Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Emotion, disclosure, & health.

Part One Introduction: Emotion, Disclosure and Health - An Overview, James W. Pennebaker A Cultural and Historical Perspective on Confession, Eugenia Georges. Part Two Cognitive Processes in Inhibiting and Disclosing: From Secrecy to Psychopathology, Daniel M. Wegner and Julie D. Lane Disclosure and Worry - Opposite Sides of the Emotional Processing Coin, Thomas D. Borkovec, Lizabeth Roemer and John Kinyon Disclosure as a Speech Act - Is It Psychotherapeutic to Disclose? , William B. Stiles The Power of the Narrative - A Multiple Code Account, Wilma Bucci. Part Three Emotions, Expressiveness and Psychosomatics: Emotional Attention, Clarity and Repair - Exploring Emotional Intelligence Using the Trait Meta-Mood Scale, Peter Salovey, John D. Mayer, Susan Lee Goldman, Carolyn Turvey and Tibor P. Palfai Inhibition and Muscle Tension in Myogenic Pain, Harald C. Traue Repression, Emotional Disclosure and Health - Theoretical, Empirical and Clinical Considerations, Gary E. Schwartz and John P. Kline Confrontation - Inhibition, Alexithymia and Health, Dario Paez, Nekane Basabe, Maite Valdoseda, Carmen Velasco and Ioseba Iraurgi Repression, Disclosure and Immune Function - Recent Findings and Methodological Issues, Keith J. Petrie, Roger J. Booth and Kathryn P. Davison. Part Four Clinical and Social Dimensions of Disclosure: Emotionality and Health - Lessons From and for Psychotherapy, Michael J. Mahoney The Roles of Disclosure and Emotional Reversal in Clinical Practice, Benjamin Dominguez, Pablo Valderrama, Maria de los Angeles Meza, Sara Lidia Perez, Amparo Silva, Gloria MartInez, Victor Manuel Mendez and Yolanda Olvera Mental Rumination, Social Sharing and the Recovery From Emotional Exposure, Bernard Rime Cultural Similarities and Differences Regarding Emotional Disclosure - Some Examples From Indonesia and the Pacific, Jane Wellenkamp.
Associations of Renal Vascular Resistance With Albuminuria and Other Macroangiopathy in Type 2 Diabetic Patients

OBJECTIVE—Albuminuria can be caused by endothelial dysfunction as a result of ischemic nephropathy rather than classic diabetic nephropathy. We studied whether renal vascular resistance (resistive index [RI]) of the main renal arteries could be associated with albuminuria and further assessed the relationship between RI and aorta stiffness measured by brachial-ankle pulse-wave velocity (baPWV). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—We consecutively studied 150 patients with type 2 diabetes and the absence of clinically overt renal artery stenosis. Renal function expressed as the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was calculated using the modified formula of modification of diet in renal disease (MDRD). The RI [(peak systolic velocity –end-diastolic velocity)/peak systolic velocity] was measured with duplex Doppler ultrasonography. RESULTS—When the presence of albuminuria (uAlb) was defined as urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (μg/mg · creatinine) >30, mean RI [(left RI + right RI)/2] was significantly higher in uAlb, compared with that in patients without uAlb. RI had significant associations with age (r = 0.398, P < 0.0001), diastolic blood pressure (r = −0.398, P < 0.0001), eGFR (r = −0.373, P < 0.0001), and baPWV (r = 0.223, P < 0.05), respectively. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that increased RI when defined as RI >0.72 (median) was significantly associated with age (P < 0.01, 95%CI 1.02–1.19), diastolic blood pressure (P < 0.01, 0.86–0.97), and uAlb (P < 0.01, 1.53–15.46), respectively. Moreover, RI was an independent risk factor for uAlb after adjustment of both diastolic blood pressure and eGFR. CONCLUSIONS—Renal vascular resistance was associated with albuminuria and aorta stiffness. Increased RI may imply the presence of any type of underlying renal damage, including ischemic nephropathy.
Multi-task joint spatial pyramid matching with dynamic coefficients for image classification

