Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Late complications of luxation injuries to teeth.

The 172 periodontally injured teeth of 76 patients were examined clinically and radiographically 6–32 months (mean 22 months) following injury. Multiple linear regression analysis, in which all the variables examined were forced into the model, was used to study the effect of three variables (stage of root formation, type of luxation, and duration of immobilization) in conjunction with one or two variables having the highest explanatory effect on 4 radiographically diagnosed late complications: external replacement resorption, pulp obliteration, loss of marginal alveolar bone and periapical inflammatory changes. External root resorption was found in 19% of cases and was only statistically related to the type of first aid treatment (p< 0.001), although the duration of immobilization was a more decisive factor for ankylosis than the other two variables. Partial or total obliteration of the pulp was recorded in 24% of the teeth examined and was statistically related to the age of the patient (p< 0.001) and the stage of root formation (p<0.05). Loss of marginal alveolar bone was dependent on the age of the patient (p< 0.001) and the duration of immobilization (p<0.05). Dislocation upon injury was the most decisive single factor affecting the radiographic periapical inflammatory changes (p<0.001).
Search for the hero: an investigation into the sports heroes of British sports fans

This is an initial study into British sports fans' heroes. A questionnaire was sent to 95 students (average age = 19.75) to identify their sporting hero, the hero's sport and nationality and the reasons for this choice. Football was the most common source of sports heroes, identified by 49% of participants with a sporting hero. The majority (60%, N = 48) of heroes chosen by participants were British, with David Beckham the most popular choice. Differences were observed between the gender of participants, gender of hero chosen and the reasons for choosing the hero. The most common reason for selecting a hero was a personal trait rather than skill, while in the questionnaire a category of Local Affiliation was added to those suggested by previous work. It was concluded that to become a hero athletes should combine skill with devotion to family, charity work and a place in popular culture.
Urinary Stone Diagnosis Non : Contrast Computed Tomography versus Intravenous Urography

Urinary stone is a health problem affecting 12-20% of population during life time, the risk of stone recurrence is 50%. Until recently, intravenous urography (IVU) was used as the traditional imaging procedures for urinary system stone diagnosis. IVU has lower accuracy in detecting stones, and other urinary system condition. Non contrast computed tomography (NCCT) became the golden standard for diagnosis urinary system stones. This study, reviews NCCT and IVU impact of diagnostic value, advantages and disadvantages, to address the dispensability of IVU at the present time. Computer-based searches of PubMed, AMED and CINAHL-Plus databases, combined with additional searches in radiology Journals and hand searches, were taken for studies in which patients have suspected urinary stone and undergone both NCCT and IVU. Inclusion of this review were based on criteria that was established to asses each study eligibility. The matched studies were taken as final result for searched. Ten studies were retrieved that direct compared both modalities in diagnosis urinary stone and meets the inclusion criteria. All reviewed studies reported higher sensitivity for NCCT than IVU with comparable specificity. IVU showed approximately half NCCT dose, and higher scanning time. IVU negative finding requires further imaging examinations, however NCCT provide an unexpected disease conditions save time and cost. NCCT is the last choice when other modalities failed to diagnose urinary stones. Based on this review NCCT is more accurate and informative diagnostic modality for urinary stones diagnosis. NCCT avoid contrast media usages, save time and are costly effective. The radiation dose is not higher with valuable diagnosis and the IVU is not an ideal modality to diagnosis renal stone.
Stopping Overshopping: A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial of Group Therapy for Compulsive Buying Disorder

The present study tested the efficacy of a group treatment model for compulsive buying disorder, the Stopping Overshopping model, which includes aspects of cognitive-behavioral and dialectical behavior therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoeducation, motivational interviewing, acceptance and commitment therapy, and mindfulness. A randomized controlled trial with 11 participants compared the efficacy of this model with a waiting-list control group, which received the treatment after a 12-week waiting period. Results showed significant improvement on (a) all compulsive buying measures, (b) amount of money and time spent, and (c) number of compulsive shopping episodes, all of which were well maintained at 6-month follow-up.
In vivo creatine kinase reaction kinetics at rest and stress in type II diabetic rat heart

