LLukas22/scidocs huggingface dataset:
Postpartum labial adhesions.

BACKGROUND
Labial adhesions are common in young girls and menopausal women. Topical estrogen is the first line of therapy for these adhesions. Based on a systematic literature review, postpartum labial adhesions are uncommon in clinical practice. They are not painful but can prevent patients from resuming normal sexual activity. Topical estrogen therapy is an ineffective treatment option for adhesions in this setting. Surgical division under local anesthesia is usually effective.


CASE
A 29-year-old women presented at 6 weeks after an uncomplicated vacuum-assisted delivery for a routine postpartum evaluation. Examination revealed a 5-mm labial adhesion connecting her left and right labia minora. Division under local anesthetic resulted in a complete recovery within 3 days.


CONCLUSION
Postpartum labial adhesions can usually be surgically divided under local anesthetic with complete and rapid recovery.
Short Term Unit-Commitment Using Genetic Algorithms

Unit commitment is a complex decision-making process because of multiple constraints which must not be violated while nding the optimal or a near-optimal commitment schedule. This paper discusses the application of genetic algorithms for determining short term commitment order of thermal units in power generation. The objective of the optimal commitment is to determine the on/oo states of the units in the system to meet the load demand and spinning reserve requirement at each time period such that the overall cost of generation is minimum, while satisfying various operational constraints. The paper examines the feasibility of using genetic algorithms, and reports preliminary results in determining a near-optimal commitment order of thermal units in a studied power system.
Model of hospital-supported discharge after stroke.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Readmission rate within 6 months after a stroke is 40% to 50%. The purpose of the project was to evaluate whether an interdisciplinary stroke team could reduce length of hospital stay, readmission rate, increase patient satisfaction and reduce dependency of help.


METHODS
One hundred and ninety-eight patients with acute stroke were randomized into 103 patients whose discharge was supported by an interdisciplinary stroke team and 95 control patients who received standard aftercare. Baseline characteristics were comparable in the 2 groups. The patients were evaluated after 6 and 12 months regarding functional status and need for help.


RESULTS
Length of hospital admission was insignificantly shorter in the intervention compared with the control group (35.2 versus 39.8 days). There was no significant difference in readmission, GP-visits, and primary health care services. Furthermore, there was no significant difference in functional scores or patient satisfaction.


CONCLUSIONS
In this setting we could not show benefit of an interdisciplinary stroke team supporting patients at discharge perhaps because standard aftercare was very efficient already.
Effects of a combined aerobic and resistance exercise program in breast cancer survivors: a randomized controlled trial

Few randomized controlled trials have examined the effects of combined aerobic and resistance training in breast cancer survivors soon after completing adjuvant therapy. Breast cancer survivors (N = 58) within 2 years of completing adjuvant therapy were randomly assigned to an immediate exercise group (IEG; n = 29) or a delayed exercise group (DEG; n = 29). The IEG completed 12 weeks of supervised aerobic and resistance exercise, three times per week. The DEG completed the program during the next 12 weeks. Participants completed patient-rated outcomes at baseline, 6, 12, 18 and 24 weeks. The primary endpoint was overall quality of life (QoL) measured by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast scale. Secondary endpoints were fatigue, social physique anxiety, and physical fitness. Follow-up data was obtained on 97% of participants and exercise adherence was 61.3%. Repeated measures analyses of variance revealed a significant group by time interaction for overall QoL (P < 0.001). Specifically, QoL increased in the IEG from baseline to 12 weeks by 20.8 points compared to a decrease in the DEG of 5.3 points (mean group difference = 26.1; 95% CI = 18.3–32.7; P < 0.001). From 12 to 24 weeks, QoL increased in the DEG by 29.5 points compared to an increase of 6.5 points in the IEG (mean group difference = 23.0; 95% CI = 16.3–29.1; P < 0.001). Similar results were obtained for the secondary endpoints. Combined aerobic and resistance exercise soon after the completion of breast cancer therapy produces large and rapid improvements in health-related outcomes.
The Jack Hills greenstone belt, Western Australia: Part 1: Structural and tectonic evolution over >1.5 Ga

