Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Future Dietitian 2025: informing the development of a workforce strategy for dietetics

BACKGROUND Healthcare is changing and the professions that deliver it need to adapt and change too. The aim of this research was to inform the development of a workforce strategy for Dietetics for 2020-2030. This included an understanding of the drivers for change, the views of stakeholders and recommendations to prepare the profession for the future. METHODS The research included three phases: (i) establishing the context which included a literature and document review (environmental scan); (ii) discovering the profession and professional issues using crowd-sourcing technology; and (iii) articulating the vision for the future using appreciative inquiry. RESULTS The environmental scan described the current status of the dietetic profession, the changing healthcare environment, the context in which dietitians work and what future opportunities exist for the profession. The online conversation facilitated by crowd-sourcing technology asked the question: 'How can dietitians strengthen their future role, influence and impact? ' Dietitians and interested stakeholders (726 and 109, respectively) made 6130 contributions. Seven priorities were identified and fed into the appreciative inquiry event. The event bought together 54 dietitians and analysis of the discussions generated five themes: (i) professional identity; (ii) strong foundations-creating structure and direction for the profession; (iii) amplifying visibility and influence; (iv) embracing advances in science and technology; and (v) career advancement and emerging opportunities. CONCLUSIONS A series of recommendations were made for the next steps in moving the workforce to a new future. The future for dietetics looks bright, embracing technology, as well as exploring different ways of working and new opportunities, as this dynamic profession continues to evolve.
An all-regime Lagrange-Projection like scheme for the gas dynamics equations on unstructured meshes

We propose an all regime Lagrange-Projection like numerical scheme for the gas dynamics equations. By all regime, we mean that the numerical scheme is able to compute accurate approximate solutions with an under-resolved discretization, i.e. a mesh size and time step much bigger than the Mach number M. The key idea is to decouple acoustic and transport phenomenon and then alter the numerical flux in the acoustic approximation to obtain a uniform truncation error in term of M. This modified scheme is conservative and endowed with good stability properties with respect to the positivity of the density and the internal energy. A discrete entropy inequality under a condition on the modification is obtained thanks to a reinterpretation of the modified scheme in the Harten Lax and van Leer formalism. A natural extension to multi-dimensional problems discretized over unstructured mesh is proposed. Then a simple and efficient semi implicit scheme is also proposed. The resulting scheme is stable under a CFL condition driven by the (slow) material waves and not by the (fast) acoustic waves and so verifies the all regime property. Numerical evidences are proposed and show the ability of the scheme to deal with tests where the flow regime may vary from low to high Mach values.
ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers

This paper introduces ILOG( a declarative language in the style of (stratified) datalog( which can be used for querying, schema translation, and schema augmentation in the context of object-based data models. The semantics of ILOG is based on the use of Skolem functors, and is closely related to semantics for object-based data manipulation languages which provide mechanisms for explicit creation of object identifiers (OIDs). A normal form is presented for ILOG’ programs not involving recursion through OID creation, which identifies a precise correspondence between OIDs created in the target, and values and OIDs in the source. The expressive power of various sublanguages of ILOG’ is shown to range from a natural generalization of the conjunctive queries to the object-based context, to a language which can specify all computable database translat.ions (up to duplicate copies). The issue of testing vuliilityof ILOG programs translat.ing one semantic schema to another is studied: cases are presented for which several -validity issues (e.g., functional and/or subset relationships in the *This research supported in part by NSF grant IRI-8719875. ‘Research by this author also supported in part by NSF grant INT-8817874 and a grant from ATTI [cc and/or special permission from the EnJo%mcnt. Proceedings of the 16th VLDB Confercncc Brisbane, Australia 1990 Masatoshi Yoshikawa* Department of Information and Communication Sciences Kyoto Sangyo University Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603 Japan yosikawaQkyoto-su.ac.jp target schema) are decidable; and other cases are presented for which they are undecidable. Non-recursive ILOG is rich enough to simulate some schema translation languages based on local structural manipulation, and non-recursive ILOG’ can simulate the core of the OOAlgebra of [Day89], and of several other translation languages of the systems literature.
A “Superform” for Enhancing Competence in Completing Employment Applications

• The ability to make a positive initial impression on a personnel officer is important to handicapped youths seeking gainful employment. Unfortunately, deficits in reading and writing skills may adversely influence potential employers' views of these applicants. The substandard achievement levels attained by special needs learners have been noted by many authors (Kauffman, 1981; Kirk, 1972; Vernon, 1977), and it is possible that these low achievement levels are partially responsible for the difficulty experienced by handicapped individuals when they apply for entry level jobs (Arnold, 1977; Joynes, McCormick, & Heward, 1980). Low achievement levels in reading and writing have the most immediate impact when an applicant attempts to complete an initial employment application. Poor skills may limit the handicapped applicant's ability to define terms, com-
Variables related to job satisfaction among professional care providers working in brain injury rehabilitation.

