Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey (SXDS). VII. Clustering Segregation with Ultraviolet and Optical Luminosities of Lyman Break Galaxies at z ~ 3

We investigate clustering properties of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at z ∼ 3 based on deep multi-wave band imaging data from optical to near-infrared wavelengths in the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Field. The LBGs are selected by U − V and V − z′ colors in one contiguous area of 561 arcmin2 down to z′ = 25.5. We study the dependence of the clustering strength on rest-frame UV and optical magnitudes, which can be indicators of star formation rate and stellar mass, respectively. The correlation length is found to be a strong function of both UV and optical magnitudes, with brighter galaxies being more clustered than faint ones in both cases. Furthermore, the correlation length is dependent on a combination of UV and optical magnitudes in the sense that galaxies bright in optical magnitude have large correlation lengths irrespective of UV magnitude, while galaxies faint in optical magnitude have correlation lengths decreasing with decreasing UV brightness. These results suggest that galaxies with large stellar masses always belong to massive halos in which they can have various star formation rates, while galaxies with small stellar masses reside in less massive halos only if they have low star formation rates. There appears to be an upper limit to the stellar mass and the star formation rate which is determined by the mass of hosting dark halos.
The Value of Interactive Assignments in the Online Learning Environment

The offerings of Web-based supplemental material for textbooks have been increasingly growing. When deciding to adopt a textbook, instructors examine the added value of the associated supplements, also called e-learning tools, to enhance students’ learning of course concepts. In this study, one such supplement, interactive assignments, is examined from students’ perspective. Two steams of literature, information technology and communication, provide the foundation to understanding students’ evaluation of the interactive assignments. The results of the study indicate that the motivational theory of uses and gratification contributes significantly to our understanding of students’ perceived value of, attitude toward, and satisfaction from completing e-learning assignments. Also contributing to our understanding are the concepts of results demonstrability and conformation of expectation, which have been adopted from the literature related to the technology acceptance model. Implications for publishers and instructors are provided.
SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS OF 60GHZ MILLIMETER-WAVE INDOOR PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS BASE ON THE METHOD OF SBR/IMAGE

In this paper, 60GHz millimeter-wave indoor propagation characteristics are simulated and analyzed using the method of SBR/IM (shooting and bounding ray tracing/image). And the simulated and measured results agree well, so the correctness of the method has been validated. Some propagation parameters are obtained in the simulation, such as the indoor reception power distribution, distribution of phase angle of received power, root mean square (RMS) delay spread, direction of arrival, RMS angular spread, Doppler shift, etc. The analysis of the above results provides the foundation for the indoor coverage of millimeter-wave communication system.
MDMA decreases sociability and aggression and increases anxietyin mouse model of agonistic behaviour

We evaluated acute effects of methylen-dioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA) on agonistic behaviour in singly-housed mice on paired conflict interactions with group-housed partners. We fully confirmed the antiaggressive effects and increase of defensive-escape behaviour in aggressive mice. The analysis of timid mice brought evidence of anxiogenic effect of MDMA.
Resequencing and Clinical Associations of the 9p21.3 Region: A Comprehensive Investigation in the Framingham Heart Study

Background— 9p21.3 is among the most strongly replicated regions for cardiovascular disease. There are few reports of sequencing the associated 9p21.3 interval. We set out to sequence the 9p21.3 region followed by a comprehensive study of genetic associations with clinical and subclinical cardiovascular disease and its risk factors, as well as with copy number variation and gene expression, in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS). Methods and Results— We sequenced 281 individuals (94 with myocardial infarction, 94 with high coronary artery calcium levels, and 93 control subjects free of elevated coronary artery calcium or myocardial infarction), followed by genotyping and association in >7000 additional FHS individuals. We assessed genetic associations with clinical and subclinical cardiovascular disease, risk factor phenotypes, and gene expression levels of the protein-coding genes CDKN2A and CDKN2B and the noncoding gene ANRIL in freshly harvested leukocytes and platelets. Within this large sample, we found strong associations of 9p21.3 variants with increased risk for myocardial infarction, higher coronary artery calcium levels, and larger abdominal aorta diameters and no evidence for association with traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors. No common protein-coding variation, variants in splice donor or acceptor sites, or copy number variation events were observed. By contrast, strong associations were observed between genetic variants and gene expression, particularly for a short isoform of ANRIL and for CDKN2B. Conclusions— Our thorough genomic characterization of 9p21.3 suggests common variants likely account for observed disease associations and provides further support for the hypothesis that complex regulatory variation affecting ANRIL and CDKN2B gene expression may contribute to increased risk for clinically apparent and subclinical coronary artery disease and aortic disease.
SEARCH ALGORITHMS FOR FCSR ARCHITECTURES AND PROPERTIES OF THE FCSR COMBINER GENERATOR

