LLukas22/scidocs huggingface dataset:
Fault analysis of GRAIN-128

GRAIN-v1 is a stream cipher that has been selected in the final portfolio of the eSTREAM project. GRAIN-128 is a variant of GRAIN-v1. The best known mathematical attack against GRAIN-128 is the brute force key-search. This paper introduces a fault attack on GRAIN-128 based on a realistic fault model and explores possible improvements of the attack. We also discuss countermeasures to counteract our fault attack.
New Algorithms for Fast Discovery of Association Rules

New algorithms with previous native palm pdf reader approaches, with gains of over an order of magnitude using.We present two new algorithms for solving this problem. Regularities, association rules, and gave an algorithm for finding such rules. 4 An.fast discovery of association rules based on our ideas in 33, 35. New algorithms with previous approaches, with gains of over an order of magnitude using.
Causal Relationship Between Career Indecision and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy: A Longitudinal Cross-Lagged Analysis

This study surveyed 166 students when they were in Grade 8 of high school, and then again when they were in Grade 10, using measures of career indecision and career decision-making self-efficacy. Consistent with social-cognitive theories we hypothesized that changes in self-efficacy over time would be causally associated with changes in career indecision over time. Using latent variable analyses, we estimated a two-wave, longitudinal cross-lagged panel design, and found that, contrary to expectations, changes in career decision-making self-efficacy did not result in changes in career indecision, despite significant contemporaneous associations at both times. Theoretical and applied implications are highlighted.
Adult psychiatric outcomes of bullying and being bullied by peers in childhood and adolescence.

IMPORTANCE
Both bullies and victims of bullying are at risk for psychiatric problems in childhood, but it is unclear if this elevated risk extends into early adulthood.


OBJECTIVE
To test whether bullying and/or being bullied in childhood predicts psychiatric problems and suicidality in young adulthood after accounting for childhood psychiatric problems and family hardships.


DESIGN
Prospective, population-based study.


SETTING
Community sample from 11 counties in Western North Carolina.


PARTICIPANTS
A total of 1420 participants who had being bullied and bullying assessed 4 to 6 times between the ages of 9 and 16 years. Participants were categorized as bullies only, victims only, bullies and victims (hereafter referred to as bullies/victims), or neither.


MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE
Psychiatric outcomes, which included depression, anxiety, antisocial personality disorder, substance use disorders, and suicidality (including recurrent thoughts of death, suicidal ideation, or a suicide attempt), were assessed in young adulthood (19, 21, and 24-26 years) by use of structured diagnostic interviews. RESULTS Victims and bullies/victims had elevated rates of young adult psychiatric disorders, but also elevated rates of childhood psychiatric disorders and family hardships. After controlling for childhood psychiatric problems or family hardships, we found that victims continued to have a higher prevalence of agoraphobia (odds ratio [OR], 4.6 [95% CI, 1.7-12.5]; P < .01), generalized anxiety (OR, 2.7 [95% CI, 1.1-6.3]; P < .001), and panic disorder (OR, 3.1 [95% CI, 1.5-6.5]; P < .01) and that bullies/victims were at increased risk of young adult depression (OR, 4.8 [95% CI, 1.2-19.4]; P < .05), panic disorder (OR, 14.5 [95% CI, 5.7-36.6]; P < .001), agoraphobia (females only; OR, 26.7 [95% CI, 4.3-52.5]; P < .001), and suicidality (males only; OR, 18.5 [95% CI, 6.2-55.1]; P < .001). Bullies were at risk for antisocial personality disorder only (OR, 4.1 [95% CI, 1.1-15.8]; P < .04).


CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE
The effects of being bullied are direct, pleiotropic, and long-lasting, with the worst effects for those who are both victims and bullies.
Detection-aided liver lesion segmentation using deep learning

A fully automatic technique for segmenting the liver and localizing its unhealthy tissues is a convenient tool in order to diagnose hepatic diseases and assess the response to the according treatments. In this work we propose a method to segment the liver and its lesions from Computed Tomography (CT) scans using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), that have proven good results in a variety of computer vision tasks, including medical imaging. The network that segments the lesions consists of a cascaded architecture, which first focuses on the region of the liver in order to segment the lesions on it. Moreover, we train a detector to localize the lesions, and mask the results of the segmentation network with the positive detections. The segmentation architecture is based on DRIU [8], a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) with side outputs that work on feature maps of different resolutions, to finally benefit from the multi-scale information learned by different stages of the network. The main contribution of this work is the use of a detector to localize the lesions, which we show to be beneficial to remove false positives triggered by the segmentation network. Source code and models are available at https://imatge-upc.github.io/liverseg-2017-nipsws/.
Furuncular myiasis of the breast caused by the larvae of the Tumbu fly (Cordylobia anthropophaga)

BACKGROUND
Cutaneous myiasis of the breast due to infestation by the larva of Cordylobia anthropophaga is rare. To the best of our knowledge, only one case has been reported in the English literature. This rarity calls for an awareness of its possibility as a cause of furuncular breast lesions, especially in areas where the C. anthropophaga (Tumbu fly) is endemic or in patients returning from such areas. As it can be easily confused with other furuncular breast lesions (like tuberculosis, mycosis, actinomycosis, furunculosis, chronic breast abscess and fungating malignancies), this awareness is important to avoid misdiagnosis or delay in diagnosis. We present a case of furuncular breast myiasis due to the larvae of C. anthropophaga earlier misdiagnosed as mastitis in a patient living in tropical Africa (Nigeria) where the Tumbu fly is endemic.


CASE PRESENTATION
We report a 70 year old woman who presented with a week history of itchy multiple discharging sinuses of the right breast. The sinuses contained wriggling larvae of C. anthropophaga. Fourteen larvae were extracted from the breast and the sinuses healed quite well after the extraction.


CONCLUSIONS
Cutaneous myiasis of the breast is rare, hence, an awareness of its clinical features is necessary when a patient presents with furuncular skin lesions especially in endemic areas or people returning from such areas. Diagnosis is mainly clinical and lesions heal well after the extraction of the larvae. Preventive measures such as ironing after drying of dresses and a good personal hygiene are crucial in controlling C. anthropophaga infestation.
New graduate nurses' experiences in their first year of practice.

AIMS
This study aimed to explore new graduates' experiences of entering the nursing workforce in NSW, Australia, and to identify factors that impact on their transition to the workforce, satisfaction and likelihood of retention.


BACKGROUND
The nature of new graduates' experiences in their first year of employment has been shown to have a significant impact on their future career directions. It is well reported that often these experiences are stressful and unsatisfying.


METHODS
A mixed method cross sectional design was used combining quantitative and qualitative approaches. Data was gathered by online survey and focus groups.


RESULTS
A total of 282 new graduates, aged 21 to 54, responded to the online survey (response rate 24%). Overall, respondents were satisfied with their recruitment process (mean 3.54) and support for professional development (mean 3.37) but job satisfaction was rated lower (mean 2.91). Qualitative findings from focus groups and survey comments revealed a number of key factors impacting on the experience of transition for new graduates. These are; the nature of the workplace environment, the level and nature of support available to new graduates, together with their propensity to learn and adapt to workplace cultures and to accommodate their own expectations and the expectations of others, and to a lesser degree, the amount of prior experience.


CONCLUSION
There is an urgent need to develop and test a range of evidence based approaches that will both empower nurses and embed systematic approaches that enable equitable and contextually relevant stewardship of new graduate nurses into the future.
A validation study of new risk grouping criteria for postoperative treatment in stage IB cervical cancers without high-risk factors: rethinking the Gynecologic Oncology Group criteria.

OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to verify whether the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) criteria are valid in a different cohort of patients and to investigate simplified new criteria tailoring adjuvant radiation therapy in patients with intermediate-risk factors after radical hysterectomy.


