Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A 5-year retrospective clinical study of the Dentium implants

PURPOSE The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate cumulative survival rate (CSR) of Implantium implants followed for 5 years and association between risk factors and the CSR. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of two hundred forty-nine Implantium Implants System (Dentium, Seoul, Korea) placed in ninety-five patients from 2004 to 2009 were investigated with several identified risk factors (sex, systemic disease, smoking, alchohol, reason of tooth loss, length, arch (maxilla or mandible), replace tooth type (incisor, canine, premolar or molar) Kennedy classification, prosthodontic type, prosthodontic design, opposite dentition, abutment type, occlusal material, occlusal unit, splint to tooth, cantilever, other surgery). Clinical examination (mobility, percussion, screw loosening, discomfort, etc.) and radiographic examination data were collected from patient records including all problems during follow-up period according to protocols described earlier. Life table analysis was undertaken to examine the CSR. Cox regression method was conducted to assess the association between potential risk factors and overall CSR. RESULTS Five of 249 implants were failed. Four of these were lost before loading. The 5-year implant cumulative survival rate was 97.37%. Cox regression analysis demonstrated a significant predictive association between overall CSR and systemic disease, smoking, reason of tooth loss, arch, Kennedy classification and prosthodontic design (P<.05). The screw related complication was rare. Two abutment screw fractures were found. Another complications of prosthetic components were porcelain fracture, resin facing fracture and denture fracture (n=19). CONCLUSION The 5-year CSR of Implantium implants was 97.37%. Implant survival may be dependent upon systemic disease, smoking reason of tooth loss, arch, Kennedy classification and prosthodontic design (P<.05). The presence of systemic diseases and combination of other surgical procedures may be associated with increased implant failure.
On the existence of loss-tolerant quantum oblivious transfer protocols

Oblivious transfer is the cryptographic primitive where Alice sends one of two bits to Bob but is oblivious to the bit received. Using quantum communication, we can build oblivious transfer protocols with security provably better than any protocol built using classical communication. However, with imperfect apparatus, one needs to consider other attacks. In this paper, we present an oblivious transfer protocol which is impervious to lost messages.
The curvelet representation of wave propagators is optimally sparse

This paper argues that curvelets provide a powerful tool for representing very general linear symmetric systems of hyperbolic differential equations. Curvelets are a recently developed multiscale system [7, 9] in which the elements are highly anisotropic at fine scales, with effective support shaped according to the parabolic scaling principle width ≈ length2 at fine scales. We prove that for a wide class of linear hyperbolic differential equations, the curvelet representation of the solution operator is both optimally sparse and well organized. It is sparse in the sense that the matrix entries decay nearly exponentially fast (i.e., faster than any negative polynomial) and well organized in the sense that the very few nonnegligible entries occur near a few shifted diagonals.
Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America

This fascinating book sheds much needed new light on the complex history of early Japanese immigrants in the United States. Most studies on the first generations of Japanese Americans have focused on political and economic discrimination or presented narratives of the immigrant experience. This book, however, addresses issues of race, class, and both Japanese and American imperialism in the period just before and during World War II. Eiichiro Azuma is an assistant professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, and was an associate at the International Nikkei Research Project and Japanese American National Museum. He was a student at UCLA under the prominent Japanese American historian Yuji Ichioka. The ten years he spent in such a rich environment has paid off handsomely: he has assembled an impressive collection of private narratives, local and national political documents (in English and Japanese), and many other rare sources to make a book that tells the story of a Japan that hoped to use these immigrants to their nationalist advantage, and an America that likewise hoped to do so. Azuma takes “an inter-National perspective” (5). With this unconventional spelling, he wishes to stress the interstitial nature of the lives of these Japanese transnational migrants caught between two imperial nation-states. He criticizes the casual way the term “transnational” is often used, giving the impression that immigrant identity is simply a hybrid of the two national experiences, with the newcomers being deterritorialized or denationalized global citizens. Azuma argues, however, that Japanese transnational migrants have always resisted unilateral choice, taking a pragmatic and “eclectic approach to the presumed contradiction between things Japanese and American” when “faced with the need to reconcile simultaneous national belongings as citizen-subjects of one state and . resident members . another” (6). Azuma supports his inter-National argument by analyzing specific Japanese American issues in relation to nation-state hegemonic power. For example, Azuma believes that the early history of the Japanese in the United States was characterized by Japanese immigrant elites who wished to establish an Imperial Japanese social and political presence overseas. America resisted by prohibiting new Japanese immigration in 1924. However, in an effort to maintain a strong overseas diasporic society, many Japanese of the first generation sent their American-born children back to Japan for schooling instead of trying to assimilate. Azuma also describes how the ethnic conflicts among different Asian minorities were actually conflicts of social class as much as racism under white supremacy. There is really no other book that takes quite this perspective on Japanese American history or transnational labor migration. Azuma’s prose is dynamic, lively enough to capture the student’s interest, and sophisticated enough for the specialist. Many new stories are told and many old ones reinterpreted. Anyone interested in the chronicle of ethnic America will find much of value in this book.
A 2.4-GHz CMOS Driver Amplifier Based on Multiple-Gated Transistor and Resistive Source Degeneration for Mobile WiMAX

