Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ROBOTIC PAEDIATRIC UROLOGY

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Sexual lifestyle of long distance lorry drivers in India: questionnaire survey

This article presents a study on the sexual lifestyle of long distance lorry drivers in India. Using a questionnaire survey method, a total of 5709 consecutive long distance lorry drivers were interviewed by three trained investigators between March 1994 and August 1994. Results showed that 87% (4949 men) of subjects were sexually promiscuous, of whom only 11% (563) used condoms during commercial sex. The percentage using condoms decreased with increasing age. In the 21-30 age group (n = 1766), 78% of unmarried sexually promiscuous men (331/425) reported having 31-60 sexual partners during the past 12 months. In addition, a significantly higher proportion of men over age 40, compared with men under age 21, were sexually promiscuous and abused alcohol and a lower proportion had AIDS knowledge (P 0.001). In the context of infection of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), responses of long distance lorry drivers suggest that they are highly vulnerable and are crucial in spreading STDs and HIV infection throughout the country in a short time. Thus, research is urgently needed to find effective strategies to persuade lorry drivers to change their risky sexual behavior.
Porphyrin Derivatives for Telomere Binding and Telomerase Inhibition

The capacity of G‐quadruplex ligands to stabilize four‐stranded DNA makes them able to inhibit telomerase, which is involved in tumour cell proliferation. A series of cationic metalloporphyrin derivatives was prepared by making variations on a meso‐tetrakis(4‐N‐methyl‐pyridiniumyl)porphyrin skeleton (TMPyP). The DNA binding properties of nickel(II) and manganese(III) porphyrins were studied by surface plasmon resonance, and the capacity of the nickel porphyrins to inhibit telomerase was tested in a TRAP assay. The nature of the metal influences the kinetics (the process is faster for Ni than for Mn) and the mode of interaction (stacking or external binding). The chemical alterations did not lead to increased telomerase inhibition. The best selectivity for G‐quadruplex DNA was observed for Mn‐TMPyP, which has a tenfold preference for quadruplex over duplex.
Tympanic Thermometry: An Index of Hemispheric Activity

This article describes the use of tympanic thermometry in investigations of hemispheric specialization. Subjects were asked to perform tasks known to be performed preferentially by the right or left hemisphere while fluctuations in tympanic temperature (reflecting changes in hemispheric metabolic activity) were recorded from thermal sensors placed in their outer ear canals. The analyses show that subjects who evince relatively higher elevations in metabolic activity (as measured through tympanic thermometry) in the hemisphere specialized for the task obtain better performance scores than those who show a reversed bias.
A new routing scheme for jellyfish and its performance with HPC workloads

The jellyfish topology where switches are connected using a random graph has recently been proposed for large scale data-center networks. It has been shown to offer higher bisection bandwidth and better permutation throughput than the corresponding fat-tree topology with a similar cost. In this work, we propose a new routing scheme for jellyfish that out-performs existing schemes by more effectively exploiting the path diversity, and comprehensively compare the performance of jellyfish and fat-tree topologies with HPC workloads. The results indicate that both jellyfish and fat-tree topologies offer comparable high performance for HPC workloads on systems that can be realized by 3-level fat-trees using the current technology and the corresponding jellyfish topologies with similar costs. Fat-trees are more effective for smaller systems while jellyfish is more scalable.
Temperature measurements with a temporal scanner: systematic review and meta-analysis