STUDY DESIGN
We analyzed the data of 332 patients with FIGO stage IB cervical cancer who underwent radical hysterectomy between 1994 and 2007. Two hundred and twenty-five patients without high-risk factors (lymph node metastasis, parametrial invasion, or positive surgical margins) were identified and were classified into low-risk and high-risk groups according to the GOG criteria and new criteria based on combinations of intermediate-risk factors (large tumor size, deep stromal invasion, lymph-vascular space invasion). We evaluated the prognostic significance of both criteria.


RESULTS
We identified 140 low-risk patients and 85 high-risk patients in the application of the GOG criteria. Low-risk patients had significantly better disease-free survival (DFS) (P=0.001) and overall survival (OS) (P=0.013) than high-risk patients. There were 145 low-risk patients and 80 high-risk patients on applying the new criteria. Low-risk patients had significantly better DFS (P=0.001) and OS (P=0.013) than high-risk patients. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves showed that both criteria had similar performance for predicting which patients would have help from adjuvant therapy.


CONCLUSION
This study demonstrated that the GOG criteria were still valid in the different population, the simplified new criteria were convenient to apply in practice, and the performance of the new criteria was as good as the GOGs.
Culture and Accountability in Negotiation: Recognizing the Importance of In-Group Relations

a Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong b Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, 401 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203, United States c Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, S3-01C-100, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore d School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, 19 Xinjiekou Outer Street, Haidian, Beijing 100875, China
Measurement invariance of the kidney disease and quality of life instrument (KDQOL-SF) across Veterans and non-Veterans

BACKGROUND
Studies have demonstrated that perceived health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients receiving hemodialysis is significantly impaired. Since HRQOL outcome data are often used to compare groups to determine health care effectiveness it is imperative that measures of HRQOL are valid. However, valid HRQOL comparisons between groups can only be made if instrument invariance is demonstrated. The Kidney Disease Quality of Life-Short Form (KDQOL-SF) is a widely used HRQOL measure for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) however, it has not been validated in the Veteran population. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the measurement invariance of the KDQOL-SF across Veterans and non-Veterans with CKD.


METHODS
Data for this study were from two large prospective observational studies of patients receiving hemodialysis: 1) Veteran End-Stage Renal Disease Study (VETERAN) (N = 314) and 2) Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) (N = 3,300). Health-related quality of life was measured with the KDQOL-SF, which consists of the SF-36 and the Kidney Disease Component Summary (KDCS). Single-group confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate the goodness-of-fit of the hypothesized measurement model for responses to the subscales of the KDCS and SF-36 instruments when analyzed together; and given acceptable goodness-of-fit in each group, multigroup CFA was used to compare the structure of this factor model in the two samples. Pattern of factor loadings (configural invariance), the magnitude of factor loadings (metric invariance), and the magnitude of item intercepts (scalar invariance) were assessed as well as the degree to which factors have the same variances, covariances, and means across groups (structural invariance).


RESULTS
CFA demonstrated that the hypothesized two-factor model (KDCS and SF-36) fit the data of both the Veteran and DOPPS samples well, supporting configural invariance. Multigroup CFA results concerning metric and scalar invariance suggested partial strict invariance for the SF-36, but only weak invariance for the KDCS. Structural invariance was not supported.


CONCLUSIONS
Results suggest that Veterans may interpret the KDQOL-SF differently than non-Veterans. Further evaluation of measurement invariance of the KDQOL-SF between Veterans and non-Veterans is needed using large, randomly selected samples before comparisons between these two groups using the KDQOL-SF can be done reliably.
The effectiveness of health coaching, home blood pressure monitoring, and home-titration in controlling hypertension among low-income patients: protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND
Despite the many antihypertensive medications available, two-thirds of patients with hypertension do not achieve blood pressure control. This is thought to be due to a combination of poor patient education, poor medication adherence, and "clinical inertia." The present trial evaluates an intervention consisting of health coaching, home blood pressure monitoring, and home medication titration as a method to address these three causes of poor hypertension control.


METHODS/DESIGN
The randomized controlled trial will include 300 patients with poorly controlled hypertension. Participants will be recruited from a primary care clinic in a teaching hospital that primarily serves low-income populations.An intervention group of 150 participants will receive health coaching, home blood pressure monitoring, and home-titration of antihypertensive medications during 6 months. The control group (n=150) will receive health coaching plus home blood pressure monitoring for the same duration. A passive control group will receive usual care. Blood pressure measurements will take place at baseline, and after 6 and 12 months. The primary outcome will be change in systolic blood pressure after 6 and 12 months. Secondary outcomes measured will be change in diastolic blood pressure, adverse events, and patient and provider satisfaction.


DISCUSSION
The present study is designed to assess whether the 3-pronged approach of health coaching, home blood pressure monitoring, and home medication titration can successfully improve blood pressure, and if so, whether this effect persists beyond the period of the intervention.


TRIAL REGISTRATION
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01013857.
Vertical ladder climbing motion with posture control for multi-locomotion robot

This paper introduces a vertical ladder climbing of the humanoid robot only by the posture control without any external sensors. The humanoid robot does not have any special structure for fixing the body to the ladder. The robot maintains the body on the ladder by its grippers like human does. As a problem of this locomotion, a free gripper position of the climbing robot is not controllable because a yawing of the robot body around the axis connecting a supporting gripper and foot on the ladder is not fixed. To solve this problem, the momentum around AOY caused by the gravity is used to control the yaw motion of the body so that the various gait such as pace gait and trot gait could be realized in a ladder climbing maneuver. The algorithm of ladder climbing with recovery motion is experimentally verified by using ldquomulti-locomotion robot(MLR)rdquo which is developed to achieve various types of locomotion such as biped, quadruped walking and brachiation.
A cephalometric approach to establish the vertical facial dimension : An in vitro study

Evaluating the maxilla-mandibular vertical dimension is of great importance in constructing successful denture prosthesis, however it is a tedious process which may be misinterpreted leading to false readings. Hence with the aid of cephalometric analysis a cephalogram may present a graphic representation .this study aims to introduce a new mathematical method for of determination the occlusal vertical dimension (O.V.D.). : The first part was conducted to derive a clinical ratio between the O.V.D. and the ear-eye distance, as well as to derive a radiographical ratio between the same distances on a lateral cephalometric view. The second part of this study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of clinical and radiographical application of the ratios that were derived from the first part in estimating the O.V.D from the ear-eye distance measured in dentate subjects.
Exploiting the diversity of Viviparous-1 gene associated with pre-harvest sprouting tolerance in European wheat varieties

Pre-harvest sprouting (PHS) reduces the quality of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and the economic value of the grain. The objective of this study was to evaluate the diversity of the Viviparous-1B (Vp-1B) gene associated with PHS tolerance in a collection of 490 widely grown winter wheat varieties from central and northern Europe. Four alleles of Vp-1B were found in the wheat varieties tested, three of which (Vp-1Ba, Vp-1Bb and Vp-1Bc) had previously been identified in Chinese wheat varieties. The fourth was a new allele which had a 25-bp of deletion in the third intron region compared with the nucleotide sequence of Vp-1Ba, and was designated as Vp-1Bd. The frequencies of different alleles in this set of European wheat germplasm were: Vp-1Ba (54%) > Vp-1Bc (21%) > Vp-1Bd (20%) > Vp-1Ba + c (4%) > Vp-1Bb (1%), with Vp-1Bb being present only in two French varieties, ‘Altria’ and ‘Recital’. In addition, the frequencies of the alleles differed in varieties from different European countries. For example, Vp-1Ba had the highest frequency (76%) in varieties included in the UK National List (NL), but was least frequent in the Recommended List (RL) of Sweden (19%). Similarly, Vp-1Bc was present with the highest frequency (58%) in wheat varieties from Sweden, and the lowest in UK NL varieties (8%) while Vp-1Bd had the highest frequency of 32% in German varieties, and the lowest in Sweden varieties with only 8%. The Vp-1Ba allele was present in over half of the UK wheat varieties tested but the frequency was lower in RL varieties than in NL ones. Furthermore, heterogeneities were found between Vp-1Ba and Vp-1Bc in the varieties from Sweden, Netherlands, Germany and UK.
Traumatic liver injuries in the elderly as compared to younger adults.

