Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A prospective study of injuries to elite Australian rugby union players

Objectives: To assess injury patterns and incidence in the Australian Wallabies rugby union players from 1994 to 2000. To compare these patterns and rates with those seen at other levels of play, and to see how they have changed since the beginning of the professional era. Methods: Prospective data were recorded from 1994 to 2000. All injuries to Australian Wallabies rugby union players were recorded by the team doctor. An injury was defined as one that forced a player to either leave the field or miss a subsequent game. Results: A total of 143 injuries were recorded from 91 matches. The overall injury rate was 69/1000 player hours of game play. The injury rates in the periods before (1994–1995) and after (1996–2000) the start of the professional era were 47/1000 player hours and 74/1000 player hours respectively. The lock was the most injured forward, and the number 10 the most injured back. Most injuries were soft tissue, closed injuries (55%), with the head being the most commonly injured region (25.1%). The phase of play responsible for most injuries was the tackle (58.7%). Injuries were more likely to occur in the second half of the game, specifically the third quarter (40%). The vast majority of injuries were acute (90%), with the remainder being either chronic or recurrent. Conclusions: Injury rate increases at higher levels of play in rugby union. Injury rates have increased in the professional era. Most injuries are now seen in the third quarter of the game, a finding that may reflect new substitution laws. There is a need for standardised collection of injury data in rugby union.
Comparative genomics supports a deep evolutionary origin for the large, four-module transcriptional mediator complex

The multisubunit Mediator (MED) complex bridges DNA-bound transcriptional regulators to the RNA polymerase II (PolII) initiation machinery. In yeast, the 25 MED subunits are distributed within three core subcomplexes and a separable kinase module composed of Med12, Med13 and the Cdk8-CycC pair thought to control the reversible interaction between MED and PolII by phosphorylating repeated heptapeptides within the Rpb1 carboxyl-terminal domain (CTD). Here, MED conservation has been investigated across the eukaryotic kingdom. Saccharomyces cerevisiae Med2, Med3/Pgd1 and Med5/Nut1 subunits are apparent homologs of metazoan Med29/Intersex, Med27/Crsp34 and Med24/Trap100, respectively, and these and other 30 identified human MED subunits have detectable counterparts in the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, indicating that none is specific to metazoans. Indeed, animal/fungal subunits are also conserved in plants, green and red algae, entamoebids, oomycetes, diatoms, apicomplexans, ciliates and the ‘deep-branching’ protists Trichomonas vaginalis and Giardia lamblia. Surprisingly, although lacking CTD heptads, T. vaginalis displays 44 MED subunit homologs, including several CycC, Med12 and Med13 paralogs. Such observations have allowed the identification of a conserved 17-subunit framework around which peripheral subunits may be assembled, and support a very ancient eukaryotic origin for a large, four-module MED. The implications of this comprehensive work for MED structure–function relationships are discussed.
The influence of heavy metals on the bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in aquatic system by a bacterial–fungal consortium

ABSTRACT Co-contamination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) with heavy metals (HMs) in aquatic environments is a global threat; however, little is understood about PAH biodegradation in these sites. In this study, PAHs’ biodegradation in the presence of HMs in water by a metal-tolerant consortium composed of Bacillus subtilis and fungus Acremonium sp. was investigated. The consortium demonstrated higher tolerance to the tested HMs (Fe2+, Al3+, Ni2+, Cu2+, Mn2+ and Zn2+) than the individual consortium components, and the tolerance to individual metals decreased with increasing metal concentrations. In the absence of HMs in aquatic systems, the consortium efficiently degraded naphthalene, fluorine, phenanthrene, anthracene and fluoranthene individually (50 mmol/L) over 10 days. However, while Ni2+ supplementation (5 mmol/L) suppressed phenanthrene and anthracene removal (p ≤ 0.01), enhanced fluoranthene degradation relative to the control was observed. Cu2+, Zn2+, Fe2+ and Al3+ supplementation demonstrated significant inhibition against individual phenanthrene, anthracene and fluoranthene removal, and Cu2+ showed a more significant effect on the degradation of these PAH compounds compared to other metals. Conversely, Mn2+ significantly enhanced the removal of fluorene, phenanthrene and fluoranthene, but inhibited anthracene degradation. HM contamination in aquatic systems did not show any effect on naphthalene bioremediation, possible due to its rapid degradation over a short time. Thus, metals affect PAH aquatic biodegradation by consortia, depending on metal species and PAH compound, underlining the complex nature of co-contaminated systems containing HMs and PAHs. To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the influence of HMs on PAHs’ bioremediation by such PAH-degrading consortia in water.
What Am I Looking At? Low-Power Radio-Optical Beacons for In-View Recognition on Smart-Glass