Objectives Systematic review and meta-analysis on the diagnostic accuracy of temporal artery thermometers (TAT). Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. The index test consisted of temperature measurement with TAT. The reference test consisted of an estimation of core temperature. Participants Clinical patients as well as healthy participants, with or without fever. Interventions Literature search in PubMed, Embase, Cinahl and Web of Science. Three reviewers selected articles for full-text reading after which a further selection was made. Risk of bias was assessed with QUADAS-2. Pooled difference and limits of agreement (LoA) were estimated with an inverse variance weighted approach. Subgroup and sensitivity analyses were performed. Sensitivity and specificity were estimated using hierarchical models. Quality of evidence was assessed according to the GRADE system. Primary and secondary outcome measures The primary outcome was measurement accuracy expressed as mean difference ±95% LoA. A secondary outcome was sensitivity and specificity to detect fever. If tympanic thermometers were assessed in the same population as TAT, these results were recorded as well. Results 37 articles comprising 5026 participants were selected. Pooled difference was -0.19°C (95% LoA −1.16 to 0.77°C), with moderate quality of evidence. Pooled sensitivity was 0.72 (95% CI 0.61 to 0.81) with a specificity of 0.94 (95% CI 0.87 to 0.97). The subgroup analysis revealed a trend towards underestimation of the temperature for febrile patients. There was a large heterogeneity among included studies with wide LoA which reduced the quality of evidence. Conclusions TAT is not sufficiently accurate to replace one of the reference methods such as rectal, bladder or more invasive temperature measurement methods. The results are, however, similar to those with tympanic thermometers, both in our meta-analysis and when compared with others. Thus, it seems that TAT could replace tympanic thermometers with the caveat that both methods are inaccurate. Trial registration number CRD42014008832.
Coverage and Rate of Downlink Sequence Transmissions With Reliability Guarantees

Real-time distributed control is a promising application of 5G in which communication links should satisfy certain reliability guarantees. In this letter, we derive closed-form maximum average rate when a device (e.g., industrial machine) downloads a sequence of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ n$ </tex-math></inline-formula> operational commands through cellular connection, while guaranteeing a certain signal-to-interference ratio (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ {\mathsf {SIR}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) coverage for all <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$n$ </tex-math></inline-formula> messages. The result is based on novel closed-form <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$n$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-successive <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ {\mathsf {SIR}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> coverage bounds. The proposed bounds provide simple approximations that are increasingly accurate in the high reliability region.
Endothelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Vascular Calcification of Ins2Akita/+ Mice

Endothelial-mesenchymal transition (EndMT) drives endothelium to contribute to normal development and disease processes. Here, we report that EndMTs occur in the diabetic endothelium of Ins2Akita/wt mouse, and show that induction of sex determining region Y-box 2 (Sox2) is a mediator of excess BMP signaling that results in activation of EndMTs and increased vascular calcification. We also find an induction of a complex of serine proteases in the diabetic endothelium, required for the up-regulation of Sox2. Our results suggest that EndMTs contribute to vascular calcification in diabetic arteries.
Optimal Training Sequences for MIMO Channel Estimation with Spatial Correlation

Optimal design of training sequences is considered for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in the presence of spatial fading correlation. By the method of minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation, we first evaluate the estimation accuracy and the training sequence length under correlated fading, based on which we then design optimal training sequences that have controllable length to make effective use of the correlation properties. It is investigated that the impacts of spatial correlation are helpful not only to improve channel estimation but also to decrease the training length, moreover, that the proposed training sequences have good performance via simulations.
”Antingen får man skäll eller beröm ” En studie av utvecklingssamtal i elevers perspektiv.

In the Swedish comprehensive school there is since 1994 a special prescribed link between home and school, the so called personal development dialog. In this meeting the pupil and her/his parents and teacher, at least twice a year, meet to be informed, discuss and plan for the pupil’s learning and social development. In this article we establish the fact, that such talks can be related to different contexts, and thus interpreted in many ways. The article highlights how the pupils experience these talks. The reported results are based on 245 questionnaires and about 40 short interviews with pupils in year 6. Contrary to the official intentions of the talk for development the pupils’ experience that assessments are the core of the talks. The future oriented and planning dimension of the talk seldom is included in the pupils’ answers. For the understanding of our results it is very important, we argue, to conceptualize school as an ass essment practice.
Augmenting group performance in target-face recognition via collaborative brain-computer interfaces for surveillance applications

This paper presents a hybrid collaborative brain-computer interface (cBCI) to improve group-based recognition of target faces in crowded scenes recorded from surveillance cameras. The cBCI uses a combination of neural features extracted from EEG and response times to estimate the decision confidence of the users. Group decisions are then obtained by weighing individual responses according to these confidence estimates. Results obtained with 10 participants indicate that the proposed cBCI improves decision errors by up to 7% over traditional group decisions based on majority. Moreover, the confidence estimates obtained by the cBCI are more accurate and robust than the confidence reported by the participants after each decision. These results show that cBCIs can be an effective means of human augmentation in realistic scenarios.
Intramedullary Kirschner Wiring for Tibia Fractures in Children

