Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Professionals From the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association Guidelines for the Prevention of Stroke in Women : A Statement for Healthcare

Stroke Nursing, Council on Clinical Cardiology, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, and on behalf of the American Heart Association Stroke Council, Council on Cardiovascular and Towfighi, Viola Vaccarino and Matthew R. Walters Piña, Mathew J. Reeves, Kathryn M. Rexrode, Gustavo Saposnik, Vineeta Singh, Amytis Fedder, Karen L. Furie, Virginia J. Howard, Judith H. Lichtman, Lynda D. Lisabeth, Ileana L. Cheryl Bushnell, Louise D. McCullough, Issam A. Awad, Monique V. Chireau, Wende N. Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Guidelines for the Prevention of Stroke in Women: A Statement for Healthcare Print ISSN: 0039-2499. Online ISSN: 1524-4628 Copyright © 2014 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Stroke published online February 6, 2014; Stroke. http://stroke.ahajournals. org/content/early/2014/02/06/01.str. 0000442009.06663. 48 World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is located on the
Age- and Sex-Specific Trends in the Incidence of Hospitalized Acute Coronary Syndromes in Western Australia

Background— The incidence of myocardial infarction has declined during the past 4 decades in many populations. However, there are limited population data measuring trends in acute coronary syndromes (ACS). We therefore examined temporal trends in the incidence of hospitalized ACS by age and sex in a population-based cohort. Methods and Results— The Western Australian Data Linkage System, a repository of linked administrative health data, was used to identify 29 421 incident ACS hospitalizations between 1996 and 2007. Poisson log-linear regression models were used to calculate incidence rate changes. Age-standardized incidence rates of ACS declined annually in men by 1.7% (95% confidence interval [CI], −2.1 to −1.3) and in women by 1.6% (95% CI, −2.1 to −1.0). These declining rates were underpinned by annual reductions in the incidence of unstable angina (men, −3.0%; 95% CI, −3.7 to −2.4; women, −2.5; 95% CI, −3.3 to −1.7), whereas annual changes in myocardial infarction incidence were less (men, −1.0%; 95% CI, −1.5 to −0.5; women, −0.8%; 95% CI, −1.6 to 0). However, the overall trends masked age group differences, with ACS incidence increasing annually in 35- to 54-year-old women (2.3%; 95% CI, 1.0 to 3.8), predominantly driven by increasing incidence of myocardial infarction. Conclusions— The age-standardized incidence of ACS decreased significantly in Western Australia from 1996 to 2007. However, an increase in ACS incidence in women ages 35 to 54 years is troubling and warrants further investigation.
Visual interhemispheric transfer to areas 17 and 18 in cats with convergent strabismus

Commissural connections between primary visual cortical maps of the two hemispheres are essential to unify the split representation of the visual field. In normal adult cats, callosal connections are essentially restricted to the border between areas A17 and A18, where the central vertical meridian is projected. In contrast, early convergent strabismus leads to an expanded callosal‐receiving zone, as repeatedly indicated by anatomical experiments. We investigated here the functional correlates of this widespread distribution of callosal terminals by analysing transcallosal visual responses in five anaesthetized and paralysed 4–10‐month‐old cats whose right eye had been surgically deviated on postnatal day 6. After acute section of the optic chiasm, single‐unit activity was recorded from A17 and A18 of the right hemisphere while the left eye was visually stimulated. A total of 108/406 units were transcallosally activated. While they were more frequent at the 17/18 border (46% of the units recorded within this region), numerous transcallosally activated units were located throughout A17 (16%), A18 (27%) or within the white matter (17%). In all regions, transcallosally driven units displayed functional deficits usually associated with strabismus, such as decreased binocularity and ability to respond to fast‐moving stimuli, and increased receptive field size. Many units also displayed reduced orientation selectivity and increased position disparity. In addition, transcallosal receptive fields were manifestly located within the hemifield ipsilateral to the explored cortex, with almost no contact with the central vertical meridian. Comparison with data from normal adults revealed that strabismus induced a considerable expansion of the callosal receiving zone, both in terms of the cortical region and of the extent of the visual field involved in interhemispheric transfer, with implications in the integration of visual information across the hemispheres.
Bactericidal activity of catechin‐copper (II) complexes against Staphylococcus aureus compared with Escherichia coli

