Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Prognostic value of preoperative quality of life on mortality after isolated elective myocardial revascularization.

OBJECTIVES This study evaluates whether a low preoperative quality of life (QoL), measured with the EuroQoL instruments EQ-5D and EQ-visual analogue scale (VAS) can be used as a predictor of mortality after elective isolated myocardial revascularization. METHODS A total of 2501 patients, with a mean age of 65.3 ± 9.4 (range 18-93) years and a mean additive EuroSCORE of 2.7 ± 2.1 (0-12), undergoing an elective isolated coronary artery bypass graft between January 2002 and June 2011 completed preoperative EQ-5D and EQ-VAS. RESULTS Hospital mortality [1.0% (25/2501 patients)] and 30-day mortality [1.2% (29/25 patients)] were the studied outcomes. The EQ-5D was 0.69 ± 0.26 (-0.30 to 1.0) with a median of 0.77 and the EQ-VAS was 59.7 ± 22.4 (0-100) with a median of 60. Regression analysis showed a significant correlation between hospital mortality and EQ-5D (P = 0.016) and EQ-VAS (P = 0.033). There is a significant correlation between 30-day mortality and EQ-5D (P = 0.048), but not for EQ-VAS (P = 0.06). The c-statistics (95% confidence interval) for EQ-5D and EQ-VAS for predicting hospital mortality are 0.36 (0.24-0.46) and 0.33 (0.23-0.42), respectively. The c-statistics for predicting 30-day mortality are 0.39 (0.30-0.49) for EQ-5D and 0.35 (0.26-0.44) for EQ-VAS. CONCLUSIONS Based on these results, we conclude that, in isolation, poor low preoperative EQ-5D and EQ-VAS scores do not contribute to deciding which patients should undergo cardiac surgery.
Working with traumatized youth in child welfare

Part I: Theoretical Framework and Practice Context. Maluccio, The Nature and Scope of the Problem. Boyd Webb, The Impact of Trauma on Youth and Families in the Child Welfare System. Perry, The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics: Applying Principles of Neurodevelopment to Clinical Work with Maltreated and Traumatized Children. Cameron, Elkins, Guterman, Assessment of Trauma in Children and Youth. Anderson, Seita, Family and Social Factors. Part II: Helping Interventions. Boyd Webb, Selected Treatment Approaches for Helping Traumatized Youth. Tracy, Johnson, The Intergenerational Transmission of Family Violence. Hendricks, Fong, Ethnically Sensitive Practice with Children and their Families. Shannon, Disabled Children in Child Welfare: Empowering the Disenfranchised. Crenshaw, Hardy, Understanding and Treating the Aggression of Traumatized Children in Out-of-Home Care. Brooks, Animal-assisted Psychotherapy. DeRosa, Pelcovitz, Treating Traumatized Adolescent Mothers: A Structured Approach. Greenwald, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing with Traumatized Youth. Part III: Issues and Proposals for Collaboration between Child Welfare and Mental Health. Fontana, Gonzales, The View from the Child Welfare System. Benoit, The View from the Mental Health System. Appendix: Child-related and Trauma-related Professional Organizations National Child Welfare Resource Centers Training Programs and Certifications Child-related and Trauma-related Professional Journals Additional Trauma Resources.
Intuitions of Justice and the Utility of Desert