Abstract The Jack Hills greenstone belt is situated within the Narryer Terrane, Western Australia, and is an approximately 70 km long greenstone and metasedimentary belt surrounded by granitic gneisses and various granitic rocks. Detailed fieldwork, supported by previous geochronological data shows that the Jack Hills greenstone belt has undergone a long-lived, complex deformation history, spanning at least 1.5 billion years. This includes, from oldest to youngest: (1) an early stage of recumbent and chevron folding probably associated with thrust faulting; (2) east-trending, major transpressional shearing including jog formation; (3) followed by kink and conjugate-style folding, brittle faulting, and fault reactivation. Transpressional shearing is interpreted to have taken place during the Paleoproterozoic Capricorn Orogeny. Strong overprinting and reworking with coaxial geometry gives the belt an apparent simplistic structural style that in places appears to be dominated by a single foliation. Pronounced static recrystallisation and fluid flow also mask structural complexity. Satellite and aeromagnetic imagery illustrate the large-scale geometry and show that the belt has a pronounced sigmoidal curvature, suggestive of dextral kinematics associated with transpression along major, east-trending structures. The majority of kinematic indicators in the field support this interpretation. The various structures are not developed uniformly across all lithological units within and outside the belt. Structural analysis, and an increased understanding of the lithological relationships between the various units, have allowed distinctions to be made between successive tectonic events. This has provided key criteria towards understanding the depositional timing and character of the units, and understanding and relating formation of structural elements such as mineral lineations and dominant foliations to specific events in time and space. On a regional scale, the Jack Hills greenstone belt shares some structural similarities with the nearby Errabiddy Shear Zone, which marks the northern margin of the Yilgarn Craton. This, and relationships in the Jack Hills greenstone belt shows that the Paleoproterozoic Capricorn Orogeny has affected a greater portion of the Yilgarn Craton than previously thought. Unravelling these complex structural relationships is a fundamental step towards understanding granite-greenstone formation, and the early evolution of one of Earth's oldest crustal fragments.
A Fully Attention-Based Information Retriever

©2018 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2018.8489656 Abstract—Recurrent neural networks are now the state-ofthe-art in natural language processing because they can build rich contextual representations and process texts of arbitrary length. However, recent developments on attention mechanisms have equipped feedforward networks with similar capabilities, hence enabling faster computations due to the increase in the number of operations that can be parallelized. We explore this new type of architecture in the domain of question-answering and propose a novel approach that we call Fully Attention Based Information Retriever (FABIR). We show that FABIR achieves competitive results in the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD) while having fewer parameters and being faster at both learning and inference than rival methods.
Precise thermodynamic properties for natural waters

Dissolved salts affect the thermodynamic properties of lake waters. Equations are given to calculate the following properties over the range of O-O.6 salinity, O”-30°C and O-180 bars: density, thermal expansibility, temperature of maximum density, maximum density and minimum specific volume, isothermal compressibility, specific heat at constant pressure, specific heat at constant volume, sound speed, adiabatic compressibility, freezing point, adiabatic temperature gradient, and static stability. Chen and Miller0 (1977a, b) pointed out the importance of the effect of dissolved salts on the PVT properties of lake waters and presented an equation of state for freshwater which is valid over the range appropriate to most freshwater lakes: O-O.6 salinity, O*3O”C, and O-l 80 bars. The equation of state (Chen and Miller
Physically-based modeling techniques for interactive digital painting