Applications on wearable personal imaging devices, or Smart-glasses as they are called, can largely benefit from accurate and energy-efficient recognition of objects that are within the user's view. Existing solutions such as optical or computer vision approaches are too energy intensive, while low-power active radio tags suffer from imprecise orientation estimates. To address this challenge, this paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a radio-optical hybrid system where a radio-optical transmitter, or tag, whose radio-optical beacons are used for accurate relative orientation tracking of tagged objects by a wearable radio-optical receiver. A low-power radio link that conveys identity is used to reduce the battery drain by synchronizing the radio-optical transmitter and receiver so that extremely short optical (infrared) pulses are sufficient for orientation (angle and distance) estimation. Through extensive experiments with our prototype we show that our system can achieve orientation estimates with 1-to-2 degree accuracy and within 40 cm ranging error, with a maximum range of 9 m in typical indoor use cases. With a tag and receiver battery power consumption of 81 μW and 90 mW, respectively, our radio-optical tags and receiver are at least 1.5x energy efficient than prior works in this space.
Autoimmune diseases involving skin and intestinal mucosa are more frequent in adolescents and young adults suffering from atopic dermatitis

Evidence has emerged about the relationship between atopic dermatitis (AD) and autoimmune diseases, but the underlying mechanism of this association is complex and still unclear. Recent epidemiological data from the published work suggest a positive correlation. The aim of this review is to analyze the frequency of co‐occurrence of AD and autoimmune diseases. Our systematic review included 22 articles from PubMed describing the reciprocal association between AD and autoimmune diseases. Although not all the studies achieved statistically significant results, patients suffering from autoimmune diseases involving skin and intestinal mucosa, such as vitiligo, alopecia areata, celiac disease and inflammatory bowel diseases, showed a higher risk to have AD as comorbidity. In contrast, patients with rheumatological autoimmune disorders did not show a significant correlation with AD. By analyzing the occurrence of autoimmune disorders in patients with AD, we confirmed a positive correlation between AD and autoimmune diseases involving skin and intestinal mucosa, but also with systemic lupus erythematosus, while the association between AD and type 1 diabetes, autoimmune thyroiditis and rheumatoid arthritis showed conflicting results. Further investigations are need to explain the mechanism underlying the observed comorbidity between AD and autoimmune diseases and to develop targeted prevention strategies and treatment.
Real time facial expression recognition with AdaBoost

In this paper, we propose a novel method for facial expression recognition. The facial expression is extracted from human faces by an expression classifier that is learned from boosting Haar feature based look-up-table type weak classifiers. The expression recognition system consists of three modules, face detection, facial feature landmark extraction and facial expression recognition. The implemented system can automatically recognize seven expressions in real time that include anger, disgust, fear, happiness, neutral, sadness and surprise. Experimental results are reported to show its potential applications in human computer interaction.
İletişim tarzları üzerinde kültürel değerlerin etkisi: Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi öğrencileri üzerinde bir araştırma