Preface and Acknowledgments Selected Robinson Bibliography Part I. The Nature of Judgments About Justice Chapter 1. Judgments About Justice as Intuitional and Nuanced Chapter 2. Judgments About Justice as a Human Universal: Agreements on a Core of Wrongdoing Chapter 3. The Origins of Shared Intuitions of Justice Chapter 4. Disagreements About Justice Chapter 5. Changing People's Judgments of Justice Part II. Should the Criminal Law Care What the Lay Person Thinks Is Just? Chapter 6. Current Law's Deference to Lay Judgments of Justice Chapter 7. Current Law's Conflicts with Lay Judgments of Justice Chapter 8. Normative Crime Control: The Utility of Desert Chapter 9. Building Moral Credibility and the Disutility of Injustice Chapter 10. Deviations from Empirical Desert Chapter 11. Implications for Criminal Justice and Other Reform Part III. The Content of Lay Judgments of Justice Chapter 12. Rules of Conduct: Doctrines of Criminalization Chapter 13. Rules of Conduct: Doctrines of Justification Chapter 14. Principles of Adjudication: Doctrines of Culpability Chapter 15. Principles of Adjudication: Doctrines of Excuse Chapter 16. Principles of Adjudication: Doctrines of Grading Chapter 17. Law-Community Agreement and Conflict, and Its Implications Part IV. Empirical Studies of Lay Judgments of Justice as a Law and Policy Tool Chapter 18. Explaining History: Shifting Views of Criminality Chapter 19. Testing Competing Theories: Blackmail Chapter 20. Testing Competing Theories: Justification Defenses Chapter 21. Guiding Judicial Discretion: Extralegal Punishment Factors Chapter 22. Intuitions of Justice & the Utility of Desert
Relief of Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction Following Inadvertent Left Ventricular Apical Pacing in a Patient with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Dual chamber (DDD) pacing improves symptoms and relieves left ventricular (LV) outflow obstruction in hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. The ventricular lead is usually positioned at the right ventricular apex (RVA). We report a patient in whom the ventricular lead had inadvertently penetrated the septum, resulting in DDD pacing from the LV apex. However, after 3 months, obstruction was reduced and symptoms were improved. Pacing from LV apex and RVA resulted in comparable hemodynamic improvement. This case suggests that the asynchronous wave of septal contraction, originating from the apex, irrespective of ventricular site, accounts for the reduction in LV outflow obstruction.
Proteomic Analysis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Subtypes with Mutated or Unmutated Ig VH Genes*

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a common hematopoietic malignant disease with variable outcome. CLL has been divided into distinct groups based on whether somatic hypermutation has occurred in the variable region of the immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus or alternatively if the cells express higher levels of the CD38 protein. We have analyzed the proteome of 12 cases of CLL (six mutated (M-CLL) and six unmutated (UM-CLL) immunoglobulin heavy-chain loci; seven CD38-negative and five CD38-positive) using two-dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry. Statistical evaluation using principal component analysis indicated significant differences in patterns of protein expression between the cases with and without somatic mutation. Specific proteins indicated by principal component analysis as varying between the prognostic groups were characterized using mass spectrometry. The levels of F-actin-capping protein β subunit, 14-3-3 β protein, and laminin-binding protein precursor were significantly increased in M-CLL relative to UM-CLL. In addition, primary sequence data from tandem mass spectrometry showed that nucleophosmin was present as several protein spots in M-CLL but was not detected in UM-CLL samples, suggesting that several post-translationally modified forms of nucleophosmin vary between these two sample groups. No specific differences were found between CD38-positive and -negative patient samples using the same approach. The results presented show that proteomic analysis can complement other approaches in identifying proteins that may have potential value in the biological and diagnostic distinction between important clinical subtypes of CLL.
Robust Nonfragile $H_\infty$ Filtering of Fuzzy Systems With Linear Fractional Parametric Uncertainties

This paper is concerned with the <i>H</i><sub>∞</sub> filtering problem for continuous-time Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy systems. Different from existing results for fuzzy <i>H</i><sub>∞</sub> filtering, the proposed ones are toward uncertain fuzzy systems with linear fractional parametric uncertainties. Attention is focused on the design of a fuzzy filter such that the filtering error system preserves a prescribed <i>H</i><sub>∞</sub> performance, where the filter to be designed is assumed to have gain variations. By a descriptor representation approach, two sufficient conditions for the <i>H</i><sub>∞</sub> filter design are proposed in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). When these LMIs are feasible, an explicit expression of the desired filter is given. A simulation example will be given to show the efficiency of the proposed methods.
Virtual Markets for Virtual Goods : An Alternative Conception of Digital Copyright

