Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Management of non-adherence to fluid intake restrictions in hemodialysis patients in a tertiary hospital: a best practice implementation project

Background:Non-adherence to fluid-intake restrictions is one of the most common problems for hemodialysis (HD) patients. A combined approach that involves patients, healthcare professionals and caregiver inputs based on best practice is important for enhancing adherence within a busy health system. Objectives:The aim of this project was to promote evidence-based practice in the management of fluid-intake restrictions among HD patients in a HD center. Methods:Six evidence-based criteria developed by the Joanna Briggs Institute were used as a basis for audits undertaken in the Hemodialysis Center of Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, mainly focusing on nurse education, fluid-intake management by patients and the role of caregivers in assisting with fluid-intake management by patients. The project included three phases and was conducted over 5 months. The Joanna Briggs Institute Practical Application of Clinical Evidence System and Getting Research into Practice audit tools for promoting change in health practice were used to examine compliance with the criteria before and after the implementation of best practice. Results:Results from pre- and post implementation audits indicated that the compliance rates of four criteria reached 100% after the implementation of various strategies. One criterion (patients’ self-monitoring) resulted in a compliance rate of 73.33%. One other criterion (patients’ medical documentation) was maintained at 100% compliance. Patients’ adherence to fluid intake, knowledge and attitude to self-management also improved significantly in the post implementation audit. Conclusion:This project achieved a significant improvement in evidence-based practice for the management of non-adherence to fluid-intake restrictions in HD patients. An increase in the number of HD patients found to be adherent to fluid-intake restrictions was reported during this process.
Neural capacity limits during unconscious semantic processing

A growing body of neuroimaging data suggests that direct measurements of brain activity can reveal subliminal effects that remain invisible with behavior measures alone. We examined whether sentence comprehension processes could be triggered by a sequence of masked words. On each trial, participants viewed a rapid sequence of masked or unmasked words, including a subject noun, three adverbs and followed by a visible target verb. To probe the capacity limits of unconscious processing, we measured event‐related potentials associated with the semantic congruency between the noun and the verb, while varying the subject position in each sentence. Unmasked sentences produced significant behavioral effects of congruency, paralleled by robust N400 effects, independently of subject–verb distance. By contrast, masked sentences produced no behavioral effect and elicited N400 effects only when subjects and verbs were separated by 0 or 1 word. The present results suggest that semantic integration of multiple words can occur unconsciously only if the distance between the words to be integrated does not exceed two words. Although the possibility remains that even longer sequence of invisible words may produce similar neural effects in different experimental settings, our ERP data show that only conscious perception gives access to a buffer that enables robust sentence‐level processing independently of temporal distance.
Plasma folate levels and associated factors in women planning to become pregnant in a population with high prevalence of neural tube defects.

BACKGROUND Optimal blood folate levels of women before pregnancy are critical to the prevention of neural tube defects (NTDs). However, few studies have focused on blood folate levels of women planning to become pregnant. The aims of this study were to assess plasma folate levels in women who planned to become pregnant in a population with high prevalence of NTDs, to identify factors associated with plasma folate levels, and to evaluate the risk of NTDs at the population level. METHODS A total of 2065 women were enrolled at the time of premarital health check-up in two rural counties in northern China from November 2009 to December 2012. Fasting venous blood samples were collected and plasma folate concentrations were measured by microbiological method. RESULTS The overall median of plasma folate was 10.5 nmol/L. 50% of the women had a plasma folate level below 10.5 nmol/L, a cutoff for megaloblastic anemia, and 88% below 18 nmol/L, a proposed optimal plasma folate level for the prevention of NTDs. Folic acid supplementation was the only factor to be associated with plasma folate concentrations, but only 1.9% of the women reported having taken folic acid supplements. A population risk of 29.3 NTD cases per 10,000 births was predicted. CONCLUSION Women who planned to become pregnant had very low plasma folate in the population. Folic acid supplementation was the only factor to be associated with a high plasma folate concentration. High NTD risk would remain if women would get pregnant without having taken folic acid supplements. Birth Defects Research 109:1039-1047, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Feasibility of Malaria Diagnosis and Management in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Uganda: A Community-Based Observational Study

