Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Nesting on Posture Discomfort and Physiological Parameters of Low Birth Weight Infants

A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of "nesting" among low birth weight infants in NICU of selected government hospital of Delhi. An experimental study was conducted in which low birth weight infants (birth weight 1.00-2.5kg) were stratified into three groups based on their birth weight (1.0-1.5kg, 1.5- 2.0kg, 2.0-2.5kg). The samples consisted of 60 low birth weight infants; 30 in experimental group and 30 in control group. Pre-test Post-test control group design was used in which nesting was provided in experimental group 9 hours per day for 5 days. Posture, comfort and physiological parameters were assessed before and during administration of nesting. A significant improvement in posture (t=12.64) was observed in experimental group during application of nesting. A significant reduction in the discomfort was observed in experimental group as compared to control group (t=10.65). Low birth weight infants exhibit comparatively stable physiological parameters during the period of nesting. Keywords: Discomfort: It refers to the discomfort of low birth weight infants as evident from neonatal comfort scale, Low Birth Weight Infants: Infants who are admitted in NICU of selected hospital in Delhi with a birth weight between 1.0 kg and 2.5 kg. Nesting: is an intervention which is aimed at ensuring comfortable flexed position to the new-borns by providing an oval shaped boundary or an enclosure using a rolled bed sheet, around the immediate physical environment of the neonate, Physiological Parameters: Axillary temperature, heart rate, and respiration of the LBW infants, Posture: a position or alignment of various parts of the body in relation to one another for minimum of 10 seconds of LBW infants.
Novel Rho Kinase Inhibitors with Anti-inflammatory and Vasodilatory Activities

Increased Rho kinase (ROCK) activity contributes to smooth muscle contraction and regulates blood pressure homeostasis. We hypothesized that potent and selective ROCK inhibitors with novel structural motifs would help elucidate the functional role of ROCK and further explore the therapeutic potential of ROCK inhibition for hypertension. In this article, we characterized two aminofurazan-based inhibitors, GSK269962A [N-(3-{[2-(4-amino-1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)-1-ethyl-1H-imidazo[4, 5-c]pyridin-6-yl]oxy}phenyl)-4-{[2-(4-morpholinyl)ethyl]-oxy}benzamide] and SB-7720770-B [4-(7-{[(3S)-3-amino-1-pyrrolidinyl]carbonyl}-1-ethyl-1H-imidazo[4,5-c]pyridin-2-yl)-1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-amine], as members of a novel class of compounds that potently inhibit ROCK enzymatic activity. GSK269962A and SB-772077-B have IC50 values of 1.6 and 5.6 nM toward recombinant human ROCK1, respectively. GSK269962A also exhibited more than 30-fold selectivity against a panel of serine/threonine kinases. In lipopolysaccharide-stimulated monocytes, these inhibitors blocked the generation of inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor-α. Furthermore, both SB-772077-B and GSK269962A induced vasorelaxation in preconstricted rat aorta with an IC50 of 39 and 35 nM, respectively. Oral administration of either GSK269962A or SB-772077-B produced a profound dose-dependent reduction of systemic blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats. At doses of 1, 3, and 30 mg/kg, both compounds induced a reduction in blood pressure of approximately 10, 20, and 50 mm Hg. In addition, administration of SB-772077-B also dramatically lowered blood pressure in DOCA salt-induced hypertensive rats. SB-772077-B and GSK269962A represent a novel class of ROCK inhibitors that have profound effects in the vasculature and may enable us to further evaluate the potential beneficial effects of ROCK inhibition in animal models of cardiovascular as well as other chronic diseases.
Target Cueing Provides Support for Target- and Resource-Based Models of the Attentional Blink