The effects of type II diabetes on cardiac creatine kinase (CK) enzyme activity and/or flux are unknown. We therefore measured steady‐state phosphocreatine (PCr) and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) content and forward CK reaction kinetic parameters in Zucker Diabetic Fatty (ZDF) rat hearts, a type II diabetes research model. At baseline the PCr to ATP ratio (PCr/ATP) was significantly lower in diabetic heart when compared with matched controls (1.71 ± 0.21 vs. 2.26 ± 0.24, P < 0.01). Furthermore, the forward CK reaction rate constant (kf) was higher in diabetic animals (0.52 ± 0.09 s−1 vs. 0.35 ± 0.06 s−1, P < 0.01) and CK flux calculated as a product of PCr concentration ([PCr]) and kf was similar between two groups (4.32 ± 1.05 μmol/g/s vs. 4.94 ± 1.23 μmol/g/s, P = 0.20). Dobutamine administration resulted in similar increases in heart rate (~38%) and kf (~0.12 s−1) in both groups. No significant change in PCr and ATP content was observed with dobutamine. In summary, our data showed reduced PCr/ATP in diabetic myocardium as an indicator of cardiac energy deficit. The forward CK reaction rate constant is elevated at baseline which might reflect a compensatory mechanics to support energy flux through the CK shuttle and maintain constant ATP supply. When hearts were stimulated similar increase in kf was observed in both groups thus it seems that CK shuttle does not limit ATP supply for the range of workload studied.
Value of Antral Nodularity for the Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori Infection in Children

Background The aim of this study was to confirm the role of antral nodularity in the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection in children. Material/Methods This prospective study included 107 children (58 male; 54.2%), between the ages of 3 and 18 years, infected with H. pylori, which was confirmed if the patient had at least 2 of 4 positive test results (urea breath test, urease test in gastric biopsy, histopathology – positive hematoxylin and eosin and Giemsa staining, and/or monoclonal stool ELISA test – Amplified IDEIA™ Hp StAR™). The control group consisted of 234 children with abdominal pain, of similar age, in whom urease test in gastric tissue and histopathology were negative. In both groups, photographs of the gastric antrum taken during endoscopy were evaluated for nodularity by 3 independent endoscopists, blinded to the results of other tests. Sensitivity, specificity, and negative and positive predictive value of nodularity were assessed. Indication for upper endoscopy was chronic abdominal pain not considered to be functional. Results There were no statistical differences between groups regarding sex (chi-square test with Yates’s correction: p=0.8763) or age (mean ±SD) 11.77±3.49 and 12.43±3.32, study and control groups, respectively (Mann-Whitney test: p=0.1352). The sensitivity of the presence of nodularity as an indication of H. pylori infection was 91.6% and specificity was 91%. PPV of gastric nodularity was 81% and NPV was 96%. Conclusions Antral nodularity is reliable test. Physicians could start treatment of H. pylori infection whenever gastric nodularity is observed and the urease test result is positive, without waiting for histopathology results.
Test-Retest Reliability and Concurrent Validity of the Expanded Skills Confidence Inventory

This study examined the test-retest reliability and the concurrent validity of the 17-scale Expanded Skills Confidence Inventory in samples of 321 and 175 college students. Retest values over a 3-week interval ranged from . 77 to . 89, with a median of . 85. Using Brown and Gore’s C-index, evidence for the concurrent validity of confidence score patterns relative to college major choice was found. Specifically, the values of C describing the congruence of the three-letter Holland code derived from the 17 confidence scores with the Holland code of college major choice were significantly higher than the theoretical mean and were comparable in size to values found in samples of employed adults. Higher congruence scores were found among students majoring in enterprising and secondarily, investigative areas.
Are dogs able to recognize their handler's voice? A preliminary study

Abstract A number of studies have dealt with the ability of dogs to rely on olfactory cues to recognize their owner or handler. However, in the absence of these cues (e.g., when working at a distance from their owner) dogs have to use other senses to interact with their owner. Considering the high sensitivity of their auditory system, we can hypothesize that dogs are able to use vocal cues for this purpose. Certainly, it is commonly assumed that dogs can discriminate between people on the basis of their voice, and yet there is a clear lack of empirical data on this subject. The present study assesses the importance of the handler's olfactory and visual cues versus the importance of his/her vocal cues to the working behavior of dogs. I compare the ability of working dogs to obey different vocal commands issued either by their handler (HV) or by a stranger (SV) via loudspeakers in different olfactory contexts: presence of their handler (H) or of a stranger (S). The dogs' performance (percentage of correct responses) decreased when the acoustic cues were modified (H+HV tended to differ from the H+SV—p = 0.09—and differed from the S+SV conditions—p = 0.05) but not when only the olfactory cues were changed (no difference between H+HV and S+HV conditions—p > 0.1). Consequently, we can assume that dogs rely, at least in part, on acoustic parameters of voices to recognize and cooperate with their handler.
Privacy preserving anonymization of social networks using eigenvector centrality approach

