Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Methodological disruptions: interviewing domestically violent men across a ‘gender divide’

This article examines the negotiations of power in cross-gender interviews with men on the topic of their violence against women partners. The article locates itself within a body of feminist and pro-feminist work on men's accounts of their own violence toward women, making the argument that when this ‘accounting’ is to be accomplished in an interview, with a woman, the interview dynamics are worthy of close attention. I argue that closer attention to the dynamics of the interview involves seeing interviews as social and dialogical encounters in which the dialogue is shaped by the active involvement of researcher and participants. The analysis draws on unstructured interviews conducted with 15 men who had perpetrated violence against an intimate woman partner and shows how men assert masculine power in the interviews through pursuing their own agendas in order to present themselves as either non-violent or justifiably provoked to violence. I also reflect on how these performances of masculinity open up a discursive space for my own performance of femininity and the challenges this holds for me as a feminist researcher researching men's violence against women. The article ends by exploring some further implications for critical feminist work on men's violence against women.
Increased type I procollagen mRNA transcripts in the lungs of mice during the development of bleomycin-induced fibrosis.

In this study, in situ hybridization has been used to investigate the localization of type I procollagen messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) in normal lung, and in the lungs of mice during the development of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis. Lung fibrosis was induced by a single intratracheal instillation of bleomycin sulphate (6 mg.kg-1 body weight), and tissues examined at times up to 35 days thereafter. Tissue transcripts of alpha 2(I) procollagen mRNA were visualized after hybridization with 35S-labelled riboprobes. Hybridization signals were associated with alveolar interstitial cells throughout the normal lung, with additional areas of dense hybridization signals observed subpleurally. Three days following administration of bleomycin, there was no apparent change in the pattern of hybridization. By 10 days, foci of intense hybridization signals indicative of gene activation were observed associated with individual cells in the alveolar interstitium. At 21 days, the increase in hybridization signals appeared to be associated with greater numbers of cells rather than highly activated cells. These results demonstrate that procollagen genes are normally expressed in the mouse lung, and that during bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis hybridization signals increase, suggesting that both enhanced gene expression by individual cells and increased numbers of cells expressing the type I procollagen gene are involved in the pathogenetic mechanism.
Immune restoration after antiretroviral therapy: the pitfalls of hasty or incomplete repairs

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a life‐saving intervention in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Immune restoration after ART dramatically reduces the incidence and severity of opportunistic diseases and death. On some occasions, immune restoration may be erratic, leading to acute inflammatory responses (known as immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome) shortly after ART initiation, or incomplete, with residual inflammation despite chronic treatment, leading to non‐infectious morbidity and mortality. We propose that ART may not always restore the perfect balance of innate and adaptive immunity in strategic milieus, predisposing HIV‐infected persons to complications of acute or chronic inflammation. The best current strategy for fully successful immune restoration is early antiretroviral therapy, which can prevent acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)‐associated events, restrict cell subset imbalances and dysfunction, while preserving structural integrity of lymphoid tissues. Future HIV research should capitalize on innovative techniques and move beyond the static study of T‐cell subsets in peripheral blood or isolated tissues. Improved targeted therapeutic strategies could stem from a better understanding of how HIV perturbs the environmental niches and the mobility and trafficking of cells that affect the dynamic cell‐to‐cell interactions and determine the outcome of innate and adaptive immune responses.
The anisotropy of transformer oil-based magnetic fluids studied by acoustic spectroscopy

The anisotropy in transformer oil-based magnetic fluids upon the effect of an external magnetic field and temperature were studied by acoustic spectroscopy. When a magnetic field is increased, the interaction between the external magnetic field and the magnetic moments of the nanoparticles occurs, leads to the aggregation of magnetic nanoparticles and following clusters formation. However, the temperature of magnetic fluids has also very important influence on the structural changes because of the mechanism of thermal motion that acts against the cluster creation. In present the anisotropy of the transformer oil-based magnetic fluids can be described by two theories. Taketomi theory assumes existence of spherical clusters. These cluster form long chains, aligned in magnetic field direction. Later Shliomis proposed similar theory, in which these chains are formed by nanoparticles. A comparison of the experimental results with the predictions of the Taketomi theory allowed a determination of the cluster radius and the number density of the colloidal particles. These data allowed us to draw conclusions about the changes in the parameters describing the structure of the ferrofluid at different temperatures. On the basis of the measurements performed, it was possible to establish the proportion of the acoustic wave used for excitation of the translational and rotational degrees of freedom.
Genetic and Phenotypic Variations of a Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Epidemic Clone