The attentional blink (AB) describes a time-based deficit in processing the second of two masked targets. The AB is attenuated if successive targets appear between the first and final target, or if a cueing target is positioned before the final target. Using various speeds of stimulus presentation, the current study employed successive targets and cueing targets to confirm and extend an understanding of target-target cueing in the AB. In Experiment 1, three targets were presented sequentially at rates of 30 msec/item or 90 msec/item. Successive targets presented at 90 msec improved performance compared with non-successive targets. However, accuracy was equivalently high for successive and non-successive targets presented at 30 msec/item, suggesting that–regardless of whether they occurred consecutively–those items fell within the temporally defined attentional window initiated by the first target. Using four different presentation speeds, Experiment 2 confirmed the time-based definition of the AB and the success of target-cueing at 30 msec/item. This experiment additionally revealed that cueing was most effective when resources were not devoted to the cue, thereby implicating capacity limitations in the AB. Across both experiments, a novel order-error measure suggested that errors tend to decrease with an increasing duration between the targets, but also revealed that certain stimulus conditions result in stable order accuracy. Overall, the results are best encapsulated by target-based and resource-sharing theories of the AB, which collectively value the contributions of capacity limitations and optimizing transient attention in time.
Investigating the Influence of the Functional Mechanisms of Online Product Presentations

Internet-based interactive multimedia technologies enable online firms to employ a variety of formats to present and promote their products: they can use pictures, videos, and sounds to depict products, as well as give consumers the opportunity to try out products virtually. Despite the several previous endeavors that studied the effects of different product presentation formats, the functional mechanisms underlying these presentation methods have not been investigated in a comprehensive way. This paper investigates a model showing how these functional mechanisms (namely, vividness and interactivity) influence consumers’ intentions to return to a website and their intentions to purchase products. A study conducted to test this model has largely confirmed our expectations: 1) both vividness and interactivity of product presentations are the primary design features that influence the efficacy of the presentations; 2) consumers’ perceptions of the diagnosticity of websites, their perceptions of the compatibility between online shopping and physical shopping, and their shopping enjoyment derived from a particular online shopping experience jointly influence consumers’ attitudes toward shopping at a website; and 3) both consumers’ attitudes toward products and their attitudes toward shopping at a website contribute to their intentions to purchase the products displayed on the website.
The “Ripple Effect”: Cultural Differences in Perceptions of the Consequences of Events

Previous research has demonstrated that people from East Asian cultural backgrounds make broader, more complex causal attributions than do people from Western cultural backgrounds. In the current research, the authors hypothesized that East Asians also would be aware of a broader, more complex distribution of consequences of events. Four studies assessed cultural differences in perceptions of the consequences of (a) a shot in a game of pool, (b) an area being converted into a national park, (c) a chief executive officer firing employees, and (d) a car accident. Across all four studies, compared to participants from Western cultural backgrounds, participants from East Asian cultural backgrounds were more aware of the indirect, distal consequences of events. This pattern occurred on a variety of measures, including spontaneously generated consequences, estimations of an event's impact on subsequent events, perceived responsibility, and predicted affective reactions. Implications for our understanding of cross-cultural psychology and social perception are discussed.
Period Change of Superhumps in a WZ Sge-Type Dwarf Nova, HV Virginis

After 10 years of quiescence, HV Vir underwent a superoutburst in 2002 January. We report on time-series observations that clearly reveal the period change of ordinary superhumps during the superoutburst. We derived a mean superhump period of 0.058260d and a positive period derivative of 7 × 10 −5 . These results are in good agreement with a value obtained from the 1992 superoutburst. We also detected early superhumps, which were not clearly recognized in the past outburst, and a possible rebrightening. Both of them are common characteristics of WZ Sge-type stars.
Theory of mind and peer acceptance in preschool children

