicability of the method and shows great potential to apply it in actual structures.
Analysis of Mechanical Adhesion Climbing Robot Design for Wind Tower Inspection

Mmaintenance of wind turbine farms is a huge task, with associated significant risks and potential hazard to the safety and wellbeing of people who are responsible for carrying the tower inspection tasks. Periodic inspections are required for wind turbine tower to ensure that the wind turbines are in full working order, with no signs of potential failure. Therefore, the development of an automated wind tower inspection system has been very crucial for the overall performance of the renewable wind power generation industry. In order to determine the life span of the tower, an investigation of robot design is discussed in this paper. It presents how a mechanical spring-loaded climbing robot can be designed and constructed to climb and rotate 360° around the tower. An adjustable circular shape robot is designed that allows the device to fit in different diameters of the wind generator tower. The rotational module is designed to allow the wheels to rotate and be able to go in a circular motion. The design further incorporates a suspension that allows the robot to go through any obstacle. This paper also presents afiniteelement spring stress analysis and Simulink control system model to find the optimal parameters that are required for the wind tower climbing robot.
The validation of the Czech version of the Delirium Observation Scale and the Nursing Delirium Screening Scale for delirium screening in patients with locomotive apparatus trauma

Aim: To validate the Czech version of the Delirium Observation Scale and the Nursing Delirium Screening Scale as screening instruments for detecting of delirium in a traumatology department. Design: A prospective cohort study. Methods: The study included 400 patients hospitalized in the traumatology department, University Hospital, Olomouc. The receiver operating characteristics analysis, sensitivity and specificity values and positive and negative predictive values for the screening delirium symptoms were calculated. Results: The average duration of delirium was 2.78 days. The Delirium Observation Scale (DOS) screening instrument produced the best predictive validity values (sensitivity 97.6%, specificity 96.2%), followed by the Nursing Delirium Screening Scale (Nu-DESC) (sensitivity 92.7%, specificity 96.5%). Both screening instruments have comparable psychometric properties as well as features in the area of the already mentioned feasibility. The largest differences between the psychometric features of the screening instruments were detected in the Nu-DESC instrument in the area of sensitivity. Conclusion: The benefit of the research lies in obtaining the predictive validity values for the DOS and Nu-DESC screening instruments in patients with locomotive apparatus trauma, having had surgical or conservative treatment. Our results may support a systematic and evidence-based implementation of the screening instruments for detecting of delirium in a clinical setting.
Identification of optimum segment in single channel EEG biometric system

Nowadays, biometric modalities have gained popularity in security systems. Nevertheless, the conventional commercial-grade biometric system addresses some issues. The biggest problem is that they can be imposed by artificial biometrics. The electroencephalogram (EEG) is a possible solution. It is nearly impossible to replicate because it is dependent on human mental activity. Several studies have already demonstrated a high level of accuracy. However, it requires a large number of sensors and time to collect the signal. This study proposed a biometric system using single-channel EEG recorded during resting eyes open (EO) conditions. A total of 45 EEG signals from 9 subjects were collected. The EEG signal was segmented into 5 second lengths. The alpha band was used in this study. Discrete wavelet transform (DWT) with Daubechies type 4 (db4) was employed to extract the alpha band. Power spectral density (PSD) was extracted from each segment as the main feature. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and support vector machine (SVM) were used to classify the EEG signal. The proposed method achieved 86% accuracy using LDA only from the third segment. Therefore, this study showed that it is possible to utilize single-channel EEG during a resting EO state in a biometric system.
Electrochemical Determination of Mesalazine by Modified Graphite Paste Electrode with Poly (Benzoquinone) Chromium(III) Complex

In this work, for the first time poly (benzoquinone) chromium (III) complex (PBQC) was synthesized with a one pot, one step, simple and fast method. This novel polymer was used for modification of graphite paste electrode for electrochemical determination of Mesalazine. Moreover, this novel modifier was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Field emission scanning electron microscopy, Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and electrochemistry methods such as cyclic voltammetry and differential pulse voltammetry. Various parameters which affect the electroanalytical application of this modified electrode were optimized and under the optimum condition, the calibration curve was linear in a wide range from 2 to 600 µM with a detection limit (S/N=3) of 70 nM. The proposed modified electrode is a good candidate for the determination of Mesalazine with satisfactory results in comparison with the other literature. Moreover, the proposed modified electrode, GPE/PBQC, was successfully used for determination of Mesalazine in pharmaceutical tablets.
Lived Experiences of Repeat Crime Offenders: A Phenomenological Untold Stories