PURPOSE To examine variables that contribute to work satisfaction among rehabilitation professionals involved in brain injury rehabilitation. METHOD One hundred and thirty-three respondents completed a job satisfaction questionnaire and qualitative questions regarding sources of stress and satisfaction in working with individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI). RESULTS Factor analysis yielded four factors relating to intrinsic satisfaction, perceived importance to the organization, organizational support and training support. Although intrinsic satisfaction was significantly related to the three other factors, it was best predicted by training support, particularly training that addressed the management of intrusive and/or aggressive behaviours. Qualitative correlates of both work stress and satisfaction were also identified with respect to personal issues, client-related issues, and organizationally-related issues. CONCLUSIONS Satisfaction with work in ABI rehabilitation is derived from multiple sources, but it appears to be largely dependent on feeling important to, and valued by, the organization and on the level of support and training provided in the workplace.
The Ciona17 Dataset for Semantic Segmentation of Invasive Species in a Marine Aquaculture Environment

An original dataset for semantic segmentation, Ciona17, is introduced, which to the best of the authors' knowledge, is the first dataset of its kind with pixel-level annotations pertaining to invasive species in a marine environment. Diverse outdoor illumination, a range of object shapes, colour, and severe occlusion provide a significant real world challenge for the computer vision community. An accompanying ground-truthing tool for superpixel labeling, Truth and Crop, is also introduced. Finally, we provide a baseline using a variant of Fully Convolutional Networks, and report results in terms of the standard mean intersection over union (mIoU) metric.
CAT-SLAM: probabilistic localisation and mapping using a continuous appearance-based trajectory

This paper describes a new system, dubbed Continuous Appearance-based Trajectory Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (CAT-SLAM), which augments sequential appearance-based place recognition with local metric pose filtering to improve the frequency and reliability of appearance-based loop closure. As in other approaches to appearance-based mapping, loop closure is performed without calculating global feature geometry or performing 3D map construction. Loop-closure filtering uses a probabilistic distribution of possible loop closures along the robot’s previous trajectory, which is represented by a linked list of previously visited locations linked by odometric information. Sequential appearance-based place recognition and local metric pose filtering are evaluated simultaneously using a Rao–Blackwellised particle filter, which weights particles based on appearance matching over sequential frames and the similarity of robot motion along the trajectory. The particle filter explicitly models both the likelihood of revisiting previous locations and exploring new locations. A modified resampling scheme counters particle deprivation and allows loop-closure updates to be performed in constant time for a given environment. We compare the performance of CAT-SLAM with FAB-MAP (a state-of-the-art appearance-only SLAM algorithm) using multiple real-world datasets, demonstrating an increase in the number of correct loop closures detected by CAT-SLAM.
Credibility judgments in web page design – a brief review

Today, more than ever, knowledge that interfaces appearance analysis is a crucial point in human-computer interaction field has been accepted. As nowadays virtually anyone can publish information on the web, the credibility role has grown increasingly important in relation to the web-based content. Areas like trust, credibility, and behavior, doubled by overall impression and user expectation are today in the spotlight of research compared to the last period, when other pragmatic areas such as usability and utility were considered. Credibility has been discussed as a theoretical construct in the field of communication in the past decades and revealed that people tend to evaluate the credibility of communication primarily by the communicator’s expertise. Other factors involved in the content communication process are trustworthiness and dynamism as well as various other criteria but to a lower extent. In this brief review, factors like web page aesthetics, browsing experiences and user experience are considered.
Testing and remote maintenance of real future internet scenarios: Towards FITTEST and FastFix advanced software engineering

In recent years, software testing and maintenance services are key factors of customers' perception of software quality. Nowadays, customers are more demanding about these services, while contribution of maintenance and testing services to products total cost of ownership should be reduced. Reducing these costs is even more crucial for SME's. To do this, new methods and techniques that will be aligned with the needs of companies are required. This paper presents the preliminary results of an interactive workshop celebrated by researchers and three companies. In the workshop, researchers present the advanced software engineering methods proposed by FastFix1 and FITTEST2 European projects. After that, discussions about their potential use in three application scenarios at Info-port Valencia, BULL Spain, and INDRA were performed and some lessons were learned.
Qos-Energy Aware Broadcast for Heterogeneous Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