ABSTRACT From May 1997 to December 2001, a serotype O:6 multidrug-resistant strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonized or infected 201 patients in the University Hospital of Besançon (France). The susceptibility profile of this epidemic clone to fluoroquinolones and aminoglycosides was relatively stable during the outbreak but showed important isolate-to-isolate variations (up to 64-fold) in the MICs of β-lactams. Analysis of 18 genotypically related isolates selected on a quaterly basis demonstrated alterations in the two DNA topoisomerases II and IV (Thr83→Ile in GyrA and Ser87→Leu in ParC) and production of an ANT(2")-I enzyme. Although constitutively overproduced in these bacteria, the MexXY efflux system did not appear to contribute significantly to aminoglycoside resistance. β-Lactam resistance was associated with derepression of intrinsic AmpC β-lactamase (with isolate-to-isolate variations of up to 58-fold) and sporadic deficiency in a 46-kDa protein identified as the carbapenem-selective porin OprD. Of the 18 isolates, 14 were also found to overproduce the efflux system MexAB-OprM as a result of alteration of the repressor protein MexR (His107→Pro). However, complementation experiments with the cloned mexR gene demonstrated that MexAB-OprM contributed only marginally to β-lactam and fluoroquinolone resistance. Of the four isolates exhibiting wild-type MexAB-OprM expression despite the MexR alteration, two appeared to harbor secondary mutations in the mexA-mexR intergenic region and one harbored secondary mutations in the putative ribosome binding site located upstream of the mexAB oprM operon. In conclusion, this study shows that many mechanisms were involved in the multiresistance phenotype of this highly epidemic strain of P. aeruginosa. Our results also demonstrate that the clone sporadically underwent substantial genetic and phenotypic variations during the course of the outbreak, perhaps in relation to local or individual selective drug pressures.
Interpersonal communication and human relationships

Part I Human Communication in Developing Relationships 1 Communication: The Lifeblood of Relationships Relationship Messages Five Important Misconceptions About Communication in Relationships How Communication Changes as Our Relationships Develop Dimensions of Communication: Patterns and Variations Summary Selected Readings Notes 2 Stages of Coming Together and Coming Apart Types of Relationships A Model of Interaction Stages in Relationships Interaction Stages Movement: In, Out, and Around Stages Summary Selected Readings Notes Part II Factors Affecting Human Communication Behavior in Relationships 3 The Nature of the Communicators The Influence of Interpersonal Needs The Role of Interpersonal Needs Analyzing Our Own Needs and Those of Others Interpersonal Needs Across the Lifespan Interpersonal Needs of Females and Males Summary Selected Readings Notes 4 The Communication Environment: Cultural and Physical The Influence of the Cultural Environment The Influence of the Immediate Physical Environment or Setting Summary Selected Readings Notes Part III Interaction Patterns for Coming Together 5 The Genesis of Dialogue Getting Together Sizing Up the Other Person The Many Faces of Attraction Summary Selected Readings Notes 6 Interaction Rituals Communication Rules The Rhetoric of Hello Forms of Address Relationship "Openers" Small(? ) Talk Summary Selected Readings Notes 7 The Foundations of Intimate Dialogue Types of Love Liking Versus Loving Intimacy and Close Relationships Foundations of Intimacy Summary Selected Readings Notes Part IV Interaction Patterns and the Maintenance of Relationships 8 Maintaining Relationships Through Dialogue: Disclosures, Lies, and Fights Relationship Maintenance Self-Disclosure, Confidentiality, and Trust Lying Constructive Conflict Summary Selected Readings Notes 9 Maintaining Relationships Through Dialogue: Commitment and Intimacy Commitment and Commitment Talk Personal Idioms Giving Compliments and Gifts Giving Comfort and Advice Persuasion Sex Talk Intimate Play Intimacy Without Words Summary Selected Readings Notes Part V Interaction Patterns for Coming Apart 10 Communication and the Process of Relationship Disengagement Terminating Relationships Communication During Relationship Decay: Return of the Stranger Summary Selected Readings Notes 11 The Dialogue of Distance and De-escalation Some Potentially Destructive Patterns of Communication: An Interpersonal Chamber of Horrors Summary Selected Readings Notes Part VI Toward More Effective Communication in Relationships 12 Evaluating and Developing Effective Communication in Relationships The Relativity of Effective Communication Perceptions of Effective Communication Rx for Effective Communication Becoming an Effective Communicator Writing Your Own Story Communicating Effectively Together Summary Selected Readings Notes Author Index Subject Index
Activity recognition using the velocity histories of tracked keypoints

We present an activity recognition feature inspired by human psychophysical performance. This feature is based on the velocity history of tracked keypoints. We present a generative mixture model for video sequences using this feature, and show that it performs comparably to local spatio-temporal features on the KTH activity recognition dataset. In addition, we contribute a new activity recognition dataset, focusing on activities of daily living, with high resolution video sequences of complex actions. We demonstrate the superiority of our velocity history feature on high resolution video sequences of complicated activities. Further, we show how the velocity history feature can be extended, both with a more sophisticated latent velocity model, and by combining the velocity history feature with other useful information, like appearance, position, and high level semantic information. Our approach performs comparably to established and state of the art methods on the KTH dataset, and significantly outperforms all other methods on our challenging new dataset.
The l1-Error Estimates for a Hamiltonian-Preserving Scheme for the Liouville Equation with Piecewise Constant Potentials

