Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
[Clinical outcomes of patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) treated by EPOCH regimen].

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The biological behavior of peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) are different from that of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). It shows low chemosensitivity, high incidence of relapse, poor prognosis, and has no standard chemotherapy regimen. The efficacy of CHOP is poor for PTCL. This study was to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of EPOCH regimen for PTCL. METHODS EPOCH regimen(doxorubicin/epirubicin, vincristine, etoposide over 96 hours' infusion with bolus cyclophosphamide,and oral prednisone) was administered to 21 patients with PTCL. According to WHO classification criteria, 21 cases of PTCL concluded 7 peripheral T-cell lymphoma unspecified (PTCL-U), 7 NK/T-cell lymphoma (NK/TCL), 5 anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL), 1 Mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome (MF/SS), and 1 subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma (SPTCL). Among them there were 14 previously untreated patients, 7 pretreated and recurrent patients. Median cycles of EPOCH regimen administered were 3 (ranged from 1 to 7 cycles). RESULTS Of 21 patients, 20 were eligible to evaluate treatment efficacy. The response rate (RR) for the whole group was 85% (17/20) with complete remission (CR) rate of 50% (10/20). The RRs of patients with NK/TCL, PTCL-U, and ALCL were 71.4% (5/7), 100.0% (6/6), and 80.0%(4/5); the CR rates were 57.1% (4/7), 50.0% (3/6), and 40.0% (2/5). The RR of patients which haven't been pretreated was 84.6% (11/13), the CR rate was 61.5% (8/13); While the RR of pretreated patients was 85.5% (6/7), the CR rate was 28.5% (2/7). Seventy cycles of chemotherapy were administered to 21 patients. Major toxicity was myelosuppression, the incidences of grade III-IV neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, and anemia were 34.3%, 14.3%, and 7.1%. Other toxicities were mild, no treatment-related mortality occurred. CONCLUSION EPOCH was effective and well tolerant for the patients with PTCL.
ADHESION OF PLATELETS TO SUBENDOTHELIUM

Endothelium provides the physiologic nonthrombogenic surface in vivo. Connective tissue components underneath the endothelial lining form the subendo‐thelium. The subendothelial surface appears far less thrombogenic than collagen fibers. Platelet adhesion to subendothelium as an entity is greatly enhanced by the presence of other blood cells, by an increase in the flow rate of the circulating blood, and by the presence of divalent cations. The affinity of platelets to different connective tissue components of the subendothelium varies markedly. When exposed to the same blood stream in a newly developed perfusion chamber, the affinity of platelets to the respective material decreases in the following order: collagen fibers, amorphous material (basement membrane), microfibrils, and elastin.
School Desegregation in Large Cities: A Critique of the Coleman "White Flight" Thesis

In this article, Thomas Pettigrew and Robert Green closely examine sociologist James S. Coleman's research and public statements on the relationship between school desegregation and white school enrollment. Describing their own study and other studies whose findings diverge from Coleman's, they contend that Coleman's research is methodologically and conceptually faulty and that it provides no basis for his highly publicized conclusion that urban school desegregation leads to massive "white flight. " Rather, they argue, his and others' research tends to support metropolitan solutions to school segregation. The authors criticize Coleman for failing to distinguish between his scientific findings and his personal beliefs and go on to comment more generally on the delicate relationship between social science and the mass media.
A novel BCI-controlled pneumatic glove system for home-based neurorehabilitation

Commercially available devices for Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)-controlled robotic stroke rehabilitation are prohibitively expensive for many researchers who are interested in the topic and physicians who would utilize such a device. Additionally, they are cumbersome and require a technician to operate, increasing the inaccessibility of such devices for home-based robotic stroke rehabilitation therapy. Presented here is the design, implementation and test of an inexpensive, portable and adaptable BCI-controlled hand therapy device. The system utilizes a soft, flexible, pneumatic glove which can be used to deflect the subject's wrist and fingers. Operation is provided by a custom-designed pneumatic circuit. Air flow is controlled by an embedded system, which receives serial port instruction from a PC running real-time BCI software. System tests demonstrate that glove control can be successfully driven by a real-time BCI. A system such as the one described here may be used to explore closed loop neurofeedback rehabilitation in stroke relatively inexpensively and potentially in home environments.
Acamprosate for the Adjunctive Treatment of Alcohol Dependence

