Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Interpersonal predictive coding, not action perception, is impaired in autism

This study was conducted to examine interpersonal predictive coding in individuals with high-functioning autism (HFA). Healthy and HFA participants observed point-light displays of two agents (A and B) performing separate actions. In the ‘communicative’ condition, the action performed by agent B responded to a communicative gesture performed by agent A. In the ‘individual’ condition, agent A's communicative action was substituted by a non-communicative action. Using a simultaneous masking-detection task, we demonstrate that observing agent A's communicative gesture enhanced visual discrimination of agent B for healthy controls, but not for participants with HFA. These results were not explained by differences in attentional factors as measured via eye-tracking, or by differences in the recognition of the point-light actions employed. Our findings, therefore, suggest that individuals with HFA are impaired in the use of social information to predict others' actions and provide behavioural evidence that such deficits could be closely related to impairments of predictive coding.
An Efficient Sequential Monte Carlo Algorithm for Coalescent Clustering

We propose an efficient sequential Monte Carlo inference scheme for the recently proposed coalescent clustering model [1]. Our algorithm has a quadratic runtime while those in [1] is cubic. In experiments, we were surprised to find that in addition to being more efficient, it is also a better sequential Monte Carlo sampler than the best in [1], when measured in terms of variance of estimated likelihood and effective sample size.
Intraepithelial Carcinoma of the Fimbria and Pelvic Serous Carcinoma: Evidence for a Causal Relationship

Proposed origins of pelvic serous carcinoma include the ovary, fallopian tube, and peritoneum. Prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomies in BRCA+ women have recently identified the fimbria as a site of origin for early serous carcinoma (tubal intraepithelial carcinoma or TIC). We explored the relationship of TIC to pelvic serous carcinomas in consecutive cases with complete adnexal exam (SEE-FIM protocol). Cases positive (group A) or negative (group B) for endosalpinx (including fimbria) involvement, were subclassified as tubal, ovarian, or primary peritoneal in origin. Coexisting TIC was recorded in group A when present and p53 mutation status was determined in 5 cases. Of 55 evaluable cases, 41 (75%) were in group A; including tubal (n=5), peritoneal (n=6), and ovarian (n=30) carcinomas. Foci of TIC were identified in 5 of 5, 4 of 6, and 20 of 30, respectively. Ninety-three percent of TICs involved the fimbriae. Five of 5 TICs and concurrent ovarian carcinomas contained identical p53 mutations. Thirteen of 14 cases in group B were classified as primary ovarian carcinomas, 10 with features supporting an origin in the ovary. Overall, 71% and 48% of “ovarian” serous carcinomas had endosalpinx involvement or TIC. TIC coexists with all forms of pelvic serous carcinoma and is a plausible origin for many of these tumors. Further studies are needed to elucidate the etiologic significance of TIC in pelvic serous carcinoma, reevaluate the criteria for tubal, peritoneal, and ovarian serous carcinoma, and define the role of the distal tube in pelvic serous carcinogenesis.
Using Uplug and SiteSeeker to construct a cross language search engine for Scandinavian languages

This paper presents how we adapted a website search engine for cross language information retrieval, using the Uplug word alignment tool for parallel corpora.We first studied the monolingual search queries posed by the visitors of the website of the Nordic council containing five different languages. In order to compare how well different types of bilingual dictionaries covered the most common queries and terms on the website we tried a collection of ordinary bilingual dictionaries, a small manually constructed trilingual dictionary and an automatically constructed trilingual dictionary, constructed from the news corpus in the website using Uplug. The pre-cision and recall of the automatically constructed Swedish-English dictionary using Uplug were 71 and 93 percent, re-spectively. We found that precision and recall increase significantly in samples with high word frequency, but we could not confirm that POS-tags improve pre-cision. The collection of ordinary dic-tionaries, consisting of about 200 000 words, only cover 41 of the top 100 search queries at the website. The automatically built trilingual dictionary com-bined with the small manually built trilingual dictionary, consisting of about 2 300 words, and covers 36 of the top search queries.
Finding Routing Paths for Alternate Routing in All-Optical WDM Networks

