Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SOCIAL NETWORKS IN LOGISTICS SYSTEM DECISION-MAKING

Abstract: Social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have been becoming very popular during the last few years. Facebook is currently the world’s most populous “country” with more than 1.3 billion “inhabitants”. According to the statistical data, the users share their impressions daily in the form of statuses about upcoming events and present state of affairs, their problems, plans, novel experiences about the products, political stances, and alike. Having the possibility to extract the information of interest from a huge amount of hand-created data about the users’ personal affinities and their usage within logistics system, it is facilitated to meet the customers’ needs. In this paper we present a procedure for finding and analyzing valuable information related to the specific products, and its effect on logistics system decision-making. Filtering is being done by already developed software for neurolinguistics social network analysis “Symbols”. This software offers graphical representation of statistical data for selected brands based on the social network statuses, its implications, as well as target group demographic and territorial structure. The results obtained point out possible increasing/decreasing demands among separate user groups, therefore giving a factual basis for logistics changes.
Validation of a novel biomarker for acute axonal injury in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

In multiple sclerosis, inflammatory axonal injury is a key pathological mechanism responsible for the development of progressive neurological dysfunction. The injured axon represents a therapeutic target in this disease; however, therapeutic trials of neuroprotective candidates will initially require preclinical testing in an animal model of inflammatory axonal injury and subsequently the development of a reliable paraclinical measure of axonal degeneration in humans. In the present study, we demonstrate the validity of serum phosphorylated neurofilament H (pNF‐H) as a marker of axonal injury in murine experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). At the time of maximum disease severity (EAE day 22), the average serum pNF‐H level reached 5.7 ng/ml, correlating significantly with the EAE paraplegia score (r = 0.75, P < 0.001). On average, 40% of axons in the spinal cord were lost in EAE, and serum pNF‐H levels were highly correlated with axon loss (r = 0.8, P < 0.001). Axonal injury was a severe and acute event, insofar as serum pNF‐H levels were not significantly elevated at early (EAE day 12) or late (EAE days 35 and 50) disease time points. Our results demonstrate that acute inflammatory axonal injury is a pathological feature of murine MOG35–55 EAE, indicating that this model may mirror the acute pathological events in active multiple sclerosis lesions. Furthermore, we have validated the serum pNF‐H assay as an unbiased measurement of axonal injury in EAE, facilitating rapid screening of potential neuroprotective therapies in this model. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Social patterns of food sharing in monogamous owl monkeys

Captive owl monkeys (Aotus nancymaae, A. azarai) share food frequently within both families and pairs. In this study food sharing was observed in seven mated pairs and four families (i.e., four mated pairs and their offspring). Patterns of food sharing were examined with respect to age class, sex, and the presence or absence of dependent offspring. Within families, most food transfers were from adult males to developing offspring. Adult males and females transferred food to their mates in caged pairs as well as in family units. Food interactions between adults are as likely to result in food transfers as those between adults and offspring. This pattern of food sharing between mates in a monogamous species may serve both nutritional and social functions that differ from those in polygamous species. Am. J. Primatol. 68:1–12, 2006. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Hemodynamic effects of atrial natriuretic peptide in ischemia-repertusion injury that occurs after exercise.

BACKGROUND/AIM Atrial natriureticpeptide (ANP) is known as a protective agent against ischemia-reperfusion injuryfor cardiomyocytes. We compared the hemodynamic effects of ANP and isatin, which is known as an ANP receptor blocker, in ischemia followed by reperfusion in exercised rat hearts with nonexercised ones. MATERIALS AND METHODS Isolated hearts were perfused in 4 exercised (E) groups after a running protocol for 5 days and 4 nonexercised (NE) groups. In the first protocol, ANP was added to the perfusion solution before ischemia in an E and NE group. In the second protocol, different doses of isatin (0.1, 10, 100 µM/L) were added to the perfusion solution before ANP in 3 E and 3 NE groups. Left ventricular developed pressure (LVDP) and maximum and minimum rates of change in left ventricular pressure (dP/dtmax and dP/dtmin) were recorded. RESULTS Higher LVDP and dP/dtmin values were observed in the E group than the NE group following addition of ANP before ischemia. Values of dP/dtmax were higher in the E group at the first minute of reperfusion period. Hemodynamic difference was not observed between groups given the same amount of isatin before ANP. CONCLUSION This study indicated that higher ANP concentrations before ischemia were more effective on the left ventricle contractility and relaxation functions in the hearts that were exposed to exercise.
A Pattern Based Approach to Web Design Formalization

World Wide Web is a global information network that aects many elds of our lives. The distributed, interlinked, visual and heterogeneous structure of the web makes it an irregular development environment. In this paper we propose a pattern based approach for increasing the eectiveness of development for the Web environment. This approach is based on the representation of the core meaning of each design as a set of patterns and requires the formulation of abstract solutions in a mathematical precision. This way not only reusable design experience will be codied unambiguously, but a smooth transition between the design and implementation phases will be realized.
The SPI-1-like Type III secretion system: more roles than you think

