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Tinea Capitis Treated With Homoeopathic Medicine Pulsatilla Nigricans: A Case Report, Khushboo Garg, Divya Bansal, Aayush Mittal

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Introduction: Tinea infection is a common complaint encountered in day-to-day practice with increasing incidence, especially in countries such as India over the past decade. Tinea capitis is predominantly a disease of prepubertal children characterised by lesions of variable morphology on the scalp associated with itching, erythema, signs of inflammation and hair loss. Prompt recognition and treatment are necessary to prevent its spread due to its contagious nature, associated hair loss and the resultant psychological impact on social life. Individualised homoeopathic treatment has a significant scope in treating and combating such conditions cost-effectively through the totality of symptoms.

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Automation And Optimization Of Industrial Scale Essential Oil Extraction From Citrus Peel Using A Neutrosophic Control System Model, Manuel Michael Beraún-Espíritu, Ketty Marilú Moscoso-Paucarchuco, Luis Enrique Espinoza-Quispe, Fabricio Miguel Moreno-Menéndez, Jesús César Sandoval-Trigos, Edson Hilmer Julca-Marcelo, Bheny Janett Tuya-Cerna, Edgar Gutiérrez-Gómez

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Characterization Of Social Skills And Emotion Management Of Students In A Public Peruvian University Based On Plithogenic Statistics And Indeterminate Likert Scale, Camayo-Lapa, Becquer Frauberth, Flores Ledesma Katia Ninozca, Liz Evelyn Landa-Guadalupe, Miguel Angel Quispe-Solano,, Porta Erika Amelia De La Cruz, Bulnes Jorge Luis López, Carlos Francisco Cabrera Carranza, Agueda Saturnina Choque Mandamiento

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Neutrosophic Modeling Of Healthcare Resource Allocation, Olivia Elizabeth Altamirano Guerrero, Neyda De Las Mercedes Hernández Bandera, Lexter Iván Mihalache Bernal, José Sergio Puig Espinosa

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Neutrosophic Perspectives In Healthcare Decision-Making: Navigating Complexity With Ethics, Information, And Collaboration, Alex Gabriel Lara Jacome, Elizabeth Mayorga Aldaz, Miguel Ramos Argilagos, Darvin Manuel Ramírez Guerra

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Neutrosophic Approaches To Emotional Intelligence Measurement, Gustavo Alvarez Gómez, Corona Gómez Armijos, Ariel Romero Fernández, Julio Cesar Dupotey Hernández

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Neutrosophic Approaches To Epidemic And Pandemic Response, Daniel Alejandro Arroyo Zumarraga, María Fernanda Cueva Moncayo, Enrique Rodríguez Reyes, Rodolfo González Ortega

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Neutrosophic Analysis Of Group Dynamics And Teamwork, Jeannette Amparito Urrutia Guevara, Edmundo Enrique Pino Andrade, Ned Vito Quevedo Arnaiz, Dante Manuel Macazana Fernández

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Neutrosophic Approaches To Environmental Law And Policy, Santiago Fernando Fiallos Bonilla, Diego Fernando Coka Flores, Janneth Ximena Iglesias Quintana, Víctor Raúl Reátegui Paredes

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Ethics In Medical Research And Experimentation, Carlos Castañeda Guillot, Icler Sisalema Aguilar, Alex Valencia Herrera, Wilder Fabio Ramos Palacios

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Full Issue

BYU Law Review

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Hidden Contracts, Shmuel I. Becher, Uri Benoliel

BYU Law Review

Transparency is a promising means for enhancing democratic values, countering corruption, and reducing power abuse. Nonetheless, the potential of transparency in the domain of consumer contracts is untapped. This Article suggests utilizing the power of transparency to increase consumer access to justice, better distribute technological gains between businesses and consumers, and deter sellers from breaching their consumer contracts while exploiting consumers’ inferior position.