Bu calismanin amaci, iletisim tarzlari uzerinde kulturel degerlerin etkisini belirlemek ve Mehmet Akif Ersoy Universitesi ogrencilerinin kulturel degerlerinin ve iletisim tercihlerinin, demografik degiskenler karsisinda degisim gosterip gostermedigini saptamaktir. Bu calismanin evreni, Mehmet Akif Ersoy Universitesi ogrencileri, orneklemi ise egitim fakultesi ogrencileridir. Mehmet Akif Ersoy Universitesi Egitim Fakultesi ogrencilerinin kulturel goruslerini ve iletisim tercihlerini olcmek amaciyla hazirlanmis olan anket uc ayri bolumden olusmaktadir. Birinci bolumde; ogrenciler ile ilgili kisisel bilgiler; ikinci bolumde ogrencilerin kulturel varsayimlari, ucuncu bolumde ogrencilerin iletisim tercihleri ile ilgili sorulara yer verilmistir. Arastirma verileri, SPSS 15.0 programinda cozumlenmistir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Kultur, Iletisim, Kulturel Degerler, Yuksek ve Dusuk Baglamli Iletisim. The purpose of this study, the influence of cultural values on communication styles is to determine and Mehmet Akif Ersoy University students' cultural values and communication preferences, demographic variables is to determine whether people in the face of change. Universe of this study, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University students, faculty of education of the sample students. Mehmet Akif Ersoy university students' cultural views and communication preferences questionnaire created to measure. This questionnaire consists of three parts. In the first section, personal information about students, students' cultural assumptions in the second part, the third section where students were given questions about communication preferences. In order to analyse the data collected, the SSPS 15.0 program was used. Keywords: Culture, Communication, Cultural Values, High and Low- Context Communications.
The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays

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Emotions, Risk Perceptions, and Precautionary Behavior Under the Threat of Terror Attacks: A Field Study Among Israeli College Students

The current study uses the unique data from a natural experiment conducted in a college located in southern Israel that was exposed to rocket attacks in 2008. The study examines the relationships between the negative emotions, the perceptions of risk to oneself, the precautionary actions, and the intentions of 290 students who were exposed to terror attacks while on campus. In addition, we compared the emotions, the risk perceptions, and the precautionary behavior between the two groups: those who lived within the range of the rockets and were also exposed to rocket attacks at home and those who lived outside the range of the rockets. The results show that the risk perceptions were affected mainly by the emotion of fear while the students were on campus. In particular, fearful people became more pessimistic about their general and personal risks from terror but not about routine risks. The results also reveal that those who lived outside the rocket area (and had less or no experience with terror attacks) were more likely to take precautionary actions during their stay in the campus and were more pessimistic about continuing their studies in college in the coming year than those living in the area, who had more experience with terror attacks. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Identification of four genes in endothelial cells whose expression is affected by tumor cells and host immune status--a study in ex vivo-isolated endothelial cells.

A spontaneously metastasizing, well-defined mouse lymphoma was chosen as an in vivo model to study the effect of tumor-host interaction on gene expression in liver sinusoidal endothelial cells. Forty-nine bovine aortic endothelial cell (BAEC) genes, recently isolated by a differential screening approach of a cDNA library enriched for tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) suppressed genes, were investigated. Four of these genes were finally selected because they were affected differentially by host immuno-competence, TNF-alpha, and tumor cells. Sequence analysis showed them to encode the bovine polyubiquitin (A4), elongation factor 1alpha (B2), the acidic ribosomal phosphoprotein PO (C3), and the ribosomal protein S2 (E10). Gene expression was analyzed by dot-blot or Northern blot analysis. TNF-alpha and tumor cell conditioned supernatant suppressed the genes additive in BAEC but not in other endothelial cells except for bovine capillary endothelial cells. Ex vivo-isolated liver endothelial cells of tumor-bearing syngeneic DBA/2 mice showed strong downregulation of these four genes in comparison to normal control values. In contrast, endothelial cells of tumor-bearing immuno-incompetent Balb/c (nu/nu) mice showed no downregulation but upregulation of these genes. Consistently, all four genes were also downregulated when BAEC were incubated with supernatants derived from ex vivo-isolated liver metastases from immuno-competent but not from -incompetent mice. Thus, the expression of a group of genes involved in protein translation and processing was more profoundly altered in endothelial cells in vivo than in vitro, suggesting that microenviromental factors and cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions play an important role.
Minimally Invasive Foraminotomy through Tubular Retractors via a Contralateral Approach in Patients with Unilateral Radiculopathy