OBJECTIVE: To review the literature related to the treatment of alcohol dependence with acamprosate, a synthetic compound structurally similar to the naturally occurring amino acid, homotaurine. DATA SOURCES: Primary literature and review articles were identified by MEDLINE search (1966–June 2003). Abstracts from recent meetings were also reviewed. DATA SYNTHESIS: Acamprosate has been marketed in 24 countries. Although the precise mechanism of acamprosate in the treatment of alcohol-dependent patients is unclear, it may restore the balance between inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmission in the central nervous system. European trials have shown consistent increases in abstinence rates compared with placebo when acamprosate use was paired with appropriate psychosocial and behavioral therapies. Decreased direct and indirect healthcare costs associated with acamprosate treatment have also been reported. CONCLUSIONS: Acamprosate is a promising medication for the treatment of alcohol dependence in the US.
Person Theories: Their Temporal Stability and Relation to Intertrait Inferences

This article tests whether individual differences in inferring one trait from another (intertrait inferences) can be linked to lay beliefs about the malleability of personality (person theories). It finds that holding the belief that personality is malleable (incremental theory) rather than fixed (entity theory) at the time of inferences is associated with less extreme inferences involving semantically related (but not unrelated) traits. Although person theories have been assumed to be stable over time, existing short-term test—retest coefficients do not capture their instability over a longer period. These results can illuminate interrater discrepancies in assessments of personality pathology and job performance, enrich understanding of such phenomena as stereotyping and impression formation, refine the interpretation of past research involving person theories, and inform research planning.
Staining of Platyhelminthes by herbal dyes: An eco-friendly technique for the taxonomist

Aim: An environment compatible technique to stain Platyhelminthes, Fasciola gigantica, Gastrothylax crumenifer, Taenia solium, and Moniezia expansa using aqueous and alcoholic extract of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris), China rose (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis), and red rose (Rosa hybrida) were described to minimized the deleterious effects of the synthetic dyes. Materials and Methods: Aqueous/ethanolic extracts of roses were extracted from the flowers while red beet was extracted from the roots. Results: Stained helminthes acquired a comparable level of pigmentation with the distinction of their internal structure in these natural dyes. The flukes (liver and rumen) internal structure, oral and ventral/posterior sucker, cirrus sac, gravid uterus, testes, ovary, and vitallaria were appeared pink color in aqueous and alcoholic extract of either China or red rose and yellow to brown color in sugar beet stain. The interior of the proglottid of T. solium and M. expansa took yellow to brown color with good contrast in sugar beet stain and of pink to pink-red in China and red rose stain. Conclusion: The extract of roses (red rose followed by China rose) followed by red beet possess the potential to replace the conventional stains in the taxonomic study of Platyhelminthes parasites.
The non-Gaussianity of the cosmic shear likelihood or how odd is the Chandra Deep Field South?

Aims. We study the validity of the approximation of a Gaussian cosmic shear likelihood. We estimate the true likelihood for a fiducial cosmological model from a large set of ray-tracing simulations and investigate the impact of non-Gaussianity on cosmological parameter estimation. We investigate how odd the recently reported very low value of σ8 really is as derived from the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS) using cosmic shear by taking the non-Gaussianity of the likelihood into account, as well as the possibility of biases coming from the way the CDFS was selected. Methods. A brute force approach to estimating the likelihood from simulations must fail because of the high dimensionality of the problem. We therefore use independent component analysis to transform the cosmic shear correlation functions to a new basis, in which the likelihood approximately factorises into a product of one-dimensional distributions. Results. We find that the cosmic shear likelihood is significantly non-Gaussian. This leads to both a shift of the maximum of the posterior distribution and a significantly smaller credible region compared to the Gaussian case. We re-analyse the CDFS cosmic shear data using the non-Gaussian likelihood in combination with conservative galaxy selection criteria that minimise calibration uncertainties. Assuming that the CDFS is a random pointing, we find σ8 = 0.68 +0.09 −0.16 for fixed Ωm = 0.25. In a WMAP5-like cosmology, a value equal to or lower than this would be expected in ≈5% of the times. Taking biases into account arising from the way the CDFS was selected, which we model as being dependent on the number of haloes in the CDFS, we obtain σ8 = 0.71 +0.10 −0.15 . Combining the CDFS data with the parameter constraints from WMAP5 yields Ωm = 0.26 +0.03 −0.02 and σ8 = 0.79 +0.04 −0.03 for a flat universe.
Comparison of Spermatological Characteristics and Biochemical Seminal Plasma Parameters of Normozoospermic and Oligoasthenozoospermic Bulls of Two Breeds