In doing so, this Article focuses on what we dub “Hidden Contracts.” Part I conceptualizes the idea of hidden contracts. It first defines hidden contracts as consumer form contracts that firms unilaterally modify and subsequently remove from …

Twenty-First Century Split: Partisan, Racial, And Gender Differences In Circuit Judges Following Earlier Opinions, Stuart Minor Benjamin, Kevin M. Quinn, Byungkoo Kim

BYU Law Review

Judges shape the law with their votes and the reasoning in their opinions. An important element of the latter is which opinions they follow, and thus elevate, and which they cast doubt on, and thus diminish. Using a unique and comprehensive dataset containing the substantive Shepard’s treatments of all circuit court published and unpublished majority opinions issued between 1974 and 2017, we examine the relationship between judges’ substantive treatments of earlier appellate cases and their party, race, and gender. Are judges more likely to follow opinions written by colleagues of the same party, race, or gender? What we find is …

Balance In The Basin, Casey Lee Mcclellan

BYU Law Review

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) changed the way land managers and users interact with public lands. However, its stringent requirements are not responsive to today’s environmental and economic realities. For the future of sustainable mineral extraction, there must be a better way. Adaptive management, a more flexible planning process, should be used on public lands to ensure greater leeway for operators, environmentalists, and local economies. By analyzing rural northeastern Utah’s Uinta Basin’s history and existing public land use plans, this Note applies adaptive management to the area to show how thinking outside the box can solve seemingly unsolvable problems.

Unlocking The Potential Of Earned Value Management In Construction: A Comparative Study, Mohamed Elsaid

Theses and Dissertations

The implementation of earned value management (EVM) in the construction industry faces challenges when it comes to application, accuracy, and interpretability of results, with potential enhancements yet to be realized. In light of technological advancements, there is an opportunity to develop a controlled EVM approach for improved project management. The goal of this research is to enhance the application and accuracy of earned value techniques in Egyptian construction projects through a comprehensive evaluation of Earned Duration, Earned Schedule, and Planned Value methods. The key challenge that is addressed in this research lies in selecting an optimal technique considering the variations …

Appealing Magna Carta, Thomas J. Mcsweeney

Faculty Publications

In 1999, Professor Richard Helmholz published Magna Carta and the Ius Commune, in which he argued that some of the ideas and language found in Magna Carta provide evidence that the early common law was engaging with the ius commune, the ancestor of modern civil law traditions. This Essay examines one piece of evidence highlighted by Helmholz and more recently by Professor Charles Donahue: that the Articles of the Barons, a preparatory document for Magna Carta, uses a phrase borrowed from canon law, appellatione remota (without possibility of appeal). Helmholz and Donahue pointed to its use as evidence that …

Credit Risk Modeling Using Interpreted Xgboost, Marcin Hernes, Jędrzej Adaszyński, Piotr Tutak

European Management Studies

Purpose: The aim of the paper is to develop a credit risk assessment model usingb the XGBoost classifier supported by interpretation issues. Design/methodology/approach: The risk modeling is based on Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) in the research. It is a method used for regression and classification problems. It is based on a sequence of decision trees using a gradient-based optimization method of the loss function to minimize the errors of weak estimators. We use also methods for performing local and global interpretability: ceteris paribus charts, SHAP and feature importance approach. Findings: Based on the research results, it can be concluded that …

Social Media Utilization Of Public Benefit Organizations During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Piotr Szamrowski, Marian Oliński

European Management Studies

Purpose: The main purpose of the research was twofold. First, it was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the publishing activity of Polish public benefit organizations on Facebook. Second, to determine the impact of content published in a crisis situation on the public reaction. Design/methodology/approach: During the investigation, the financial reports of public benefit organizations were analyzed. Farther the basic parameters of the organization’s Facebook profile and the content published on Facebook were analyzed (1025 organizations were covered by the research). From the reports, financial data of organizations has been collected. Both in 2020 and in 2021, …

