Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Attribute Consistency Guided Generative Adversarial Networks for Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation

We propose a novel method for unsupervised image-to-image translation, which includes a generator with attribute consistency constraints and a new multi-scale discriminator. Unlike the existing methods, which cannot preserve important attributes of input images while handling large shape deformations, our method can simultaneously take both tasks. We introduce the attribute-based recalibration module into the generator to extract the input image’s attribute features efﬁ-ciently. On this basis, we impose attribute consistency constraints on feature space to ensure the preservation of the crucial attributes of the input images. Moreover, our multi-scale discriminator shares a backbone and only introduces the attention mechanism on the highest scale, facilitating shape deformation and improving image generation quality. We show that the proposed method outperforms the existing state-of-the-art models in various challenging applications, including selﬁe-to-anime, dog-to-cat, and cat-to-dog. Our code is available at https://github.com/Nightfury12366/ ACG-GAN .
TRƯỜNG HỢP THÀNH PHỐ HỒ CHÍ MINH Relationship between service quality and satisfaction of citizens for health examination and treatment services: A case study in Ho Chi Minh city

Tóm tắt: Việc nghiên cứu mối quan hệ giữa sự hài lòng của người dân đối với chất lượng dịch vụ khám chữa bệnh và các yếu tố chất lượng tác động đến sự hài lòng là rất cần thiết nhằm giúp các cơ sở y tế có các biện pháp nhằm nâng cao chất lương dịch vụ khám chữa bệnh từ đó nâng cao sự hài lòng của người dân. Nghiên cứu sử dụng mô hình lý thuyết SERQUAL thông qua mô hình phân tích nhân tố khám phá (EFA Confirmatory Factor Analysis) và phân tích hồi quy bội nhằm đánh giá chất lượng dịch vụ y tế, kiểm định mô hình nghiên cứu tác động của chất lượng dịch vụ y tế đến sự hài lòng của khách hàng. Kết quả nghiên cứu cho thấy: (i)chất lượng dịch vụ y tế chưa đáp ứng được kì vọng của người dân, (ii) có hai nhân tố ảnh hưởng đến sự hài lòng của người dân đối với dịch vụ y tế gồm: (1) sự đáp ứng và cảm thông; (2) năng lực phục vụ và phương tiện hữu hình. Kết quả nghiên cứu cung cấp nền tảng lý luận và thực tiễn quan trọng cho các bên liên quan trong việc cải thiện chất lượng dịch vụ y tế đến người dân.
Visual Localization for UAVs in Outdoor GPS-denied Environments by

Visual Localization for UAVs in Outdoor GPS-denied Environments Bhavit Patel Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies University of Toronto 2019 Vision-based navigation techniques are commonly used for autonomous flight in outdoor Global Positioning System (GPS)-denied environments. We adapt Visual Teach and Repeat (VT&R), a vision-based autonomous route-following system, to use on multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Since multirotors are underactuated, there are no guarantees that the camera viewpoint will be the same at matching positions along the teach and repeat paths, which causes visual localization to be challenging. The first part of this thesis demonstrates that by using a 3-axis gimballed camera with an appropriate active pointing strategy, we can improve the visual localization performance and robustness within the VT&R framework. The second part of this thesis presents a method to estimate the global pose of a UAV by using an information-theoretic approach to register real images with rendered georeferenced images from 3D Google Earth. We show that this method is capable of accurately estimating the 6DoF pose with a position accuracy on par with GPS.
What Drives Sales of E-commerce Live Streaming? Evidence from Taobao

Despite the rapid development of live streaming, empirical research on the driving factors of e-commerce live streaming sales, still lags. We empirically address this question by utilizing a large and unique data set from a leading e-commerce platform in the world. Our results show that product characteristics, streamer characteristics and consumer engagement are important factors that drive e-commerce live streaming sales. Interestingly, we find that newer products from small brands with lower prices benefit more from the live streaming sales. Experienced streamers who are tied to a single seller and who have more followers perform better. In addition, real-time comments are more effective than shares and likes in live streaming. Our empirical estimation shows that 1% increase in the number of real-time comments is associated with an average of 0.2891% higher sales. Our results provide marketers and streamers with important insights into delivering high-performance live streaming.
BOTTOM SEDIMENT CHARACTERISTICS IN STORMWATER PONDS AND WETLANDS IN CALGARY, ALBERTA