Recidivism is an offense committed by a person who at the time of his trial for one crime has been previously convicted by a final judgment of another crime. From this perspective, the researchers are interested to explore the lived experiences and untold stories of repeat offenders. The study focuses on three parts; the informants’ experiences in the pillars of the criminal justice system; the impacts of incarceration on the lives of the offender; and the reasons for reoffending. A qualitative research design using a phenomenological approach was used in the conduct of the study through an in-depth interview with the informants. The sample informants which comprises of ten recidivists and inmates of selected city jails Negros Occidental, Philippines participated in the interview through purposive sampling using the inclusion criteria set by the researchers. The data was collected using audiotaping of interviews. Audiotapes were then transcribed where data from transcriptions were analyzed to describe the richness of the informants’ experiences. Out of the transcribed and analyzed data, six major themes emerged. The Cry of the Suspect, Light within the Darkness, You Reap what you Sow, Blessing in Disguise, Many are Bad Associates But Few are Good Mentors, and Corruption of the Mind. Key findings from the study suggest coordination and cooperation among the pillars of the criminal justice system come up with a very comprehensive and sustainable rehabilitation program with proper and effective implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. Thereby, recommendations for change are provided in the emerging themes to address the phenomenon.
“Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture Functional analysis of the SAP30 gene and its relation to muscle development

Functional analysis of SAP30 gene and its relation to muscle development Understanding the molecular machinery involved in certain traits of economic interest is important because the genetic information can be applied to animal breeding programs, defining greater accuracy in genomic selection. GWAS studies have identified general QTL and CNV regions on chromosome 4 in Gallus gallus species, in a Brazilian broiler population, associated with muscle development traits such as weight and percentage of breast. Searches for candidate genes present in these regions and that could be participating in muscle development were performed. The SAP30 gene was identified as a possible candidate for muscle development. Therefore, and to validate its function, SAP30 was edited using CRISPR/Cas9 and had its expression reduced by means of siRNA, in myoblast culture in vitro. After these analyses, morphometric analyzes were performed in cell culture to evaluate changes in the area size of these cells. Subsequently, RNA sequencing, differentially expressed genes and functional enrichment analyzes were performed to investigate gene networks and biological processes that mutations and/or reduced expression of SAP30 would be causing. The results for both papers presented the involvement of SAP30 in muscle cell hypertrophy. Both the reduction in gene expression and the induction of mutations in its sequence made the myotubes have a larger area in the treated groups when compared to controls. RNA sequencing analyzes revealed, for both, an important difference in the expression of genes related to muscle development, as well as genes that act in muscle formation and regeneration pathways. So, for the first time, we present the SAP30 gene as a possible regulator of muscle hypertrophy. Key-words: Hypertrophy. Muscle growth. C2C12. siRNA. CRISPR/Cas9.
Metabolism, Excretion, and Mass Balance of [<sup>14</sup>C]-Rezafungin in Animals and Humans

19 Rezafungin is a novel echinocandin being developed for treatment of candidemia and invasive 20 candidiasis and for prevention of invasive fungal disease caused by Candida, Aspergillus, and 21 Pneumocystis spp. in recipients of blood and marrow transplantation. Studies using [ 14 C]22 radiolabeled rezafungin were conducted in rats, monkeys, and humans to characterize the mass 23 balance, excretion, and pharmacokinetics of [ 14 C]-rezafungin and to evaluate relative amounts of 24 rezafungin metabolites compared with parent drug. Fecal excretion was the main route of 25 elimination in rats, monkeys, and humans. Radioactivity was primarily excreted as unchanged 26 drug, with ≥95% average total recovery in rats (through 336 hours) and monkeys (through 720 27 hours). In humans, cumulative recovery of radioactivity through the first 17 days was 52% (38% 28 in feces, 14% in urine) with estimated mean overall recovery through Day 60 of 88.3% (73% in 29 feces, 27% in urine). The clinical pharmacokinetics of rezafungin following a single 400-mg 30 intravenous infusion (200 μCi of [ 14 C]-rezafungin) were similar in plasma, plasma total 31 radioactivity, and whole blood total radioactivity. Unchanged rezafungin represented the 32 majority of total radioactivity in plasma, and the partitioning of total radioactivity into red blood 33 cells was negligible. Across species, rezafungin was primarily metabolized by hydroxylation of 34 the terphenyl, pentyl ether side chain. In these excretion/mass balance, metabolism, and PK 35 studies, clinical observations were consistent with findings in the rat and monkey demonstrating 36 the minimal metabolism and slow elimination of rezafungin after intravenous administration, 37 with fecal excretion as the major route of elimination. 38
AN EVIDENCE BASED ASSESSMENT OF MOST COMMON RISK FACTORS OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: ANALYSIS FROM A LOCAL POPULATION HAFEEZ MM