A CMOS driver amplifier employs two design techniques to improve its linearity in wide output power level. First, multiple-gated transistor (MGTR) technique with two auxiliary transistors extends the linear region further compared with MGTR with single auxiliary transistor. Second, resistive source degeneration significantly suppresses the unwanted 2nd-harmonic feedback effect caused by an inductive source degeneration. A 2.4-GHz differential driver amplifier has been implemented in 0.18 mum CMOS for Mobile WiMAX and Korean WiBro applications. It shows that the linear region with OIP3 of >+20dBm is extended up to an output power of -5 dBm, while achieving a maximum OIP3 of +28 dBm, OPldB of +7.8 dBm, and a power gain of 9.2 dB with dc power consumption of 1.8V and 18.7 mA.
Spatial Spillovers and Productivity Growth : Evidence from Dynamic Panel

This paper investigates the relationship between R&D stock and productivity growth, while taking into account the effect of spatial spillovers. We propose a homogeneous dynamic panel data model and three heterogeneous dynamic panel data models to consider the individual effect as well as endogenous. We also distinguish between the estimated long-run and short-run results. Our results indicate that both the R&D stock and R&D spatial spillovers positively affect productivity growth in the short-run as well as in the long-run.
Assessment of the Effects of Interpersonal Openness and Coping Resources on the Psychological Sequelae of Traumatic Victimization

The present study tested a model addressing whether interpersonal Openness and interpersonal and intrapersonal Coping Resources mediated the relationship between interpersonal Victimization and the Psychological Symptoms women experience as a result of these traumas. Victimization indicators (physical violence, sexual assault, psychological abuse, and revictimization), Coping indicators (optimism, self-esteem, private self-consciousness, social network and therapy), Openness indicators (self-silencing, communal orientation, trust, self-monitoring, and network orientation), and Psychological Symptoms indicators (global distress, dissociation, and suicidal ideation) were examined separately for African American (n = 245), Euro-American (n = 185), and Mexican American (n = 202) women. Structural Equation Modeling revealed that for African American and Euro-American women, Openness partially mediated the victimization-distress relationship. The model for Mexican Americans was the most complex with Openness and intrapersonal Coping fully mediating the psychological effects of victimization. Approximately 50% of the variance in psychological symptoms resulting from victimization was predicted by this model for African American and Euro-American women; over 80% of the variance was predicted for Mexican Americans. Thus, the importance of Openness to relationships in alleviating the psychological sequelae following interpersonal victimization was underscored by the results. Similarities and differences between these models are discussed. Implications of the results for future research and intervention are addressed.
PoLA/CFPiP/PCS Guidelines for the Management of Dyslipidaemias for Family Physicians 2016