This paper presents the characteristics of metals and nutrients concentrations in bottom sediment from two wet ponds and two wetlands in Calgary, Alberta. Sediment cores were sampled at four to six locations along the flow path in each facility. In total, twenty-six core samples were taken from the four facilities. Each core was processed in the lab and sediment samples were extracted from different deposited layers. Seventy sediment samples were extracted from the cores and were analyzed for nutrients and metals concentrations. In general, pollutants concentrations of Fe and Zn are higher in the wet ponds than in the wetlands, but Mg, K, Ca, S and TN are higher in the wetlands than in the wet ponds. The values of Mn and P were fairly similar between the wet ponds and wetlands. Also, it was observed that in general, the pollutants concentrations decreased along the flow path and with depth of the sediment.
ESTIMATION OF PARAMETERS OF DAGUM DISTRIBUTION SOFTWARE RELIABILITY GROWTH MODEL

— Non Homogeneous Poisson process models with expected number of faults detected in given testing time are proposed in the literature. These models show either constant, monotonic increasing or monotonic decreasing failure occurrence rate per fault. In this article we propose a software reliability model in which the distribution of time between two failures assumed to be Dagum distribution. The model can capture increasing/decreasing nature of failure rate. The parameters of the model are estimated using maximum likelihood method. A simulation study and real data are used to verify the model.
Generative Models for City-Speciﬁc Vehicle Trajectories

Modeling vehicle trajectories in cities is an important task that can help transportation planners make smart decisions around traﬃc policies and transportation infrastructure. Often times there is not enough data available for the planners to use, or the data available contains sensitive personal information which, if used, would violate data privacy policies. Without data, uninformed decisions can lead to traﬃc congestion and inadequate public transportation infrastructure. With the annual costs of traﬃc congestion exceeding one trillion U.S. dollars worldwide, this is obviously a problem worth addressing. We propose a method of generating new samples of vehicle trajectory data for a given city, leveraging existing GAN models with novel data representations.
INFLUENCE OF PUFA-RICH DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS FROM MARINE SOURCES IN THE FEED OF LAYING HENS ON LIPID COMPOSITION AND THE PERCENTAGE OF INCORPORATION OF N-3 PUFAS IN EGG

INFLUENCE OF PUFA-RICH DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS FROM MARINE SOURCES IN THE FEED OF LAYING HENS ON LIPID COMPOSITION AND THE PERCENTAGE OF INCORPORATION OF N-3 PUFAS IN EGG YOLK. This experiment was conducted using 288 32-week-old Hisex White laying hens for a period of 10 weeks, with the objective of studying the fatty acid enrichment of the egg yolk of hens fed diets supplemented with fish oil (OP) or marine algae (AM) to provide five levels of DHA (120, 180, 240, 300 and 360 mg/100 g diet) for each source. A 2 x 5 completely randomized factorial design with three replicates of 8 birds per treatment was applied in order to have the following groups: OP120, OP180, OP240, OP300, OP360, AM120, AM180, AM240, AM300 and AM360. A control group submitted to a corn/soy basal diet (CON) and another one supplemented with AM at the level of 420 mg of DHA/100 g diet (AM420) were also used. The amounts of DHA in the egg yolk in birds fed OP diets were significantly increased from 22.64 mg/egg yolk (CON) to 187.91 mg/ egg yolk (OP360). The egg-yolk n-3 PUFAs of the control group (62.16 mg) increased significantly as compared to the OP360 group (218.62 mg/yolk). For the AM source the DHA means were also linear (Y = 0.23X + 1.27, R2 = 0.86), ranging from 22.64 mg/yolk (CON) to 149.75 mg/yolk (AM420), while the n-3 PUFAs ranged from 104.18 mg/yolk (AM120) to 175.32 mg/yolk (AM420). The percentage of DHA incorporation into the egg yolk decreased linearly as the DHA levels increased in the diet. Thus, for the OP and AM sources, mean values of 85.11% (OP120) and 65.28% (AM120) 2Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Clínica Médica, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
DESIGNING OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF OPERATIONAL TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIER

The operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is one of the most important basic blocks used in the design of analog integrated circuits (ICs). However, its optimization involves a large number of parameters and specifications that have to be accurately adjusted during the simulation process to appropriately achieve the design goals. This work addresses the whole framework required to the automatic design of an OTA, from its architecture to manufacturing. In this Paper we represent designing of different types of OTA amplifier along with their advantages and disadvantages by use of various techniques. Keywords—Transconductance, Cascode, OTA, Transistor, Channel
Observation of NO<subscr>y</subscr> uptake by particles in the Arctic tropopause region at low temperatures

Measurements of gasand condensed-phase NOy, HNO3, 03, and particle concentration and size were performed on 24 January 1997 during POLSTAR on a flight through an ice cloud. In the ice cloud below the tropopause only 2 to 4 pptv particle NOy were detected. The observed average mixing ratio of total HNO3 is significantly larger than the detected particle NOy. Considering the combined error limits of the NOy and HNO3 measurements, however, it cannot be ruled out that the observed uptake of NOy was limited by the available gas-phase HNO3. The ratio of total HNO3 to gaseous NOy measured uring the cirrus cloud penetration amounts only to 0.2 in contrast o 0.9 in the stratospheric part of the flight.
Expression and Functional Analyses of the Plastid Lipid-Associated Protein CHRC Suggest Its Role in Chromoplastogenesis and Stress

Chromoplastogenesis during flower development and fruit ripening involves the dramatic overaccumulation of carotenoids sequestered into structures containing lipids and proteins called plastid lipid-associated proteins (PAPs). CHRC, a cucumber (Cucumis sativus) PAP, has been suggested to be transcriptionally activated in carotenoid-accumulating flowers by gibberellin (GA). Mybys, a MYB-like trans-activator identified here, may represent a chromoplastogenesis-related factor: Its expression is flower specific and parallels that of ChrC during flower development; moreover, as revealed by stable ectopic and transientexpression assays, it specifically trans-activates ChrC promoter in flowers accumulating carotenoids and flavonoids. A detailed dissection of ChrC promoter revealed a GA-responsive element, gacCTCcaa, the mutation of which abolished ChrC activation by GA. This cis-element is different from theGAREmotif and is involved inChrC activation probably via negative regulation, similar to other GA-responsive systems. The GA responsiveness andMYBYS floral activation of the ChrC promoter do not overlap with respect to cis-elements. To study the functionality of CHRC, which is activated in vegetative tissues similar to other PAPs by various biotic and abiotic stresses, we employed a tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) plant system and generated RNAi-transgenic lines with suppressed LeCHRC. Transgenic flowers accumulated approximately 30% less carotenoids per unit protein than controls, indicating an interrelationship between PAPs and flower-specific carotenoid accumulation in chromoplasts. Moreover, the transgenic LeCHRC-suppressed plants were significantly more susceptible to Botrytis cinerea infection, suggesting CHRC’s involvement in plant protection under stress conditions and supporting the general, evolutionarily preserved role of PAPs.
Sequence association in two-layered feedforward neural network

– Here we study the properties of robustness of two-layer feedforward network that stores association between two sequences in the two layers. Our work shows that robustness comes from the overlapping feedforward projections from the first to the second layer in the network. Recurrent connections in the second layer further improve robustness, while noise is decreasing it. Incorporating biological aspects of neural network in more detail in network dynamic may improve neural networks in engineering applications.
Landslide Hazards in Himalayas: A study on factors responsible and possible remedial measures with special reference to Jammu region

All over the world soil is widely used natural material for construction. But when this material is available in the form of natural slope can cause landslide due to instability of slope because of various factors. The objective of this study is to understand behaviour of different factors of landslide at Jammu region and then suggest possible remedial measures. For this, reports by Geological Survey of India, past thirty years data of annual precipitation of every district from Indian meteorological department are collected and studied. The data of seismic activities is also collected. Also the work of different authors in this area is analysed deeply. It can be stated that the climatic conditions change such as earthquakes, rainfall pattern variation and various anthropogenic activities has increased the landslide vulnerability of the area. The suggested remedial measures are as, landslide susceptibility zonation mapping, future landcover/land use pattern, use of advance technology solutions like construction of gabion walls, soil nailing and analyzation of slope stability by numerical modelling.
TO FILTER UNWANTED MESSAGES FROM OSN USER WALL