Two studies tested the hypothesis that preschool children's theory of mind ability is related to their levels of peer acceptance. In Study 1, 78 children between the ages of 4 and 6 provided peer nominations that allowed determination of social preference and social impact scores, and classification in one of five peer status groups (following Coie & Dodge, 1983). Children were also tested on five different theory of mind tasks. The results showed that theory of mind scores were significantly related to social preference scores in a subsample of children who were over 5 years old. Further, popular children were found to score higher on theory of mind tasks than children classified as rejected. Study 2 replicated and extended the first study with a new sample of 87 4- to 6-year-old children. Study 2 included measures of peer acceptance, theory of mind ability and verbal intelligence, as well as teacher ratings of prosocial and aggressive behaviours. The results of Study 2 showed that for the total group of children, prosocial behaviour was the best predictor of social preference scores. When the Study 2 sample was split into older and younger children, theory of mind ability was found to be the best predictor of social preference scores for the older children (over age 5), while aggressive and prosocial behaviours were the best predictors of peer acceptance in the younger children. Overall, the pattern of results suggests that the impact of theory of mind ability on peer acceptance is modest but increases with children's age.
Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is becoming an effective therapeutic modality for a variety of diseases. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can be used to enhance hematopoietic engraftment, accelerate lymphocyte recovery, reduce the risk of graft failure, prevent and treat graft-versus-host disease, and repair tissue damage in patients receiving HSCT. Till now, most MSCs for human clinical application have been derived from bone marrow. However, acquiring bone-marrow-derived MSCs involves an invasive procedure. Umbilical cord is rich with MSCs. Compared to bone-marrow-derived MSCs, umbilical cord-derived MSCs (UCMSCs) are easier to obtain without harm to the donor and can proliferate faster. No severe adverse effects were noted in our previous clinical application of UCMSCs in HSCT. Accordingly, application of UCMSCs in humans appears to be feasible and safe. Further studies are warranted.
Adult ESL Student Attitudes towards Performance-based Assessment

Performance-based assessment, such as podolios, presentations, and participation, is currentiy k i n g used in many second language programs. A review of the literature pnor to this research revealed that although there have been a number of studies and papers on performance-based assessment, including alternative assessment and authentic assessment, few have reported student reactions to this wave of assessment techniques. Therefore, the attitudes of adult English as a Second Language (ESL) students (N=127) to performance-based assessment (portfolios, presentations, and participation) versus more traditional types of tests were surveyed by means of a questionnaire and semistructured interviews. Quantitative and qualitative results suggest that the participants in the study perceived d l four types of assessment positively. Analysis of background variables suggests that there were interaction efiects for level of language proficiency and home country with regard to attitude toward assessment type. Other biographical variables showed little or no relationship to attitudes.
Restrictive use of immunosuppressive treatment in patients with idiopathic membranous nephropathy: high renal survival in a large patient cohort.

BACKGROUND Immunosuppressive treatment initiated at an early stage in patients with idiopathic membranous nephropathy (iMN) improves renal survival. Treatment should ideally be restricted to high-risk patients. AIM To evaluate the efficacy of a restrictive immunosuppressive treatment strategy for patients with iMN. DESIGN Prospective cohort study evaluating a predefined treatment protocol. METHODS From 1988, we adopted a restrictive treatment strategy: immunosuppressive treatment, mainly consisting of cyclophosphamide and steroids, was advised only in patients with renal insufficiency or severe intolerable nephrotic syndrome. We evaluated this strategy in a large patient cohort. To exclude any bias, we included all adult patients with iMN biopsied in the study period with a serum creatinine (Scr) < 135 micromol/l, a proteinuria > or = 3.0 g/day and/or a serum albumin (Salb) < or = 30 g/l at the time of biopsy. Analysis was according to the intention-to-treat principle. RESULTS We studied 69 patients. At the time of biopsy, mean age was 51 years, Scr 90 micromol/l, Salb 23 g/l and proteinuria 6.7 g/day. Average follow-up was 5.5 years. Thus far 33 (48%) patients have received immunosuppressive therapy, mainly because of renal insufficiency (n = 24). Status at the end of follow-up was: complete remission n = 22 (32%), partial remission n = 24 (35%), nephrotic syndrome n = 15 (22%), persistent proteinuria n = 1 (1.4%), ESRD n = 6 (8.7%), death n = 1 (1.4%; due to bladder carcinoma after cyclophosphamide therapy). Patient survival was 100% at 5 and 7 years. Renal survival was 94% at 5 years and 88% at 7 years. DISCUSSION In patients with iMN, a restrictive treatment policy assures a favourable prognosis, while preventing exposure to immunosuppressive therapy in >50% of the patients.
Analysis of Compressed Sensing with Spatially-Coupled Orthogonal Matrices

