Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Knowledge Levels and Training Needs of Disaster Medicine among Health Professionals, Medical Students, and Local Residents in Shanghai, China

Background Disaster is a serious public health issue. Health professionals and community residents are main players in disaster responses but their knowledge levels of disaster medicine are not readily available. This study aimed to evaluate knowledge levels and training needs of disaster medicine among potential disaster responders and presented a necessity to popularize disaster medicine education. Methods A self-reporting questionnaire survey on knowledge level and training needs of disaster medicine was conducted in Shanghai, China, in 2012. A total of randomly selected 547 health professionals, 456 medical students, and 1,526 local residents provided intact information. The total response rate was 93.7%. Results Overall, 1.3% of these participants have received systematic disaster medicine training. News media (87.1%) was the most common channel to acquire disaster medicine knowledge. Although health professionals were more knowledgeable than community residents, their knowledge structure of disaster medicine was not intact. Medical teachers were more knowledgeable than medical practitioners and health administrators (p = 0.002). Clinicians performed better than public health physicians (p<0.001), whereas public health students performed better than clinical medical students (p<0.001). In community residents, education background significantly affected the knowledge level on disaster medicine (p<0.001). Training needs of disaster medicine were generally high among the surveyed. ‘Lecture’ and ‘practical training’ were preferred teaching methods. The selected key and interested contents on disaster medicine training were similar between health professionals and medical students, while the priorities chosen by local residents were quite different from health professionals and medical students (p<0.001). Conclusions Traditional clinical-oriented medical education might lead to a huge gap between the knowledge level on disaster medicine and the current needs of disaster preparedness. Continuing medical education and public education plans on disaster medicine via media should be practice-oriented, and selectively applied to different populations and take the knowledge levels and training needs into consideration.
European Conference on Information Systems ( ECIS ) Summer 10-6-2011 INFORMATION QUALITY IN LARGE ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS : A DELPHI CASE STUDY

This Delphi study identifies problems that have significant impacts on profits gained from large engineering and construction projects in a European company. Information quality gained remarkable weight among the identified problems. The problems were ranked in accordance to their estimated impact on the project profit margins. Within a consolidated list of 125 problems identified altogether, the final ranking of the top 18 problems was strongly agreed upon by an expert panel. The panel involved experienced engineering and management professionals throughout the construction project supply chain. Among the top 18, eight problems, including the top six, concerned information quality. The results address a need for increased focus on information quality challenges in the target organization and provide a detailed account of such challenges in comparison to the previous literature on information quality in engineering and construction.
Tuberculosis as a cause of recurrent fever of unknown origin.

Recurrent fever constitutes a diagnostic challenge for clinicians, due mainly to the intermittent nature of the fever that results in incomplete investigations. We describe three patients with recurrent fever thought to be due to tuberculosis, and review the 14 previously reported cases who fulfil the criteria of recurrent fever for at least 1 month's duration. The median duration of symptoms before diagnosis was 5 months, and the duration of the febrile bouts ranged from a few hours to 1 week. The most common complaints were constitutional symptoms and abdominal pain, and most patients had significant underlying conditions. The mortality rate was 31%, and was limited to the earlier cases. Routine laboratory studies are not very helpful for the diagnosis of this condition, and chest radiographs showed some alteration in half the cases at the time of diagnosis, although in some cases represented old, healed lesions. PPD testing was positive in most cases, particularly in those without underlying conditions. Empirical antituberculous therapy should be considered in cases of recurrent fever, especially in areas of high prevalence or in patients with predisposing conditions.
Through the Prism of Black Psychology : A Critical Review of Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Africology as Seen Through the Paradigmatic Lens of Black Psychology