Object recognition considered as a necessary part in many computer vision applications. Recently, Sparse coding methods which based on representing a sparse feature from image, show remarkable results on several image recognition benchmarks. However, the precision obtained by these methods are not sufficient. Such a problem arises where there are a few number of training images available. So using multiple features and multi-task dictionaries seems to be essential to attain better results. In this paper, we use multi-task joint sparse representation but unlike previous works [4] which used constant coefficients for all class, we apply dynamic coefficients which computed separately for each class to combine these sparse features efficiently. In other word, we calculate the importance of each feature for each class separately. It causes the features to be used more effectively and better appropriate for each class. We used PSO (Particle swarm optimization) algorithm to obtain these dynamic coefficients. To the best of our knowledge, our experimental results on Caltech-101 and Caltech-256 databases surpass in accuracy from the best published results to date on the same databases.
[Global governance for health].

Experts in global health and health diplomacy have focused increasing attention on the impacts – on populations’ health and health systems – resulting from non-health sector policies defined and implemented at the global level. This trend explains the interest in the report by The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health, published by the renowned British journal (Lancet 2014; 383:630-67). The report analyzes how the distribution of health risks is still extremely and unacceptably unequal, and that contrary to expectations, the current global governance system fails to protect the population’s health, with disastrous effects on the poor, vulnerable, and marginalized.
Efficient Production of Single-Stranded Phage DNA as Scaffolds for DNA Origami

Scaffolded DNA origami enables the fabrication of a variety of complex nanostructures that promise utility in diverse fields of application, ranging from biosensing over advanced therapeutics to metamaterials. The broad applicability of DNA origami as a material beyond the level of proof-of-concept studies critically depends, among other factors, on the availability of large amounts of pure single-stranded scaffold DNA. Here, we present a method for the efficient production of M13 bacteriophage-derived genomic DNA using high-cell-density fermentation of Escherichia coli in stirred-tank bioreactors. We achieve phage titers of up to 1.6 × 1014 plaque-forming units per mL. Downstream processing yields up to 410 mg of high-quality single-stranded DNA per one liter reaction volume, thus upgrading DNA origami-based nanotechnology from the milligram to the gram scale.
Bacterial cell counts in goat milk and their correlations with somatic cell counts, percent fat, and protein.

Representative milk samples at morning and afternoon milking were collected periodically for 5 mo from 32 does in a Prairie View A&M University milking herd to test the concentrations of total bacterial, coliform, and staphylococcus counts and to determine the correlations among the bacterial cell counts, somatic cell counts, percent fat, and percent protein. Bacterial cell counts were assayed by microbiogical methods using different nutrient media for the three cell types. Somatic cell counts were determined by an automated fluorescent microscopic somatic cell counter. Percent fat and protein were analyzed by an automated dual beam infrared absorption analyzer. Mean counts for total bacterial, coliform, staphylococcus, and somatic cell were 2.54 X 10(4), . 966 X 10(3), 3.32 X 10(3), and 9.08 X 10(5) cells/ml, respectively. The Nubian goats had higher counts in all three bacterial cell types than the Alpines, and the difference in staphylococcus counts between breeds was significant (P less than .05). However, Alpine milk contained slightly higher somatic cell counts than the Nubians. None of the correlation coefficients (r) between somatic cell and bacterial cell counts was significant for the pooled data from the two breeds, but r between staphylococcus and somatic cell counts for Alpine breed was significant (P less than .05). The r between somatic cell counts and percent fat or protein were significant (P less than .01) for combined or separated breed data. Bacterial cell counts could not explain high somatic cell counts in the goat milk with the present testing standards of cow milk.
The mitogen‐activated protein kinase pathway mediates growth arrest or E1A‐dependent apoptosis in SKBR3 human breast cancer cells