This is a retrospective analysis of the results of 84 tibial fractures in children treated by intramedullary Kirschner wiring. Thirty were open fractures (9 grade I, 10 grade II, 8 grade IIIA, 3 grade IIIB). There were 65 boys and 18 girls with an average age of 10.23 years (range 4–15). The patient was placed supine on an orthopedic traction table. Under fluoroscopic control, two Kirschner wires (2.5–3.5-mm thick) were introduced antegrade from proximal metaphysis (level of tibial tuberosity) to distal metaphysis, one each from medial and lateral cortices. Open fractures were stabilized after meticulous wound débridement. Average time to union was 9.5 weeks (range 8–14). None developed delayed union. However, one grade IIIB open fracture progressed to infected nonunion; it healed after an autogenous bone graft. No infections were seen in closed fractures, but four superficial and one deep infection occurred in open fractures. Closed intramedullary Kirschner wire fixation for unstable or open tibial fractures in children is a simple surgical technique that produces good clinical and functional results.
Yield enhancement strategies for the production of picroliv from hairy root culture of Picrorhiza kurroa Royle ex Benth.

Fast-growing hairy root cultures of Picrorhiza kurroa induced by Agrobacterium rhizogenes offers a potential production system for iridoid glycosides. In present study we have investigated the effects of various nutrient medium formulations viz B5, MS, WP and NN, and sucrose concentrations (1–8%) on the biomass and glycoside production of selected clone (14-P) of P. kurroa hairy root. Full strength B5 medium was found to be most suitable for maximum biomass yield on the 40th day of culture (GI = 32.72 ± 0.44) followed by the NN medium of the same strength (GI = 22.9 ± 0.43). Secondary metabolite production was 1.1 and 1.3 times higher in half strength B5 medium respectively in comparison to MS medium. Maximum biomass accumulation along with the maximum picroliv content was achieved with 4% sucrose concentration in basal medium. RT vitamin and Thiamine-HCl effected the growth and secondary metabolite production of hairy roots growing on MS medium but did not show any effect on other media. The pH of the medium played significant role in growth and secondary metabolite production and was found to be highest at pH 6.0 while lowest at pH 3.0 and pH 8.0. To enhance the production of biomass and Picroliv 5 liter working capacity bioreactor was used, 27-fold (324 g FW) higher growth was observed in bioreactor than shake flask and secondary metabolite production was similarly enhanced.
Comparative Proteogenomics of Twelve Roseobacter Exoproteomes Reveals Different Adaptive Strategies Among These Marine Bacteria*

Roseobacters are generalist bacteria abundantly found in the oceans. Because little is known on how marine microorganisms interact in association or competition, we focused our attention on the microbial exoproteome, a key component in their interaction with extracellular milieu. Here we present a comparative analysis of the theoretically encoded exoproteome of twelve members of the Roseobacter group validated by extensive comparative proteogenomics. In silico analysis revealed that 30% of the encoded proteome of these microorganisms could be exported. The ratio of the different protein categories varied in accordance to the ecological distinctness of each strain, a trait reinforced by quantitative proteomics data. Despite the interspecies variations found, the most abundantly detected proteins by shotgun proteomics were from transporter, adhesion, motility, and toxin-like protein categories, defining four different plausible adaptive strategies within the Roseobacter group. In some strains the toxin-secretion strategy was over-represented with repeats-in-toxin-like proteins. Our results show that exoproteomes strongly depend on bacterial trophic strategy and can slightly change because of culture conditions. Simulated natural conditions and the effect of the indigenous microbial community on the exoproteome of Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS-3 were also assayed. Interestingly, we observed a significant depletion of the toxin-like proteins usually secreted by R. pomeroyi DSS-3 when grown in presence of a natural community sampled from a Mediterranean Sea port. The significance of this specific fraction of the exoproteome is discussed.
A Collective Stereographic Photo Essay on Key Aspects of Animal Companionship: The Truth About Dogs and Cats