This paper attempts to address the invisibility of Africana psychological theory, research, and methodology in Africology by synthesizing the competing definitions, schools of thought, and research agendas in Black Psychology. Attention will be given to the various ways in which Black psychologists have attempted to deconstruct and reconstruct traditional psychological thought as well as construct new definitions, theories, measurements, and conceptual frameworks for understanding and interpreting the psychological experiences of people of African descent. Although psychology was identified by Karenga as one of the core components in the emerging discipline of African-American Studies, very few of the existing institutes, programs, and departments of African-American Studies include psychology as a major part of their curriculum. As a psycho-historical endeavor, a primary concern of Africana Psychology is with understanding how the historical experiences of being an African in America have impacted African-American psyches. Thus, it is argued that if the discipline of Africology is attempting to fully understand Africana experiences, Africology must reexamine the importance of psychology and its role in aiding Africana scholars interpret and understand the experiences of people of African descent in the Americas and throughout the diaspora.
FGF9 and SHH regulate mesenchymal Vegfa expression and development of the pulmonary capillary network

The juxtaposition of a dense capillary network to lung epithelial cells is essential for air-blood gas exchange. Defective lung vascular development can result in bronchopulmonary dysplasia and alveolar capillary dysplasia. Although vascular endothelial growth factor A (Vegfa) is required for formation of the lung capillary network, little is known regarding the factors that regulate the density and location of the distal capillary plexus and the expression pattern of Vegfa. Here, we show that fibroblast growth factor 9 (FGF9) and sonic hedgehog (SHH) signaling to lung mesenchyme, but not to endothelial cells, are each necessary and together sufficient for distal capillary development. Furthermore, both gain- and loss-of-function of FGF9 regulates Vegfa expression in lung mesenchyme, and VEGF signaling is required for FGF9-mediated blood vessel formation. FGF9, however, can only partially rescue the reduction in capillary density found in the absence of SHH signaling, and SHH is unable to rescue the vascular phenotype found in Fgf9-/- lungs. Thus, both signaling systems regulate distinct aspects of vascular development in distal lung mesenchyme. These data suggest a molecular mechanism through which FGF9 and SHH signaling coordinately control the growth and patterning of the lung capillary plexus, and regulate the temporal and spatial expression of Vegfa.
The Formation of Crystalline Dust in AGB Winds from Binary-induced Spiral Shocks

As stars evolve along the asymptotic giant branch (AGB), strong winds are driven from the outer envelope. These winds form a shell, which may ultimately become a planetary nebula. Many planetary nebulae are highly asymmetric, hinting at the presence of a binary companion. Some post-AGB objects are surrounded by tori of crystalline dust, but there is no generally accepted mechanism for annealing the amorphous grains in the wind to crystals. Here, we show that the shaping of an AGB wind by a binary companion provides a possible mechanism for forming crystalline dust in the orbital plane.
Trajectories of social relationships and cognitive decline : losing and gaining in late life

Background: The extent to which social relationships influence cognitive ageing is unclear. Inconclusive evidence on the neuro-protective effect of social relationships may arise from various social relationship measures and reverse causation. Aim: This thesis systematically investigates the longitudinal dynamic associations between social relationships from middle to early old age and cognitive ageing. Methods and results: Analyses were based on repeat measures of functional and structural aspects of social relationships and cognition (i.e. executive function and memory) from the Whitehall II prospective cohort, providing 10-year follow-up of 6,867 participants in the age range from 45 to 80 years. A set of growth curve models was applied sequentially. Results derived from multilevel models showed midlife negative but not positive aspects of close relationships were associated with accelerated declines in executive function. A large friend network was associated with better concurrent executive function only. Growth mixture models uncovered three latent classes of social relationships with divergent longitudinal changing patterns from middle to early old age, where participants identified as consistently perceiving extremely-high levels of confiding support over years experienced the least decline in memory. Last, findings obtained from dual change score models revealed that a greater cognitive function at the preceding stage was related to less positive changes in confiding support and less negative changes in practical support; whereas there was no detectable influence the other way around. Conclusions: The effect of social relationships on declines in cognition from middle to early old age is not substantial in this British civil servant cohort. On the other hand, cognitive ability appears to modify subsequent changes in support from close relationships. This study contributes to the understanding of the dynamic interplay between social relationships and cognitive decline in late life, and highlights the importance of including multiple repeat measures to better understand ageing.
Standardized Direct Charge Device ESD test for magnetoresistive recording heads II