The Internet and Copyright Law are particularly ill-suited to each other. One is designed to give as much information as possible to everyone who wants it; the other allows authors, artists and publishers to earn money by restricting the distribution of information. The beneficiaries of copyright law are lobbying for the re-design of computers and the Internet to enforce “content control” and “digital rights management” (DRM). These technologies are intended to make copyright workable again by re-imposing limits on access to information goods, but they carry high direct and indirect social costs. One alternative, which has generally received much less attention and legislative support than DRM, is to allow free distributions of works, while restructuring digital copyright law so as to remunerate authors in ways which avoid those exclusive rights models which are incompatible with the Internet. This paper introduces the notion of a “virtual market” — a decentralised, publicly-funded mechanism which rewards digital authorship and artistry, without restricting flows of information. The virtual market is a sort of “looking-glass reflection” of a real marketplace. Some of the legal and economic implications of these systems are considered, along with some of the practical and technological aspects of their implementation. The article concludes that virtual markets avoid the very high artificial scarcity (“deadweight loss”) and infrastructure costs associated with DRM, and should be seriously considered as a public policy alternative to strengthening copyright laws.
Discriminative Transfer Learning with Tree-based Priors

High capacity classifiers, such as deep neural networks, often struggle on classes that have very few training examples. We propose a method for improving classification performance for such classes by discovering similar classes and transferring knowledge among them. Our method learns to organize the classes into a tree hierarchy. This tree structure imposes a prior over the classifier's parameters. We show that the performance of deep neural networks can be improved by applying these priors to the weights in the last layer. Our method combines the strength of discriminatively trained deep neural networks, which typically require large amounts of training data, with tree-based priors, making deep neural networks work well on infrequent classes as well. We also propose an algorithm for learning the underlying tree structure. Starting from an initial pre-specified tree, this algorithm modifies the tree to make it more pertinent to the task being solved, for example, removing semantic relationships in favour of visual ones for an image classification task. Our method achieves state-of-the-art classification results on the CIFAR-100 image data set and the MIR Flickr image-text data set.
Factors Affecting Spiritual Well-being in Underprivileged Older Women Living Alone

Purpose: This study was done to identity the spiritual state of elderly women who live alone, and factors which affect their spiritual well-being. It was a predictive study using correlations. Methods: Data were collected to identify spiritual well-being of underprivileged older women who live alone and their demographic characteristics, activities of daily living, social support, self-efficacy, and health promotion behavior. Participants were 210 underprivileged women, over 65 years of age and living in permanent-rented apartments in Kyonggi Province. Collected data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Results: Scores for spiritual well-being were higher than the medium, 3.77, out of a possible 6. Health promotion behavior (=.22, t=3.51, p=.001), religion (=.38, t=7.95, p=.25, t=4.63, p=.23, t=3.96, p=.12, t=2.51, p=.013), and age (=.11, t=2.24, p=.026) were significant factors affecting spiritual well-being. Conclusion: The result of the study indicate that to enhance the well-being of underprivileged elderly women, it is necessary to increase health-promotion activity rates and identify mediation strategies to promote social support and self-efficacy.
Global lung health: the colliding epidemics of tuberculosis, tobacco smoking, HIV and COPD

Tuberculosis (TB), smoking, HIV and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are burgeoning epidemics in developing countries. The link between TB and HIV is well established. Less well recognised is the strong relationship between tobacco smoking and the development and natural history of TB. These associations are of considerable relevance to public health and disease outcomes in individuals with TB. Moreover, tobacco smoking, a modifiable risk factor, is associated with poorer outcomes in HIV-associated opportunistic infections, of which TB is the commonest in developing countries. It is now also becoming clear that TB, like tobacco smoke, besides its known consequences of bronchiectasis and other pulmonary morbidity, is also a significant risk factor for the development of COPD. Thus, there is a deleterious and synergistic interaction between TB, HIV, tobacco smoking and COPD in a large proportion of the world’s population. Further work, specifically mechanistic and epidemiological studies, is required to clarify the role of tobacco smoke on the progression of TB and HIV infection, and to assess the impact of smoking cessation interventions. These interactions deserve urgent attention and have major implications for coordinated public health planning and policy recommendations in the developing world.
Actualising therapy 2.0 : enhancing engagement with computerised cognitive behavioural therapy for common mental health disorders

Computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (CCBT) is a clinically effective method of delivering CBT which may help address the under – treatment of common mental health disorders (CMHDs) in the population. However, concerns regarding acceptability, attrition rates and the therapeutic alliance are obstacles to widespread population dissemination. This thesis aimed to address these implementation issues by applying concepts from human – computer interaction (HCI) and attachment theory to the field of CCBT. Chapter 1 presents a meta – analysis investigating the effectiveness of CCBT for CMHDs and moderators of this effect. Chapter 2 presents a systematic review and analysis conducted to examine predictors of CCBT engagement. A process – based model of engagement with CCBT developed from the findings of this review is also presented. Adult attachment is known to influence engagement and alliance in face to face therapies, but research has not explored whether these relationships are mirrored in CCBT. Four empirical studies intended to address this question. Study 1 used a student population based survey to explore the acceptability of CCBT in a student population and the associations with adult attachment. Results demonstrated adult attachment was not associated with acceptability of CCBT. Study 2a utilised an open trial of a supported CCBT program to investigate whether adult attachment would predict engagement and alliance in vivo. Results showed attachment did not predict these outcomes. Study 2b utilised an open trial with a non – supported online CCBT program. Results indicated attachment security was positively associated with program engagement and alliance. It is proposed a combination of attachment system activation and perceiving computers as social actors account for these findings. Study 3 used a randomised, experimental paradigm to test the benefits of security priming in CCBT. Security priming produced higher levels of program engagement and better working alliance compared to neutral primes. Furthermore these effects were not moderated by dispositional attachment styles. These results demonstrate something so uniquely human, dispositional attachment orientations, founded on the intimate bonds we form in infancy and in adulthood , extend their influence into the experience of unguided CCBT, a solely human – computer interaction. Unguided – CCBT, a highly cost effective intervention with the potential for considerable public health impact, may benefit from incorporating security priming techniques in program designs to maximise engagement and alliance. Engagement and alliance is attainable in CCBT and paying attention to the attachment styles of program users may present a distinctive opportunity to overcome these implementation barriers.
Secure Communication in Stochastic Wireless Networks—Part I: Connectivity

The ability to exchange secret information is critical to many commercial, governmental, and military networks. Information-theoretic security-widely accepted as the strictest notion of security-relies on channel coding techniques that exploit the inherent randomness of the propagation channels to strengthen the security of digital communications systems. Motivated by recent developments in the field, we aim to characterize the fundamental secrecy limits of wireless networks. The paper is comprised of two separate parts. In Part I, we define the intrinsically secure communications graph (iS-graph), a random graph which describes the connections that can be securely established over a large-scale network. We provide conclusive results for the local connectivity of the Poisson iS-graph, in terms of node degrees and isolation probabilities. We show how the secure connectivity of the network varies with the wireless propagation effects, the secrecy rate threshold of each link, and the noise powers of legitimate nodes and eavesdroppers. We then propose sectorized transmission and eavesdropper neutralization as viable strategies for improving the secure connectivity. Our results help clarify how the spatial density of eavesdroppers can compromise the intrinsic security of wireless networks. In Part II of the paper, we study the achievable secrecy rates and the effect of eavesdropper collusion.
High- and low-tumorigenic culture lines of rat uterine adenocarcinoma and their isozyme patterns of lactate dehydrogenase and hexokinase.

Summary The isozymes of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and hexokinase were studied in high- and low-tumorigenic cloned cells of rat uterine adenocarcinoma originatly induced by 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene in vivo . Only LDH-5 (muscle type) and LDH-4 were detected in hightumorigenic cells. However, in addition to LDH-5 and LDH-4, LDH-3 was present in low-tumorigenic cells, whereas normal rat endometrial tissue contained all 5 isozymes of LDH. The specific activity of the enzyme was higher in high- than in low-tumorigenic cells, which had still higher activity than normal endometrium. Both uterine adenocarcinoma cells were characterized by a marked type II hexokinase, as well as a weak type I hexokinase, and by a loss of type III hexokinase, which was detected in normal endometrium, as were types I and II. Specific hexokinase activity was also highest in high-tumorigenic cells. When these culture cells were reinoculated into isologous hosts, LDH-3, -2, and -1 and type III hexokinase appeared in the tumor tissues. No significant difference in these isozyme patterns was detected between the tumors that developed by inoculation of high- and low-tumorigenic cells.
Dynamic logic