The feedback-with-carry shift register (FCSR) is an importa nt primitive in the design of stream ciphers. In the first part of this thesis, we p ropose efficient methods to search for FCSR architectures of guaranteed period and 2adic complexity. We devise extended versions of these methods that yield architec tures of guaranteed period and 2-adic complexity, given additional design constraint s such as a fixed number of feedback tap connections. We also propose a search algorith m for a generalisation of the basic FCSR architecture called the d-FCSR, and discuss the di fficulty of finding valid architectures for values of the parameter d other thand = 2. In the second part of the thesis, we study the problem of improv ing the complexity of FCSR sequences by combining the outputs of two or m re FCSRs nonlinearly. We then prove results that establish the period and bo unds on the complexity of sequences obtained by combining the outputs of two 2-adic F CSRs using the XOR function.
Bodybuilding as a subcultural lifestyle of peripheral youth

In this article, I draw on data from a qualitative study of a group of bodybuilding youth in Poland to examine how these young men form a distinctive subculture in an environment of conflicting influences of a post-communist, lower class environment and those of capitalism, and social advancement. In the study, conducted in 2014 in a small town in north-east of Poland still dealing with aftermath of the collapse of communism, I undertook 26 in-depth interviews with young bodybuilders and, in this article, focus on five cases that highlight the group’s norms, activities, and overall functioning. In this article, I argue that bodybuilding was the foundation of a subcultural style, a means by which individuals could achieve peer respect and a method for them to channel emotions. I found that the activities associated with bodybuilding provided instant gratification. Such activities enabled individuals to see the immediate effect of working out. However, while these activities provided individuals with a way of developing a desirable sculpted body, they also resulted in distortions of self-image and their daily life, which, in turn, cause a deferral in engaging in typical mandated adult roles and, instead, focusing on the individual’s role and position in their group of peers. However, I found that the dynamics and norms of the bodybuilding group did not condone or facilitate, risky behaviours associated with the use of illegal pharmaceuticals that carry significant health risks.
Comparing the Knotless Tension Band and the Traditional Stainless Steel Wire Tension Band Fixation for Medial Malleolus Fractures: A Retrospective Clinical Study

The traditional stainless steel wire tension band (WTB) has been popularized for small avulsion fractures at the medial malleolus. Despite the tension band principle creating a stable construct, complications continue to arise utilizing the traditional stainless steel WTB with patients experiencing hardware irritation at the tension band site and subsequent hardware removal. Coupled with hardware irritation is fatigue failure with the wire. The goal of this investigation was to retrospectively compare this traditional wire technique to an innovative knotless tension band (KTB) technique in order to decrease costly complications. A total of 107 patients were reviewed with a minimum follow-up of 1 year. Outcome measures include descriptive data, fracture classification, results through economic costs, and fixation results (including hardware status, healing status, pain status, and time to healing). The KTB group had a 13% lower true cost as compared to the WTB group while the fixation results were equivocal for the measured outcomes. Our results demonstrate that the innovative KTB is comparable to the traditional WTB while offering a lower true cost, an irritation free reduction all without the frustration of returning to the operating room for additional hardware removal, which averages approximately to $8,288.
Marriage, children and subjective well-being

This paper uses data from the first wave of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to examine the role of marriage and family characteristics in explaining variations across individuals in self-reported life satisfaction. A feature of this analysis is the data source - a large nationally representative sample of Australian households and their members - allowing inclusion of an extensive set of controls for other variables typically presumed to influence subjective well-being. This paper was presented at the Eighth Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference.
Multiple Conductances Cooperatively Regulate Spontaneous Bursting in Mouse Olfactory Bulb External Tufted Cells

External tufted (ET) cells are juxtaglomerular neurons that spontaneously generate bursts of action potentials, which persist when fast synaptic transmission is blocked. The intrinsic mechanism of this autonomous bursting is unknown. We identified a set of voltage-dependent conductances that cooperatively regulate spontaneous bursting: hyperpolarization-activated inward current (Ih), persistent Na+ current (INaP), low-voltage-activated calcium current (IL/T) mediated by T- and/or L-type Ca2+ channels, and large-conductance Ca2+-dependent K+ current (IBK). Ih is important in setting membrane potential and depolarizes the cell toward the threshold of INaP and IT/L, which are essential to generate the depolarizing envelope that is crowned by a burst of action potentials. Action potentials depolarize the membrane and induce Ca2+ influx via high-voltage-activated Ca2+ channels (IHVA). The combined depolarization and increased intracellular Ca2+ activates IBK, which terminates the burst by hyperpolarizing the membrane. Hyperpolarization activates Ih and the cycle is regenerated. A novel finding is the role of L-type Ca2+ channels in autonomous ET cells bursting. A second novel feature is the role of BK channels, which regulate burst duration. IL and IBK may go hand-in-hand, the slow inactivation of IL requiring IBK-dependent hyperpolarization to deactivate inward conductances and terminate the burst. ET cells receive monosynaptic olfactory nerve input and drive the major inhibitory interneurons of the glomerular circuit. Modulation of the conductances identified here can regulate burst frequency, duration, and spikes per burst in ET cells and thus significantly shape the impact of glomerular circuits on mitral and tufted cells, the output channels of the olfactory bulb.
Cytokine profiles of amyopathic dermatomyositis with interstitial lung diseases treated with mycophenolate