Previously, we have shown that phorbol ester (PMA) induces p21WAF1/CIP1‐dependent growth arrest in SKBr3 breast cancer and LNCaP prostate cancer cells. Here, I demonstrate that inhibition of Raf‐1 kinase by dominant‐negative Raf‐1 or pharmacological depletion of Raf‐1 prevented PMA‐mediated induction of p21WAF1/CIP1. Similarly, PD98059, a specific inhibitor of MEK, abolished p21WAF1/CIP1induction and PMA‐induced growth arrest. Like PMA, the H‐ras oncogene, another activator of the Raf‐1/MEK/MAPK pathway, transactivated p21WAF1/CIP1in SKBr3 cells. I further investigated PMA‐induced growth arrest following infection of SKBr3 cells with 12S E1A‐expressing adenovirus. Although high levels of E1A oncoprotein prevented both PMA‐induced p21WAF1/CIP1and growth arrest, smaller amounts of E1A abrogated growth arrest without down‐regulation of p21WAF1/CIP1. Therefore, E1A can stimulate proliferation downstream of p21WAF1/CIP1. Albeit less effective than full activity, either Rb‐ or p300‐binding activity of E1A was sufficient for the abrogation of PMA‐mediated growth arrest. E1A‐driven proliferation of PMA‐treated SKBr3 cells was accompanied by apoptosis. New therapeutic approaches can be envisioned that would utilize stimulation of the Raf‐1/MEK/MAPK pathway to inhibit growth of PMA‐sensitive cancer cells. Int. J. Cancer 78:511–517, 1998. © 1998 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
The emergence of language consensus - Intensifying language interaction in information systems development

As language is the venue for the concretisation of concepts and entities in information systems development (ISD), language unambiguousness is understood as an ideal basis for the success of the consolidation process in information systems development. In contrast, a fundamental postulation of language theories is the inherent ambiguity of natural language. Therefore, the analysis of how language consensus can be reached in an effective manner is of particular interest for collaborative ISD. We claim that the effectiveness of ISD depends on the ability to manage the question of how people deal with language in practice and reach consensus in the concrete ISD process. This requirement leads us to the point of emergence of language: the language interaction setting. Hence, we analysed the language interaction in an ISD project and identified different language interaction levels which serve as orientation for specific interventions in an interaction setting, enabling an intensification of consensus negotiation.
Use of Medicines with Unknown Fetal Risk among Parturient Women from the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort (Brazil)

Background. To estimate the exposure to medicines with unknown fetal risk during pregnancy and to analyze the maternal characteristics associated with it. Methods. A questionnaire was administered to 4,189 mothers of children belonging to the 2004 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study about use of any medicine during gestation. We evaluated the associations between use of medicines with unknown fetal risk and the independent variables through logistic regression models. Unknown fetal risk was defined as medicines in which studies in animals have revealed adverse effects on the fetus, and no controlled studies in women, or studies in women and animals, are available. Results. Out of the 4,189 women, 52.5% used at least one medicine from unknown fetal risk. Use of these medicines was associated with white skin color, high schooling, high income, six or more antenatal care consultations, hospital admission during pregnancy, and morbidity during gestation. Conclusion. The use of unknown fetal risk medicines is high, suggesting that their use must be addressed with caution with the aim of restricting their use to cases in which the benefits are greater than the potential risks.
Management of large vestibular schwannoma. Part II. Primary Gamma Knife surgery: radiological and clinical aspects.