Dyslipidaemias are the most common yet the least well-controlled risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Poland [1]. The main modifiable risk factors for atherosclerosis and its complications including ischaemic heart disease (IHD), stroke and peripheral artery disease (PAD) are: smoking, type 2 diabetes, arterial hypertension, inappropriate diet and eating habits, inadequate physical activity as well as the resulting overweight and obesity [6]. As shown by epidemiological studies conducted in Poland, there is a nationwide growth in the above risk factors (with the exception of smoking in the majority of age groups), which is attributable to the increasing prevalence of poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyle [1]. The elimination of risk factors represents one of the greatest challenges to be faced in the domain of public health. In order to rise to up to the challenge, wide-ranging population prevention measures are needed. However, family physicians as well as other health professionals (cardiologists, internists) have a special responsibility towards high-risk patients. The group definitely comprises a considerable proportion of dyslipidaemia patients. Consequently, dyslipidaemia management should be an element of a broader strategy targeted at lowering total CV risk and, hence, reducing mortality, morbidity and disability associated with CVD.
Risks of primary extracolonic cancers following colorectal cancer in lynch syndrome.

BACKGROUND Lynch syndrome is a highly penetrant cancer predisposition syndrome caused by germline mutations in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes. We estimated the risks of primary cancers other than colorectal cancer following a diagnosis of colorectal cancer in mutation carriers. METHODS We obtained data from the Colon Cancer Family Registry for 764 carriers of an MMR gene mutation (316 MLH1, 357 MSH2, 49 MSH6, and 42 PMS2), who had a previous diagnosis of colorectal cancer. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to estimate their cumulative risk of cancers 10 and 20 years after colorectal cancer. We estimated the age-, sex-, country- and calendar period-specific standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) of cancers following colorectal cancer, compared with the general population. RESULTS Following colorectal cancer, carriers of MMR gene mutations had the following 10-year risk of cancers in other organs: kidney, renal pelvis, ureter, and bladder (2%, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1% to 3%); small intestine, stomach, and hepatobiliary tract (1%, 95% CI = 0.2% to 2%); prostate (3%, 95% CI = 1% to 5%); endometrium (12%, 95% CI = 8% to 17%); breast (2%, 95% CI = 1% to 4%); and ovary (1%, 95% CI = 0% to 2%). They were at elevated risk compared with the general population: cancers of the kidney, renal pelvis, and ureter (SIR = 12.54, 95% CI = 7.97 to 17.94), urinary bladder (SIR = 7.22, 95% CI = 4.08 to 10.99), small intestine (SIR = 72.68, 95% CI = 39.95 to 111.29), stomach (SIR = 5.65, 95% CI = 2.32 to 9.69), and hepatobiliary tract (SIR = 5.94, 95% CI = 1.81 to 10.94) for both sexes; cancer of the prostate (SIR = 2.05, 95% CI = 1.23 to 3.01), endometrium (SIR = 40.23, 95% CI = 27.91 to 56.06), breast (SIR = 1.76, 95% CI = 1.07 to 2.59), and ovary (SIR = 4.19, 95% CI = 1.28 to 7.97). CONCLUSION Carriers of MMR gene mutations who have already had a colorectal cancer are at increased risk of a greater range of cancers than the recognized spectrum of Lynch syndrome cancers, including breast and prostate cancers.
Incentive Compensation for Bank Directors: The Impact of Deregulation

Although deregulation leads to changes in the duties of boards of directors, little is known about changes in their incentives. U.S. banking deregulation and associated changes during the 1990s lends itself to a natural experiment. These industry shocks forced bank directors to face expanded opportunities, increased competition, and an expanding market for corporate control. While bank directors received significantly less equity-based compensation throughout most of the 1990s, by 1999, their use of such compensation is indistinguishable from a matched sample of industrial firms. Our results suggest firms respond to deregulation by improving internal monitoring through aligning directors' and shareholders' incentives.
Factors Associated with Distribution of Anopheles aquasalis and Anopheles oswaldoi (Diptera: Culicidae) in a Malarious Area, Northeastern Venezuela