The well-known Human Body Model is not the most relevant ESD mechanisms along today's production lines. Damage will most likely occur from metal contact rather than from bare fingers. Discharge waveforms from metal-to-metal contact are of the order of 1 ns, while HBM is 150ns. As there is no standard for Direct-Charged Device Model in the literature yet, the purpose of this work is to propose and define the first standard for D-CDM testing. This standard is based on manual discharge data. We further investigate if existing D-CDM tools meet this standard: ISI D-CDM and T.E. T ESD/CDM tools are reviewed.
Pengaruh Konsentrasi Garam Terhadap Kadar Protein dan Kualitas Organoleptik Telur Bebek

Telur bebek sebagai bahan pangan yang cukup sempurna mengandung zat gizi tinggi yang mudah dicerna, kaya protein, lemak dan zat-zat lain yang dibutuhkan tubuh. Kandungan protein dalam telur bebek cukup tinggi, yakni 13,1 gram per 100 gram dibandingkan dengan telur ayam 12,8 gram. Telur bebek memiliki sifat yang mudah rusak. Salah satu cara untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut adalah dengan pengawetan, yaitu metode kering (abu dan garam). Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh konsentrasi garam terhadap kadar protein telur bebek dan mengetahui pengaruh konsentrasi garam terhadap karakteristik organoleptik telur bebek. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kuantitatif dan jenis penelitian eksperimen dengan menggunakan pola Rancangan Acak Lengkap (RAL) yang terdiri dari 5 perlakuan dan 4 ulangan. Perlakuan terdiri dari P0 (Konsentrasi abu 60 gram : garam 0 gram), P1 (Konsentrasi abu 60 gram : garam 20 gram), P2 (Konsentrasi abu 60 gram : garam 40 gram), P3 (Konsentrasi abu 60 gram : garam 60 gram), dan P4 (Konsentrasi abu 60 gram : garam 80 gram). Data penelitian ini bersumber pada hasil uji kadar protein dan kualitas organoleptik telur asin. Pengumpulan data untuk kadar protein dilakukan dengan menguji kadar protein telur bebek yang telah diberikan garam dengan konsentrasi yang berbeda-beda dan untuk kualitas organoleptik berdasarkan angket yang sudah diisi oleh panelis terhadap karakteristik telur bebek yang telah diasinkan dengan konsentrasi garam yang berbeda. Analisis data dilakukan dengan analisis varian (ANAVA) dan untuk kualitas organoleptik dilakukan uji lanjut uji Beda Nyata Terkecil (BNT) dan uji Beda Nyata Jujur (BNJ). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan berdasarkan grafik kadar protein tertinggi pada perlakuan P2 dengan rerata skor 14,23% dan hasil organoleptik yaitu untuk karakteristik tekstur yang sangat kenyal diperoleh P4 dengan rerata skor 6, karakteristik warna yang sangat orange diperoleh P4 dengan rerata skor 5, karakteristik rasa yang sangat asin diperoleh P4 yaitu dengan rerata skor 5, dan karakteristik aroma yang sangat tidak amis diperoleh P4 dengan rerata skor 6. Simpulan penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa konsentrasi garam yang berbeda-beda tidak berpengaruh terhadap kadar protein telur bebek akan tetapi konsentrasi garam yang berbeda-beda berpengaruh terhadap kualitas organoleptik telur bebek yaitu tekstur, rasa, warna dan aroma.
Risk of Hand Syndromes in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus

AbstractThe aim of this study was to assess the overall and cause-specific incidences of diabetic hand syndromes (DHS) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) by using age and sex stratifications.The DM and control cohorts comprised 606,152 patients with DM and 609,970 age- and sex-matched subjects, respectively, who were followed up from 2000 to 2008. We estimated the incidence densities (IDs) of overall and cause-specific DHS, namely carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), stenosing flexor tenosynovitis (SFT), limited joint mobility (LJM), and Dupuytren disease (DD), and calculated the hazard ratios (HRs) of DHS in relation to DM by using a Cox proportional hazards model with adjustment for potential confounders.Over a 9-year period, 51,207 patients with DM (8.45%) and 39,153 matched controls (6.42%) sought ambulatory care visits for various DHS, with an ID of 117.7 and 80.7 per 10,000 person-years, respectively. The highest cause-specific ID was observed for CTS, followed by SFT, LJM, and DD, regardless of the diabetic status. After adjustment for potential confounders, patients with DM had a significantly high HR of overall DHS (1.51, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.48–1.53). Men and women aged <35 years had the highest HR (2.64, 95% CI = 2.15–3.24 and 2.99, 95% CI = 2.55–3.50, respectively). Cause-specific analyses revealed that DM was more strongly associated with SFT (HR = 1.90, 95% CI = 1.86–1.95) and DD (HR = 1.83, 95% CI = 1.39–2.39) than with CTS (HR = 1.31, 95% CI = 1.28–1.34) and LJM (HR = 1.24, 95% CI = 1.13–1.35). Men and younger patients with DM have the highest risk of DHS. Certain hand syndromes, such as SFT and DD, were more strongly associated with DM than with other syndromes and require the attention of clinicians.
ANRIL Expression Is Associated With Atherosclerosis Risk at Chromosome 9p21

Objective—We tested the hypothesis that expression of transcripts adjacent to the chromosome 9p21 (Chr9p21) locus of coronary artery disease was affected by the genotype at this locus and associated with atherosclerosis risk. Methods and Results—We replicated the locus for coronary artery disease (P=0.007; OR=1.28) and other manifestations of atherosclerosis such as carotid plaque (P=0.003; OR=1.31) in the Leipzig Heart Study, a cohort of 1134 patients with varying degree of angiographically assessed coronary artery disease. Expression analysis in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (n=1098) revealed that transcripts EU741058 and NR_003529 of antisense noncoding RNA in the INK4 locus (ANRIL) were significantly increased in carriers of the risk haplotype (P=2.1×10−12 and P=1.6×10−5, respectively). In contrast, transcript DQ485454 remained unaffected, suggesting differential expression of ANRIL transcripts at Chr9p21. Results were replicated in whole blood (n=769) and atherosclerotic plaque tissue (n=41). Moreover, expression of ANRIL transcripts was directly correlated with severity of atherosclerosis (EU741058 and NR_003529; P=0.02 and P=0.001, respectively). No consistent association of Chr9p21 or atherosclerosis was found with expression of other genes such as CDKN2A, CDKN2B, C9orf53, and MTAP. Conclusion—Our data provide robust evidence for an association of ANRIL but not CDKN2A, CDKN2B, C9orf53, and MTAP, with atherosclerosis and Chr9p21 genotype in a large cohort.
Exercises in Empowerment: Toward a Feminist Aerobic Pedagogy

The current popularity of aerobic dance exercise makes it an important site for the analysis of women and movement. Feminist researchers have critiqued aerobics as an activity which does more to maintain dominant ideologies of women’s powerlessness than it does to liberate women through movement and action (Kagan & Morse, 1988; MacNeil, 1988; Theberge, 1985, 1987) whereas, based upon psychological studies, a participation in aerobics has been shown to improve self-esteem (Labbe, Welsh, & Delaney, 1988; Plummer & Young, 1987; Skrinar, Bullen, Cheek, McArthur, & Vaughan, 1986). Other scholars point to the contradictions of empowerment and oppression that women must encounter when they participate in aerobic dance exercise (Haravon, 1992; Kenen, 1987; Markula, 1991). In this paper I consider an alternative feminist reading of aerobic dance exercise, arguing that there are specific ways to make the mainstream aerobic workout a site for empowerment for women. Using the commentary of physical education students.
Reward-Dependent Modulation of Working Memory in Lateral Prefrontal Cortex