The current study was designed for risk assessment of different factors like smoking, diabetes, obesity, and gender in the development of myocardial infarction (MI). A total of one hundred and twelve participants (n=112) was included in this case and control study. They were further divided into two groups. Group A, constituted of fifty controls whereas sixty-two age and sex-matched confirmed cases of Myocardial Infarction were selected for group B. Specially design questionnaire was filled and response form was collected from different hospitals of Lahore. Body mass index (BMI) was used to determine the obesity. The current study demonstrated that the advanced age is itself a risk factor of MI, other factors like smoking, diabetes and obesity were also found to be statistically significant contributory elements. From the results of current study and past literature it is very much evident that above mentioned risk factors have significant role in sudden cardiac death by potentiating the MI. So, by avoiding or controlling these risk factors a deadly event myocardial infarction can be avoided.
Biotechnology: identification and evaluation of the Bacillus cereus amylolytic activity

Biotechnology is the branch of science that uses molecules, viruses, microorganisms, cells, animals, plants or part of them in technological processes to generate benefits for humans, to flora, fauna and the environment. In this context, enzymes are natural biocatalysts that present substrate specificity and extreme importance to vital processes, as they develop indispensable functions in biochemical reactions of cell metabolism, and can be used in biotechnological processes. Knowing the human needs, for a world population of about 7.7 billion people and the functional usefulness of enzymes, there is, on the one hand, a gigantic demand for the consumption of various products in the agricultural sector, processed and industrialized, such as: food, beverages, clothing in the textile sector, medicines, vaccines, cosmetics in the chemical-pharmaceutical sector, as well as in the production of paper and fuels, in which enzymes, mainly amylases, have been widely used in production processes. In this work, experiments were carried out with the wild Bacillus cereus bacterium to verify the production of amylases, the results obtained could demonstrate the formation of amylolysis halos around the colonies in Petri dishes containing Tryptic Soy Agar + starch (1%) medium, pH 7.3 and grown in a biological oven at 37oC for 24 hours, when revealed in iodine vapor; the Amylolysis Index (AI) was 3.3 and the efficiency of starch substrate degradation by amylases was greater than 90% in the evaluated treatments.
A NOVEL MIRROR KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE SHADOWING EFFECT BY A METAL CUBOID

|This paper proposes an eﬃcient and accurate scattered (cid:12)eld prediction method based on Kirchhoﬀ Approximation called ‘Mirror Kirchhoﬀ Approximation’ (MKA) which is suitable for evaluating the shadowing eﬀect by a metal cuboid. The disadvantages of conventional methods, such as low accuracy of Kirchhoﬀ Approximation (KA) for metal cuboid and high computational complexity of Method of Moment (MoM) for a shadowing object at millimeter wave (mmWave), have motivated the establishment of an eﬃcient and accurate prediction method for a metal cuboid at mmWave. The proposed method solves the previous issues by introducing the ray-based re(cid:13)ection into conventional KA. The idea and detail formulations of the proposed method are presented. The proposed method is validated by comparing with MoM and KA in terms of complexity and accuracy. The results imply that the proposed method presents good accuracy with low calculation time. The MKA has a maximum 8 : 3 dB improvement compared with conventional KA. Calculating time is improved by 67{915 times compared with MoM.
The Antecedents and Consequences of Service Recovery Performance of Frontline Employees: A Study of Vietnam Retailing Industry

Previous studies on service recovery performance have merely focused on identifying the factors which affect it from the service provider side. This study investigates the effect of customer participation on Vietnam retailing service recovery performance. A structural model was developed and tested using data surveyed from 231 respondents who were currently full-time employees in Vietnam retailers. The results show that the more customer participation which frontline employees perceive, the more effective the service recovery they perform. Moreover, the results indicate that the more effective service recovery which frontline employees perform, the less stress they confront. Empowerment of and training for employees have an equivalent impact on the service recovery performance of frontline employees. However, there is no significant relationship between service recovery performance and intention to leave frontline employees.
Survey on: A variety of AQM algorithm schemas and intelligent techniques developed for congestion control