We study the $l^1$-error of a Hamiltonian-preserving scheme, developed in [S. Jin and X. Wen, Commun. Math. Sci., 3 (2005), pp. 285-315], for the Liouville equation with a piecewise constant potential in one space dimension. This problem has important applications in computations of the semiclassical limit of the linear Schrodinger equation through barriers, and of the high frequency waves through interfaces. We use the $l^1$-error estimates established in [X. Wen and S. Jin, J. Comput. Math., 26 (2008), pp. 1-22; X. Wen, Convergence of an Immersed Interface Upwind Scheme for Linear Advection Equations with Piecewise Constant Coefficients II: Some Related Binomial Coefficient Inequalities, preprint, 2008] for the immersed interface upwind scheme to the linear advection equations with piecewise constant coefficients. We prove that the scheme with the Dirichlet incoming boundary conditions is $l^1$-convergent for a class of bounded initial data and derive the half order $l^1$-error bounds with explicit coefficients. The initial conditions can be satisfied by applying the decomposition technique proposed in [S. Jin, H. L. Liu, S. Osher, and R. Tsai, J. Comput. Phys., 205 (2005), pp. 222-241] for solving the Liouville equation with measure-valued initial data, which arises in the semiclassical limit of the linear Schrodinger equation.
Regional Gating Neural Networks for Multi-label Image Classification

This paper proposes a novel deep learning framework for multi-label image classification, namely regional gating neural networks (RGNN). The motivation is two folds. First, global image features (including CNN based features) ignore the underlying context information among different objects in an image. Consequently, people attempt to use information from objectness regions. However, current objectness region proposal algorithms usually produce several thousand region candidates, including many classification irrelevant or even noisy regions. This leads to the second problem: how to select useful contextual regions for image classification. RGNN is an end-to-end deep learning framework that can automatically select contextual region features with specially designed gate units, which are then fused for classification. Because the gate units and the classifier are integrated in the same deep neural network pipeline, we can learn parameters of the network simultaneously. We evaluate the proposed method on PASCAL VOC 2007/2012 and MS-COCO benchmarks, and results show that RGNN is superior to existing state-of-the-art methods.
Active control of the wake from a rectangular-sectioned body

This work of thesis is part of a wider research project with the aim of developing an aerodynamic active device for drag reduction of ground vehicles. The system, previously studied on a bullet-shaped body by Qubain (2009) and Oxlade (2013), is applied to a bluff body that idealises a long vehicle, such as an articulated lorry or a coach. The model, tested in the Honda wind tunnel of the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College, is equipped with a synthetic jet, or zero net-massflux actuator, composed of a cavity, a plate with a slot, and an oscillating diaphragm, placed at the rear end of the body. The effects produced by the actuator are studied by monitoring the base pressure on the model, and by measuring the aerodynamic forces and the moments acting on the body. During the experiments, performed at a constant ReH = U∞H/ν = 4.1 × 10, a parametric study of the response of the mean base pressure, forces and moments to changes in the forcing parameters (frequency and amplitude), and slot width is performed. The unforced wake is characterised by two main structures: the bubble-pumping mode, with Strouhal number StH ≈ 0.08, and the vortex shedding, with StH ≈ 0.17 and StH ≈ 0.20 on the vertical and horizontal plane, respectively. These structures, still visible in the forced wake at low forcing amplitudes, are almost completely suppressed when the forcing amplitude is increased. The suppression of the structures in the wake corresponds to a decrease in the integrated energy of the wake itself, associated to base pressure recovery and drag reduction. The optimal values achieved corresponds to 27.3% gain in base pressure and -13.1% reduction of drag. The higher sensitivity to changes in forcing amplitude rather than in frequency displayed by the system confirms the existence of a plateau of optimal base pressure recovery/drag reduction at frequencies around 5 times the characteristic shear layer frequency.
Quality Indicators of Cervical Cytopathology Tests in the Public Service in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Abstract Objective The objective of this study is to assess the performance of cytopathology laboratories providing services to the Brazilian Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde – SUS) in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Methods This descriptive study uses data obtained from the Cervical Cancer Information System from January to December 2012. Three quality indicators were analyzed to assess the quality of cervical cytopathology tests: positivity index, percentage of atypical squamous cells (ASCs) in abnormal tests, and percentage of tests compatible with high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs). Laboratories were classified according to their production scale in tests per year ≤ 5,000; from 5,001 to 10,000; from 10,001 to 15,000; and ≥ 15,001. Based on the collection of variables and the classification of laboratories according to production scale, we created and analyzed a database using Microsoft Office Excel 97–2003. Results In the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, 146 laboratories provided services to the SUS in 2012 by performing a total of 1,277,018 cervical cytopathology tests. Half of these laboratories had production scales ≤ 5,000 tests/year and accounted for 13.1% of all tests performed in the entire state; in turn, 13.7% of these laboratories presented production scales of > 15,001 tests/year and accounted for 49.2% of the total of tests performed in the entire state. The positivity indexes of most laboratories providing services to the SUS in 2012, regardless of production scale, were below or well below recommended limits. Of the 20 laboratories that performed more than 15,001 tests per year, only three presented percentages of tests compatible with HSILs above the lower limit recommended by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Conclusion The majority of laboratories providing services to the SUS in Minas Gerais presented quality indicators outside the range recommended by the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
Multi-Label Classification of Music into Emotions

