LLukas22/scidocs huggingface dataset:
Depositional record of trace metals and degree of contamination in core sediments from the Mandovi estuarine mangrove ecosystem, west coast of India.

The concentrations of seven trace metals (Fe, Mn, Cu, Cr, Co, Pb and Zn) in three sediment cores were analysed to assess the depositional trends of metals and their contamination level in the Mandovi estuary, west coast of India. All sediment cores showed enrichment of trace metals in the upper part of core sediments and decrease in concentration with depth, suggesting excess of anthropogenic loading (including mining activities) occurred during the recent past. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images distinguished the shape, size and structure of particles derived from lithogenic and anthropogenic sources in core sediments. The geo-accumulation index (I(geo)) values indicate that Mandovi estuary is 'moderately polluted' with Pb, whereas 'unpolluted to moderately polluted' with Fe, Mn, Cu, Cr, Co and Zn. The comparative analysis of trace metals revealed that Fe and Mn were highly enriched in the Mandovi estuary compared to all other Indian estuaries.
Incremental effects of reward on experienced performance pressure : positive outcomes for intrinsic interest and creativity

Two field studies and a laboratory study examined the influence of reward for high performance on experienced performance pressure, intrinsic interest and creativity. Study 1 found that employees’ expected reward for high performance was positively related to performance pressure which, in turn, was positively associated with the employees’ interest in their jobs. Study 2 replicated this finding and showed that intrinsic interest, produced by performance pressure, was positively related to supervisors’ ratings of creative performance. Study 3 found that college students’ receipt of reward for high performance increased their experienced performance pressure which, in turn, was positively related to intrinsic interest and creativity. Copyright # 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Uplift Modeling with ROC: An SRL Case Study

Uplift modeling is a classification method that determines the incremental impact of an action on a given population. Uplift modeling aims at maximizing the area under the uplift curve, which is the difference between the subject and control sets’ area under the lift curve. Lift and uplift curves are seldom used outside of the marketing domain, whereas the related ROC curve is frequently used in multiple areas. Achieving a good uplift using an ROC-based model instead of lift may be more intuitive in several areas, and may help uplift modeling reach a wider audience. We alter SAYL, an uplift-modeling statistical relational learner, to use ROC instead of lift. We test our approach on a screening mammography dataset. SAYL-ROC outperforms SAYL on our data, though not significantly, suggesting that ROC can be used for uplift modeling. On the other hand, SAYL-ROC returns larger models, reducing interpretability.
Design, development and test on real data of an FM based prototypical passive radar

This paper describes the design, development and test of a passive covert radar (PCR) exploiting a single non cooperative frequency modulated (FM) commercial radio station as its transmitter of opportunity. The system has been conceived in order to detect low flying and low radar cross section (RCS) targets even in disturbed and hostile electromagnetic environments. Preliminary measurements of the electromagnetic field intensity at the installation and test site of the prototypical PCR, suggested developing: (i) log-periodic antennas with adequate front-to-back ratio; (ii) brand new receivers characterized by state-of-art technology; (iii) adaptive signal processing; (iv) data processing based on particle filtering. The performance of the real-time system, whose refresh rate is less than five seconds, has been assessed comparing its output to truth data provided by air traffic control systems.
The FIFA 11+ injury prevention program for soccer players: a systematic review

Background
Soccer is one of the most widely played sports in the world. However, soccer players have an increased risk of lower limb injury. These injuries may be caused by both modifiable and non-modifiable factors, justifying the adoption of an injury prevention program such as the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) 11+. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the FIFA 11+ injury prevention program for soccer players.


Methodology
This meta-analysis was based on the PRISMA 2015 protocol. A search using the keywords "FIFA," "injury prevention," and "football" found 183 articles in the PubMed, MEDLINE, LILACS, SciELO, and ScienceDirect databases. Of these, 6 studies were selected, all of which were randomized clinical trials.


Results
The sample consisted of 6,344 players, comprising 3,307 (52%) in the intervention group and 3,037 (48%) in the control group. The FIFA 11+ program reduced injuries in soccer players by 30%, with an estimated relative risk of 0.70 (95% confidence interval, 0.52-0.93, p = 0.01). In the intervention group, 779 (24%) players had injuries, while in the control group, 1,219 (40%) players had injuries. However, this pattern was not homogeneous throughout the studies because of clinical and methodological differences in the samples. This study showed no publication bias.