We present QoS Geometric Broadcast Protocol (QoS-GBP), a novel broadcasting protocol for heterogeneous wireless ad hoc networks. The growing number of multimedia applications over wireless ad hoc networks require low delay from network protocols and in particular from broadcasting. While broadcasting is a very energy-expensive protocol, it is also widely used as a building block for a variety of other network layer protocols. Therefore, reducing the energy consumption by optimizing broadcasting is a major improvement in heterogenous wireless ad hoc networks networking. QoS-GBP is a distributed algorithm where nodes make local decisions on whether to transmit based on a geometric approach. QoS-GBP enables a tradeoff among the need for neighborhood information (communication overhead) and the delay. QoS-GBP is scalable to the change in network size, node type, node density and topology. Through simulation evaluations, we show that QoS-GBP is very scalable and guarantees minimum delay.
Pathology of the peripheral nerves in leprosy: report of a case

Peripheral nerve trunks were examined from a case of lepromatous leprosy. M. leprae was seen in the nerves in several types of cells. Isolated nerve fibre preparations showed demyelinating lesions due to Schwann cell damage and complete nerve fibre degeneration. The causes of this mixed pattern of damage may involve both a direct effect of the bacilli on nerve fibres and various epiphenomena.
An Exploratory Analysis of the Role of Cue-Induced Urinary Urges in Nocturia

ABSTRACT Objective: The present study assessed the relationship between nocturia and cue-induced urinary urges. Methods: Three hundred and six participants (201 females) ranging from 24 to 88 years of age, median age 53 years old participated in an online survey about bladder symptoms and cues related to urinary urge and urgency incontinence. Results: We found that individuals who experience more instances of cue-related urges have more nocturnal urination, F (4. 504) = 3.106, p < . 001, when controlling for age, day time urination frequency, and gender. Our findings suggest that awakening from sleep may be the cause rather than the consequence of urinary urgency. Conclusion: These results add to previous research by offering support that psychological contributors are primary or secondary predictors of urological disorders.
Shifting from Justification to Understanding: the Impact of Environmental uncertainty on the Value of IT-Enabled Collaboration in supply Chains

After over two decades of IT value research, there is growing evidence that organizations benefit from investments in IT. Hence, it is time to shift from justifying IT value to understanding the conditions under which it occurs. Although the relevance of contextual factors for the impact of IT investments has been highlighted in several studies, the literature is still too limited to draw a clear representation. This study contributes to the nascent stream that incorporates contextual factors with regard to the impact of IT investments on performance outcomes. By drawing on organizational information processing theory, we develop a research model and propose that the relationship between IT-enabled collaboration and supply chain performance is moderated by several dimensions of environmental uncertainty, namely product complexity, technological uncertainty, demand uncertainty, and supply uncertainty. Based on an analysis of data gathered from 150 supply chain executives, the study sheds light on the salient question of the conditions under which IT creates value in the context of supply chains. The findings advance the knowledge frontier of IT value research by providing evidence that performance outcomes are contingent on various environmental conditions and offering an explanation for the mixed results observed in previous literature.
A Change in the Physical State of η Carinae?

During η Car's spectroscopic event in mid-2003, the stellar wind's bright Hα and Hβ emission lines temporarily had a distinctive shape unlike that reported on any previous occasion and particularly unlike the 1997–1998 event. Evidently the structure of the wind changed between 1997 and 2003. Combining this with other evidence, we suspect that the star may now be passing through a rapid stage in its recovery from the Great Eruption seen 160 years ago. In any case, the data indicate that successive spectroscopic events differ, and the hydrogen line profiles are quantitative clues to the abnormal structure of the wind during a spectroscopic event.
Cavity ring-down spectroscopy for quantitative absorption measurements

We examine under what conditions cavity ring-down spectroscopy ~CRDS! can be used for quantitative diagnostics of molecular species. We show that CRDS is appropriate for diagnostics of species whose absorption features are wider than the spacing between longitudinal modes of the optical cavity. For these species, the absorption coefficient can be measured by CRDS without a knowledge of the pulse characteristics provided that the cavity ring-down decay is exponential. We find that the exponential ring-down decay is obeyed when the linewidth of the absorption feature is much broader than the linewidth of the light circulating in the cavity. This requirement for exponential decay may be relaxed when the sample absorption constitutes only a small fraction of the cavity loss and, consequently, the sample absorbance is less than unity during the decay time. Under this condition the integrated area of a CRDS spectral line approximates well the integrated absolute absorption coefficient, which allows CRDS to determine absolute number densities ~concentrations! We determine conditions useful for CRDS diagnostics by analyzing how the absorption loss varies with the sample absorbance for various ratios of the laser pulse linewidth to the absorption linewidth for either a Gaussian or a Lorentzian absorption line shape. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
Possible involvement of ROS generation in vorinostat pretreatment induced enhancement of the antibacterial activity of ciprofloxacin