Using Long-Read Cage Sequencing To Profile Cryptic-Promoter-Derived Transcripts And Their Contribution To The Immunopeptidome, Ju Heon Maeng, H Josh Jang, Alan Y Du, Shin-Cheng Tzeng, Ting Wang

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Recent studies have shown that the noncoding genome can produce unannotated proteins as antigens that induce immune response. One major source of this activity is the aberrant epigenetic reactivation of transposable elements (TEs). In tumors, TEs often provide cryptic or alternate promoters, which can generate transcripts that encode tumor-specific unannotated proteins. Thus, TE-derived transcripts (TE transcripts) have the potential to produce tumor-specific, but recurrent, antigens shared among many tumors. Identification of TE-derived tumor antigens holds the promise to improve cancer immunotherapy approaches; however, current genomics and computational tools are not optimized for their detection. Here we combined CAGE technology with …

Chimera Baryon Spectrum In The Sp(4) Completion Of Composite Higgs Models, Ho Hsiao, Ed Bennett, Deog Ki Hong, Jong-Wan Lee, C.-J. David Lin, Biagio Lucini, Maurizio Piai, Davide Vadacchino

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

In strongly coupled gauge theories that serve as completions of composite Higgs models, thefermionic bound states formed by fermions (hyperquarks) transforming in different representations, called chimera baryons, could serve as top partners, by embedding of the Standard Modelappropriately. We report our results on the spectrum of chimera baryons in the �� ��(4) gauge theorywith hyperquarks transforming in fundamental and two-index antisymmetric representations. Forthis study, we adopt the quenched approximation. We investigate the mass hierarchy between thelightest chimera baryons with different quantum numbers, as a function of the lattice parameters.Inspired by baryon chiral effective field theory, and the Akaike Information Criterion, …

Lattice Studies Of Sp(2n) Gauge Theories Using Grid, Niccolo Forzano, Ed Bennett, Peter Boyle, Jong-Wan Lee, Julian Lenz, Biagio Lucini, Alessandro Lupo, Maurizio Piai, Davide Vadacchino, Luigi Del Debbio, Deog Ki Hong, C.-J David Lin

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Biering-Sørensen Test: Contributors To Extensor Endurance In Young Adults With And Without A History Of Low Back Pain, Jonathan Shaw, Jesse V. Jacobs, Linda R. Van Dillen, George J. Beneck, Jo Armour Smith

Physical Therapy Faculty Articles and Research

The Biering-Sørensen test is commonly used to assess paraspinal muscle endurance. Research using a single repetition of the test has provided conflicting evidence for the contribution of impaired paraspinal muscle endurance to low back pain (LBP). This study investigated how Sørensen test duration, muscle activation, and muscle fatigability are affected by multiple repetitions of the test and determined predictors of Sørensen test duration in young adults with and without a history of LBP. Sixty-four young individuals performed three repetitions of the Sørensen test. Amplitude of activation and median frequency slope (fatigability) were calculated for the lumbar and thoracic paraspinals and …

Single-Pulse Electrical Stimulation Artifact Removal Using The Novel Matching Pursuit-Based Artifact Reconstruction And Removal Method (Mparrm), Tao Xie, Thomas J Foutz, Markus Adamek, James R Swift, Cory S Inman, Joseph R Manns, Eric C Leuthardt, Jon T Willie, Peter Brunner

2020-Current year OA Pubs

No abstract provided.

Structural Basis For Dna Proofreading, Gina Buchel, Ashok Nayak, Karl Herbine, Azadeh Sarfallah, Viktoriia Sokolova, Angelica Zamudio-Ochoa, Dmitry Temiakov

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

DNA polymerase (DNAP) can correct errors in DNA during replication by proofreading, a process critical for cell viability. However, the mechanism by which an erroneously incorporated base translocates from the polymerase to the exonuclease site and the corrected DNA terminus returns has remained elusive. Here, we present an ensemble of nine high-resolution structures representing human mitochondrial DNA polymerase Gamma, Polγ, captured during consecutive proofreading steps. The structures reveal key events, including mismatched base recognition, its dissociation from the polymerase site, forward translocation of DNAP, alterations in DNA trajectory, repositioning and refolding of elements for primer separation, DNAP backtracking, and displacement …