WILLIAM VALENTINE BAXTER III: Physically-Based Modeling Techniques for Interactive Digital Painting (Under the direction of Ming C. Lin) In this dissertation I present a novel, physically-based approach to digital painting. With the interactive simulation techniques I present, digital painters can work with digital brushes and paints whose behavior is similar to real ones. Using this physicallybased approach, a digital painting system can provide artists with a versatile and expressive creative tool, while at the same time providing a more natural style of interaction enabled by the emulation of real-world implements. I introduce several specific modeling techniques for digital painting. First, I present a physically-based, 3D, deformable, virtual brush model based on non-linear quasi-static constrained energy minimization. The brush dynamics are computed using a skeletal physical model, which then determines the motion of a more complex geometric model. I also present three different models for capturing the dynamic behavior of viscous paint media, each offering a different trade-off between speed and fidelity—from 2D heuristics, to 3D partial differential equations. Accurate modeling of the optical behavior of paint mixtures and glazes is also important, and for this I present a real-time, physicallybased rendering technique, based on the Kubelka-Munk equations and an eight-sample color space. Finally, I present techniques for modeling the haptic response of brushes in an artist’s hand, and demonstrate that all these techniques can be combined to provide the digital painter with an interactive, virtual painting system with a working style similar to real-world painting.
Comparative Study of Emotional Maturity and Self Concept among Doctors and Managers

The present study evaluates the emotional maturity and self concept among Doctors and managers. The sample consisted of 100 professionals (50 Doctors and 50 Managers) from Jalgaon and Nashik cities of North Maharashtra. Self-concept rating scale, developed by Dr. Muktarani Rastogiand Emotional Maturity Scale by Singh and Bhargava Scales were used to collect the data. The data were analyzed by „t‟ test. The results discovered that the Doctors and Managers have no significantly difference on emotional maturity. It was also noticed that Doctors and Managers have no significantly difference on self concept.
Knowledge Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications

Product or company names used in this set are for identification purposes only. Inclusion of the names of the products or companies does not indicate a claim of ownership by IGI Global of the trademark or registered trademark. IntroductIon Resource retrieval addresses the problem of finding best matches to a request among available resources, with both the request and the resources described with respect to a shared interpretation of the knowledge domain the resource belongs to. The problem of resource matching and retrieval arises in several scenarios, among them, personnel recruitment and job assignment, dating agencies, but also generic electronic marketplaces, Web services discovery and composition, resource matching in the Grid. All these scenarios share a common purpose: given a request, find among available descriptions those best fulfilling it, or at " worse, " when nothing better exists, those that fulfill at least some of the requirements. Exact, or full, matches are usually rare and the true matchmaking process is aimed at providing one or more " promising " matches to be explored. Non-exact matches should take into account both missing information—details that could be positively assessed in a second phase—and conflicting information—details that could leverage negotiation if the proposed match is worth enough pursuing. Because of its intangibility, it is now a widely shared opinion that knowledge has to be modeled to make unambiguous the interpretation of any information domain. This disambiguation process is usually obtained through an ontology, that is, a specification of a representational vocabulary for a shared domain of discourse—definitions of classes, relations, functions, and other objects (Gruber, 1993). Once a knowledge domain has been mod-eled, and several different resources have been described using such a model, issues that need to be faced for efficient knowledge management are: What, if any, kind of retrieval is possible on these resources? How could we benefit both of the model and formalisms used to build the model, in order to perform a " smart " search of described resources matching a request? The above questions focus on important aspects of knowledge-based retrieval: • formalisms used to model a knowledge domain • retrieval services that fully use the expres-siveness of the formalism to infer new knowledge from the model in order to perform a knowledge-based search Knowledge domain is modeled with a formalism , whose expressiveness is used in the retrieval process to infer not elicited information from the model. …
An ecological quantification of the relationships between water, sanitation and infant, child, and maternal mortality

BACKGROUND
Water and sanitation access are known to be related to newborn, child, and maternal health. Our study attempts to quantify these relationships globally using country-level data: How much does improving access to water and sanitation influence infant, child, and maternal mortality?


METHODS
Data for 193 countries were abstracted from global databases (World Bank, WHO, and UNICEF). Linear regression was used for the outcomes of under-five mortality rate and infant mortality rate (IMR). These results are presented as events per 1000 live births. Ordinal logistic regression was used to compute odds ratios for the outcome of maternal mortality ratio (MMR).