Large amounts of data generated everyday by different organizations for various purposes have catalyzed research opportunities related to data science. Publishing raw data may raise security concerns among the users or actors who have provided some sensitive information in the raw data. Over the years, it has been observed that attackers can very easily exploit the sensitive information as well as the identity of the users from the raw data. Thus, to protect the identity of the users in the anonymized data, the notion of k -anonymity and its improved version l -diversity have been proposed. Several algorithms have been developed to achieve k -anonymity as well as l -diversity for both relational micro-data and social network data. In this paper, we propose an approach based on the eigenvector centrality value of the individual nodes to achieve k -anonymity as well as l -diversity by adding noise nodes in the raw data. In the process of adding noise nodes, we focused on adding noise nodes in such an intelligent manner so that they have very little inﬂuence on the anonymized data. Our proposed algorithm also ensures minimal changes in the social inﬂuence of the nodes in the anonymized data which are already present in the raw data. Through various measures and experiments, we establish the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm over the several existing social network anonymization techniques.
Rule-based Emotion Detection on Social Media: Putting Tweets on Plutchik's Wheel

We study sentiment analysis beyond the typical granularity of polarity and instead use Plutchik's wheel of emotions model. We introduce RBEM-Emo as an extension to the Rule-Based Emission Model algorithm to deduce such emotions from human-written messages. We evaluate our approach on two different datasets and compare its performance with the current state-of-the-art techniques for emotion detection, including a recursive auto-encoder. The results of the experimental study suggest that RBEM-Emo is a promising approach advancing the current state-of-the-art in emotion detection.
Biases in everyday reasoning: Associations with subclinical anxiety, depression and paranoia

Background. Anxiety, depression and paranoia are frequently comorbid and cognitive models of these disorders refer to common reasoning biases. Previous literature exploring reasoning biases of the availability heuristic (invoked when thinking about the future) has distinguished between depression and paranoia but neglected to explore anxiety. This study explores heuristic reasoning biases in relation to levels of subclinical paranoia, depression and anxiety in a non‐clinical sample. Method. Two hundred and six healthy adults completed online measures of self‐reported anxiety, depression and paranoia and the Availability Test, assessing estimations of the likelihood of future neutral, positive and threatening events. Results. Robust past and future estimate correlations provided prima facie support for use of the availability heuristic. Over and above this, elevated levels of depression were associated with the tendency to underestimate the likelihood of future positive and neutral events, whereas subclinical paranoia was independently associated with overestimations of the likelihood of future threatening events. There was no evidence for associations between generalised anxiety and heuristic reasoning biases. Conclusion. The findings support those from clinical studies. It appears that depression and paranoia can be differentiated by the nature of their future‐oriented pessimistic thinking styles. The findings have clear implications for cognitive therapy for depression and paranoia.
Predicting Perceptions of Fear at School and Going to and From School for African American and White Students: The Effects of School Security Measures

This article uses the School Crime Supplement of the National Crime Victimization Survey to investigate the factors related to White and African American students’ perceived levels of fear of harm, while at school and while commuting to and from school. Of particular interest were the effects of school security measures, including metal detectors, security guards, locked doors, and surveillance cameras. After controlling for the effects of previous victimizations, security measures, and other contextual and demographic variables, there were no differences in levels of fear across gender and race groups. However, certain predictors of fear differentially affected White and African American students. Previous victimization experiences, including bullying, and the presence of metal detectors increased levels of fear for all groups. Security guards in schools increased levels of fear for White students but not for African American students. African American students attending school in suburban and rural areas were more fearful compared to their central city counterparts, whereas White students were more fearful if they attended school in urban areas. Implications for policy are discussed.
A rationale for the Hirsch-index rank-order distribution and a comparison with the impact factor rank-order distribution

We present a rationale for the Hirsch-index rank-order distribution and prove that it is a power law (hence a straight line in the log-log scale). This is confirmed by experimental data of Pyykkö and by data produced in this paper on 206 mathematics journals. This distribution is of a completely different nature than the impact factor (IF) rank-order distribution which (as was proved in a previous paper) is S-shaped. This is also confirmed by our example. Only in the log-log scale of the h-index distribution we notice a concave deviation of the straight line for higher ranks. This phenomenon is discussed.
Post-decompression shock due to extravasation of plasma.