Recent development in compressed sensing (CS) has revealed that the use of a special design of measurement matrix, namely the spatially-coupled matrix, can achieve the information-theoretic limit of CS. In this paper, we consider the measurement matrix which consists of the spatially-coupled \emph{orthogonal} matrices. One example of such matrices are the randomly selected discrete Fourier transform (DFT) matrices. Such selection enjoys a less memory complexity and a faster multiplication procedure. Our contributions are the replica calculations to find the mean-square-error (MSE) of the Bayes-optimal reconstruction for such setup. We illustrate that the reconstruction thresholds under the spatially-coupled orthogonal and Gaussian ensembles are quite different especially in the noisy cases. In particular, the spatially coupled orthogonal matrices achieve the faster convergence rate, the lower measurement rate, and the reduced MSE.
Confidence estimation for spoken language translation based on Round Trip Translation

In this paper we propose a Round Trip Translation (RTT) based approach to sentence-level confidence estimation (CE) for spoken language translation without the assistant of reference translations generated by human. A number of novel RTT based features are introduced to reflect the quality of spoken language translation in more detail. After combing various kinds of features together, support vector regression (SVR) method is employed to learn human's assessment patterns of translation quality. Experimental results show that RTT based features could improve the accuracy of CE significantly and SVR method could model human's assessment pattern accurately and robustly. In the final CE task of spoken language translation from Chinese to English, our system achieves comparable performance with that of BLEU, which needs the assistance of human's reference, even with small training data.
An Empirical Study of Boosting Spectrum-Based Fault Localization via PageRank

Manual debugging is notoriously tedious and time-consuming. Therefore, various automated fault localization techniques have been proposed to help with manual debugging. Among the existing fault localization techniques, spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL) is one of the most widely studied techniques due to being lightweight. The focus of the existing SBFL techniques is to consider how to differentiate program entities (i.e., one dimension in program spectra); indeed, this focus is aligned with the ultimate goal of finding the faulty lines of code. Our key insight is to enhance the existing SBFL techniques by additionally considering how to differentiate tests (i.e., the other dimension in program spectra), which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been studied in prior work. We present our basic approach, PRFL, a lightweight technique that boosts SBFL by differentiating tests using PageRank algorithm. Specifically, given the original program spectrum information, PRFL uses PageRank to <italic>recompute</italic> the spectrum by considering the contributions of different tests. Next, traditional SBFL techniques are applied on the recomputed spectrum to achieve more effective fault localization. On top of PRFL, we explore PRFL+ and PRFL<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_{\mathrm{MA}}$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mrow/><mml:mi> MA </mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="zhang-ieq1-2911283.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, two variants which extend PRFL by optimizing its components and integrating Method-level Aggregation technique, respectively. Though being simple and lightweight, PRFL has been demonstrated to outperform state-of-the-art SBFL techniques significantly (e.g., ranking 39.2% / 82.3% more real/artificial faults at Top-1 compared with the most effective traditional SBFL technique) with low overhead (e.g., around 6 minutes average extra overhead on real faults) on 395 real faults from 6 Defects4J projects and 96925 artificial (i.e., mutation) faults from 240 GitHub projects. To further validate PRFL's effectiveness, we compare PRFL with multiple recent proposed fault localization techniques (e.g., Multric, Metallaxis and MBFL-hybrid-avg), and the experimental results show that PRFL outperforms them as well. Furthermore, we study the performance of PRFL<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_{\mathrm{MA}}$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mrow/><mml:mi> MA </mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="zhang-ieq2-2911283.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, and the experimental results present it can locate 137 real faults (73.4% / 24.5% more compared with the most effective SBFL/PRFL technique) and 35058 artificial faults (159.6% / 28.1% more than SBFL/PRFL technique) at Top-1. At last, we study the generalizability of PRFL on another benchmark, Bugs.jar, and the result shows PRFL can help locate around 30 percent more faults at Top 1.
A ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) based on 4T static storage and including a current-race sensing scheme