RESULTS
Under-five mortality rate decreased by 1.17 (95%CI 1.08-1.26) deaths per 1000, p < 0.001, for every quartile increase in population water access after adjustments for confounders. There was a similar relationship between quartile increase of sanitation access and under-five mortality rate, with a decrease of 1.66 (95%CI 1.11-1.32) deaths per 1000, p < 0.001. Improved water access was also related to IMR, with the IMR decreasing by 1.14 (95%CI 1.05-1.23) deaths per 1000, p < 0.001, with increasing quartile of access to improved water source. The significance of this relationship was retained with quartile improvement in sanitation access, where the decrease in IMR was 1.66 (95%CI 1.11-1.32) deaths per 1000, p < 0.001. The estimated odds ratio that increased quartile of water access was significantly associated with increased quartile of MMR was 0.58 (95%CI 0.39-0.86), p = 0.008. The corresponding odds ratio for sanitation was 0.52 (95%CI 0.32-0.85), p = 0.009, both suggesting that better water and sanitation were associated with decreased MMR.


CONCLUSIONS
Our analyses suggest that access to water and sanitation independently contribute to child and maternal mortality outcomes. If the world is to seriously address the Millennium Development Goals of reducing child and maternal mortality, then improved water and sanitation accesses are key strategies.
Unavoidable Minors of Large 3-Connected Matroids

This paper proves that, for every integer n exceeding two, there is a number N(n) such that every 3-connected matroid with at least N(n) elements has a minor that is isomorphic to one of the following matroids: an (n+2)-point line or its dual, the cycle or cocycle matroid of K3, n , the cycle matroid of a wheel with n spokes, a whirl of rank n, or an n-spike. A matroid is of the last type if it has rank n and consists of n three-point lines through a common point such that, for all k in [1, 2, ..., n&1], the union of every set of k of these lines has rank k+1. 1997
Safety and efficacy of viramidine versus ribavirin in ViSER2: randomized, double-blind study in therapy-naive hepatitis C patients.

BACKGROUND & AIMS
Pegylated interferon (peg-IFN) plus ribavirin (standard of care for chronic hepatitis C virus [HCV]), can cause dose-limiting anemia in up to 22% of patients. Viramidine is associated with a lower incidence of anemia because of its liver-targeting properties.


METHODS
The efficacy and safety of viramidine versus ribavirin plus peg-IFN alfa-2a was assessed in patients with HCV. Randomized patients received peg-IFN alfa-2a 180 mcg with viramidine 600 mg twice daily or weight-based doses of ribavirin 1000 or 1200 mg/day. Treatment duration was based on HCV ribonucleic acid (RNA) genotype: genotype 2/3 and non-2/3 patients were treated for 24 and 48 weeks, respectively. The primary efficacy end point was the non-inferiority of viramidine versus ribavirin (proportion of patients achieving sustained virologic response at week 24). The primary safety end point was the proportion of patients experiencing a hemoglobin event.


RESULTS
In total, 962 patients received peg-IFN alfa-2a with viramidine (n=644) or ribavirin (n=318). Sustained virologic response was achieved in 40% of viramidine-treated patients and 55% of ribavirin-treated patients (difference of proportions 0.150 [95% CI, 0.09, 0.21]). Improved efficacy was seen with higher viramidine exposure on a mg/kg basis. Viramidine was significantly superior to ribavirin in hemoglobin event rates (54% vs. 80%; p<0.001). Adverse event rates were similar between groups except for diarrhea (viramidine 29.5%; ribavirin 15.7%; p<0.0001).