The two patients presented here had grossly enlarged bilharzial spleens. Both showed an initial high uptake of 5'Cr radioactivity over the spleen and both had evidence of hypervolaemia. In both patients, therefore, pooling of red cells had occurred in the spleen, with a markedly increased plasma volume. In the first patient, however, there was in addition to hypervolaemia evidence of intrasplenic red-cell destruction (hypersplenism)-51Cr red-cell half-life shortened to 14.5 days, a rising accumulation of radioactivity over the spleen, and an increase in spleen: liver ratio. The studies of Holzbach et al. (1964) support the concept that increased spleen size in itself can result in hyperfunction. This does not appear to occur in the enlarged bilbarzial spleen, since both in our past work (Farid et al., 1964) and in the two patients presented here intrasplenic red-cell destruction was not related to the size of the spleen. We suggest that, rather than the size of the spleen, a deranged spleen circulation with slowing of passage of blood in the fibrotic and congested bilharzial spleen determines the occurrence of intrasplenic red-cell destruction. Prankerd (1963) stressed the importance of hypervolaemia as a cause of refractory dilution anaemia in patients with enlarged spleens in leukaemias, Gaucher's disease, and thalassaemia. We suggest that this phenomenon of hypervolaemia plays an important part in the production of the chronic anaemia of bilharzial splenomegaly regardless of the occurrence of red-cell destruction by the spleen. Splenectony in Case 1 resulted in an immediate haematological improvement; this was probably due to removal of the site of red-cell destruction, as well as to a reduction in the plasma volume (hence the immediate improvement without relapse). In our opinion splenectomy would also have benefited the second patient, simply by reducing the hypervolaemia and thus raising the haemoglobin. He refused operation.
Epithelioid benign fibrous histiocytoma of skin: clinico‐pathological analysis of 20 cases of a poorly known variant

Twenty new cases of epithelioid fibrous histiocytoma, a distinctive but poorly recognized variant of cutaneous benign fibrous histiocytoma are described. Twelve patients were male and eight were female. The age of the patients ranged from 7 to 80 years (median 40 years). Six lesions arose on the lower limb, five on the upper limb, three around the shoulder, two on the abdomen and one each on the eyelid, inner canthus and anal margin. In one case the age and site were not stated. All lesions presented as a solitary, polypoid or slightly raised cutaneous nodule, ranging in size from 0.5 cm to 2 cm in greatest diameter. Follow‐up in 14 cases (mean 22.7 months) revealed local recurrence after 42 months in one case. Histologically, the more polypoid tumours were characterized by an epidermal collarette. In all lesions prominent polygonal or rounded epithelioid cells with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm, a vesicular nucleus and small eosinophilic nucleoli accounted for at least 50% of the tumour cell population. Individual cells were separated by somewhat hyalinized collagen, containing prominent blood vessels and a sparse mononuclear inflammatory cell infiltrate. The edge of the lesions, especially those that were non‐polypoid, often showed more typical features of ordinary fibrous histiocytoma. The main differential diagnosis is with other cutaneous epithelioid neoplasms, especially Spitz naevus.
Accuracy and performance of linear unmixing techniques for detecting minerals on OMEGA/Mars express

Detecting minerals on a huge hyperspectral dataset (> To) is a difficult task that we proposed to address using linear unmixing techniques. We test different algorithms with positivity constrains on a typical Martian hyperspectral image of the Syrtis Major volcanic complex. The usefulness of additional constrains, such as sparsity and sum-to-one constrains are discussed. We compare the results with a supervised detection technique based on band ratio.
SH 3 BGRL 3 Protein As A Potential Prognostic Biomarker For Urothelial Carcinoma : A novel binding partner of epidermal growth factor receptor

SH3BGRL3 Protein As A Potential Prognostic Biomarker For Urothelial Carcinoma: A novel binding partner of epidermal growth factor receptor Cheng-Yao Chiang, Chin-Chen Pan, Hong-Yi Chang, Ming-Derg Lai, Tzong-Shin Tzai, Yuh-Shyan Tsai, Pin Ling, Hsiao-Sheng Liu, Bi-Fang Lee, Hong-Ling Cheng, ChungLiang Ho, Shu-Hui Chen, Nan-Haw Chow Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Department of Pathology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Department of Urology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan †Correspondence to: Nan-Haw Chow, MD, Professor, Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, No.138, Sheng Li Road, Tainan, Taiwan 704. Tel: 886-6-235 3535, Ext. 5288; Fax: 886-6-276#6195; e-mail:chownh@mail.ncku. edu.tw
The clash of Titans: France, Germany and the discursive double game of EMU reform

ABSTRACT This paper investigates why and how French and German leaders converged on an agreement for reforming the European Monetary Union in response to the outbreak of the debt crisis in Europe. To answer these questions, we begin by revising Putnam's two-level game in order to offer a constructivist account of the politics of ‘grand bargains’ in the European Union. The Eurozone negotiations, we argue, are better viewed as a simultaneous double game in which preferences are constructed and reconfigured as leaders address simultaneously the other European decision makers and their own constituencies. In a discursive institutionalist perspective, a frame analysis is conducted on the basis of press conference speeches and press interviews in 2011 and 2012. It is demonstrated that the Franco-German agreements on new policy and institutional arrangements were only possible because the respective leaders resorted to differing discourses in terms of paradigms, norms and values.