The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in spermatological and seminal plasma biochemical characteristics between normozoospermic and oligoasthenozoospermic bulls. A total of 8 bulls were used and they were divided into 4 groups: Holstein normozoospermic (HN) and oligoasthenozoospermic (HO), and Brown Swiss normozoospermic (BSN) and oligoasthenozoospermic (BSO). Spermatological parameters investigated included semen volume, color, concentration, motility, and percentage of abnormal sperm. Biochemical parameters measured in seminal plasma included pH, glucose, urea, creatinine, uric acid, cholesterol (CH), triglyceride, Mg, inorganic P (Pi), Ca, Na, K, and Cl ion concentrations. Colorimetric and ion selective electrode methods were used for these analyses. In general, Ca and Pi levels were lower in the oligoasthenozoospermic groups than in the normozoospermic groups of the 2 breeds. In Brown Swiss bulls, CH and triglyceride levels were higher in the BSN group than in the BSO group. In Holstein bulls, Na level was higher in the HO group than in the HN group. In contrast, K level was higher in the HN group than in the HO group. Negative correlations were found between abnormal spermatozoa morphology and mass activity, motility, sperm concentration, and CH, Pi, Ca, and Na concentrations; however, there was a positive correlation between abnormal spermatozoa morphology and K + ion concentration. Ozet: Bu cal›flman›n amac›, normozoospermic ve oligoasthenozoospermic boalar aras›ndaki spermatolojik ve seminal plazma biyokimyasal ozelliklerindeki farkl›l›klar›n incelenmesidir. Cal›flmada toplam 8 bafl boa kullan›ld› ve boalar; Holfltayn normozoospermik (HN) ve oligoasthenozoospermik (HO) ile Brown Swiss normozoospermik (BSN) and oligoasthenozoospermik (BSO) olmak uzere 4 gruba ayr›ld›. Spermatolojik parametreler olarak hacim, renk, younluk, motilite ve anormal spermatozoa oran› incelendi. Seminal plazma biyokimyasal parametrelerinden ise pH, glikoz, ure, kreatin, urik asit, kolesterol, trigliserid, magnezyum, inorganik fosfor (Pi), kalsiyum, sodyum, potasyum ve klor iyon konsantrasyonlar› olculdu. Bu analizlerde Kolorimetri ve ‹yon Selektif Elektrot Metotlar› kullan›ld›. Genellikle, Ca ve Pi seviyeleri her iki ›rk›n oligoasthenozoospermik gruplar›nda dier gruba oranla daha dufluk bulundu. Brown Swiss boalarda CH ve trigliserid seviyeleri BSN grubunda, BSO grubuna gore daha yuksek bulundu. Holfltayn boalarda Na seviyesi HO grubunda HN grubuna gore daha yuksek bulundu. Buna karfl›l›k, K iyonu duzeyi HN grubunda HO gruptan daha yuksek saptand›. Anormal spermatozoa morfolojisi ile mass aktivite, motilite, younluk, CH, Pi, Ca ve Na konsantrasyonlar› aras›nda negatif korelasyonlar bulunurken, K konsantrasyonu ile anormal spermatozoa morfolojisi aras›nda pozitif korelasyon tespit edildi.
Body weight and longevity.