In this paper, the automated detection of emotion in music is modeled as a multilabel classification task, where a piece of music may belong to more than one class. Four algorithms are evaluated and compared in this task. Furthermore, the predictive power of several audio features is evaluated using a new multilabel feature selection method. Experiments are conducted on a set of 593 songs with 6 clusters of music emotions based on the Tellegen-Watson-Clark model. Results provide interesting insights into the quality of the discussed algorithms and features.
Comparison of patients' preferences and evaluations regarding aspects of general practice care.

BACKGROUND Although patients' views on health care are perceived to be crucial, insight into the different constructs capturing these views remains limited. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between patients' preferences and their evaluations of general practice care. METHODS Patients visiting five rural practices in The Netherlands were asked to complete a questionnaire measuring either their evaluations or their preferences on 44 aspects of general practice care. After at least 3 weeks, those patients who had answered the evaluation questionnaire received the questionnaire measuring their preferences, and vice versa. RESULTS A total of 449 patients answered both questionnaires (response 70%). The longer the period after the consultation, the lower was the mean percentage of all 44 aspects rated as 'good' in the evaluation questionnaire (P = 0.006) and the higher was the mean percentage of all 44 aspects rated as 'very important' in the preference questionnaire (P = 0.046). The Spearman rank order correlation between the ranking of patients' evaluations and patients' preferences was 0.34, a low although significant correlation (P = 0.024), i.e. the two rank orders do not resemble each other very much. CONCLUSIONS Patients clearly distinguished their preferences from their evaluations of general practice care. Aspects of general practice care, whether important or not, can be evaluated positively or negatively. Patients' preferences and patients' evaluations are, however, both influenced by the length of the time elapsed since the consultation.
Failure analysis of timing and IDDq-only failures from the SEMATECH test methods experiment

SEMATECH has sponsored a "Test Method Evaluation" study to understand the trade-offs among the most common test methodologies used in the industry. This paper presents the results of the failure analysis portion of that project. The testing, reliability stressing, characterization, fault diagnosis and physical analysis results are presented for 25 devices including "IDDq-only" failures and "delay test-only" failures.
Protection of mitochondrial function and improvement in cognitive recovery in rats treated with hyperbaric oxygen following lateral fluid-percussion injury.

OBJECT Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) has been shown to improve outcome after severe traumatic brain injury, but its underlying mechanisms are unknown. Following lateral fluid-percussion injury (FPI), the authors tested the effects of HBO2 treatment as well as enhanced normobaric oxygenation on mitochondrial function, as measured by both cognitive recovery and cellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels. METHODS Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to moderate lateral FPI or sham injury and were allocated to one of four treatment groups: 1) FPI treated with 4 hours of normobaric 30% O2; 2) FPI treated with 4 hours of normobaric 100% O2; 3) FPI treated with 1 hour of HBO2 plus 3 hours of normobaric 100% O2; and 4) sham-injured treated with normobaric 30% O2. Cognitive outcome was assessed using the Morris water maze (MWM) on Days 11 to 15 after injury. Animals were then killed 21 days postinjury to assess hippocampal neuronal loss. Adenosine triphosphate was extracted from the neocortex and measured using high-performance liquid chromatography. The results showed that injured animals treated with HBO2 or normobaric 100% O2 alone had significantly higher levels of cerebral ATP as compared with animals treated using normobaric 30% O2 (p < or = 0.05). The injured animals treated with HBO2 had significant improvements in cognitive recovery, as characterized by a shorter latency in MWM performance (p < or = 0.05), and decreased neuronal loss in the CA2/3 and hilar regions as compared with those treated with 30% or 100% O2, (p < or = 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Both hyperbaric and normobaric hyperoxia increased cerebral ATP levels after lateral FPI. In addition, HBO2 treatment improved cognitive recovery and reduced hippocampal neuronal cell loss after brain injury in the rat.