The type III secretion system (T3SS) is a protein delivery system which is involved in a wide spectrum of interactions, from mutualism to pathogenesis, between Gram negative bacteria and various eukaryotes, including plants, fungi, protozoa and mammals. Various phylogenetic families of the T3SS have been described, including the Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 1 family (SPI-1). The SPI-1 T3SS was initially associated with the virulence of enteric pathogens, but is actually found in a diverse array of bacterial species, where it can play roles in processes as different as symbiotic interactions with insects and colonization of plants. We review the multiple roles of the SPI-1 T3SS and discuss both how these discoveries are changing our perception of the SPI-1 family and what impacts this has on our understanding of the specialization of the T3SS in general.
Effect of prior eccentric contractions on lactate/H+ transport in rat skeletal muscle.

The effect of prior eccentric contractions on skeletal muscle lactate/H+transport was investigated in rats. Lactate transport was measured in sarcolemmal giant vesicles obtained from soleus and red (RG) and white gastrocnemii (WG) muscles 2 days after intense eccentric contractions (ECC) and from the corresponding contralateral control (CON) muscles. The physiochemical buffer capacity was determined in the three muscle types from both ECC and CON legs. Furthermore, the effect of prior eccentric contractions on release and muscle content of lactate and H+ during and after supramaximal stimulation was examined using the perfused rat hindlimb preparation. The lactate transport rate was lower ( P < 0.05) in vesicles obtained from ECC-WG (29%) and ECC-RG (13%) than in vesicles from the CON muscles. The physiochemical buffer capacity was reduced ( P < 0.05) in ECC-WG (13%) and ECC-RG (9%) compared with the corresponding CON muscles. There were only marginal effects on the soleus muscle. Muscle lactate concentrations and release of lactate during recovery from intense isometric contractions were lower ( P< 0.05) in ECC than in CON hindlimbs, indicating decreased anaerobic glycogenolysis. In conclusion, the sarcolemmal lactate/H+ transport capacity and the physiochemical buffer capacity were reduced in prior eccentrically stimulated WG and RG in rats, suggesting that muscle pH regulation may be impaired after unaccustomed eccentric exercise. In addition, the data indicate that the glycogenolytic potential is decreased in muscles exposed to prior eccentric contractions.
Arthroscopic Single-Row Versus Double-Row Suture Bridge Technique for Rotator Cuff Tears in Patients Younger Than 55 Years: A Prospective Comparative Study

Background: When arthroscopic rotator cuff repair is performed on a young patient, long-lasting structural and functional tendon integrity is desired. A fixation technique that potentially provides superior tendon healing should be considered for the younger population to achieve long-term clinical success. Hypothesis/Purpose: The purpose was to compare the radiological and clinical midterm results between single-row and double-row (ie, suture bridge) fixation techniques for arthroscopic rotator cuff repair in patients younger than 55 years. We hypothesized that a double-row technique would lead to improved tendon healing, resulting in superior mid- to long-term clinical outcomes. Study Design: Cohort study; Level of evidence, 2. Methods: A consecutive series of 66 patients younger than 55 years with a medium to large full-thickness tear of supraspinatus and infraspinatus tendons who underwent arthroscopic single-row or double-row (ie, suture bridge) repair were enrolled and prospectively observed. Thirty-four and 32 patients were assigned to single-row and double-row groups, respectively. Postoperatively, tendon integrity was assessed by MRI following Sugaya’s classification at a minimum of 12 months, and clinical outcomes were assessed with the Constant score and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) score at a minimum of 2 years. Results: Mean follow-up time was 46 months (range, 28-50 months). A higher tendon healing rate was obtained in the double-row group compared with the single-row group (84% and 61%, respectively [P < .05]). Although no difference in outcome scores was observed between the 2 techniques, patients with healed tendon demonstrated superior clinical outcomes compared with patients who had retorn tendon (UCLA score, 34.2 and 27.6, respectively [P < .05]; Constant score, 94 and 76, respectively [P < .05]). Conclusion: The double-row repair technique potentially provides superior tendon healing compared with the single-row technique. Double-row repair should be considered for patients younger than 55 years with medium to large rotator cuff tears.
Internet of Things (IoT)