Conclusion
The FIFA 11+ warm-up program reduced the risk of injury in soccer players by 30%.
Recovering system recital by noticing wormhole attack

The main aim of this paper is to improve the wireless system recital. Though there are many safeties measure hinder its wide use in common. Also the well-known pollution attacks, here is one more stern hazard, that of wormhole attacks, which weaken the recital increase of network coding. Because the fundamental uniqueness of network coding systems is diversely different from usual wireless networks, the blow of wormhole attacks and counter measure is unidentified. In this paper, we enumerate wormholes overwhelming destructive blow on network coding system recital throughout this trial. We propose a midest algorithm to sense wormholes and illustrate its rightness thoroughly. For the disseminated wireless network, we use DAWN, Distributed detection Algorithm against Wormhole in wireless Network coding systems, by discovering the transform of the surge direction of the novel packets caused by wormholes. We thoroughly prove that DAWN pledges a better inferior bound of unbeaten discovery speed. We achieve on the resistance of DAWN beside conspiracy attacks. We discover that the heftiness depends on the density of the network node, and establish an essential situation to attain collusion resistance. DAWN doesn't rely on any spot sequence, global organization. It relies only on local sequence which can attain usual network coding protocols and the overhead of the algorithm is moderate.
Increased release of dopamine in the striata of young adults with hearing impairment and its relevance for the social defeat hypothesis of schizophrenia.

IMPORTANCE
An increased risk for psychosis is observed in people with hearing impairment. According to the social defeat hypothesis, the long-term experience of exclusion leads to enhanced baseline activity and/or sensitization of the dopamine system and puts the individual at increased risk for psychosis.


OBJECTIVE
To investigate whether young adults with severe hearing impairment (SHI) experience more feelings of social defeat, show greater dopamine release in response to dexamphetamine, and report a stronger subjective reaction to this substance than normal-hearing young adults and to examine whether dopamine release is associated with both self-reported social exclusion and dexamphetamine-induced psychotic experiences.


DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS
A sample of 19 participants with SHI and 19 smoking-, age-, and sex-matched healthy controls underwent single-photon emission computed tomography with iodine 123-labeled iodobenzamide as a radiotracer before and after an amphetamine challenge at an academic hospital.


EXPOSURES
Dexamphetamine sulfate (0.3 mg/kg) administered intravenously.


MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES
Baseline D2/3 receptor binding and endogenous dopamine release.


RESULTS
The participants with SHI reported experiencing more feelings of social defeat (U=109, z=-2.09, P=.04) and loneliness (U=87.5, z=-2.72, P=<.001) than did healthy controls, but they did not differ from healthy controls with regard to baseline psychotic symptoms (U=156.5, z=-0.70, P=.48). There were no significant group differences in baseline D2/3 receptor binding. However, repeated-measures multivariate analysis of covariance with age (in months) and tobacco smoking (in pack-years) as covariates showed that there was a greater amphetamine-induced striatal dopamine release among the participants with SHI than among the healthy controls (F1,34=4.55, P=.04). After amphetamine administration, the participants with SHI reported more changes in affect than the healthy controls, but not a greater increase in psychotic symptoms. Likewise, reports of social exclusion and an increase in psychotic symptoms were not associated with dopamine release.


CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE
Our study presents preliminary evidence of dopamine sensitization in a socially excluded group of people with hearing impairment. If replicated by future studies in other excluded groups, this finding may have major implications for our understanding of the underlying mechanism and for prevention of psychotic disorders.
Anthropology and Mass Media

There is as yet no "anthropology of mass media." Even the intersection of anthropology and mass media appears rather small considering the published literature to date. Within the last five or so years, however, as anthropologists have increasingly struggled to define what falls within the legitimate realm of the study of "a culture" and within the privileged purview of "a discipline" (48, 51, 75, 107, 164), there has been a dramatic rise in interest in the study mass media. Indeed, mass media themsclve~ have been ~ contributing force in these processes of cultural and disciplinary deterfitorialization. Mass media-~defined in the conventional sense as the electronic media of radio, television, film, and recorded music, and the print media of newspapers, magazines, and popular literature--are at once artifacts, experiences, practices, and processes. They are economically and politically driven, linked to developments in science and technology, and like most domains of human life, their existence is inextricably bound up with the use of language. Given these various modalities and spheres of operation, there are numerous angles for approaching mass media anthropologically: as institutions, as workplaces, as communicative practices, as cultural products, as social activities, as aesthetic forms, and as historical developments. But beyond approaching specific facets of mass media anthropologically, it seems that the greater challenge lies in integrating the study of mass media into our analyses of the "total social fact" of modem life. How, for example, do mass media represent and shape cultural values within a given society?
Querying standardized EHRs by a Search Ontology XML extension (SOX)