The bactericidal activity of catechin‐copper (II) complexes against Staphylococcus aureus compared with Escherichia coli was investigated in relation to the generation of hydrogen peroxide and the binding of Cu(II) ion onto the bacteria. The bactericidal activity of catechin‐Cu(II) complexes against Staph. aureus (Gram‐positive) was much lower than that against E. coli (Gram‐negative), suggesting that the binding of copper ions to the surface of bacterial cells plays an important role in the bactericidal activity of catechin‐Cu(II) complexes.
Regaining Joy of Life: Theory-Driven Development of Mobile Psychotherapy Support Systems

This paper addresses the theory-driven design of a mobile health (mHealth) application that supports modern psychotherapy with information communication technology (ICT). It presents the initial stage of a larger multi-disciplinary project involving researchers from clinical psychology and information systems (IS). We derive guidelines for developing ICT that support cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a form of psychotherapy that is well established for the treatment of several mental disorders such as anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorders. Furthermore, we identify core challenges of CBT that can be mitigated with ICT support: patient compliance with therapy homework as well as relapse prevention. These challenges are linked to the theoretical constructs of motivation and continued use intention. As a first step of our multi-disciplinary research-in-progress, we derive five principles and 14 guidelines for the design of an mHealth application supporting CBT before implementing and testing it within our research cluster.
Sparse Signal Recovery and Acquisition with Graphical Models

A great deal of theoretic and algorithmic research has revolved around sparsity view of signals over the last decade to characterize new, sub-Nyquist sampling limits as well as tractable algorithms for signal recovery from dimensionality reduced measurements. Despite the promising advances made, real-life applications require more realistic signal models that can capture the underlying, application-dependent order of sparse coefficients, better sampling matrices with information preserving properties that can be implemented in practical systems, and ever faster algorithms with provable recovery guarantees for real-time operation.
Nurses’ perception of ethical climate and organizational commitment

The high turnover of nurses has become a universal issue. The manner in which nurses view their organization’s ethical climate has direct bearing on their organizational commitment. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between nurses’ perception of ethical climate and organizational commitment in teaching hospitals in the southeastern region of Iran. A descriptive analytical design was used in this study. The sample consisted of 275 nurses working in four teaching hospitals in the southeastern region of Iran. The instruments used in this study included a demographic questionnaire, Ethical Climate Questionnaire, and Organizational Commitment Questionnaire. Data analysis was carried out using Pearson’s correlation, t-test, and descriptive statistic through Statistical Package for Social Science, version 16. The result of this research indicated a positive correlation among professionalism, caring, rules, independence climate, and organizational commitment. Therefore, findings of this study are a guideline for researchers and managers alike who endeavor to improve organizational commitment.
SMART: Secure and Minimal Architecture for (Establishing Dynamic) Root of Trust

Remote attestation is the process of securely verifying internal state of a remote hardware platform. It can be achieved either statically (at boot time) or dynamically, at run-time in order to establish a dynamic root of trust. The latter allows full isolation of a code region from preexisting software (including the operating system) and guarantees untampered execution of this code. Despite the untrusted state of the overall platform, a dynamic root of trust facilitates execution of critical code. Prior software-based techniques lack concrete security guarantees, while hardware-based approaches involve security co-processors that are too costly for low-end embedded devices. In this paper, we develop a new primitive (called SMART) based on hardware-software co-design. SMART is a simple, efficient and secure approach for establishing a dynamic root of trust in a remote embedded device. We focus on low-end micro-controller units (MCU) that lack specialized memory management or protection features. SMART requires minimal changes to existing MCUs (while providing concrete security guarantees) and assumes few restrictions on adversarial capabilities. We demonstrate both practicality and feasibility of SMART by implementing it – via hardware modifications – on two common MCU platforms: AVR and MSP430. Results show that SMART implementations require only a few changes to memory bus access logic. We also synthesize both implementations to an 180nm ASIC process to confirm its small impact on MCU size and overall cost.
Physico-chemical, Heavy Metals and Radioisotope Concentratios in Underground Water from Kaduna, Kafanchan and Zaria Senatorial Areas of Kaduna State, Nigeria