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the latest Internet evolution that incorporates a diverse range of things such as sensors, actuators, and services deployed by different organizations and individuals to support a variety of applications. The information captured by IoT present an unprecedented opportunity to solve large-scale problems in those application domains to deliver services; example applications include precision agriculture, environment monitoring, smart health, smart manufacturing, and smart cities. Like all other Internet based services in the past, IoT-based services are also being developed and deployed without security consideration. By nature, IoT devices and services are vulnerable to malicious cyber threats as they cannot be given the same protection that is received by enterprise services within an enterprise perimeter. While IoT services will play an important role in our daily life resulting in improved productivity and quality of life, the trend has also “encouraged” cyber-exploitation and evolution and diversification of malicious cyber threats. Hence, there is a need for coordinated efforts from the research community to address resulting concerns, such as those presented in this special section. Several potential research topics are also identified in this special section.
Higher Thrombelastograph platelet reactivity in cardiac surgery patients than in blood donors

Objectives. Platelet reactivity, evaluated by Thrombelastograph® (TEG) predicts the recurrence of ischemic events in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The aim of this study was to investigate the platelet hyperreactivity and the variability in platelet reactivity due to ADP in cardiac surgery patients and donors. Methods. Preoperative blood samples from 22 patients undergoing CABG surgery and 43 blood donors were analysed by the TEG® Platelet Mapping™ assay. Maximal platelet reactivity and platelet reactivity response to ADP stimulation (MAADP) were evaluated. Results. Maximal platelet reactivity (MAThrombin) and MAADP was higher in the CABG patients than in the blood donors, p=0.001 for MAThrombin and p<0.0001 for MAADP. Six patients (27.2%) had a MAThrombin above the normal reference range compared to only one (2.3%) of the healthy donors (p=0.005). Conclusions. The identification of a higher subpopulation of CABG patients compared to donors presenting with platelet reactivity above the normal range together with increased platelet responsiveness to ADP may reflect the higher risk for ischemic events in this cohort.
Principles of Digital Dynamic-Range Compression

This article provides an overview of dynamic-range compression in digital hearing aids. Digital technology is becoming increasingly common in hearing aids, particularly because of the processing flexibility it offers and the opportunity to create more-effective devices. The focus of the paper is on the algorithms used to build digital compression systems. Of the various approaches that can be used to design a digital hearing aid, this paper considers broadband compression, multi-channel filter banks, a frequency-domain compressor using the FFT, the side-branch design that separates the filtering operation from the frequency analysis, and the frequency-warped version of the side-branch approach that modifies the analysis frequency spacing to more closely match auditory perception. Examples of the compressor frequency resolution, group delay, and compression behavior are provided for the different design approaches.
On time reversal of piecewise deterministic Markov processes

We study the time reversal of a general Piecewise Deterministic Markov Process (PDMP). The time reversed process is defined as $X_{(T-t)-}$, where $T$ is some given time and $X_t$ is a stationary PDMP. We obtain the parameters of the reversed process, like the jump intensity and the jump measure.
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Pulmonary Hypertension

&NA; Cardiopulmonary exercise testing allows the assessment of the integrative cardiopulmonary response to exercise and is a useful tool to assess the underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms leading to exercise intolerance. Patients with pulmonary hypertension often face a considerable delay in diagnosis due to the rarity of the disease and nonspecific symptoms of dyspnea, fatigue, and exercise limitation. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing may be suggestive of pulmonary hypertension in patients with evidence of both circulatory impairment and ventilatory inefficiency. Other factors, such as mechanical ventilatory constraints from dynamic hyperinflation and peripheral muscle dysfunction, contribute to the profound dyspnea during exercise experienced by many patients with pulmonary hypertension. In patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension or chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, several exercise variables, such as low peak Symbolo2, high Vd/Vt, and high Symbole/Symbolco2, have proven to be useful in establishing the severity of functional impairment, predicting prognosis, and assessing the efficacy of interventions. Symbol. No caption available.
Effects of psychotic state and task demand on prefrontal function in schizophrenia: an fMRI study of overt verbal fluency.

OBJECTIVE Impaired prefrontal cortical function is regarded as a central feature of schizophrenia. Although many neuroimaging studies have found evidence of abnormal prefrontal activation when patients with schizophrenia perform cognitive tasks, the extent to which this abnormality depends on the presence of active psychotic symptoms and on the demands of the task is unclear. The authors tested the hypothesis that prefrontal functional abnormalities in schizophrenia would be more evident in patients with active psychosis than in patients who were in remission and would become more apparent in the face of increasing task demands. METHOD The authors used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine prefrontal cortical activity during a paced letter verbal fluency task in three groups of subjects: acutely psychotic patients with schizophrenia, schizophrenia patients in remission, and healthy volunteers. Online subject performance was measured by utilizing a clustered fMRI acquisition sequence that allowed overt verbal responses to be made in the relative absence of scanner noise. RESULTS Patients with schizophrenia showed less activation than the healthy comparison subjects in the anterior cingulate and the inferior frontal and right middle frontal cortices, independent of psychotic state and task demand. Acutely psychotic patients showed less activation than the healthy comparison subjects, but these differences were less marked than the differences between the patients in remission and the healthy comparison subjects. Acutely psychotic patients had less activation than the comparison subjects in the anterior cingulate but no significant difference in lateral prefrontal activation. Increasing task demand led to greater anterior cingulate and middle frontal activation in patients with active psychosis than in patients in remission. CONCLUSIONS Schizophrenia is associated with impaired prefrontal function, but its manifestation depends on the severity of psychotic symptoms and the level of task difficulty.
Occupational Bladder Cancer in a 4,4′-Methylenebis(2-chloroaniline) (MBOCA)-Exposed Worker