Motivation: The previously developed Search Ontology (SO) allows domain experts to formally specify domain concepts, search terms associated to a domain, and rules describing domain concepts. So far, Lucene search queries can be generated from information contained in the SO and can be used for querying literature data bases or PubMed. However, this is still insufficient, since these queries are not well suited for querying XML documents because they are not following their structure. However, in the medical domain, many information items are coded in XML. Thus, querying structured XML documents is crucial for retrieving similar cases or for identifying potential study participants. For example , information items of patients with a similar tumor classification documented in a certain section of the respective pathology report need to be retrieved. This requires a precise definition of queries. In this paper , we introduce a concept for the generation of such queries using a Search Ontology XML extension to enable semantic searches on struc-tured data. Results: For a gain of precision, the paragraph of a document need to be specified, in which a specific information item expressed in a query is expected to appear. The Search Ontology XML Extension (SOX) connects search terms to certain sections in XML documents. The extension consists of a class which represents the XML structure and a relation between search terms and this XML structure. This enables an automatic generation of XPath expressions, which makes an efficient and precise search of structured pathology reports in XML databases possible. The combination of standardized Electronic Health Records with an ontol-ogy based query method promises a gain of precision, a high degree of interoperability and long term durability of both, XML documents and queries on XML documents.
Theory of Mathematical Structures

Inevitably, reading is one of the requirements to be undergone. To improve the performance and quality, someone needs to have something new every day. It will suggest you to have more inspirations, then. However, the needs of inspirations will make you searching for some sources. Even from the other people experience, internet, and many books. Books and internet are the recommended media to help you improving your quality and performance.
Efficacy and safety of levomilnacipran sustained release in moderate to severe major depressive disorder: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, proof-of-concept study.

OBJECTIVE
To investigate the efficacy and safety of levomilnacipran sustained release (SR), an antidepressant candidate in late-stage development, in major depressive disorder (MDD).


METHOD
Between December 2006 and October 2007, a 10-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, multicenter, flexible-dose trial assessed once-daily levomilnacipran SR (75 mg or 100 mg) in outpatients (18-70 years) meeting DSM-IV criteria for a major depressive episode (duration ≥ 1 month) with a 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS17) score > 22 and Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS) score ≥ 10. Levomilnacipran SR dose was increased to 100 mg/d over 12 days. The primary efficacy measure was Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) score change from baseline to week 10; secondary efficacy measures were the HDRS17, SDS, Clinical Global Impressions-Improvement scale, and MADRS response (≥ 50% decrease from baseline) and remission (score ≤ 10). Safety was evaluated according to adverse events, laboratory investigations, and vital signs/physical findings.


RESULTS
Efficacy analyses included 276 levomilnacipran SR-treated patients and 277 placebo-treated patients. Levomilnacipran SR was significantly superior to placebo on MADRS total score change from baseline to week 10 (least squares mean difference [LSMD] = -4.2 [95% CI, -5.7 to -2.6]; P < .0001). Statistical significance in favor of levomilnacipran SR was demonstrated on change from baseline to week 10 in HDRS17 total score (LSMD = -3.4 [95% CI, -4.7 to -2.2]; P < .0001) and SDS total score (LSMD = -3.4 [95% CI, -4.6 to -2.2]; P < .0001) and subscales. Significantly more levomilnacipran SR patients versus placebo patients achieved MADRS response (59.1% vs 42.2%; P < .0001) and remission (46.4% vs 26.0%; P < .0001). Levomilnacipran SR was generally safe and well tolerated; more levomilnacipran SR patients (9.4%) versus placebo patients (6.5%) discontinued due to adverse events, but more placebo patients versus levomilnacipran SR patients discontinued overall (24.9% vs 20.2%).


CONCLUSIONS
Levomilnacipran SR demonstrated robust efficacy on all measures and was generally well tolerated.


TRIAL REGISTRATION
EudraCT number: 2006-002404-34
Influence of levothyroxine in augmentation therapy for bipolar depression on central serotonergic function.

INTRODUCTION
Adjunctive treatment with supraphysiological doses of levothyroxine (L-T4) in bipolar depression shows promise, but the neurobiological mechanisms underlying clinical improvement are unknown. It has been postulated from animal studies that exogenous thyroid hormones may exert their modulatory effects in patients with affective disorders via an increase in serotonergic neurotransmission. Therefore, we investigated the loudness dependence of auditory evoked potentials (LDAEP) as a measure of central serotonergic activity and response to L-T4.


METHODS
This 6-week, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study assessed the efficacy of L-T4 adjunctive to continuing treatment with mood stabilizer and/or antidepressant medication in 20 patients with bipolar depression. LDAEP was assessed before and after treatment with L-T4.


RESULTS
Scores of the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale decreased significantly during the study. There was no difference in pre- and post-treatment LDAEP between the groups, and no correlation between LDAEP and psychometric measures in the course of the study.