From the Publisher: Among the many approaches to formal reasoning about programs, Dynamic Logic enjoys the singular advantage of being strongly related to classical logic. Its variants constitute natural generalizations and extensions of classical formalisms. For example, Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL) can be described as a blend of three complementary classical ingredients: propositional calculus, modal logic, and the algebra of regular events. In First-Order Dynamic Logic (DL), the propositional calculus is replaced by classical first-order predicate calculus. Dynamic Logic is a system of remarkable unity that is theoretically rich as well as of practical value. It can be used for formalizing correctness specifications and proving rigorously that those specifications are met by a particular program. Other uses include determining the equivalence of programs, comparing the expressive power of various programming constructs, and synthesizing programs from specifications. This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to Dynamic Logic. It is divided into three parts. The first part reviews the appropriate fundamental concepts of logic and computability theory and can stand alone as an introduction to these topics. The second part discusses PDL and its variants, and the third part discusses DL and its variants. Examples are provided throughout, and exercises and a short historical section are included at the end of each chapter.
Foreign body removal in children: Recommendations versus real life—A survey of current clinical management in Germany

Task forces of the European Respiratory Society (ERS, 2003) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS, 2015) both recommend rigid bronchoscopy for foreign body removal in children. However, there is an increasing number of publications recommending flexible bronchoscopy as primary method for foreign body removal in children.
Cognitive Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics: Advances in Models of Cognitive Function and Impairment

Contents: M. McCloskey, S.M. Sokol, R.A. Goodman-Schulman, A. Caramazza, Cognitive Representations and Processes in Number Production: Evidence from Cases of Acquired Dyscalculia. S.E. Blumstein, Phonological Deficits in Aphasia: Theoretical Perspectives. M.C. Linebarger, Neuropsychology of Sentence Parsing. E. Zurif, D. Swinney, M. Garrett, Lexical Processing and Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia. E.M. Saffran, Short-Term Memory Impairment and Language Processing. J.D. Holtzman, S.M. Kosslyn, Image Generation in the Cerebral Hemispheres. M.I. Posner, Hierarchical Distributed Networks in the Neuropsychology of Selective Attention. A.E. Hillis, A. Caramazza, The Effects of Attentional Deficits on Reading and Spelling.
Factors motivating women's informal micro‐entrepreneurship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors which motivate women's informal micro‐entrepreneurship in Malaysia.Design/methodology/approach – The qualitative analysis employed in this paper is based upon empirical findings from field work conducted in the state of Penang on the north‐western coast of Peninsular Malaysia. In total, 39 hawkers (petty traders) were interviewed using an interview guide which contained open‐ended questions regarding work‐life history, labor market choices and conditions of work. The paper presents two selected case stories, as well as the general findings across the whole sample.Findings – In contrast to the view that women's informal micro‐entrepreneurship is motivated only by “involuntary exclusion from the labor market” or “poverty”, this paper has found that women's micro‐entrepreneurship can be motivated by a wide range of factors including: to earn an income; interest in doing business; increased flexibility and autonomy; possibility to combine with fami.
Stabilizing Interconnection Characterization for Multi-Agent Systems with Dissipative Properties

Abstract This paper addresses the problem of stabilization and output-synchronization for a network of interconnected nonlinear agents, where each agent is assumed to be dissipative with respect to a specified quadratic supply rate which may differ among the agents. Main results concern the characterization and design of the information exchange structure for stabilization. Applying a linear protocol here, the associated interconnection matrix is characterized based on LMI's, as well as on spectral properties. Additionally a synthesis based on LMI's under structural constraints is proposed. The results are validated in simulations.