Abstract Spatial and temporal abundance patterns of anopheline larvae and their relationships with wetland conditions were studied in an endemic malaria area in northeastern Venezuela, where Anopheles aquasalis Curry is the main vector. Larvae were sampled over a 2-yr period in 7 wetland types (brackish and freshwater herbaceous swamps, mangrove swamps, freshwater ponds, clear-cut marsh forests, small irrigation canals, and swamp forests), covering 3 environmental gradients (salinity, aquatic vegetation, and habitat permanence). Twelve variables were quantified to describe each habitat. Two species of anophelines were collected. An. aquasalis was the species with the widest distribution, and its highest abundance was in the seasonal brackish mangrove habitat during the rainy season. An. oswaldoi Peryassu was rarely encountered, but was mainly associated with the dry season and with the permanent freshwater wetlands (such as ponds). Principal components and correlation analyses revealed that the physicochemical (salinity, dissolved oxygen) variables of the wetland were associated most strongly with the spatial distribution of both species. Variations in salinity were strongly associated with the abundance of An. aquasalis. Both the occurrence and abundance of An. oswaldoi were most closely correlated with dissolved oxygen. Changes in seasonal abundance of both species were associated with rainfall. The relevance of these results to vector control in northern Venezuela is discussed.
Input–Output Finite-Time Stability of Linear Systems: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions

In the recent paper “Input-output finite-time stabilization of linear systems,” (F. Amato ) a sufficient condition for input-output finite-time stability (IO-FTS), when the inputs of the system are L2 signals, has been provided; such condition requires the existence of a feasible solution to an optimization problem involving a certain differential linear matrix inequality (DLMI). Roughly speaking, a system is said to be input-output finite-time stable if, given a class of norm bounded input signals over a specified time interval of length T, the outputs of the system do not exceed an assigned threshold during such time interval. IO-FTS constraints permit to specify quantitative bounds on the controlled variables to be fulfilled during the transient response. In this context, this paper presents several novel contributions. First, by using an approach based on the reachability Gramian theory, we show that the main theorem of F. Amato is actually also a necessary condition for IO-FTS; at the same time we provide an alternative-still necessary and sufficient-condition for IO-FTS, in this case based on the existence of a suitable solution to a differential Lyapunov equality (DLE). We show that the last condition is computationally more efficient; however, the formulation via DLMI allows to solve the problem of the IO finite-time stabilization via output feedback. The effectiveness and computational issues of the two approaches for the analysis and the synthesis, respectively, are discussed in two examples; in particular, our methodology is used in the second example to minimize the maximum displacement and velocity of a building subject to an earthquake of given magnitude.
Öğretmen Adaylarının “Matematik Öğretmeni”, “Matematik” ve “Matematik Dersi” Kavramlarına İlişkin Sahip Oldukları Metaforik Algılar

Bu arastirmanin amaci Mugla Universitesi Egitim Fakultesinde okuyan ogretmen adaylarinin “Matematik Ogretmeni”, Matematik” ve “Matematik” dersi kavramlarina yonelik algilarini olusturan metaforlari belirlemektir. Arastirmaya anket maddelerinin olusturulma surecinde iki branstan toplam 76 ve olusturulan anket maddelerini cevaplandirmak icin de dokuz farkli branstan toplam 1185 ogretmen adayi katilmistir. Arastirmada nitel ve nicel olcme araclari kullanilmistir. Elde edilen sonuclara gore uc kavramda da ogrencilerin algilarinin branslara gore farklilastigi gorulmustur. “Matematik Ogretmeni” kavrami en cok “Bilgili” ve “Otoriter” metaforlariyla algilanmaktadir. “Matematik Ogretmeni” kavrami, ilkogretim matematik ogretmeni ve lise matematik ogretmeni olarak iki farkli sekilde dusunuldugunde, algilanan metaforlarin da degistigi fark edilmistir. “Matematik” kavrami “Zeka”, “Zevkli”, “Gerekli”, “Yetenek”, “Zor”, “Basari” metaforlariyla iliskilendirilmistir. En az tercih edilen metaforlar ise, “Gereksiz”, “Kolay” ve “Otorite” olmustur. Matematik Derslerini algilama metaforlari acisindan anabilim dallari ogrencilerinin uc gruba ayrildigini gostermektedir. Fen, Sinif ve Okul Oncesi Ogretmenli ogrencileri “Matematik Dersi” kavramini olumlu metaforlarla iliskilendirmekte; Almanca, Ingilizce ve Turkce Ogretmenligi ogrencileri kismen olumlu, ozellikle lise yillarinda olumsuz algi olustururken; Muzik, Resim ve Sosyal Bilgiler Ogretmenligi ogrencileri en olumsuz, ozellikle de lise yillarinda matematik dersini olumsuz algilamislardir.
A Memory Efficient Multiple Pattern Matching Architecture for Network Security