Background. Malaria-endemic countries are encouraged to increase, expedite, and standardize care based on parasite diagnosis and treat confirmed malaria using oral artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) or rectal artesunate plus referral when patients are unable to take oral medication. Methods. In 172 villages in 3 African countries, trained community health workers (CHWs) assessed and diagnosed children aged between 6 months and 6 years using rapid histidine-rich protein 2 (HRP2)–based diagnostic tests (RDTs). Patients coming for care who could take oral medication were treated with ACTs, and those who could not were treated with rectal artesunate and referred to hospital. The full combined intervention package lasted 12 months. Changes in access and speed of care and clinical course were determined through 1746 random household interviews before and 3199 during the intervention. Results. A total of 15 932 children were assessed: 6394 in Burkina Faso, 2148 in Nigeria, and 7390 in Uganda. Most children assessed (97.3% [15 495/15 932]) were febrile and most febrile cases (82.1% [12 725/15 495]) tested were RDT positive. Almost half of afebrile episodes (47.6% [204/429]) were RDT positive. Children eligible for rectal artesunate contributed 1.1% of episodes. The odds of using CHWs as the first point of care doubled (odds ratio [OR], 2.15; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.9–2.4; P < .0001). RDT use changed from 3.2% to 72.9% (OR, 80.8; 95% CI, 51.2–127.3; P < .0001). The mean duration of uncomplicated episodes reduced from 3.69 ± 2.06 days to 3.47 ± 1.61 days, Degrees of freedom (df) = 2960, Student's t (t) = 3.2 (P = .0014), and mean duration of severe episodes reduced from 4.24 ± 2.26 days to 3.7 ± 1.57 days, df = 749, t = 3.8, P = . 0001. There was a reduction in children with danger signs from 24.7% before to 18.1% during the intervention (OR, 0.68; 95% CI, .59–.78; P < .0001). Conclusions. Provision of diagnosis and treatment via trained CHWs increases access to diagnosis and treatment, shortens clinical episode duration, and reduces the number of severe cases. This approach, recommended by the World Health Organization, improves malaria case management. Clinical Trials Registration. ISRCTN13858170.
A Thrust Model Aided Fault Diagnosis Method for the Altitude Estimation of a Quadrotor

In this paper, a new fault diagnosis method is presented for the sensors in the vertical direction of a quadrotor. Different from the existing methods that treat the inertial sensors and the measurement sensors separately, the presented method is capable of dealing with both the z-axis accelerometer and the barometer. The knowledge of the thrust model is used to generate an analytical redundancy based fault diagnosis approach for altitude estimation. The filter design, fault detection, isolation, and recovery problems are addressed. An improved chi-test method is used for fault detection. Real-flight data is used to validate the proposed approaches, showing that the faults of the z-axis accelerometer and the barometer can both be detected and the thrust model of a quadrotor can be used to replace the faulty z-axis accelerometer.
Architecture and dynamics of overlapped RNA regulatory networks

A single protein can bind and regulate many mRNAs. Multiple proteins with similar specificities often bind and control overlapping sets of mRNAs. Yet, little is known about the architecture or dynamics of overlapped networks. We focused on three proteins with similar structures and related RNA-binding specificities – Puf3p, Puf4p, and Puf5p of S. cerevisiae. Using RNA Tagging, we identified a “super-network” comprised of four sub-networks: Puf3p, Puf4p, and Puf5p sub-networks, and one controlled by both Puf4p and Puf5p. The architecture of individual subnetworks, and thus the super-network, are determined by competition among particular PUF proteins to bind mRNAs, their affinities for binding elements, and the abundances of the proteins. The super-network responds dramatically: the remaining network can either expand or contract. These strikingly opposite outcomes are determined by an interplay between the relative abundance of the RNAs and proteins, and their affinities for one another. The diverse interplay between overlapping RNA-protein networks provides versatile opportunities for regulation and evolution.
Ju l 2 01 6 QMUL-PH-1602 The NS limit of the 5 D Superconformal Index

We consider the Nekrasov-Shatashvili (NS) limit of the five-dimensional superconformal index and propose a novel prescription for selecting the finite contributions. Applying the latter to various examples of U(1) theories, we find that the 5D NS index can be reproduced using recent techniques of Córdova and Shao, who related the 4D Schur index to the BPS spectrum of the theory on the Coulomb branch. In this picture, the 5D instanton solitons are interpreted as additional flavour nodes in an associated 5D BPS quiver.
Does Business Intelligence Leverage Dynamic and Operational Capabilities? