Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cognitive Remediation Therapy, Eh! An Exploratory Study at a Canadian Adult Eating Disorders Clinic

Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) is a new pretreatment that is not routinely offered as a part of adult eating disorder programming across Canada. This pilot study examined levels of cognitive flexibility, patient satisfaction, life satisfaction, and psychological symptoms in a group of Canadian adults participating in an open ongoing weekly CRT group. Participants were 38 adults who met DSM-5 criteria for an eating disorder. Pre- and postgroup measures of patient satisfaction, psychological flexibility, satisfaction with life, and low mood and anxiety symptoms were completed. Overall, participants were satisfied with the CRT group and experienced significant changes in their levels of psychological flexibility and satisfaction with life postgroup. Preliminary results provide support for further investigation of CRT as a novel and palatable prepsychological group treatment approach for Canadian adults struggling with an eating disorder that can be easily integrated into preexisting evidence-based programming.
The plant growth-promoting bacterium Kosakonia radicincitans improves fruit yield and quality of Solanum lycopersicum.

BACKGROUND Production and the quality of tomato fruits have a strong economic relevance. Microorganisms such as the plant growth-promoting bacterium (PGPB) Kosakonia radicincitans (DSM 16656) have been demonstrated to improve shoot and root growth of young tomato plants, but data on yield increase and fruit quality by K. radicincitans are lacking. RESULTS This study investigated how K. radicincitans affects tomato fruits. After inoculation of tomato seeds with K. radicincitans or a sodium chloride buffer control solution, stalk length, first flowering and the amount of ripened fruits produced by inoculated and non-inoculated plants were monitored over a period of 21 weeks. Inoculation of tomato seeds with K. radicincitans accelerated flowering and ripening of tomato fruits. Sugars, acidity, amino acids, volatile organic compounds and carotenoids in the fruits were also analyzed. CONCLUSION It was found that the PGPB K. radicincitans affected the amino acid, sugar and volatile composition of ripened fruits, contributing to a more pleasant-tasting fruit without forfeiting selected quality indicators. © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry.
Dispatches Dispatches Dispatches Dispatches Dispatches a Focus of Deer Tick Virus Transmission in the Northcentral United States

Pathogens transmitted by deer ticks (Ixodes dammini) affect the health of residents in areas of the northcentral United States. The diversity of infecting agents, the intensity of their transmission, and the concomitant risk for human infection are well documented and approach levels found in the Northeast (1-4). In northwestern Wisconsin, the risk to health from these ticks may increase as human recreational and industrial activities more frequently intersect with areas of enzootic transmission. In addition to the agents of Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi), human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia microti), and human babesiosis (Babesia microti), deer ticks in these foci might be infected with deer-tick virus (DTV), a recently described Powassan (POW)-like agent of the genus Flavivirus (5), and might pose an additional threat to human health in this region. To determine whether this newly recognized agent infects deer ticks in a focus outside New England, we sampled ticks from two heavily infested sites in northern Wisconsin and assayed them for all four agents. Host-seeking adult ticks were collected by dragging a piece of flannel cloth over the vegetation during October of 1997 and 1998. We collected 481 adult deer ticks near Spooner and Hayward, Wisconsin, during 8 hours of sampling. A sample of the female ticks (87 of 271) was selected for analysis. Nonengorged female ticks were fed on uninfected laboratory rabbits to stimulate replication of infectious organisms and were removed after 4 to 5 days. Ticks were dissected individually on acid-washed microscope slides by using flame-sterilized forceps and razor blades. One of each pair of salivary glands was stained by the Feulgen reaction and examined by bright-field microscopy. The other was pooled with the salivary glands of four other ticks in Hanks' Balanced Salt Solution supplemented with fetal bovine serum (HBSS/FBS) for mouse inoculation and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis. The slides used for dissection were examined for B. burgdorferi by direct fluorescent antibody (6). Male ticks were assayed for spirochetal infection only; they were homogenized in 50 µl PBS, and 10 µl of the resulting suspension was applied to 12-well microscope slides, air dried, and stained. Deer ticks sampled near Spooner and Hayward, Wisconsin, maintain pathogens similar to those found in New England ticks and in comparable proportions (Table). In addition to the three agents enzootic near Spooner (4,7,8), we observed a staining pattern suggestive of viral replication (5) in the salivary glands of four ticks. To determine whether …
Effects of nano-silver impregnation on some mechanical properties of ice-blasted wood specimens.