The Physico-chemical parameters heavy metals and radioisotopes were analysed in drinking water collected from selected wells in three senatorial areas (Kaduna, Kafanchan and Zaria) in Kaduna state. The water samples were analysed using the American Public Health Association (APHA) standard methods for the physico-chemical analysis, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry (AAS) for the heavy metal determination and also the X-Ray Florescence (ED-XRF) for the radioisotopes determination. The results obtained were compared with the permissible limits recommended by the Nigerian Industrial Standard (NIS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) for drinking water. The results for the water samples are as follows: pH (2.06 – 6.56), Conductivity (0.14 – 0.78 mS/cm), Temperature (25.2 – 28.4°C), TDS (0.07 – 0.78 mg/L), COD (11.52 – 27.52 mg/L), Cu (0.0000 – Original Research Article Faruruwa and Titilayo; CSIJ, 20(4): 1-12, 2017; Article no.CSIJ. 36970 2 0.0560 mg/L), Cr (0.0005 – 0.0056 mg/L), Cd (0.0000 – 0.0040 mg/L), Pb (0.0004 – 0.0080 mg/L), Ni (0.0000 – 0.0048 mg/L), Fe (0.0000 – 0.0900 mg/L) and Co (0.0001 – 0.0040 mg/L). Thorium and Radium were not detected in the water samples collected from all the sampling locations. The water quality analysis results showed that some of the well water samples had pH, Ni and Cd values that were above the recommended limits and all the water samples had COD values that were above the recommended values and as such were considered not good for drinking.
The PGD2 pathway, independently of FGF9, amplifies SOX9 activity in Sertoli cells during male sexual differentiation

Activation by the Y-encoded testis determining factor SRY and maintenance of expression of the Sox9 gene encoding the central transcription factor of Sertoli cell differentiation are key events in the mammalian sexual differentiation program. In the mouse XY gonad, SOX9 upregulates Fgf9, which initiates a Sox9/Fgf9 feedforward loop, and Sox9 expression is stimulated by the prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) producing lipocalin prostaglandin D synthase (L-PGDS, or PTDGS) enzyme, which accelerates commitment to the male pathway. In an attempt to decipher the genetic relationships between Sox9 and the L-Pgds/PGD2 pathway during mouse testicular organogenesis, we found that ablation of Sox9 at the onset or during the time window of expression in embryonic Sertoli cells abolished L-Pgds transcription. By contrast, L-Pgds-/- XY embryonic gonads displayed a reduced level of Sox9 transcript and aberrant SOX9 protein subcellular localization. In this study, we demonstrated genetically that the L-Pgds/PGD2 pathway acts as a second amplification loop of Sox9 expression. Moreover, examination of Fgf9-/- and L-Pgds-/- XY embryonic gonads demonstrated that the two Sox9 gene activity amplifying pathways work independently. These data suggest that, once activated and maintained by SOX9, production of testicular L-PGDS leads to the accumulation of PGD2, which in turn activates Sox9 transcription and nuclear translocation of SOX9. This mechanism participates together with FGF9 as an amplification system of Sox9 gene expression and activity during mammalian testicular organogenesis.
(E)-2-[(2,4-Dichlorophenyl)iminomethyl]benzene-1,4-diol monohydrate

The title compound, C13H9Cl2NO2·H2O, represents a Schiff base which adopts the phenol–imine tautomeric form in the solid state. The molecule is approximately planar (r.m.s. deviation 0.0818 Å), and the dihedral angle between the two aromatic rings is 7.46 (12)°. An O—H⋯N interaction generates an S(6) ring. In the crystal, molecules are linked by intermolecular O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds involving the solvent water molecule, forming chains.
The eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4E wears a “cap” for many occasions