An Ensemble Dnn Model For Automatic Detection Of Covid-19 From Cxr Scans, Hagar Hesham Eldawoudy, Mohamed Abdelazim Mohamed, Eman Abdelhalim

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The new coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been destructive to human life and has resulted in a significant number of deaths globally. Detecting COVID-19 as early as possible is a critical way to prohibit the virus from quickly passing among people. RT-PCR is a method used for COVID-19 detection, but it is very expensive and isn’t an accurate method due to its sensitivity of 60–70%. For these reasons, deep learning and imaging techniques are combined by doctors, scientific experts, and professionals for accurate and rapid COVID-19 detection. In this work, we propose a stacked ensemble model based on Linear Regression …

Aesthetics After The Ontological Turn: An Ecological Approach To Artificial Creativity, Miguel Carvalhais, Diniz C. Ribeiro

Critical Humanities

The development of chatbots and other generative systems powered by AI, particularly the latest version of ChatGPT, rekindled many discussions on topics such as intelligence and creativity, even leading some to suggest that we may be undergoing a “fourth narcissistic wound”. Starting from Margaret Boden’s approach to creativity, we will argue that if computational systems have always excelled at combinatorial creativity, current AI systems stand out at exploratory creativity but are perceived as still falling flat regarding transformational creativity. This paper explores some of the reasons for this, including how, despite the immensity of the conceptual space that results from …

Guilty Machines: On Ab-Sens In The Age Of Ai, Dylan Lackey, Katherine Weinschenk

Critical Humanities

For Lacan, guilt arises in the sublimation of ab-sens (non-sense) into the symbolic comprehension of sen-absexe (sense without sex, sense in the deficiency of sexual relation), or in the maturation of language to sensibility through the effacement of sex. Though, as Slavoj Žižek himself points out in a recent article regarding ChatGPT, the split subject always misapprehends the true reason for guilt’s manifestation, such guilt at best provides a sort of evidence for the inclusion of the subject in the order of language, acting as a necessary, even enjoyable mark of the subject’s coherence (or, more importantly, the subject’s separation …

Winn Dixie Stores V. Eastern Mushroom Marketing Cooperative Inc

2023 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Prediction Of Moisture Content Of Hummus Peach Based On Multi-Burr Hyperspectral Data, Gao Aidi, Qiao Fengzhang, Zhu Wenxuan, Zhong Xiaopin, Deng Yuanlong

Food and Machinery

Objective: To propose a new solution to overcome the two challenges of data with spikes and small sample sizes in nectarine hyperspectral measurement. Methods: Based on hyperspectral imaging technology, image processing methods were used to identify the area of nectarines in the hyperspectral image, and the spectral reflectance data of the area was calculated to form a hyperspectral curve image. For hyperspectral image data with spikes and noise, compared the effects of several data preprocessing methods, including polynomial smoothing algorithm (SG), multivariate scatter correction algorithm (MSC), standard normal variate algorithm (SNV), first-order derivative operator (D1), and second-order derivative operator (D2) …

Rapid Detection Of Moisture Content Of Pineapple Based On Near Infrared Spectroscopy And Ssa-Relm, Zhao Yanli, Zhao Qian, Li Zhiqiang

Food and Machinery

Objective: A method for a fast and non-destructive detection of pineapple moisture content was established. Methods: A novel detection model of pineapple moisture content was proposed based on continuous projection feature wavelength selection and Sparrow search algorithm. Firstly, according to the characteristic of pineapple NIR data with high dimension and redundant information, the results of feature wavelength selection such as successive projections algorithm, principal component analysis and full-band were compared, the selection method of characteristic wavelength of pineapple near infrared spectrum was determined. Secondly, considering that the performance of RELM model was affected by the selection of input layer weight …