To the Editor. — The article by Manson et al 1 entitled "Body Weight and Longevity" represents a worthwhile attempt to eliminate confounding variables in the examination of the relationship between body weight and longevity. Unfortunately, three additional variables that probably should have been looked at have not been. They are (1) physical activity, (2) social status, and (3) diet. Physical inactivity is positively correlated both with greater body weight and with mortality. Therefore, investigations of the relationship between body weight and longevity should include assessments of physical activity. Unfortunately, this is obviously extremely difficult to measure, but again, the failure to look at this variable weakens the establishment of a possible causal relationship between body weight and increased mortality. The second variable, that of social status, should also be examined since persons in the United States with a lower social status also have higher mortality. Lower social status is also
Sport Fans: The Psychology and Social Impact of Spectators

1. An Introduction to the Study of Sport Fans Defining and classifying sport fans Demographic and personality traits of sport fans The pervasiveness and impact of sport in today's society Overview of the remainder of the text PART I: The Desire to Follow Sport, Teams, and Athletes 2. Becoming a Sport Fan Socialization into the role of sport fan Sport fan motivation Some final thoughts 3. Becoming a Sport Spectator Theoretical approaches to sport spectating The theory of personal investment Some final thoughts 4. Sport Fans and Their Heroes An introduction to hero selection Sport heroes in contemporary society: Prevalence, selection, and influence The impact of personality on the admiration of sport heroes A rogue's gallery Some final thoughts PART II:Spectator Agression 5. An Introduction to Spectator Agression Definitions and Distinctions The various forms of spectator aggression Assessing the magnitude of spectator aggression Perceptions of spectator aggression among the interested parties Some final thoughts 6. Psychological and SOciological Causes of Spectator Aggression Psychological approaches to understanding spectator aggression Sociological approaches to understanding spectator aggression Alcohol Some final thoughts 7. Sport Spectator Riots Definitions of riotous behavior Typologies of riots Those who would participate in and escalate a sport riot Those who would quell a sport riot: The peacemakers Soccer hooliganism Some final thoughts PART III:The Function of Sport Fandom for Individuals and Society 8. The Psychological Consequences of Sport Fandom Psychologically-based criticisms of sport fans and the pastime Psychological Well-being and Sport Fandom Some final thoughts 9. The Societal Consequences of Sport Fandom The structural-functionalist perspective Selected critiques of sport fandom Some final thoughts References Author Index Subject Index
Sex influences on lung function and medication in childhood asthma

Aim: To evaluate possible sex differences in prevalence, diagnosis and treatment of asthma, and influence on lung function associated with asthma severity in a population‐based birth cohort (BAMSE) of 4089 children. Methods: At 4‐y follow‐up, 92% responded to a questionnaire on symptoms of asthma, current medication and doctor's diagnosis of asthma. A total of 2965 children participated in clinical testing, including measurements of peak expiratory flow (PEF), and were assigned to groups of asthma or no asthma by reported airway symptoms. Results: Children in asthma groups had lower PEF readings compared to healthy children. This effect was most pronounced for both sexes in the persistent group (boys p<0.05, girls p<0.001) and for girls in the transient group (p<0.01). A doctor's diagnosis of asthma did not significantly differ between boys and girls, but significantly more boys than girls had inhaled corticosteroids, even when stratifying by frequency of symptoms.
Representation of Morphosyntactic Units and Coordination Structures in the Turkish Dependency Treebank

This paper presents our preliminary conclusions as part of an ongoing effort to construct a new dependency representation framework for Turkish. We aim for this new framework to accommodate the highly agglutinative morphology of Turkish as well as to allow the annotation of unedited web data, and shape our decisions around these considerations. In this paper, we firstly describe a novel syntactic representation for morphosyntactic sub-word units (namely inflectional groups (IGs) in Turkish) which allows inter-IG relations to be discerned with perfect accuracy without having to hide lexical information. Secondly, we investigate alternative annotation schemes for coordination structures and present a better scheme (nearly 11% increase in recall scores) than the one in Turkish Treebank (Oflazer et al., 2003) for both parsing accuracies and compatibility for colloquial language.
Profiles and Motivations of Standardization Players

This study profiles the characteristics and motivations of participants from Luxembourg in national and international formal standardization activities. The study considers both experts and the organizations to which the experts belong. By adopting a qualitative approach, data have been mainly collected through 24 semi-structured interviews with experts and public available register data on the organization. The main result is that participants in standardization can be classified into two main groups. The first group consists of large and international firms which are active in product standardization aiming to promote the interest of the firm. The second group are mainly small and local firms active in management standardization for which knowledge sharing is an important part of the standardization process. The classification is useful in interpreting the difficulties faced during the standardization process and in designing appropriate supporting policies.
Speech comprehension is correlated with temporal response patterns recorded from auditory cortex