Although research implicates lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) in executive control and goal-directed behavior, it remains unclear how goals influence executive processes. One possibility is that goal-relevant information, such as expected rewards, could modulate the representation of information relating to executive control, thereby ensuring the efficient allocation of cognitive resources. To investigate this, we examined how reward modulated spatial working memory. Past studies investigating spatial working memory have focused on dorsolateral PFC, but this area only weakly connects with areas processing reward. Ventrolateral PFC has better connections in this regard. Thus, we contrasted the functional properties of single neurons in ventrolateral and dorsolateral PFC as two subjects performed a task that required them to hold spatial information in working memory under different expectancies of reward for correct performance. We balanced the order of presentation of spatial and reward information so we could assess the neuronal encoding of the two pieces of information independently and conjointly. Neurons in ventrolateral PFC encoded both spatial and reward information earlier, stronger and in a more sustained manner than neurons in dorsolateral PFC. Within ventrolateral PFC, spatial selectivity was more prevalent on the inferior convexity than within the principal sulcus. Finally, when reward increased spatial selectivity, behavioral performance improved, whereas when reward decreased spatial selectivity, behavioral performance deteriorated. These results suggest that ventrolateral PFC may be a locus whereby information about expected rewards can modulate information in working memory. The pattern of results is consistent with a role for ventrolateral PFC in attentional control.
Effects of antidepressants on the inward current mediated by 5‐HT3 receptors in rat nodose ganglion neurones

1 Effects of three different categories of antidepressants, imipramine (tricyclic), fluoxetine (selective 5‐hydroxytryptamine (5‐HT) uptake inhibitor), phenelzine and iproniazid (monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor) on the inward current mediated by 5‐HT3 receptors were investigated in rat nodose ganglion neurones. The whole‐cell patch‐clamp technique was used for recording the 5‐HT current. 2 All the antidepressants tested inhibited the peak 5‐HT current. The inhibition gradually reached a steady level and the recovery was incomplete when antidepressants were removed. IC50 values for imipramine, fluoxetine and phenelzine were 0.54 μm, 1.3 μm and 4.2 μm respectively. The correspondent Hill coefficients were 0.9, 0.87 and 0.92. 3 The antidepressants examined increased the rate of 5‐HT current desensitization. IC50 values for imipramine, fluoxetine and phenelzine on the decrease in desensitization time constant were 0.11 μm, 0.18 μm and 2.4 μm respectively. The correspondent Hill coefficients were 0.9, 1.14 and 1.06. 4 Intracellular applications of the protein kinase inhibitor, H‐7 (100 μm), GDP‐β‐S (2 mm) and the calcium chelator BAPTA (20 mm) did not affect the 5‐HT current and the actions of antidepressants on 5‐HT current. 5 These results suggest that the 5‐HT3 receptor is an acting site for the therapeutic use of antidepressants. The present observation is also helpful in explaining the analgesic effect of antidepressants seen in pain clinics.
Component-based Self-Healing Algorithm with Dynamic Range Allocation for Fault-Tolerance in WSN

In this paper we present a new fault-tolerant approach that establishes alternate path to the root node in a hierarchical aggregation tree in the event of intermediary node/link failures in WSNs. The Component-based Self-healing approach introduced in the paper exploits the inherent redundancy of WSN, to reconnect the nodes affected by a faulty parent back to the root component without using any redundant or backup parent nodes. The component approach is borrowed from graph theory to establish a connected path to the root. Based on this approach, two algorithms are developed (i) Self-healing Component-based Reconfiguration (SCR) and SCR-Dynamic Transmission Range Adjustment (SCR-DTRA). The SCR algorithm performs admirably well compared to two existing approaches in literature. However, depending on the location of nodes deployed, there could still be few estranged nodes that fail to get connected to root component. The SCR-DTRA algorithm counters this by dynamically adjusting the transmission range of estranged node so as to ensure its connectivity to the root component, without compromising the precedence relations. The results of simulations show that SCR-DTRA succeeds in connecting all affected nodes to root component, unlike most other approaches. The paper presents the algorithms, results of simulation and validation studies carried out on both algorithms.
Price-Quantity Competition and Edgeworth Cycles

I consider markets in which eight firms compete deciding simultaneously on price and quantity with a given capacity. I got eight independent experimental observations. At any of 65 rounds the same eight firms met each other in the same market. If a firm made high enough losses it went bankrupt and left the market. In this case capacity was distributed among surviving firms following a proportional profit rule. All observations exhibit strong cycles in price and supplied quantity that resemble Edgeworth cycles. JEL classification: C91, D43