A 256/spl times/144-bit TCAM is designed in 0.18-/spl mu/m CMOS. The proposed TCAM cell uses 4T static storage for increased density. The proposed match-line (ML) sense scheme reduces power consumption by minimizing switching activity of search-lines and limiting voltage swing of MLs. The scheme achieves a match-time of 3 ns and operates at a minimum supply voltage of 1.2 V.
SIL 4 process improvement with POSE and Alloy

Safety Standards demand that industrial applications demonstrate they have the required safety integrity and this starts with the initial requirements phase. This paper shows how the Problem Oriented Software Engineering (POSE) framework, in conjunction with the Alloy formal method, supports this task through its ability to elaborate, transform and analyse the project requirements and thus develop a solution for an avionics case study. In particular, this work reports on how the POSE/Alloy combination was used in conjunction with the POSE safety pattern to improve the requirements analysis capabilities of an existing, successful safety critical development process. The results of applying this combination to an existing design showed that it could detect anomalies early in the life cycle that had previously been detected by much later (and more costly) validation work.
Determinants of Location Choices of The Finnish Firms in Asian Countries – Empirical Evidence

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate how the ownership, location internalization and strategic advantages have influenced the location choices of FDIs by Finnish firms in ten Asian countries. Very few studies have been undertaken so far to empirically analyze the influential ownership, location and internalization variables together with the strategic motives in order analyze the FDI choices of the foreign investors. The research results indicate that large size of the parent firm, large international experience, large market size in the target country, low cultural distance and low wage rates increases the probability of undertaking market-seeking and efficiency-seeking FDIs. Secondly, it has been found that low levels of inflation, low levels of risks and high level of exchange rate fluctuations in the target country increase the probability of undertaking risk-reduction FDIs. Finally, results show that high R&D intensity of the parent firm increases the probability of undertaking knowledge-seeking FDIs.
A Perplexity-Based Method for Similar Languages Discrimination

This article describes the system submitted by the Citius_Ixa_Imaxin team to the VarDial 2017 (DSL and GDI tasks). The strategy underlying our system is based on a language distance computed by means of model perplexity. The best model configuration we have tested is a voting system making use of several n-grams models of both words and characters, even if word unigrams turned out to be a very competitive model with reasonable results in the tasks we have participated. An error analysis has been performed in which we identified many test examples with no linguistic evidences to distinguish among the variants.
Testing a Social Schematic Model of Police Procedural Justice

Procedural justice theory increasingly guides policing reforms in the United States and abroad. Yet the primary sources of perceived police procedural justice are still unclear. Building on social schema research, we posit civilians’ perceptions of police procedural justice only partly reflect their personal and vicarious experiences with officers. We theorize perceptions of the police are anchored in a broader “relational justice schema,” composed of views about how respectful, fair, and unbiased most people are in their dealings with others. Individuals’ experiences with certain nonlegal actors and neighborhood environments should directly affect their relational justice schema and indirectly affect their evaluation of police. Nevertheless, experiences with police, especially mistreatment by officers, should also affect perceived police procedural justice and may moderate the effects of relational justice schema endorsement. We test our hypotheses in two studies with national samples. The findings strongly support a social schematic model of perceived police procedural justice.