DISCUSSION
The hypothesis of a relationship between response of augmentation therapy with levothyroxine in bipolar depression and serotonergic activity could not be confirmed.
Effect of the probiotic Enterococcus faecium SF68 on presence of diarrhea in cats and dogs housed in an animal shelter.

BACKGROUND
Beneficial effects of probiotics have never been analyzed in an animal shelter.


HYPOTHESIS
Dogs and cats housed in an animal shelter and administered a probiotic are less likely to have diarrhea of ≥2 days duration than untreated controls.


ANIMALS
Two hundred and seventeen cats and 182 dogs.


METHODS
Double blinded and placebo controlled. Shelter dogs and cats were housed in 2 separate rooms for each species. For 4 weeks, animals in 1 room for each species was fed Enterococcus faecium SF68 while animals in the other room were fed a placebo. After a 1-week washout period, the treatments by room were switched and the study continued an additional 4 weeks. A standardized fecal score system was applied to feces from each animal every day by a blinded individual. Feces of animals with and without diarrhea were evaluated for enteric parasites. Data were analyzed by a generalized linear mixed model using a binomial distribution with treatment being a fixed effect and the room being a random effect.


RESULTS
The percentage of cats with diarrhea ≥2 days was significantly lower (P = .0297) in the probiotic group (7.4%) when compared with the placebo group (20.7%). Statistical differences between groups of dogs were not detected but diarrhea was uncommon in both groups of dogs during the study.


CONCLUSION AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE
Cats fed SF68 had fewer episodes of diarrhea of ≥2 days when compared with controls suggests the probiotic may have beneficial effects on the gastrointestinal tract.
The importance of structure and process to strategy implementation

A study involving over 200 senior managers demonstrates that overall firm performance is strongly influenced by how well a firm’s business strategy is matched to its organizational structure and the behavioral norms of its employees. The authors identify a taxonomy comprised of four different combinations of structure/behavior types, which they label as: Management Dominant, CustomerCentric Innovators, Customer-Centric Cost Controllers, and Middle Ground. These alternative structure/behavior types are then matched with specific business strategies (i.e., Prospectors, Analyzers, Low Cost Defenders, Differentiated Defenders) in order to identify which combination(s) of structures and behaviors best serve to facilitate the process of implementing a specific strategy. D 2004 Kelley School of Business, Indiana Unversity. All rights reserved. 1. Doing versus dreaming Many executives argue that brilliant execution is more important than brilliant strategy. The reason is simple: doing is harder than dreaming, and a poorly executed strategy is merely a vision of what could be. Effective implementation can prove difficult, as it requires the coordinated and appropriate efforts of individuals throughout an organization. Thus, a critical task for senior managers is to define the key success activities for their organization’s strategy and develop an organizational system that promotes those same activities. Based on a recent study of over 200 businesses and business units, we find that in order for strategy to create superior performance, it must be complemented by appropriate organizational characteristics and employee behaviors. 0007-6813/$ see front matter D 2004 Kelley School of Business, Indiana Unversity. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2004.10.002 B This manuscript was accepted under the editorship of
The effect of small disjuncts and class distribution on decision tree learning

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Two Loop QFT in the Making

Recent developments in the evaluation of two-loop pseudo-observables and observables are briefly reviewed.
NURSE-PHYSICIAN COLLABORATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ATTITUDES OF NURSES AND PHYSICIANS AT MANSOURA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Collaboration and team work between physicians and nurses is crucial for patient care and morale. Each team member has his own perspective regarding assessment and plan of care for a patient and only through collaboration and exchange of information can appropriate treatment plans be made. The study aims to study attitudes of nurses and physicians regarding nurse-physician collaboration in general medical and surgical units at Mansoura University Hospital and to measure differences in attitudes of nurses and physicians regarding nurse – physician collaboration. All nurses and physicians (n=135) available at time of data collection, who were working in medical and surgical units. Data were collected by using Jefferson scale of attitudes toward nurse-physician collaboration. The Jefferson scale has four subscales that measure:(a) shared education and teamwork (7 items with responses from 1-4, with a subscale score range of 7-28) ;(b) caring versus curing (3 items with a subscale score range of 3-12) ;(c) autonomy (3 items with a subscale score range of 3-12) and physician dominance (2 items, with a subscale score range of 2-8). Results revealed that the total scores indicated that nurses have more positive attitudes toward nursephysician collaboration than physicians. [Karima A. EL Sayed and Wafaa F. Sleem. Nurse – physician collaboration: A comparative study of the attitudes of nurses and physicians at Mansoura University Hospital. Life Science Journal, 2011; 8(2):140-146] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com.