OBJECT In large vestibular schwannomas (VSs), microsurgery is the main treatment option. A wait-and-scan policy or radiosurgery are generally not recommended given concerns of further lesion growth or increased mass effect due to transient swelling. Note, however, that some patients do not present with symptomatic mass effect or may still have serviceable hearing. Moreover, others may be old, suffer from severe comorbidity, or refuse any surgery. In this study the authors report the results in patients with large, growing VSs primarily treated with Gamma Knife surgery (GKS), with special attention to volumetric growth, control rate, and symptoms. METHODS The authors retrospectively analyzed 33 consecutive patients who underwent GKS for large, growing VSs, which were defined as > 6 cm(3) and at least indenting the brainstem. Patients with neurofibromatosis Type 2 were excluded from analysis, as were patients who had undergone previous treatment. Volume measurements were performed on contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MR images at the time of GKS and during follow-up. Medical charts were analyzed for clinical symptoms. RESULTS Radiological growth control was achieved in 88% of cases, clinical control (that is, no need for further treatment) in 79% of cases. The median follow-up was 30 months, and the mean VS volume was 8.8 cm(3) (range 6.1-17.7 cm(3)). No major complications occurred, although ventriculoperitoneal shunts were placed in 2 patients. The preservation of serviceable hearing and facial and trigeminal nerve function was achieved in 58%, 91%, and 86% of patients, respectively, with any facial and trigeminal neuropathy being transient. In 92% of the patients presenting with trigeminal hypesthesia before GKS, the condition resolved during follow-up. No patient- or VS-related feature was correlated with growth. CONCLUSIONS Primary GKS for large VSs leads to acceptable radiological growth rates and clinical control rates, with the chance of hearing preservation. Although a higher incidence of clinical control failure and postradiosurgical morbidity is noted, as compared with that for smaller VSs, primary radiosurgery is suitable for a selected group of patients. The absence of symptomatology due to mass effect on the brainstem or cerebellum is essential, as are close clinical and radiological follow-ups, because there is little reserve for growth or swelling.
Counting pedestrians in crowded scenes with efficient sparse learning

Counting pedestrians in crowded scenes provides powerful cues for several applications such as traffic, safety, and advertising analysis in urban areas. Recent research progress has shown that direct mapping from image statistics (e.g. area or texture histograms of people regions) to the number of pedestrians, also known as counting by regression, is a promise way of robust pedestrian counting. While leveraging arbitrary image features is encouraged in the counting by regression to improve the accuracy, this leads to risk of over-fitting issue. Furthermore, the most image statistics are sensitive to the way of foreground region segmentation. Hence, careful selection process on both segmentation and feature levels is needed. This paper presents an efficient sparse training method via LARS (Least Angle Regression) to achieve the selection process on both levels, which provides the both sparsity of Lasso and Group Lasso. The experimental results using synthetic and pedestrian counting dataset show that our method provides robust performance with reasonable training cost among the state of the art pedestrian counting methods.
Basal conditions of two Transantarctic Mountains outlet glaciers from observation-constrained diagnostic modelling

We present a diagnostic glacier flowline model parameterized and constrained by new velocity data from ice-surface GPS installations and speckle tracking of TerraSAR-X satellite images, newly acquired airborne-radar data, and continental gridded datasets of topography and geothermal heat flux, in order to better understand two outlet glaciers of the East Antarctic ice sheet. Our observational data are employed as primary inputs to a modelling procedure that first calculates the basal thermal regime of each glacier, then iterates the basal sliding coefficient and deformation rate parameter until the fit of simulated to observed surface velocities is optimized. We find that the two glaciers have both frozen and thawed areas at their beds, facilitating partial sliding. Glacier flow arises from a balance between sliding and deformation that fluctuates along the length of each glacier, with the amount of sliding typically varying by up to two orders of magnitude but with deformation rates far more constant. Beardmore Glacier is warmer and faster-flowing than Skelton Glacier, but an up-glacier deepening bed at the grounding line, coupled with ice thicknesses close to flotation, lead us to infer a greater vulnerability of Skelton Glacier to grounding-line recession if affected by ocean-forced thinning and concomitant acceleration.
Adjuvant chemotherapy for luminal A breast cancer: a prospective study comparing two popular chemotherapy regimens