: Social media and Social Network Analysis (SNA) acquired a huge popularity and represent one of the most important social and computer science phenomena of recent years. One of the most studied problems in this research area is influence and information propagation. The aim of this paper is to analyze the information diffusion process and predict the influence (represented by the rate of infected nodes at the end of the diffusion process) of an initial set of nodes in two networks: Facebook user’s contacts users commenting these post. These networks are dissimilar in their structure (size, type, diameter, density, components), and the type of the relationships (explicit relationship represented by the contacts links, and implicit relationship created by commenting on post), they are extracted using Node XL tool. Three models are used for modeling the dissemination process: Linear Threshold Model (LTM), Independent Cascade Model (ICM) and an extension of this last called Weighted Cascade Model (WCM). Networks metrics and visualization were manipulated by NodeXL as well. Experiments results show that the structure of the network affect the diffusion process directly. Unlike results given in the blog world networks, the information can spread farther through explicit connections than through implicit relations.
THE DYNAMICS OF THE SPECIFIC IMMUNITY FORMATION IN SHEEP UNDER THE INACTIVATED VACCINES AGAINST CONTAGIOUS AGALACTIA OF SHEEP AND GOATS

Summary. The aim of the research is constructing and efficiency studying of inactivated vaccine against contagious agalactia of sheep and goats. The bacterial mass of Mycoplasma agalactiae S-11 production culture, obtained on artificial media, has been used as initial product. The vaccine contains 60% of formalin-inactivated mycoplasmas cell suspension (6×10 7 cfu in a dose) in sterile phosphate-buffered saline and 40% of aluminum hydroxide. Vaccination of sheep in the sheep farms of Odessa region by ‘Ahavak’ vaccines (S.N. ‘Institutul Pasteur’ S.A. Romania) and NSC ‘IECVM’ using different schemes. Animals were studied using bacteriological, serological and biochemical methods. The vaccine from Mycoplasma agalactiae S-11 strain does not cause the local reaction and immunosuppression on organisms of sensitive livestock animals. The level of protective antibodies among research groups of animals for NSC ‘IECVM’ vaccine was 3.54 (3.47–3.61) log 2 at the 30 th day after revaccination and 3.59 (3.52–3.64) log 2 for ‘Ahavak’ vaccine. The antibodies against Mycoplasma agalactiae were registered in 14 heads of the control group (n=50) and accounted for 1.31 (0.00–2.86) log 2 . It was found that disease signs and presence of pathogen are absent in conjoined holding animals which were vaccinated against contagious agalactia of sheep and goats by NSC ‘IECVM’ and Romanian vaccines as compared to the animals with clinical sings of the disease. The intracutaneous injection of inactivated vaccine against contagious agalactia of sheep and goats (NSC ‘IECVM’) two times provides 100% protection of sensitive animals against clinical signs of the disease. It is harmless, areactogenic, with immunogenic and protective properties equally to the Romanian vaccine.
Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor for diabetic macular edema: a Bayesian network analysis