An alternate routing algorithm requires a set of predetermined routing paths between each source-destination pair. To reduce the connection blocking probability, it is desirable that the predetermined routing paths between each source-destination pair be link-disjoint. The predetermined routing paths used in previous works on alternate routing are the -shortest link-disjoint paths in terms of hop count. The shared links among the -shortest link-disjoint paths between different source-destination pairs may cause high connection blocking probability. Thus, depending on the traffic requirements of all source-destination pairs, hop-count based -shortest link-disjoint paths may not be the best choice for the predetermined routing paths. This paper proposes a method to find a set of link-disjoint routing paths between each source-destination pair to be used by an alternate routing algorithm in order to reduce the connection blocking probability. The key idea is to find a set of link-disjoint routing paths based on the routing paths that are utilized by the optimal traffic pattern in the network. Then, for each source-destination pair, we select a set of link-disjoint routing paths from the routing paths that are utilized by the optimal traffic pattern such that the selected set of link-disjoint routing paths carries the most of the traffic between the source-destination pair. Simulations are performed to compare the performance of using the link-disjoint routing paths found by the proposed method as the predetermined routing paths and those of using the hop-count based -shortest link-disjoint paths and employing the routing paths found by the capacity-balanced alternate routing method proposed method by Ho and Mouftah (in 2002) as the predetermined routing paths. Our simulation results show that using the link-disjoint routing paths found by the proposed method yields significantly lower connection blocking probability than employing the hop-count based -shortest link-disjoint paths and using the routing paths found by the capacity-balanced alternate routing method (Ho and Mouftah, 2002).
Oral health and systemic inflammatory, cardiac and nitroxid biomarkers in hemodialysis patients

Background Periodontal diseases have systemic inflammatory effects and have been adversely associated with cardiovascular diseases, which are also the most frequent cause of death in the end-stage renal disease. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the oral health and serum biomarkers among the hemodialysis (HD) patients in Slovenia. Material and Methods 111 HD patients were periodontally examined and their sera were assayed for C reactive protein (CRP), cardiac troponin T (TnT), nitrite/nitrate (NOx) and antibody levels to A. actinomycetemcomitans and P. gingivalis. The association of oral health with systemic response was analyzed with Kruskal-Wallis test, Fisher’s exact test and multivariate linear regression. Results Bleeding on probing without periodontal pockets was present in 5.2%, calculus without periodontal pockets in 42.1%, shallow periodontal pockets in 39.5% and deep periodontal pockets in 13.2% of dentate patients. There were 28.8% edentulous participants. 63.1% of the patients had CRP levels higher than 3 mg/L and 34.2% higher than 10 mg/L. TnT was detectable in all participants, with 25.2% exhibiting levels higher than 100 ng/L. The median level of NOx was 43.1 µmol/L. Participants with higher CRP were more likely to be edentulous and have higher TnT levels. A direct association of oral health with TnT or NOx was not detected. Conclusions HD patients in Slovenia have compromised oral health and increased serum inflammatory and cardiac biomarkers. Edentulousness was an independent predictor for the increased CRP, indicating a need for improved dental care to retain the teeth as long as possible. Key words:Periodontal diseases, edentulousness, C reactive protein, cardiac troponin T, nitric oxide.
Effects of Topical Antibiotic Prophylaxis on Wound Healing After Flapless Implant Surgery: A Pilot Study.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this pilot study is to investigate the effects of local application of minocycline hydrochloride ointment (MHO) and erythromycin eye ointment (EEO) on wound healing after flapless implant surgery. METHODS Forty patients with flapless implant surgery were enrolled and assigned randomly to three groups: 1) MHO group (n = 17); 2) EEO group (n = 18); and 3) control group (n = 5). All of them took systemic antibiotics; the control group did not receive the application of topical antibiotics. Three days after the surgical operation, clinical parameters, peri-implant crevicular fluid volume, and crevicular lipopolysaccharide (LPS) levels of all patients were collected, measured, and analyzed. RESULTS Clinical outcomes of the two treatment groups were superior to results of the control group, indicating the effectivity of local antibiotics application in promoting early wound healing after flapless implant surgery. There was no obviously different effect between EEO and MHO in the early stages of healing. In addition, there were significant correlations between LPS level and all clinical parameters. CONCLUSIONS The local application of antibiotics along with the systemic antibiotics could reduce the inflammatory response in wound healing after implant surgery. The EEO and MHO were equally effective in early wound healing. Compared to the MHO, the EEO has advantages of higher cost efficiency and convenience. Therefore, it is recommended to use the EEO in topical antibiotic prophylaxis for wound healing after flapless implant surgery.
Salience , State , and Expression : The Influence of Specific Aspects of Emotion on Attention and Perception