TAGH1YARIHR, RASSAM G, LOTH NEJAD SANIY & KARIMI A. 2012. Effects of nano-silver impregnation on some mechanical properties of ice-blasted wood specimens. Ice blasting (frozen C02, -78.5 °C) is one of the modern methods of cleaning for industrial purposes. Effects of ice blasting were studied on untreated solid wood as well as 200 ppm nano-silver impregnated wood of Populus nigra (poplar) and Fagus orientalis (beech). Modulus of rupture (MOR), modulus of elasticity (MOE) and compression strength parallel to the grain were measured. Ice blasting decreased MOR by 31.5 and 6% in poplar and beech respectively. However, when specimens were impregnated with nano-silver, MOR would only decrease by 4.8% in beech and increase by 1.7% in poplar. Ice blasting decreased MOE and compression strength parallel to the grain by 62.5 and 2.5% respectively in poplar, and 8.6 and 4.4% in beech. The lower the density of a wood the more mechanical properties would decrease in untreated wood as a result of ice blasting. On the other hand, nano-silver impregnation decreased the amount of losses in MOR, MOE and compression strength parallel to the grain. Heat conductivity of nano-silver particles transferred the cold accumulated on the surface layers of specimens. Consequently, mechanical properties would be improved by preventing the formation of microscopic fissures and surface checks.
The effects of melatonin on liver functions in arsenic-induced liver damage.

OBJECTIVE Arsenic exposure is increasing in communities due to environmental pollution and industrial development. Arsenic is toxic to organ systems because it causes oxidative stress, enzymatic inhibition, and damage to protein structures. The liver, for example, is an organ that may be damaged by arsenic, and this damage may cause various clinical conditions like hepatic failure or cancer. Melatonin is a hormone that acts like an antioxidant, an anti-inflammatory agent, and a cytoprotective agent. In this study, we aimed to evaluate melatonin's protective effects on livers damaged by arsenic toxicity. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-four Sprague-Dawley male rats were classified into three groups: a control group, an arsenic applied group, and an arsenic plus 10 mg/kg melatonin applied group. At the end of the fifteen-day experiment, the rats were sacrificed. Albumin, interleukin-6 (IL-6), total protein, alanine transaminase, aspartate transaminase, macrophage migration inhibitory factor, and monocyte chemotactic protein-1 measurements were obtained. RESULTS In rats with liver damage due to arsenic exposure, melatonin administration significantly decreased the levels of IL-6, macrophage migration inhibitory factor, and monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (p<0.001, p=0.02 and p=0.04, respectively). CONCLUSION After evaluating liver enzymes and inflammatory markers, this study determined that melatonin exposure improves liver tissue damage caused by arsenic exposure, with the degree of improvement varying based on the levels of arsenic exposure.
Computer study of presynaptic inhibition controlling the spread of action potentials into axonal terminals.