ABSTRACT The eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4E plays important roles in controlling the composition of the proteome. Indeed, dysregulation of eIF4E is associated with poor prognosis cancers. The traditional view has been that eIF4E acts solely in translation. However, over the last ∼25 years, eIF4E was found in the nucleus where it acts in mRNA export and in the last ∼10 years, eIF4E was found in cytoplasmic processing bodies (P-bodies) where it functions in mRNA sequestration and stability. The common biochemical thread for these activities is the ability of eIF4E to bind the 7-methylguanosine cap on the 5′ end of mRNAs. Recently, the possibility that eIF4E directly binds some mRNA elements independently of the cap has also been raised. Importantly, the effects of eIF4E are not genome-wide with a subset of transcripts targeted depending on the presence of specific mRNA elements and context-dependent regulatory factors. Indeed, eIF4E governs RNA regulons through co-regulating the expression of groups of transcripts acting in the same biochemical pathways. In addition, studies over the past ∼15 years indicate that there are multiple strategies that regulatory factors employ to modulate eIF4E activities in context-dependent manners. This perspective focuses on these new findings and incorporates them into a broader model for eIF4E function.
Context-Based Entity Linking - University of Amsterdam at TAC 2012

This paper describes our approach to the 2012 Text Analysis Conference (TAC) Knowledge Base Population (KBP) entity linking track. For this task, we turn to a state-of-the-art system for entity linking in microblog posts. Compared to the little context microblog posts provide, the documents in the TAC KBP track provide context of greater length and of a less noisy nature. In this paper, we adapt the entity linking system for microblog posts to the KBP task by extending it with approaches that explicitly rely on the query’s context. We show that incorporating novel features that leverage the context on the entity-level can lead to improved performance in the TAC KBP task.
An fMRI Study of Grammatical Morpheme Processing Associated with Nouns and Verbs in Chinese

This study examined whether the degree of complexity of a grammatical component in a language would impact on its representation in the brain through identifying the neural correlates of grammatical morpheme processing associated with nouns and verbs in Chinese. In particular, the processing of Chinese nominal classifiers and verbal aspect markers were investigated in a sentence completion task and a grammaticality judgment task to look for converging evidence. The Chinese language constitutes a special case because it has no inflectional morphology per se and a larger classifier than aspect marker inventory, contrary to the pattern of greater verbal than nominal paradigmatic complexity in most European languages. The functional imaging results showed BA47 and left supplementary motor area and superior medial frontal gyrus more strongly activated for classifier processing, and the left posterior middle temporal gyrus more responsive to aspect marker processing. We attributed the activation in the left prefrontal cortex to greater processing complexity during classifier selection, analogous to the accounts put forth for European languages, and the left posterior middle temporal gyrus to more demanding verb semantic processing. The overall findings significantly contribute to cross-linguistic observations of neural substrates underlying processing of grammatical morphemes from an analytic and a classifier language, and thereby deepen our understanding of neurobiology of human language.
Multi-factor segmentation for topic visualization and recommendation: the MUST-VIS system

This paper presents the MUST-VIS system for the MediaMixer/VideoLectures.NET Temporal Segmentation and Annotation Grand Challenge. The system allows users to visualize a lecture as a series of segments represented by keyword clouds, with relations to other similar lectures and segments. Segmentation is performed using a multi-factor algorithm which takes advantage of the audio (through automatic speech recognition and word-based segmentation) and video (through the detection of actions such as writing on the blackboard). The similarity across segments and lectures is computed using a content-based recommendation algorithm. Overall, the graph-based representation of segment similarity appears to be a promising and cost-effective approach to navigating lecture databases.
On the dual effect in state-based scheduling of networked control systems

In this paper, we show that there is a dual effect with state-based scheduling. In general, this makes the optimal scheduler and controller hard to find. However, by removing past controls from the scheduling criterion, we find that certainty equivalence holds. This condition is related to the classical result of Bar-Shalom and Tse, and it leads to the design of a sub-optimal scheduler with a certainty equivalent controller. Furthermore, we show that a mapping of the state-based scheduler into one which fulfills this condition, and consequently has an optimal certainty equivalent controller, does not result in an equivalent class of design in the sense of Witsenhausen. Computing the estimate remains hard, but can be simplified by introducing a symmetry constraint on the scheduler.
In vitro Screening of Essential Oil Active Compounds for Manipulation of Rumen Fermentation and Methane Mitigation