This chapter focuses on the influence of emotion on cognitive processes, and underlying neural mechanisms. Here we discuss the influence of three aspects of emotional processing on perception and attention: We first review literature on enhanced attention to emotionally arousing stimuli. Here we discuss ongoing controversies about the relative automaticity of this “motivated attention” as well as about its neural substrates, individual differences and developmental changes. We next review evidence that production of some facial expressions serves to enhance, and others to reduce, incoming sensory information. We then review studies investigating how sustained emotional states influence the nature and scope of selective attention. In particular, we focus on the role of positive affect in broadening attention by “unbiasing” competition for perceptual processing. Finally we discuss findings in relation to a view of the amygdala as a key hub linking cognitive and emotional process via allocation of bodily and cognitive resources.
Syntactic and tonal correlates of focus in Greek and Russian

This is an experimental study of syntactic and tonal correlates of focus in Greek and Russian. Three experiments were carried out the results of which indicate: First, the dominant word order is SVO in both Greek and Russian. Second, focus distinctions have inverse word order effects, according to which syntactic elements of focus elicitations are dislocated at sentence beginning and sentence end for Greek and Russian respectively. Third, focus has a local tonal range expansion and a global tonal range compression in both Greek and Russian.
The Use of Dexamethasone in Bacterial Meningitis in Children and Adults: A Retrospective Analysis

Bacterial meningitis is a life-threatening illness that results from bacterial infection of the meninges and is associated with high mortality and morbidity rate, especially when the Streptococcus pneumoniae is the causative agent. Dexamethasone as adjunctive therapy to antibiotics does not influence the outcome or the complications in children as well as in adults suffering bacterial meningitis. However, we identified some prognostic parameters in the outcome of bacterial meningitis, and when dexamethasone was given in presence of at least one of 3 poor prognostic CSF parameters (WBC < 1000/mm3, glucose < 20 mg/dl, lactate > 10 mg/dl) it substantially improved the outcome.
Streptococcus pneumoniae and Legionella pneumophila pneumonia in HIV-infected patients

We compared the epidemiological data, clinical features and mortality of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) by Streptococcus pneumoniae and Legionella in HIV-infected patients and determined discriminative features. An observational, comparative study was performed (January 1994 to December 2004) in 15 HIV patients with CAP by Legionella and 46 by S. pneumoniae. No significant differences were observed in delay until initiation of appropriate antibiotic therapy. Smoking, cancer and chemotherapy were more frequent in patients with Legionella pneumonia (p=0.03, p=0.00009 and p=0.01). Patients with Legionella pneumonia had a higher mean CD4 count (p=0.04), undetectable viral load (p=0.01) and received highly active antiretroviral therapy more frequently (p=0.004). AIDS was more frequent in patients with S. pneumoniae pneumonia (p=0.03). Legionella pneumonia was more severe (p=0.007). Extrarespiratory symptoms, hyponatraemia and increased creatine phosphokinase were more frequent in Legionella pneumonia (p=0.02, p=0.002 and p=0.006). Respiratory failure, need for ventilation and bilateral chest X-ray involvement were of note in the Legionella group (p=0.003, p=0.002 and p=0.002). Mortality tended to be higher in the Legionella group (6.7 vs 2.2%). In conclusion, CAP by Legionella has a higher morbimortality than CAP by S. pneumoniae in HIV-infected patients. Detailed analysis of CAP presentation features allows suspicion of Legionnaires’ disease in this subset.
Variation in Physiology and Energy Management of Wintering White-Winged Scoters in Relation to Local Habitat Conditions