CONCLUSIONS
Viramidine 600 mg BID did not meet the primary efficacy non-inferiority end point but met the safety end point. Determination of a viramidine dosage that would yield superior efficacy over ribavirin is needed.
Drug effects and initial severity of symptomatology

A recurring question appearing in clinical psychopharmacological research concerns the nature of the relationship between initial severity of symptomatology and the magnitude of a drug effect. Data are presented to show that, with meprobamate and placebo in neurotic outpatients, the magnitude of the pharmacological effect remains constant across all levels of initial severity.
Data Embedding Based on Better Use of Bits in Image Pixels

In this study, a novel approach of image embedding is introduced. The proposed method consists of three main steps. First, the edge of the image is detected using Sobel mask filters. Second, the least significant bit LSB of each pixel is used. Finally, a gray level connectivity is applied using a fuzzy approach and the ASCII code is used for information hiding. The prior bit of the LSB represents the edged image after gray level connectivity, and the remaining six bits represent the original image with very little difference in contrast. The proposed method embeds three images in one image and includes, as a special case of data embedding, information hiding, identifying and authenticating text embedded within the digital images. Image embedding method is considered to be one of the good compression methods, in terms of reserving memory space. Moreover, information hiding within digital image can be used for security information transfer. The creation and extraction of three embedded images, and hiding text information is discussed and illustrated, in the following sections. Keywords—Image embedding, Edge detection, gray level connectivity, information hiding, digital image compression.
Leptospirosis in animals and human contacts in Egypt: broad range surveillance.

INTRODUCTION
Leptospirosis is a re-emerging zoonotic disease of humans and animals worldwide. The disease is caused by pathogenic species of the genus Leptospira. These organisms are maintained in nature via chronic renal infection of carrier animals, which excrete the organisms in their urine. Humans become infected through direct or indirect exposure to infected animals and their urine or through contact with contaminated water and soil. This study was conducted to investigate Leptospira infections as a re-emerging zoonosis that has been neglected in Egypt.


METHODS
Samples from 1,250 animals (270 rats, 168 dogs, 625 cows, 26 buffaloes, 99 sheep, 14 horses, 26 donkeys and 22 camels), 175 human contacts and 45 water sources were collected from different governorates in Egypt. The samples were collected from different body sites and prepared for culture, PCR and the microscopic agglutination test (MAT).


RESULTS
The isolation rates of Leptospira serovars were 6.9%, 11.3% and 1.1% for rats, dogs and cows, respectively, whereas the PCR results revealed respective detection rates of 24%, 11.3% and 1.1% for rats, dogs and cows. Neither the other examined animal species nor humans yielded positive results via these two techniques. Only six Leptospira serovars (Icterohaemorrhagiae, Pomona, Canicola, Grippotyphosa, Celledoni and Pyrogenes) could be isolated from rats, dogs and cows. Moreover, the seroprevalence of leptospiral antibodies among the examined humans determined using MAT was 49.7%.


CONCLUSIONS
The obtained results revealed that rats, dogs and cows were the most important animal reservoirs for leptospirosis in Egypt, and the high seroprevalence among human contacts highlights the public health implications of this neglected zoonosis.
Mho Relay for Protection of Series Compensated Transmission Lines

-This paper presents the design of a Mho relay model for the protection of two parallel 500 kV, 280 km long transmission lines. The transmission lines are 40% compensated with fixed series capacitors, installed at the remote end of the lines. The Mho relay model is tested with this system using the EMTP-RV simulation package. The residual current compensation algorithm is used to compensate for the error in the impedance measurement and detect fault location under earth fault conditions. The algorithm detects faults by measuring and comparing phase angles between voltage and current signals through a phase comparator, using four specially shaped characteristics (three forward Zones and one reverse Zone) and applying appropriate logic functions. This paper presents the simulation results for improving the measuring accuracy of distance protection under various fault types and fault locations.
A UNIFIED LANGUAGE FOR MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS

To cope with the explosion of information in mathematics and physics, we need a unified mathematical language to integrate ideas and results from diverse fields. Clifford Algebra provides the key to a unifled Geometric Calculus for expressing, developing, integrating and applying the large body of geometrical ideas running through mathematics and physics.