Introduction Radiculopathy caused by foraminal nerve root compression is a common pathology of the lumbar spine. Surgical decompression through conventional open foraminotomy is the treatment of choice when surgery indicated. Minimally invasive tubular foraminotomy through a contralateral approach is a potentially effective treatment approach. The aim of this retrospective cohort study was to evaluate the efficacy and benefits of this approach for treatment of radiculopathy. Materials and Methods Patients with unilateral lower extremity radiculopathy, who underwent minimally invasive lumbar foraminotomy through tubular retractors via a contralateral approach between 2010 and 2012 were included. Oswestry disability index (ODI) and the visual analogue scale (VAS) for back, and leg pain were evaluated preoperatively, postoperatively, and at the latest follow-up. Functional outcome was evaluated using MacNab's criteria. Results For the total of 32 patients, postoperatively there was significant improvement in the ODI (p = 0.006), VAS back pain (p < 0.0001), and VAS leg pain on the pathology and the approach side (p = 0.004, p = 0.021, respectively). At follow-up of 12.3 ± 1.7 months, there was also significant improvement in the ODI (p < 0.0001), VAS back pain (p = 0.001), and VAS leg pain on the pathology and the approach side (p < 0.0001, p = 0.001, respectively). The functional outcome was excellent and good in 95.2%. One patient required fusion (3.1%). Conclusion A minimally invasive, facet-sparing contralateral approach is an effective technique for treatment of radiculopathy due to foraminal compression. It also allows for decompression of lumbar spinal stenosis and bilateral lateral recess decompression without the need for a fusion. Disclosure of Interest None declared
Perinatal outcomes, mitochondrial toxicity and apoptosis in HIV-treated pregnant women and in-utero-exposed newborn

Objective:Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has decreased the risk of HIV mother-to-child transmission. However, HIV and HAART have been associated with adverse perinatal outcome. HAART has been associated with mitochondrial dysfunction in nonpregnant adults, and HIV, additionally, to apoptosis. We determined whether mitochondrial toxicity and apoptosis are present in HIV-pregnant women and their newborns and could be the basis of adverse pregnancy outcome. Design:Single-site, cross-sectional, controlled observational study without intervention. Methods:We studied mitochondrial and apoptotic parameters in mononuclear cells from maternal peripheral blood and infant cord blood at delivery in 27 HIV-infected and treated pregnant women, and 35 uninfected controls and their infants, to correlate clinical outcome with experimental findings: mitochondrial number (CS), mtDNA content (ND2/18SrRNA), mitochondrial protein synthesis (COX-II/V-DAC), mitochondrial function (enzymatic activities) and apoptotic rate (caspase-3/&bgr;-actin). Results:Global adverse perinatal outcome, preterm births and small newborn for gestational age were significantly increased in HIV pregnancies [odds ratio (OR) 7.33, 5.77 and 9.71]. Mitochondrial number was unaltered. The remaining mitochondrial parameters were reduced in HIV mothers and their newborn; especially newborn mtDNA levels, maternal and fetal mitochondrial protein synthesis and maternal glycerol-3-phosphate + complex III function (38.6, 25.8, 13.6 and 31.2% reduced, respectively, P < 0.05). All materno-fetal mitochondrial parameters significantly correlated, except mtDNA content. Apoptosis was exclusively increased in infected pregnant women, but not in their newborn. However, adverse perinatal outcome did not correlate mitochondrial or apoptotic findings. Conclusions:Transplacental HAART toxicity may cause subclinical mitochondrial damage in HIV-pregnant women and their newborn. Trends to increased maternal apoptosis may be due to maternal-restricted HIV infection. However, we could not demonstrate mitochondrial or apoptotic implication in adverse perinatal outcome.
Intra-individual comparison of 18 F-FET and 18 F-DOPA in PET imaging of recurrent brain tumors