The mechanism underlying ciprofloxacin action involves interference with transcription and replication of bacterial DNA and, thus, the induction of double-strand breaks in DNA. It also involves elevated oxidative stress, which might contribute to bacterial cell death. Vorinostat was shown to induce oxidative DNA damage. The current work investigated a possible interactive effect of vorinostat on ciprofloxacin-induced cytotoxicity against a number of reference bacteria. Standard bacterial strains were Escherichia coli ATCC 35218, Staphylococcus aureus ATCC29213, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 9027, Staphylococcus epidermidis ATCC 12228, Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978, Proteus mirabilis ATCC 12459, Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 13883, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (ATCC 43300), and Streptococcus pneumoniae (ATCC 25923). The antibacterial activity of ciprofloxacin, with or without pretreatment of bacterial cells by vorinostat, was examined using the disc diffusion procedure and determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and zones of inhibition of bacterial growth. All tested bacterial strains showed sensitivity to ciprofloxacin. When pretreated with vorinostat, significantly larger zones of inhibition and smaller MIC values were observed in all bacterial strains compared to those treated with ciprofloxacin alone. In correlation, generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced by the antibacterial action of ciprofloxacin was enhanced by treatment of bacterial cells with vorinostat. Results showed the possible agonistic properties of vorinostat when used together with ciprofloxacin. This could be related to the ability of these agents to enhance oxidative stress in bacterial cells.
Pentostatin, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab is an active, well-tolerated regimen for patients with previously treated chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

PURPOSE Purine analogs and alkylators are important agents for treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Early studies combining fludarabine and chlorambucil were abandoned owing to increased toxicity from overlapping myelosuppression and immunosuppression. Of the purine analogs active in CLL, pentostatin appears to be the least myelosuppressive. We previously reported that pentostatin and cyclophosphamide (PC) is active and well-tolerated in patients with relapsed or refractory CLL. Subsequently, we added rituximab, and now report on this three-drug combination. PATIENTS AND METHODS We treated 46 patients with either previously treated CLL (32 patients) or other low-grade B-cell neoplasms (14 patients). Patients received pentostatin 4 mg/m2, cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m2, and rituximab 375 mg/m2 (PCR). All drugs were administered on the same day (rituximab omitted from cycle 1), and patients received six cycles at 3-week intervals. Filgrastim, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, and acyclovir were administered prophylactically. RESULTS The median age was 62 years (range, 30 to 80 years). The median number of prior regimens was two (range, one to seven). For CLL patients, there were 24 responses (75%), including eight complete responses (25%). In fludarabine-refractory patients, 75% responded. Toxicity was acceptable, with grade 3/4 infections (including fever of unknown origin) in 28%. The regimen was well tolerated, with 72% of patients receiving the planned treatment at full dose. CONCLUSION PCR is safe and effective in previously treated patients with CLL. In comparison with our prior two-drug regimen, we find that rituximab did not seem to add significantly to the toxicity, but did appear to confer a survival advantage. Based on these results, we are currently studying PCR as initial therapy for patients with CLL.
A cohort study of the incidence of serious acute liver injury in diabetic patients treated with hypoglycemic agents.

BACKGROUND The incidence of acute liver failure or serious liver injury in diabetic patients is needed to evaluate the safety of hypoglycemic drug therapy. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 5 health maintenance organizations. Study patients were 171,264 health plan members 19 years or older when they received oral hypoglycemic drugs or insulin between April 1, 1997, and June 30, 1999. We searched for hospital discharge diagnoses and procedures potentially indicative of acute liver injury and reviewed the full-text medical records. Acute liver failure was defined as acute liver disease and (1) hepatic encephalopathy, (2) prothrombin time prolongation greater than 3 seconds or international normalized ratio greater than 1.5, and (3) a total bilirubin level greater than 3.0 mg/dL (>51 micro mol/L). Acute liver injury was diagnosed in individuals who did not meet 1 or more of the criteria for acute liver failure but had alanine transaminase or aspartate transaminase levels greater than 500 U/L. RESULTS We identified 35 cases of acute liver failure or injury not clearly attributable to a known cause other than use of hypoglycemic agents. The age- and sex-standardized incidence per 1000 person-years was 0.15 for insulin users, 0.08 for sulfonylurea users, 0.12 for metformin users, and 0.10 for troglitazone users. The incidence was higher (on the order of 0.3 per 1000) during the first 6 months of exposure to all hypoglycemic agents. CONCLUSIONS Acute liver failure or injury not clearly attributable to other known causes occurred on the order of 1 per 10,000 person-years among diabetic patients treated with oral hypoglycemic drugs or insulin.