BACKGROUND
Comparing elderly (> 55 years) and younger (< 55 and > 15 years) traumatic liver injury patients, we evaluated differences in the need for operative intervention as well as transfusion requirements in those treated non-operatively.


METHODS
This was a retrospective cohort study of adult patients with liver trauma. The analyses evaluated overall adjusted differences in treatment option and packed red blood utilization in those treated non-operatively by age group.


RESULTS
841 patients were included. 83 were elderly. Operative management occurred in 13% and 12% of the younger adults and elderly patients, respectively. After adjustment, age group was not significantly associated with treatment option. In the non-operative setting, elderly patients had twice the red blood cell transfusion requirement as compared to younger adults.


CONCLUSIONS
Age does not play a role in considering the need for surgical intervention in patients with liver trauma. However, the geriatric population has twice the transfusion requirement in the non-operative setting.
A New Type of Motor: Pneumatic Step Motor

This paper presents a new type of pneumatic motor, a pneumatic step motor (PneuStep). Directional rotary motion of discrete displacement is achieved by sequentially pressurizing the three ports of the motor. Pulsed pressure waves are generated by a remote pneumatic distributor. The motor assembly includes a motor, gearhead, and incremental position encoder in a compact, central bore construction. A special electronic driver is used to control the new motor with electric stepper indexers and standard motion control cards. The motor accepts open-loop step operation as well as closed-loop control with position feedback from the enclosed sensor. A special control feature is implemented to adapt classic control algorithms to the new motor, and is experimentally validated. The speed performance of the motor degrades with the length of the pneumatic hoses between the distributor and motor. Experimental results are presented to reveal this behavior and set the expectation level. Nevertheless, the stepper achieves easily controllable precise motion unlike other pneumatic motors. The motor was designed to be compatible with magnetic resonance medical imaging equipment, for actuating an image-guided intervention robot, for medical applications. For this reason, the motors were entirely made of nonmagnetic and dielectric materials such as plastics, ceramics, and rubbers. Encoding was performed with fiber optics, so that the motors are electricity free, exclusively using pressure and light. PneuStep is readily applicable to other pneumatic or hydraulic precision-motion applications
Utility of diffusion tensor imaging tractography in decision making for extratemporal resective epilepsy surgery

PURPOSE
To assess the utility of diffusion tensor imaging tractography (DTIT) in decision making in patients considered for extratemporal resective epilepsy surgery.


METHODS
We subjected 49 patients with drug-resistant focal seizures due to lesions located in frontal, parietal and occipital lobes to DTIT to map the white matter fiber anatomy in relation to the planned resection zone, in addition to routine presurgical evaluation. We stratified our patients preoperatively into different grades of risk for anticipated neurological deficits as judged by the distance of the white matter tracts from the resection zones and functional cortical areas.


RESULTS
Thirty-seven patients underwent surgery; surgery was abandoned in 12 (24.5%) patients because of the high risk of postoperative neurological deficit. DTIT helped us to modify the surgical procedures in one-fourth of occipital, one-third of frontal, and two-thirds of parietal and multilobar resections. Overall, DTIT assisted us in surgical decision making in two-thirds of our patients.


CONCLUSIONS
DTIT is a noninvasive imaging strategy that can be used effectively in planning resection of epileptogenic lesions at or close to eloquent cortical areas. DTIT helps in predicting postoperative neurological outcome and thereby assists in surgical decision making and in preoperative counseling of patients with extratemporal focal epilepsies.