Introduction Based on the variable benefit of taxanes in the adjuvant setting of early breast cancer in certain tumor phenotypes, especially in human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER)2-positive and triple-negative disease, and with the observation of a lesser benefit in luminal A, this research article aimed at exploring the value of docetaxel in patients with an estrogen receptor-positive, HER2-negative disease phenotype, who might not derive the same benefits as those with other phenotypes. Patients and methods This was a randomized prospective study comparing disease-free survival (DFS) and safety profile of sequential adjuvant three cycles Fluorouracil, Epirubicin, Cyclophosphamide followed by three cycles Docetaxel (FEC-D) versus six cycles classic Fluorouracil, Epirubicin, Cyclophosphamide (FEC)-100 in 60 Egyptian women who presented to Dar Al Fouad Hospital during the period June 2007 to July 2008 with (pT1-2 pN0-3 M0). The primary end point was DFS in a follow-up period of 4 years. The secondary end point was toxicity profile. Results Four-year DFS rates were comparable in both arms: 73.3% ± 8.1% in the FEC-D arm versus 76.5% ± 7.8% in the FEC-100 arm (P = 0.83). N3 and grade III subgroups achieved the worst DFS in both subgroups (P = 0.001 and P = 0.214, respectively). The rate of nausea and vomiting was higher in the FEC-100 arm (P = 0.49), while grade III–IV neutropenia and febrile neutropenia incidence was similar between both arms. Conclusion Sequential adjuvant chemotherapy with FEC followed by docetaxel achieved comparable DFS results to FEC alone in luminal A phenotype subgroups of breast cancer.
Multitarget Tracking Using a Particle Filter Representation of the Joint Multitarget Density

This paper addresses the problem of tracking multiple moving targets by recursively estimating the joint multitarget probability density (JMPD). Estimation of the JMPD is done in a Bayesian framework and provides a method for tracking multiple targets which allows nonlinear target motion and measurement to state coupling as well as non-Gaussian target state densities. The JMPD technique simultaneously estimates both the target states and the number of targets in the surveillance region based on the set of measurements made. In this paper, we give an implementation of the JMPD method based on particle filtering techniques and provide an adaptive sampling scheme which explicitly models the multitarget nature of the problem. We show that this implementation of the JMPD technique provides a natural way to track a collection of targets, is computationally tractable, and performs well under difficult conditions such as target crossing, convoy movement, and low measurement SNR.
Severe giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis in Scotland, UK

Summary Hospital discharge data from 1990–4 for 26 hospitals were used to estimate and compare the cost and describe the epidemiology of severe giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis in Scotland, UK. The incidence of severe cryptosporidiosis was almost double that of severe giardiasis and the median duration of hospitalization was longer for cryptosporidiosis than giardiasis. Impaired immunity was frequently listed as co-diagnosis with cryptosporidiosis and associated with extended hospitalization. Although both infections were associated with infants, the median age was lower for cryptosporidiosis (5 years compared with 30 years). Whereas hospitalization was not significantly longer for infants with cryptosporidiosis, hospitalization for this age group with giardiasis was longer (4 days compared with 3 days). Comparison with similar data for giardiasis from USA revealed various differences and similarities. These points are discussed in relation to the epidemiology of these infections and published data were used to estimate costs of hospitalization.
The Low-Frequency Environment of the Murchison Widefield Array: Radio-Frequency Interference Analysis and Mitigation

Abstract The Murchison Widefield Array is a new low-frequency interferometric radio telescope built in Western Australia at one of the locations of the future Square Kilometre Array. We describe the automated radio-frequency interference detection strategy implemented for the Murchison Widefield Array, which is based on the aoflagger platform, and present 72–231 MHz radio-frequency interference statistics from 10 observing nights. Radio-frequency interference detection removes 1.1% of the data. Radio-frequency interference from digital TV is observed 3% of the time due to occasional ionospheric or atmospheric propagation. After radio-frequency interference detection and excision, almost all data can be calibrated and imaged without further radio-frequency interference mitigation efforts, including observations within the FM and digital TV bands. The results are compared to a previously published Low-Frequency Array radio-frequency interference survey. The remote location of the Murchison Widefield Array results in a substantially cleaner radio-frequency interference environment compared to Low-Frequency Array’s radio environment, but adequate detection of radio-frequency interference is still required before data can be analysed. We include specific recommendations designed to make the Square Kilometre Array more robust to radio-frequency interference, including: the availability of sufficient computing power for radio-frequency interference detection; accounting for radio-frequency interference in the receiver design; a smooth band-pass response; and the capability of radio-frequency interference detection at high time and frequency resolution (second and kHz-scale respectively).