First and second inverter circuits each include a P channel and an N channel MOS transistor whose current paths are connected in series between a power-supply and ground. An input terminal of the second inverter circuit is connected to an output terminal of the first inverter circuit. A first capacitor is connected between the output terminal of the second inverter circuit and the power supply. A second capacitor is connected between the output terminal of the first inverter circuit and ground. A third capacitor is connected between the output terminal of the second inverter circuit and the input terminal of the first inverter. A fourth capacitor is connected between the input terminal of the first inverter circuit and ground. When an output voltage of the first inverter circuit is in a low level state at time of the rise of the power supply and a charging voltage of the third capacitor reaches a threshold voltage of the P channel MOS transistor of the first inverter circuit, an output voltage of the first inverter circuit is set to a high level to charge the second capacitor. When an output voltage of the second inverter circuit rises in accordance with the power-supply voltage, and a charging voltage of the second capacitor reaches a threshold voltage of the N channel MOS transistor of the second inverter circuit, the output voltage of the second inverter circuit is set to a low level.
Firm Innovation and the Ratchet Effect Among Consumer Packaged Goods Firms

We consider how public firms influence their stock market valuations by timing the introduction of innovative new products. Our focus is on innovation ratchet strategy---firms timing the introduction of innovations in order to demonstrate an improvement in the number of introductions over time. We document that public firms use an innovation ratchet strategy more often than do private firms and that the stock market rewards public firms for doing so. These rewards from the stock market, however, come at the expense of performance in product markets. Specifically, because firms using an innovation ratchet strategy delay some product introductions, they have significantly lower sales growth in the year they ratchet. Finally, we identify firm and market characteristics that influence the likelihood that a public firm will engage in an innovation ratchet strategy.
The synergistic effect of affective factors on student learning outcomes

This study investigates how affective and self-related factors impact participation in science learning and environmental awareness and responsibility. Using PISA 2006 datasets from Taiwan and Canada having similar level of science competency, the model for this study verifies and expands an earlier model by examining the relationships among science-related interest, enjoyment, self-efficacy, self-concept, leisure time engagement, and future intended interest in science and how these relationships synergistically interact with environmental awareness and responsibility. The most consistent finding revealed that students' science self-concept in both groups was weakly associated with future intended interest and engagement in science learning and with their sense of environmental awareness and responsibility. Reasons for this phenomenon and possible causes underlying why students' science self-concept was weakly connected to their future intended interest in science learning are also presented. Finally, how the results of this study are important to science education instruction and research are forwarded in which students' identity and beliefs about self in science need to part of the next generation of science education reforms. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 51: 1084–1101, 2014
Bilateral sequential cochlear implantation in the congenitally deaf child: Evidence to support the concept of a ‘Critical Age’ after which the second ear is less likely to provide an adequate level of speech perception on its own

Abstract This study attempts to answer the question of whether there is a ‘critical age’ after which a second contralateral cochlear implant is less likely to provide enough speech perception to be of practical use. The study was not designed to predict factors that determine successful binaural implant use, but to see if there was evidence to help determine the latest age at which the second ear can usefully be implanted, should the first side fail and become unusable. Outcome data, in the form of speech perception test results, were collected from 11 cochlear implant programmes in the UK and one centre in Australia. Forty-seven congenitally bilaterally deaf subjects who received bilateral sequential implants were recruited to the study. The study also included four subjects with congenital unilateral profound deafness who had lost all hearing in their only hearing ear and received a cochlear implant in their unilaterally congenitally deaf ear. Of those 34 subjects for whom complete sets of data were available, the majority (72%) of those receiving their second (or unilateral) implant up to the age of 13 years scored 60 per cent or above in the Bamford Kowal Bench (BKB) sentence test, or equivalent. In contrast, of those nine receiving their second or unilateral implant at the age of 15 or above, none achieved adequate levels of speech perception on formal testing: two scored 29 per cent and 30 per cent, respectively, and the rest seven per cent or less. A discriminant function analysis performed on the data suggests that it is unlikely that a second contralateral implant received after the age of 16 to 18 years will, on its own, provide adequate levels of speech perception. As more children receive sequential bilateral cochlear implants and the pool of data enlarges the situation is likely to become clearer. The results provide support for the concept of a ‘critical age’ for implanting the second ear in successful congenitally deaf unilateral cochlear implant users. This would argue against ‘preserving’ the second ear beyond a certain age, in order to use newer models of cochlear implant or for the purpose of hair cell regeneration and similar procedures in the future. The results suggest a new and more absolute reason for bilateral implantation of congenitally deaf children at an early age. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.