A 59‐year‐old Japanese man diagnosed with interstitial lung disease associated with amyopathic dermatomyositis with anti‐melanoma differentiation‐associated gene 5 (MDA‐5) antibodies was treated with intravenous methyl prednisolone (PSL) 1000 mg, oral PSL 1 mg/kg, and oral cyclosporin 200 mg daily. His respiratory condition worsened after treatment with two times of intravenous cyclophosphamide and another steroid pulse therapy as well as PSL and cyclosporin. Addition of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), 1.5 g daily improved PaO2 /FiO2 (PF) ratio of the patient from 294 to 360 at 4 weeks and 416 at 15 weeks after addition of MMF. We measured cytokine concentration in preserved serum taken at 11 and 7 weeks before addition of MMF and at 4, 11, and 15 weeks after MMF administration. Of the 28 cytokines evaluated, the concentrations of fibroblast growth factors‐2 (FGF‐2), chemokine (C‐X3‐C motif) ligand 1 (CX3CL1), interleukin (IL)‐1ra, IL‐17A, inducible protein 10 (IP‐10), and monocyte chemotactic protein‐1 (MCP‐1) decreased after addition of MMF. These results suggest that MMF may be beneficial to patients with interstitial lung disease by modification of the cytokine/growth factor protein expression.
Modeling and control of a quadrotor UAV

In the recent years, the control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has become one of the most interesting field of research, especially for Vertical Take-Off and Landing vehicles (VTOL), due to the needs to such system, the simplicity of their construction and due to the important technological advances in control boards, sensors, communication tools, energy storage. In this paper, a mathematical model has been developed with Lagrange formalism and a control approach based on Proportional Derivative PD controller has been built and provided with numerical simulation in MATLAB/Simulink.
The role of age-sex interaction in the development of post-herpetic neuralgia

ABSTRACT Post-herpetic neuralgia is the most frequent complication of herpes zoster and affects up to 30% of patients. Increased age is a well-recognized risk factor, while the role of gender is highly uncertain. Little research has been performed into a possible combined effect of age and sex in post-herpetic neuralgia. The objective of the study was to study the role of age and sex and their combined effect in the development of post-herpetic neuralgia. This retrospective study enrolled adult subjects with at least one episode of herpes zoster in the previous 10 y. A questionnaire on the patient's socio-demographic, anamnestic and clinical characteristics was administered by general practitioners. Multivariable logistic regression was used to detect relationships between post-herpetic neuralgia and age, sex and their interaction. Fifty-nine of 272 patients reported post-herpetic neuralgia: a prevalence of 21.7%. Subjects with post-herpetic neuralgia (mean age 70.9 years) were significantly older (P = .001) than those without (64.2 years), the standardised mean difference being 0.5; no significant between-sex association was revealed (P = .96). A fully adjusted multivariable logistic analysis, however, revealed a highly significant (P = .007) age-sex interaction, with an odds ratio of 0.92; this also showed that older males were more likely to report post-herpetic neuralgia than younger males, while no obvious age-associated pattern was observed among females. We discerned a significant age-by-sex interaction in the development of post-herpetic neuralgia, which suggests that the effect of age on the development of this condition may differ between men and women.
Applying regression test selection for COTS-based applications

ABB incorporates a variety of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components in its products. When new releases of these components are made available for integration and testing, source code is often not provided. Various regression test selection processes have been developed and have been shown to be cost effectiveness. However, the majority of these test selection techniques rely on access to source code for change identification. In this paper we present the application of the lightweight Integrated - Black-box Approach for Component Change Identification (I-BACCI) Version 3 process that select regression tests for applications that use COTS components. Two case studies, examining a total of nine new component releases, were conducted at ABB on products written in C/C++ to determine the effectiveness of I-BACCI. The results of the case studies indicate this process can reduce the required number of regression tests at least 70% without sacrificing the regression fault exposure.
Cost-effectiveness of three strategies for second-line erlotinib initiation in nonsmall-cell lung cancer: the ERMETIC study part 3