Abstract. Along the Pacific coast of North America, White-winged Scoters (Melanitta fusca) winter in sites that vary widely in habitat conditions. This habitat variation likely alters the relative costs and benefits of using specific sites in terms of factors such as foraging conditions, degree of predation danger, and thermoregulatory costs. To assess how White-winged Scoters adjust their physiology and energy management in response to variation in habitat conditions, we contrasted overwinter dynamics in several physiological indicators across five sites in British Columbia and Washington. We tested the relative support for various hypotheses that considered exposure to wind and waves, water depth, predation danger, diet composition, and collection period as possible underlying causes of variation in physiological indicators. Total body mass and lipid mass were highest at an exposed offshore site, which may reflect an adaptive response to buffer against unpredictable foraging conditions and increased thermoregulatory costs. At nearshore sites where exposure was lower, scoters maintained lower lipid masses throughout the winter. Total lipid mass declined through the winter in all sites, a result consistent with findings for many waterfowl species. However, levels of plasma metabolites (triglycerides, &bgr;-hydroxybutyrate) varied little by site, suggesting that, irrespective of body composition, birds at all sites maintained physiological homeostasis. Digestive morphology was strongly related to diet, with smaller gizzards and longer intestines associated with a greater fraction of soft-bodied foods in the diet. Our results suggest that the physiology and energy management of wintering White-winged Scoters is related to local habitat conditions.
Reticulated platelets and thrombopoietin in schistosomiasis patients

Schistosomiasis mansoni is a non‐cirrhotic liver disease. In cirrhosis patients with portal hypertension, a decreased number of reticulated platelets associated with increased thrombopoietin serum levels were reported. We previously reported a 120/nl platelet cutoff level as a marker of clinically significant portal hypertension in schistosomiasis patients. To evaluate reticulated platelet counts and thrombopoietin serum levels (TPO) in schistosomiasis patients and correlate them with portal hypertension markers. Thirty‐three schistosomiasis patients without co‐morbidities were endoscopically classified as those with (n = 19) or without (n = 14) clinically significant portal hypertension. Flow cytometric determination of reticulated platelets was performed using CD41 antibody and thiazol orange. Ultrasonographic examinations were performed according to the Niamey protocol. TPO and hyaluronic acid serum levels were determined in duplicate using ELISA methods. The platelet number of 120/nl discriminates the two groups with 100% accuracy and 100% positive and negative predictive values, and correlates with spleen length and portal and splenic vein diameters. Differences in reticulated platelets and hyaluronic acid serum levels between both groups were significant (P = 0.025 and 0.012, respectively), but thrombopoietin serum levels were not (P = 0.769). Schistosomiasis patients with portal hypertension have increased reticulated platelets associated with normal TPO serum levels.
Ambient TSP and PM10 concentrations in Public Parks of Bangkok, Thailand

The objective of this research is to study the concentration of ambient TSP and PM10 at aerobic exercise sites in public parks of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Thailand. TSP and PM10 samples were collected during the rainy season, from September 2009 to October 2009 and during the winter season, from January 2010 to February 2010 using high volume air samplers. The samples were collected from five sites in four public parks: Lumphini (two sampling sites), Suan Luang Rama 9, Benchasiri, and Saranrom. The results showed that all 162 samples of 24-hour average TSP and PM10 concentrations were lower than Thailand’s ambient air quality standards. Concentration levels of TSP at Lumphini 1, Lumphini 2, Suan Luang Rama 9, Benchasiri, and Saranrom in the rainy season varied from 34.1–55.6, 26.6–42.9, 33.7–78.2, 42.0–83.6, and 43.9–73.7 μg/m3 respectively, and in the winter season from81.8–124.2, 75.2–118.9, 36.9–113.0, 47.6–125.0, and 56.4–139.9 μg/m3 respectively. Levels of PM10 in the rainy season varied from 17.5–28.1, 10.4–20.5, 23.4–55.2, 22.2–49.0, and 31.0–60.0 μg/m3 respectively, and in the winter season from 51.1–82.7, 42.0–71.2, 20.8–74.9, 27.3–90.6, and 37.0–110.2 μg/m3 respectively. Furthermore, there was a statistical significant correlation between TSP and PM10 concentrations at four of the five sampling sites during both the rainy and winter seasons (p < 0.05), except for at Saranrom which showed no statistical significant correlation during the rainy season. In addition, levels of particulate matter at the two Lumphini sites in the winter season were significantly higher than in the rainy season; whereas at the other three parks, levels of particulate matter were not statistically significantly different between
Age and Growth of the Round Stingray Urotrygon rogersi, a Particularly Fast-Growing and Short-Lived Elasmobranch