1. The effect of presynaptic, axoaxonal inhibition, that exerts its action by producing a local conductance increase, on the behavior of action potentials at postsynaptic axon terminals is analyzed computationally. The significance of the location and strength of the presynaptic inhibition, as well as the morphology and membrane properties of the axonal terminals, are considered. 2. Keeping the specific properties of terminal membrane and axoplasm constant, the critical "silent" steady-state conductance change (gcrit) that blocks propagation is linearly scaled with the terminal diameter raised to the 3/2 power. At the midpoint of a 5 lambda long, 1 micron diameter axon that has the standard Hodgkin and Huxley (1952) kinetics at 18 degrees C (and an input conductance of 8.7 nS), gcrit is 72 nS. At 0 degrees C, gcrit = 200 nS, whereas at 30 degrees C gcrit = 30 nS. 3. The critical conductance change that blocks propagation depends steeply on the density of excitable channels (gNa) at the terminal. For a geometrically uniform terminal at 18 degrees C, the action potential can not be blocked by a local shunt when gNa greater than 600 mS/cm2. 4. An axoaxonal synapse in the proximity of the postsynaptic release site has graded control over the spike amplitude (and, therefore, over the postsynaptic output) at that site. Presynaptic inhibition located remotely from the release site has an all-or-none effect at the release site. 5. Inhibition is more effective in attenuating the spike at the terminal when it impinges onto a passive terminal rather than on an excitable one. 6. The detectability of the conductance increase as well as the change in action potential amplitude associated with the presynaptic inhibition is poor at only a short distance from the axoaxonal synapse. The presence of bottlenecks and varicosities at some axonal terminals enhances this decoupling effect even more. Thus presynaptic inhibition may reduce the potential near the output site of the affected axon significantly, without producing any noticeable conductance or voltage change at a distance of only several tens of micrometers (a few tenths of a space constant) away from it. 7. Varicosities and bottlenecks typically found along axonal terminals are the optimal loci for presynaptic inhibition to be most effective in attenuating the action potential at the terminal. Even with high density of excitable channels, propagation with such terminal geometry is insecure, and one, or few, quanta of inhibitory transmitter (a conductance change of several nanosiemens) can block propagation there. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
Learning description of term patterns using glossary resources

In this paper, we describe a method of automatic extraction of knowledge patterns using in term descriptions from glossary, and using them to extract term description from technical texts. A brief introduction of the problem will be presented. After that, knowledge patterns and related works are discussed. By statistical analysis, we will show that these patterns can be learned, and we will propose a method to learn these pattern based on discover collocation of important verbs and nouns represent main concepts in the domain. Evaluation have been made showing that using the method, we can extract half of the correct descriptions, with a noise just one third.
A Flux-Corrected Finite Element Method for Chemotaxis Problems

Abstract An implicit flux-corrected transport (FCT) algorithm has been developed for a class of chemotaxis models. The coefficients of the Galerkin finite element discretization has been adjusted in such a way as to guarantee mass conservation and keep the cell density nonnegative. The numerical behaviour of the proposed highresolution scheme is tested on the blow-up problem for a minimal chemotaxis model with singularities. It has also been shown that the results for an Escherichia coli chemotaxis model are in good agreement with the experimental data reported in the literature.
Intrinsic characterizations of some additive functors

Our purpose here is to obtain intrinsic functorial characterizations of the functors Hom and X and thus to account in part for the distinguished role played by then in homological algebra. In all that follows, A, r are rings with unit, Z the ring of integers. The category of all F-A-bimodules with r operating on the left, A on the right, is denoted by r91lA, the category of left A-modules (F-modules) by A91(rM1Z), etc. All functors are assumed additive. We use throughout the terminology of [I].
Factors Associated With the Interfacility Transfer of the Pediatric Trauma Patient: Implications for Prehospital Triage

Objective The goal of this study was to identify prehospital factors associated with increased likelihood of interfacility transfer of pediatric trauma patients. Such factors might serve as a basis for improvements in future field pediatric trauma triage guidelines. Methods This was a retrospective cohort study of children aged 12 years or younger with blunt, penetrating, or thermal injuries who were transported by ground emergency medical services from the scene to the emergency department of a Level I, II, or III trauma center within the Denver metropolitan area from January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2008. Characteristics predicting subsequent interfacility transfer to a pediatric trauma center (PTC) were assessed. Results A total of 1673 patients were included in the analysis. Variables hypothesized to be most commonly associated with interfacility transfer were age, sex, mechanism of injury, body region of injury, and Glasgow Coma Scale score. The cohort included 1079 males and 593 females. Logistic regression analysis yielded the following as significant predictors of transfer: younger age (odds ratio [OR], 1.19; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.15–1.25), lower Glasgow Coma Scale score (OR, 1.08; 95% CI, 1.01–1.16), the presence of burns (OR, 37.52; 95% CI, 7.3–191.7), non-accidental trauma (OR, 6.09; 95% CI, 2.44–15.25), falls (OR, 1.62; 95% CI, 1.06–2.48), other motor vehicle–related incidents (OR, 2.37; 95% CI, 1.08–5.19), abdominal injury (OR, 5.39; 95% CI, 2.31–12.55), head/neck injury (OR, 7.89; 95% CI, 4.21–14.77), limb injury (OR, 5.31; 95% CI, 2.78–10.16), and multiple injuries (OR, 13.01; 95% CI, 5.0–33.8). Conclusions Factors highly associated with transfer of an injured child from a non-PTC to a PTC included younger age, burns, non-accidental trauma, head/neck injury, and multiple injuries in younger children. Further investigation is warranted to determine whether these factors may have applicability in future improvements in field pediatric trauma patient triage guidelines.
Patterns of Discovery.

An examination of the processes involved in theory-finding in science. Professor Hanson considers various examples from the history of physics in the light of elementary particle physics. This is a book for philosophers and scientists of every persuasion. Professor Hanson gives the scien tist an insight into the philo sophical and historical background of his work, and the non-specialist philosopher an unusually clear and discerning account of the nature of scientific discovery. $5.50
Scalable Statistical Modeling and Query Processing over Large Scale Uncertain Databases

Title of Dissertation: SCALABLE STATISTICAL MODELING AND QUERY PROCESSING OVER LARGE SCALE UNCERTAIN DATABASES Bhargav Kanagal Shamanna Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Amol Deshpande Dept. of Computer Science The past decade has witnessed a large number of novel applications that generate imprecise, uncertain and incomplete data. Examples include monitoring infrastructures like RFIDs, sensor networks and web-based applications such as information extraction, data integration etc. In my dissertation, I addressed the challenges in managing uncertain data and developed algorithms for efficiently executing queries over large volumes of such data. First, for meaningful analysis of such data, we need the ability to remove noise and infer useful information from uncertain data. To address this challenge, I developed a declarative system for applying probabilistic models to databases and data streams. The output of such probabilistic modeling is probabilistic data, i.e., data annotated with probabilities of correctness. Often, the data exhibits strong correlations. To manage such data, I built a probabilistic database system that can manage large-scale correlations and developed algorithms for efficient query evaluation. My system allows users to provide uncertain data as input and to specify arbitrary correlations among the entries in the database. In the back end, we represent correlations as a forest of “junction trees”, an alternative representation for probabilistic graphical models (PGM). We execute queries over the probabilistic database by transforming them into message passing algorithms (inference) over the junction tree. Traditional algorithms over junction trees typically require accessing the entire tree, making them infeasible for largescale correlated databases. Hence, I developed an index data structure over the junction tree called INDSEP that allows us to circumvent this process and scalably evaluate inference queries, aggregation queries and SQL queries over the probabilistic database. Next, I augmented the existing query evaluation model so that users can better understand query results. The existing query evaluation model returns output tuples along with their probability values, which provides very little intuition to the users: for instance, a user might want to know “Why does this output tuple have such high probability? ” or “Which are the most influential input tuples for my query ? ” Hence, I developed algorithms to compute explanations for query results and perform sensitivity analysis for users to better understand query results. SCALABLE STATISTICAL MODELING AND QUERY PROCESSING OVER LARGE SCALE UNCERTAIN DATABASES
SIRT1 gene polymorphisms and risk of lung cancer