The congestion on the internet is the main issue that affects the performance of transition data over the network. An algorithm for congestion control is required to keep any network efficient and reliable for transfer traffic data of the users. Many Algorithms had been suggested over the years to improve the control of congestion that occurs in the network such as drop tail packets. Recently there are many algorithms have been developed to overcome the drawback of the drop tail procedure. One of the important algorithms developed is active queue management (AQM) that provides efficient congestion control by reducing drop packets, this technique considered as a base for many other congestion control algorithms schema. It works at the network core (router) for controlling the drop and marking of packets in the router's buffer before the congestion inception. In this study, a comprehensive survey is done on the AQM Algorithm schemas that proposed and modification these algorithms to achieve the best performance, the classification of AQM algorithms based on queue length, queue delay, or both. The advantages and limitations of each algorithm have been discussed. Also, debate the intelligent techniques procedure with AQM algorithm to achieve optimization in performance of algorithm operation. Finally, the comparison has been discussed among algorithms to find the weakness and powerful of each one based on different metrics.
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Department of Public Health, Wachemo University, Hossana, Ethiopia Background: The tobacco pandemic is one of the world’s most serious public health concerns, killing more than 8 million lives per year. The worst burden is in lowand middleincome countries. Unless appropriate action is taken, the burden may worsen. Health workers are among the actors to implement smoke cessation interventions. However, the level of intervention practices towards smoke cessation was not defined. Objective: To determine health workers’ practice towards smoke cessation interventions based on 5A’s model and associated factors in public hospitals. Methods: Facility-based cross-sectional design was used. All public hospitals found in the Hadiya zone were included in the study. From each public hospital, representative number of health workers, who fulfil inclusion criteria, were included in the study. A total of 323 sample size of health workers were used. A self-administered questionnaire was employed to collect data. Both descriptive and advanced analyses were performed using SPSS software version 20.0. In bivariable analysis, variables with p-value < 0.25 were considered for multivariable analysis. Finally, odds ratio with 95% CI and p-value < 0.05 were used to declare factors as significantly associated with the outcome variable. Results: About 97% of health care workers had poor practice on smoking cessation interventions. About 7.4% (23) health workers reported as they were current smokers. Moreover, only 28% of health workers asked their patients about smoking status. Being females, having <10 years of service, training and having good knowledge was significantly associated with the outcome variable. Conclusion: Majority of the healthcare workers surveyed did not provide smoking cessation interventions. Identified statistically significant factors with the practice of smoke cessation interventions in this study were sex, knowledge, training and service years. Therefore, strategies should be designed and implemented to improve and equip the health workers towards practising of smoke cessation interventions by instituting smoke cessation programs.
Genetic Determinants of Intrinsic Antibiotic Tolerance in <named-content content-type='genus-species'>Mycobacterium avium</named-content>

The Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) is one of the most prevalent causes of nontuberculous mycobacteria pulmonary infection in the United States, and yet it remains understudied. Current MAC treatment requires more than a year of intermittent to daily combination antibiotic therapy, depending on disease severity. In order to shorten and simplify curative regimens, it is important to identify the innate bacterial factors contributing to reduced antibiotic susceptibility, namely, antibiotic tolerance genes. In this study, we performed a genome-wide transposon screen to elucidate M. avium genes that play a role in the bacterium’s tolerance to firstand second-line antibiotics. We identified a total of 193 unique M. avium mutants with significantly altered susceptibility to at least one of the four clinically used antibiotics we tested, including two mutants (in DFS55_00905 and DFS55_12730) with panhypersusceptibility. The products of the antibiotic tolerance genes we have identified may represent novel targets for future drug development studies aimed at shortening the duration of therapy for MAC infections. IMPORTANCE The prolonged treatment required to eradicate Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection is likely due to the presence of subpopulations of antibiotictolerant bacteria with reduced susceptibility to currently available drugs. However, little is known about the genes and pathways responsible for antibiotic tolerance in MAC. In this study, we performed a forward genetic screen to identify M. avium antibiotic tolerance genes, whose products may represent attractive targets for the development of novel adjunctive drugs capable of shortening the curative treatment for MAC infections.