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of 11 active compounds of essential oils (ACEO) on rumen fermentation characteristics and methane production. Two trials were conducted. In trial 1, ACEO (eugenol, carvacrol, citral, limonene, 1,4-cineole, p-cymene, linalool, bornyl acetate, α-pinene, and β-pinene) at a dose of 1,000 μL/L were incubated for 24 h in diluted rumen fluid with a 70:30 forage:concentrate substrate (16.2% crude protein; 36.6% neutral detergent fiber). Three fistulated Holstein cows were used as donors of rumen fluid. The reduction in methane production was observed with nine ACEO (up to 86% reduction) compared with the control (p<0.05). Among these, only limonene, 1,4-cineole, bornyl acetate, and α-pinene did not inhibit volatile fatty acid (VFA) production, and only bornyl acetate produced less methane per mol of VFA compared with the control (p<0.05). In a subsequent trial, the effects on rumen fermentation and methane production of two concentrations (500 and 2,000 μL/L) of bornyl acetate, the most promising ACEO from the first trial, were evaluated using the same in vitro incubation method that was used in the first trial. In trial 2, monensin was used as a positive control. Both doses of bornyl acetate decreased (p<0.05) methane production and did not inhibit VFA production. Positive effects of bornyl acetate on methane and VFA production were more pronounced than the effects of monensin. These results confirm the ability of bornyl acetate to decrease methane production, which may help to improve the efficiency of energy use in the rumen.
Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis

Tricuspid valve endocarditis is a disease primarily found in intravenous drug abusers. It occurs much less often than left-sided endocarditis and has a better prognosis. The triad of intravenous drug abuse, Staphylococcus aureus septicemia, and pul monary embolism with or without a tricuspid regurgitation murmur can be pathognomonic for tricuspid valve endocarditis. Pulmonary signs and symptoms predominate.
Determinant maximizing cost function impulse response shortening for discrete multitone transceivers

A new criterion is proposed for solving the problem of channel shortening in multicarrier systems. In a discrete multitone receiver, a time-domain equalizer (TEQ) reduces intersymbol interference (ISI) by shortening the effective duration of the channel impulse response. Minimum mean square error (MMSE) method for TEQ does not give satisfactory results. In N. Al-Dahir and J. M. Cioffi (1996) a new criterion for partially equalizing severe ISI channels to reduce the cyclic prefix overhead of the discrete multitone transceiver (DMT), assuming a fixed transmission bandwidth, is introduced. Due to specific constrained (unit morm constraint on the target impulse response (TIR)) in their method, the freedom to choose optimum vector (TIR) is reduced. Better results can be obtained by avoiding the unit norm constraint on the target impulse response (TIR). We change the cost function proposed in N. Al-Dahir and J. M. Cioffi (1996) to the cost function of determining the maximum of a determinant subject to linear matrix inequality (LMI) and quadratic constraint and solve the resulting optimization problem. Usefulness of the proposed method is shown with the help of simulations.
Stochastic Extended Simulation (EXSIM) of M w 7.0 Kumamoto-Shi earthquake on 15 April 2016 in the Southwest of Japan using the SCEC Broadband Platform (BBP)

Ground motions for Mw 7.0, 15 April 2016, Kumamoto-Shi earthquake of Japan are simulated employing Stochastic Extended Simulation (EXSIM) methodology within the Southern California Earthquake Centre (SCEC) Broadband Platform (BBP) version 15.3. 0, utilizing the strong ground motion data from K-NET and KiK-net. Residuals [(ln(data/model)] are plotted as a function of hypocentral distance for a subset of eight periods. Trail simulations are run by varying stress drop until a better match of residuals is obtained. Validation exercise is run with a new data set to ascertain the accuracy of simulations. The results exhibit a close match between the recorded and predicted data. Adopting the validated seismological model of this study, ground motions are predicted at three important sites, which are devoid of strong-motion stations. These results can be used as inputs for conducting dynamic, response spectrum analysis of structures, liquefaction potential of soils, stability analysis and landslide runout estimation of slopes.