Objective Lung cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide, is influenced by a wide variety of environmental and genetic risk factors. The silent information regulator 1 (SIRT1) gene is located on the long arm of chromosome 10 (10q21.3) and has been shown to play crucial roles in lung cancer development in previous studies. In this study, we determined whether variation in the SIRT1 gene is associated with lung cancer in Chinese population. Methods The case–control study comprised 246 controls and 257 non-small cell lung cancer patients, comprising 79 squamous cell carcinoma patients and 124 adenocarcinoma patients. All subjects were from Zhejiang, China. Four single-nucleotide polymorphisms of SIRT1 gene were analyzed: rs12778366 (C/T, lies in the 5′ upstream), rs3758391 (C/T, lies in the 5′ upstream), rs2273773 (C/T, lies in the coding) and rs4746720 (C/T, lies in the 3′ untranslated region). Results No significant difference of allele and genotype frequencies was observed between the different groups. Haplotype association analysis carried out on the four single-nucleotide polymorphisms within the case–control cohort also did not reveal a significant association with lung cancer (P>0.05). Conclusion The results suggest the tested SIRT1 gene polymorphisms may not contribute to lung cancer. Further studies are warranted to demonstrate the functional roles of the SIRT1 polymorphism in lung cancer.
‘Parabolic’ trapped modes and steered Dirac cones in platonic crystals

This paper discusses the properties of flexural waves governed by the biharmonic operator, and propagating in a thin plate pinned at doubly periodic sets of points. The emphases are on the design of dispersion surfaces having the Dirac cone topology, and on the related topic of trapped modes in plates for a finite set (cluster) of pinned points. The Dirac cone topologies we exhibit have at least two cones touching at a point in the reciprocal lattice, augmented by another band passing through the point. We show that these Dirac cones can be steered along symmetry lines in the Brillouin zone by varying the aspect ratio of rectangular lattices of pins, and that, as the cones are moved, the involved band surfaces tilt. We link Dirac points with a parabolic profile in their neighbourhood, and the characteristic of this parabolic profile decides the direction of propagation of the trapped mode in finite clusters.
Effect of powder polydispersity on aerosol generation.

PURPOSE We investigated the effect of primary powder polydispersity on the generation of pharmaceutical powder aerosols, using mannitol and bovine serum albumin (BSA) as the model compounds. METHODS Primary powders with different polydispersity but comparable physical and mass median aerodynamic diameter (MMAD) were obtained from spray drying. The polydispersity, i.e. the width of the particle size distribution, of the primary powder was measured by the span. Span = [particle diameter at 90% cumulative size] - [particle diameter at 10% cumulative size] / [particle diameter at 50% cumulative size]. A small span indicates a narrow size distribution. Solid state properties and the aerosol behaviour of the powders were determined. RESULTS For both compounds, dispersion of the smaller span powder generated more fine particles below the MMAD of the primary powder, but the increase was less apparent at high air flows or with a high dispersion efficiency inhaler. With the Dinkihaler, however, the smaller span powder of BSA, but not of mannitol, was found to experience less impaction loss and capsule and device retention. This could be due to the BSA powder being more cohesive, as it was amorphous and had a higher residual moisture content than that of mannitol. CONCLUSIONS The present study has demonstrated that the amount of fines available in the aerosol could be modified by the primary powder polydispersity.
Negotiated Dilemmas of Landscape, Place and Christian Commitment in a Suffolk Parish

Landscape and place continue to attract the interest of many cultural geographers. Individual and shared meanings invested in and interpreted from specific landscapes and places are contested, challenged and revised within a broader context of social and material relations. Beliefs which interact with the significance of landscapes and places can be intensely complex, dynamic and unstable. Geographical meaning and belief, identity and context, are active participants in the definition and re-definition of each other, as well as in their representation and reinterpretation. This paper analyses the dilemmas of religious identity, belief and abstention from belief experienced by thirty people in a Suffolk parish. Dilemma is shown to be an intensely problematic concept interacting in significant ways with the evolution of geographical and other forms of meaning.
Analysis of lexical ambiguity in Modern Greek using a computational lexicon

Ambiguity is one of the most significant problems in Natural Language Processing. This difficulty may not be apparent to native speakers because of their natural ability at resolving it using contextual information and common sense knowledge. In contrast, current computer applications are still lacking the ability to disambiguate complex texts efficiently. The most common type of ambiguity is lexical ambiguity, and this is noticed even in highly inflectional languages such as Greek. In the present article, all the patterns of predictable lexical ambiguity in Modern Greek Language are registered, verified and quanti- fied as occurred in the Neurolingo computational lexicon, after a study of morpho-syntactic characteristics that differentiate the ambiguous words.