We examined the age and growth of Urotrygon rogersi on the Colombian coast of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean by directly estimating age using vertebral centra. We verified annual deposition of growth increments with marginal increment analysis. Eight growth curves were fitted to four data sets defined on the basis of the reproductive cycle (unadjusted or adjusted for age at first band) and size variables (disc width or total length). Model performance was evaluated using Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC), AIC weights and multi-model inference criteria. A two-phase growth function with adjusted age provided the best description of growth for females (based on five parameters, DW∞ = 20.1 cm, k = 0.22 yr–1) and males (based on four and five parameters, DW∞ = 15.5 cm, k = 0.65 yr–1). Median maturity of female and male U. rogersi is reached very fast (mean ± SE = 1.0 ± 0.1 year). This is the first age and growth study for a species of the genus Urotrygon and results indicate that U. rogersi attains a smaller maximum size and has a shorter lifespan and lower median age at maturity than species of closely related genera. These life history traits are in contrast with those typically reported for other elasmobranchs.
Genetic diversity and distribution of Peromyscus-borne hantaviruses in North America.

The 1993 outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in the southwestern United States was associated with Sin Nombre virus, a rodent-borne hantavirus; The virus' primary reservoir is the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus). Hantavirus-infected rodents were identified in various regions of North America. An extensive nucleotide sequence database of an 139 bp fragment amplified from virus M genomic segments was generated. Phylogenetic analysis confirmed that SNV-like hantaviruses are widely distributed in Peromyscus species rodents throughout North America. Classic SNV is the major cause of HPS in North America, but other Peromyscine-borne hantaviruses, e.g., New York and Monongahela viruses, are also associated with HPS cases. Although genetically diverse, SNV-like viruses have slowly coevolved with their rodent hosts. We show that the genetic relationships of hantaviruses in the Americas are complex, most likely as a result of the rapid radiation and speciation of New World sigmodontine rodents and occasional virus-host switching events.
A 3-Dimensional Analysis and Assessment of the Natural Gas Hydrate System in the Kumano Forearc Basin, Offshore Japan, from NanTroSEIZE Drilling and 3D Seismic Data

4 List of Tables. 10 List of Figures. 11 List of Abbreviations. 13 Chapter 1: Introduction. 14 1.1 Background and History. 15 1.2 Thesis Outline. 22 Chapter 2: Geologic Setting. 24 2.1 Tectonic Environment. 25 2.2: Basin Morphology and Evolution. 26 Chapter 3: Data Acquisition and Interpretation Methods. 33 3.1 IODP Borehole Data. 34 3.1.1 Natural Gas Hydrate Proxies . 34 3.2 3D Seismic Data. 38 3.2.1 Acquisition. 39 3.2.2 Data Processing. 38 3.2.3 BSR Horizon Picking and Mapping. 38 3.2. 4 Attribute Analysis. 41 7 3.2. 5 Velocity Analysis. 41 3.3 Base of Gas Hydrate Stability (BGHS) Modeling. 41 3.4 BSR-derived Heat Flow Modeling. 44 3.4.1 Heat Flow Derivation. 45 3.4.2 Uncertainties in BSR-derived Heat Flow. 47 3.5 Gas in Place (GIP) Resource Estimate. 48 Chapter 4: Data Results. 49 4.1 NGH Indicators from NanTroSEIZE Drilling Data and Post Cruise Analyses. 50 4.1.1 Site C0002. 50 4.1.1.1 NGH Geochemical Indicators. 51 4.1.1.2 NGH Well Log Indicators. 57 4.1.1.3 Lithological NGH Indicators. 59 4.1.2 Site C0002. 67 4.1.2.1 NGH Geochemical Indicators. 68 4.1.2.2 NGH Well Log Indicators. 69 4.1.2.3 Lithological NGH Indicators. 70 4.2 Seismic Data. 72 4.2.2 Multiple BSRs. 76 4.2.2.1 Primary BSRs. 76