Several clinical and biological parameters are known to influence the efficacy of second-line erlotinib therapy for nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but their medico-economic impact has not been evaluated. The objective of this study was to compare the incremental cost-effectiveness ratios of strategies for second-line erlotinib initiation in NSCLC: clinically guided initiation (nonsmoking females with adenocarcinoma received erlotinib; all other patients received docetaxel) and biologically guided selection (patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation received erlotinib; patients with wild-type EGFR or unknown status received docetaxel), compared with initiation with no patient selection (strategy reference). A Markov model was constructed. Outcomes (overall and progression-free survival), transition probabilities and direct medical costs (from the French third-party payer's perspective) were prospectively collected for individual patients treated with either erlotinib or docetaxel, from treatment initiation to disease progression. Published data were used to estimate utilities and post-progression costs. Sensitivity analyses were performed. The biologically and clinically guided strategies were both more efficient (incremental quality-adjusted life-yrs equal to 0.080 and 0.081, respectively) and less expensive (cost decrease equal to €5,020 and €5,815, respectively) than the no-selection strategy, and the biologically guided strategy was slightly less expensive than the clinically guided strategy. Sensitivity analyses confirmed the robustness of the results. The cost-effectiveness of second-line NSCLC treatment is improved when patients are selected on either clinical or biological grounds.
Social networking patterns among students of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences 2015

Social networks are popular among people these days. Especially among students. Today social networks has an important role in human's life.Investigate the pattern of social network usage among students in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 242 students ofZahedan University of Medical Sciences. Data were collected through a checklist designed by the researchers. Then the data were analyzed by SPSS v.19 through descriptive statistics and chi square test. The mean of age was 21.34±1.97 among respondents. 75 were in semester 1 up to 3 (33.5%), 80 were in semester 4 up to 6 (35.7%) and 69 were in 7 up to 12 semester (30.8%). There was a significant relationship between kind of device used for getting online and how much time which students were online (p=0.02). 104 of respondents were member of social networks before coming to university (46.4%), 74 got member of them in first year of entering university (33%) and 46 got member of them after first year of entering university (20.5%). Almost all of the respondents were member of social networks. What's app had the highest number of members among students. Given that social networks are a recent technology, conducting studies on other effects of this technology on student's life such as mental health, life quality and educational burnout.
Development of Social Recommendation GIS for Tourist Spots

This study aims to develop a social recommendation media GIS (Geographic Information Systems) specially tailored to recommend tourist spots. The conclusions of this study are summarized in the following three points. (1) Social media GIS, an information system which integrates Web-GIS, SNS and recommendation system into a single system, was conducted in the central part of Yokohama City in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The social media GIS uses a design which displays its usefulness in reducing the constraints of information inspection, time and space, and continuity, making it possible to redesign systems in accordance with target cases. (2) The social media GIS was operated for two months for members of the general public who are more than 18 years old. The total numbers of users was 98, and the number of pieces of information submitted was 232. (3) The web questionnaires of users showed the usefulness of the integration of Web-GIS, SNS and recommendation systems, because the functions of reference and recommendation can be expected to support tourists’ excursion behavior. Since the access survey of log data showed that about 35% of accesses were from mobile information terminals, it can be said that the preparation of an optimal interface for such terminals was effective.
New Media ? The Political Economy of Internet Search Engines

This paper presents a structural analysis of the Internet search engine market. Search engines are a core element of the Internet media system, topping the Nielsen NetRatings Top 10 list of online properties in every market measured and generating advertising revenues of billions of dollars each year. Using a search engine is the most popular online activity after reading email. A political economy approach is used to identify the relevant parties in the system, their ownership, their exchanges, and the constraints to which they are subjected. The market is shown to be similar to other media markets in that it is both highly concentrated and global in scope, and funded primarily by advertising. However, there are several important differences. First, although traditional media conglomerates operate online, they do not control the most powerful actors such as Google and Yahoo! Second, the advertising market is structured differently. Advertising is normally linked to words entered as search terms by users, and this keyword-based advertising is syndicated to other search engines, large and small, primarily by Google and Yahoo! -owned Overture, increasing their influence. Third, the situation is complicated by new commercial actors called search engine optimisation companies who operate within a grey market often in opposition to search engine companies, to strengthen the rank of their clients in search engine results. Recent studies within the computer science discipline have shown search engine results to be systematically biased in favour of commercial sites, popular sites, and US-based sites. With no public service mandate and little regulation, the study raises the question of whether the current system of search provision online serves the 'public good'.