Pattern matching is one of the most important components for the content inspection based applications of network security, and it requires well designed algorithms and architectures to keep up with the increasing network speed. For most of the solutions, AC and its derivative algorithms are widely used. They are based on the DFA model but utilize large amount of memory because of so many transition rules. An algorithm, called ACC, is presented in this paper for multiple pattern matching. It uses a novel model, namely cached deterministic finite automate (CDFA). In ACC, by using CDFA, only 4.1% transition rules for ClamAV (20.8% for Snort) are needed to represent the same function using DFA built by AC. This paper also proposes a new scheme named next-state addressing (NSA) to store and access transition rules of DFA in memory. Using this method, transition rules can be efficiently stored and directly accessed. Finally the architecture for multiple pattern matching is optimized by several approaches. Experiments show our architecture can achieve matching speed faster than 10 Gbps with very efficient memory utilization, i.e., 81KB memory for 1.8 K Snort rules with total 29 K characters, and 9.5 MB memory for 50 K ClamAV rules with total 4.44 M characters. A single architecture is memory efficient for large pattern set, and it is possible to support more than 10 M patterns with at most half amount of the memory utilization compared to the state-of-the-art architectures.
Multilingualism and commercial language practices on the Internet

Language practices on commercial websites have a considerable impact on the potential multilingualism of the Internet. This paper reports on a study of the Internet language practices of ten global consumer brands on their country-, region-, and language-specific websites, 548 in total. The results are analysed using de Swaan’s (2001) notion of a world language system. The study shows that while English performs a limited ‘hypercentral’ function on commercial websites, its prevalence is outweighed by other languages. In addition, while the international lingua franca functions of a number of de Swaan’s ‘supercentral’ languages are being maintained through commercial websites (e.g. Spanish, French, Arabic), others are being downgraded (e.g. Hindi, Malay, Swahili). Finally, the main challenge to the hypercentrality of English appears to come, not from another supercentral language, but from smaller ‘central’ languages, which are increasingly appearing in the profile of websites offered by global brands.
Pharmacogenomics of tamoxifen therapy.

BACKGROUND Tamoxifen is a standard endocrine therapy for the prevention and treatment of steroid hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. CONTENT Tamoxifen requires enzymatic activation by cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes for the formation of active metabolites 4-hydroxytamoxifen and endoxifen. As compared with the parent drug, both metabolites have an approximately 100-fold greater affinity for the estrogen receptor and the ability to inhibit cell proliferation. The polymorphic CYP2D6 is the key enzyme in this biotransformation, and recent mechanistic, pharmacologic, and clinical evidence suggests that genetic variants and drug interaction by CYP2D6 inhibitors influence the plasma concentrations of active tamoxifen metabolites and the outcomes of tamoxifen-treated patients. In particular, nonfunctional (poor metabolizer) and severely impaired (intermediate metabolizer) CYP2D6 alleles are associated with higher recurrence rates. SUMMARY Accordingly, CYP2D6 (cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily D, polypeptide 6) genotyping before treatment to predict metabolizer status may open new avenues for individualizing endocrine treatment, with the maximum benefit being expected for extensive metabolizers. Moreover, strong CYP2D6 inhibitors such as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors paroxetine and fluoxetine, which are used to treat hot flashes, should be avoided because they severely impair formation of the active metabolites.