Speech comprehension depends on the integrity of both the spectral content and temporal envelope of the speech signal. Although neural processing underlying spectral analysis has been intensively studied, less is known about the processing of temporal information. Most of speech information conveyed by the temporal envelope is confined to frequencies below 16 Hz, frequencies that roughly match spontaneous and evoked modulation rates of primary auditory cortex neurons. To test the importance of cortical modulation rates for speech processing, we manipulated the frequency of the temporal envelope of speech sentences and tested the effect on both speech comprehension and cortical activity. Magnetoencephalographic signals from the auditory cortices of human subjects were recorded while they were performing a speech comprehension task. The test sentences used in this task were compressed in time. Speech comprehension was degraded when sentence stimuli were presented in more rapid (more compressed) forms. We found that the average comprehension level, at each compression, correlated with (i) the similarity between the frequencies of the temporal envelopes of the stimulus and the subject's cortical activity (“stimulus-cortex frequency-matching”) and (ii) the phase-locking (PL) between the two temporal envelopes (“stimulus-cortex PL”). Of these two correlates, PL was significantly more indicative for single-trial success. Our results suggest that the match between the speech rate and the a priori modulation capacities of the auditory cortex is a prerequisite for comprehension. However, this is not sufficient: stimulus-cortex PL should be achieved during actual sentence presentation.
Digital Divides in Europe: Culture, Politics and the Western-Southern Divide

Contents: Introduction - Theory and Conceptual Foundations - The Western-Southern divide in Europe - Greece - Portugal - The UK - Empirical Analysis - Association between Internet use and social culture in the West and South of Europe - Association between Internet use and policy and regulation in the West and South of Europe - Internet adoption influenced by social culture and decision-making: an inferential analysis - Concluding remarks.
Past and Present Hepatitis G Virus Infections in Areas Where Hepatitis C is Highly Endemic and Those Where It Is Not Endemic

ABSTRACT We reported previously on an area in Japan where over 30% of the inhabitants were positive for hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody. In the present study, clinical features of hepatitis G virus (HGV) infection in this area of high endemicity were compared to those in an area where HCV is not endemic. A total of 400 individuals were selected randomly from those who were medically screened for liver disease in 1993; 200 were from the high-endemicity area, and the other 200 were from the no-endemicity area. HGV RNA was measured by reverse transcription and PCR with primers in the 5′ noncoding region. Antibody to HGV envelope protein E2 was measured by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Prevalence of any HGV marker in the high-endemicity area (32%) was significantly (P < 0.0001) higher than that in the no-endemicity area (6%); similar differences, 32% versus 3% (P < 0.0001), had been observed for HCV markers (HCV RNA and HCV antibody). In areas of both high and no endemicity, HCV markers were significantly more prevalent in individuals with any HGV marker than in those without HGV markers, and age-specific prevalence of HGV markers was distributed similarly to that of any HCV marker. Among possible routes of HGV transmission that were analyzed, folk medicine was significant in the high-endemicity area, but blood transfusion was the major route in the no-endemicity area. The rate of accompanying viremia in HGV infection (15%) was significantly lower than that in HCV infection (78%) (P < 0.0001). In conclusion, HGV infection was highly prevalent in the area of high HCV endemicity and was closely associated with HCV infection. HGV seemed to be transmitted via the practice of folk medicine as well as blood transfusion. HGV resulted in a chronic carrier state less frequently than did HCV.
Non-Projective Dependency Parsing in Expected Linear Time

We present a novel transition system for dependency parsing, which constructs arcs only between adjacent words but can parse arbitrary non-projective trees by swapping the order of words in the input. Adding the swapping operation changes the time complexity for deterministic parsing from linear to quadratic in the worst case, but empirical estimates based on treebank data show that the expected running time is in fact linear for the range of data attested in the corpora. Evaluation on data from five languages shows state-of-the-art accuracy, with especially good results for the labeled exact match score.