Background. Both 18 F-ﬂuorodihydroxyphenylalanine ( 18 F-DOPA) and 18 F-ﬂuoroethyltyrosine ( 18 F-FET) have already been used success-fully for imaging of brain tumors. The aim of this study was to evaluate differences between these 2 promising tracers to determine the consequences for imaging protocols and the interpretation of ﬁndings. Methods. Forty minutes of dynamic PET imaging were performed on 2 consecutive days with both 18 F-DOPA and 18 F-FET in patients with recurrent low-grade astrocytoma ( n ¼ 8) or high-grade glioblastoma ( n ¼ 8). Time-activity-curves (TACs), standardized uptake values (SUVs) and compartment modeling of both tracers were analyzed, respectively. Results. TheTACofDOPA-PETpeakedat8 minutesp.i. withSUV5.23inhigh-gradegliomasand10 minutesp.i. withSUV4.92inlow-grade gliomas. FET-PETpeaked at 9 minutes p.i. with SUV 3.17 in high-grade gliomas and 40 minutes p.i. with SUV 3.24 in low-grade gliomas. ¼ 0.59) and low-grade (k1 ¼ 0.55) tumors, while lower absolute values and a relevant dependency from tumor-grading (high-grade k1 ¼ 0.43; low-grade k1 ¼ 0.33) were observed with FET. Conclusions. DOPA-PETdemonstrates superior contrast ratios for lesions outside the striatum, but SUVs do not correlate with grading. FET-PET can provide additional information on tumor grading and beneﬁts from lower striatal uptake but presents lower contrast ratios and requires prolonged imaging if histology is not available in advance due to a more variable time-to-peak.
How we grieve : relearning the world

Introduction to the Second Edition Chapter 1 - Stories of Grieving: Listening and Responding *Martin and Louise *Jennifer Bill, Diane and Margaret Ed, Elise, and David Kathryn Colleen Stories Are the Heart of the Matter: The Point of Thinking about Grieving Why Do Persons Look to Books on Grieving? They Seek General Understanding They Seek Respect for Individuality They Seek Ways to Deal with Helplessness in Grieving They Seek Guidance for Caregivers Chapter 2 - Grieving Is Active: We Need Not Be Helpless *The Story of Martin and Louise *Jennifer's Story Bereavement Is Choiceless, but Grieving Is Not Grief Is an Emotion, Grieving a Coping Process Some Say We Grieve in Stages or Phases Some Describe Our Grieving in Medical Terms Is It Helpful to Talk of Stages, Phases and Medical Analogies? Some Say that as We Grieve We Address Tasks A Task-Based, Active View Some Choices We All Have as We Grieve Grieving Is Active: A Summary Chapter 3 - Respecting Individuals When They Grieve *The Story of Bill and Diane *Respecting Individual Flourishing Respecting Individual Vulnerabilities Acting Respectfully Once We Understand Individual Flourishing and Vulnerability What Our Self-Respect Requires Chapter 4 - Relearning the World: How We Grieve *The Story of Ed and Elise *How We Relearn Our Worlds The Worlds We Relearn We Relearn Our Physical Surroundings We Relearn Our Relationships with Fellow Survivors We Relearn Our Selves We Relearn Our Places in Space and Time The Power of the Relearning Idea Chapter 5 - Relearning Our Selves: Grief and Personal Integrity *David's Story *Margaret's Story How Are We to Understand Ourselves in Loss and Grief? An Image of How We Become the Selves We Are Our Selves in Loss and Grief: Elaborating the Image As We Cope, We Engage with and Move beyond Suffering We Struggle to Put Our Shattered Lives Back Together We Seek New Ways to Complete Our Life Stories We Become Whole Again as Parts of Larger Wholes Together We Reshape Our Families and Communities Advantages of This Idea of Relearning Our Selves Chapter 6 - Relearning Our Relationships with the Deceased: Grief, Love and Separation *Kathryn's Story *Colleen's Story What We Lose, and What We Do Not Lose, When Someone Dies Let Go We Must, but Not Entirely We Continue to Love and Cherish the Stories of Lives Now Ended We Still Care About What Those Who Died Cared About. Advantages of This Idea of Relearning Our Relationships with the Deceased Index