A 52-year-old male chemical worker was admitted to the hospital with a history of paroxysmal microscopic hematuria for about 2 years and nocturia with gross hematuria about five times per night for 2 months. He was a nonsmoker and denied a history of any other bladder carcinogen exposure except for occasional pesticide application during agricultural work. Intravenous urogram imaging showed a mass occupying half of the bladder capacity. Cystoscopy revealed a mass over the left dome of the bladder. Cystoscopic biopsy revealed a grade 3 invasive transitional cell carcinoma with marked necrosis. From 1987 until hospital admission in 2001, the patient had worked in a company that produced the 4,4′-methylenebis(2-chloroaniline) (MBOCA) curing agent. He did not wear any personal protective equipment during work. Ambient air MBOCA levels in the purification process area (0.23–0.41 mg/m3) exceeded the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s permissible exposure level. Urinary MBOCA levels (267.9–15701.1 μg/g creatinine) far exceeded the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s reference value of 100 μg/L. This patient worked in the purification process with occupational exposure to MBOCA for 14 years. According to the environmental and biologic monitoring data and latency period, and excluding other potential bladder carcinogen exposure, this worker was diagnosed as having occupational bladder cancer due to high exposure to MBOCA through inhalation or dermal absorption in the purification area. This case finding supports that MBOCA is a potential human carcinogen. Safe use of skin-protective equipment and respirators is required to prevent workers from MBOCA exposure.
The Coevolution of Ova Defensiveness with Sperm Competitiveness in House Mice

Theoretical models have suggested that sperm competition can lead to increased ova resistance to fertilization. While there is some comparative evidence that this might be true, there is no experimental evidence to show that ova defensiveness evolves in response to sperm competition. We performed a series of in vitro fertilization assays to gauge the fertilizability of ova produced by female house mice from experimental populations that evolved either with or without sperm competition. Our analysis revealed that after 24 generations of experimental evolution, females that evolved under a polygamous regime produced more defensive ova than females that evolved under a monogamous regime. We therefore provide the first direct line of evidence that sperm competition can generate sexual conflict at the gametic level and lead to asymmetries in fertilization rates among populations. Our results show that females respond to sperm competition via fertilization barriers that have the potential to mediate sperm entry.
3D sparse quantization for feature learning in action recognition

Feature learning plays a crucial role in the successful human action recognition. There has been a number of approaches extracting action features from depth information and 3D skeletal data. However, either the skeleton information or the depth map is not accurate for feature learning unless complex descriptors are carefully designed and embedded. In this paper, we first propose a data sparsification technique to sparsify the cuboids in the depth video clip. Then, a novel formulation of the cuboid descriptor is proposed based on the 3D Sparse Quantization (3DSQ). Furthermore, we build a Spatial-Temporal Pyramid (STP) structure with max pooling to hierarchically represent the action sample in depth domain. We demonstrate our feature learning technique with action recognition tasks using the public MSRAction3D and MARDaily-Action3D datasets. Experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art feature learning approaches and significantly improves the action recognition accuracy.
Consistent segregated staggered schemes with explicit steps for the isentropic and full Euler equations

In this paper, we build and analyze the stability and consistency of decoupled schemes, involving only explicit steps, for the isentropic Euler equations and for the full Euler equations. These schemes are based on staggered space discretizations, with an upwinding performed with respect to the material velocity only. The pressure gradient is defined as the transpose of the natural velocity divergence, and is thus centered. The velocity convection term is built in such a way that the solutions satisfy a discrete kinetic energy balance, with a remainder term at the left-hand side which is shown to be non-negative under a CFL condition. In the case of the full Euler equations, we solve the internal energy balance, to avoid the space discretization of the total energy, whose expression involves cell-centered and face-centered variables. However, since the residual terms in the kinetic energy balance (probably) do not tend to zero with the time and space steps when computing shock solutions, we compensate them by corrective terms in the internal energy equation, to make the scheme consistent with the conservative form of the continuous problem. We then show, in one space dimension, that, if the scheme converges, the limit is indeed an entropy weak solution of the system. In any case, the discretization preserves by construction the convex of admissible states (positivity of the density and, for Euler equations, of the internal energy), under a CFL condition. Finally, we present numerical results which confort this theory.