Aims: Comparison of the efficacy of six Anti-vascular endothelial growth drugs in the treatment of diabetic macular edema Methods: This network meta-analysis has been registered on the PROSPERO platform (CRD42022295684). A comprehensive search of eight databases without language restrictions.PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, CBM, CNKI, VIP, and Wanfang were used to search for randomized controlled trials on anti-vascular endothelial growth factor of diabetic macular edema, no language restrictions and publication time restrictions. According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, literatures were screened, data were extracted and literature quality was evaluated, and the mean changes in best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and central macular thickness (CMT) were obtained. Using the Gemtc 1.0-1 package in R 4.1. 2 to call the JAGS and the Markov Chain-Monte Card (MC-MC) method for Bayesian network meta-analysis. Risk of bias was assessed using RevMan 5.3. Stata 14.0 draws funnel plots to assess publication bias. RESULTS: Sixteen studies including 3651 eyes were included, all with treatment follow-up over 6 months. The overall heterogeneity in the network analysis was low(I{superscript 2}=0), and there was no inconsistency. For the efficacy of reducing CMT, ranking according to the cumulative probability: Faricimab (0.9) > Brolucizumab (0.87) > Aflibercept (0.58) > Conbercept (0.37) > Ranibizumab (0.29 )>Bevacizumab (0), but there was no statistically significant difference between Conbercept and Faclibercept, Aflibercept, and Buloxizumab. For the efficacy of improving BCVA, ranking according to the cumulative probability: Conbercept (0.87) > Faricimab (0.79) > Aflibercept (0.61) > Brolucizumab (0.51) > Ranibizumab (0.2 )>Bevacizumab (0.02), but there was no statistically significant difference between Conbercept and Faclibercept, Aflibercept, and Brolucizumab.
UDС: 616.12-008.331.1:616.153.857:612.111.7 Effect of elevated levels of uric acid on thrombocyte hemostasis in patients with hypertonic disease of stage ІІ

The effect of uric acid on the functional activity of platelets in patients with hypertension, hyperuricemia, and a combination of these two conditions was studied. In the study, 75 patients were examined: 15 physically healthy subjects (control group), 17 patients with hyperuricemia without hypertension (group I), 23 patients with hypertension and hyperuricemia (group II) and 20 patients with isolated hypertension 2 stages (group III). In order to study thrombocyte hemostasis, estimates of spontaneous platelet aggregation and induced aggregation with adenosine diphosphate (ADP), arachidonic acid (AA), collagen and epinephrine were performed. An assessment of endothelium dependent vasodilatation was also performed on Celermajer cuffs. Hyperuricemia was diagnosed with uric acid levels > 420 μmol / L. In the course of the investigation, we determined that patients with hypertension, hyperuricemia and their combination observed an increase in the functional activity of the platelets, which manifests itself in an increase in the degree of spontaneous aggregation, a significant activation of platelet aggregation induced by arachidonic acid and collagen. Hyperagracy was detected in all hypertension patients and was more pronounced in patients
Adaptive Content-aware Correction for Wide-angle Portrait Photos

Portraits near the periphery of wide-angle photos often suffer conspicuous distortion. With the popularity of wide-angle lenses on mobile phones, portrait correction, which removes the portrait distortion of wide-angle images, has been attracting widespread attention in the ﬁeld of content-aware warping. Existing portrait correction methods for wide-angle photos using uniform quad meshes take a long time solving the correction optimization, and most of them focus only on correcting faces, leading to the inconsistency of heads and bodies after correction. In this paper, we propose an efﬁcient method based on triangle mesh to remove portrait distortion in wide-angle perspective photos. We generate an adaptive mesh tailored to the image content with fewer vertices. Relying on the characteristics of the triangle mesh, we tailor three smooth and intuitive energy terms for the human area, background area, and boundary to minimize portrait distortion. Our algorithm has good ex-pandability in adding more geometric constraints, such as line constraint. Experimental results show that our method is robust for photos with various ﬁelds of view. Comparisons with the state-of-the-art demonstrate that our method achieves signiﬁcant improvements in optimization efﬁciency and consistency of heads and bodies.
Maternal depression moderated by family resources when children have developmental disabilities

Children with developmental disabilities require extensive parental involvement in intervention, but parents with depression may be less able to intervene effectively. We examined prevalence of depression symptoms and predictors among 131 mothers of children with disabilities enrolled in early childhood special education. Participants completed several self-report measures of depression and child and family functioning. Children were directly evaluated using the Battelle Developmental Inventory. One year later, 68 mothers repeated selfreport measures. Participants (30%) reported elevated depression symptoms across time. Depression scores were correlated with parental stress and family resources. An interaction between higher maternal depression and higher child functioning with lower family resources was found across time. When family financial resources are strained, mothers of children with moderate developmental disabilities may have higher risk for depression symptoms than when the child has severe disabilities. Results suggest that early childhood professionals should not overlook financial and mental health supports for mothers whose children have moderate disabilities.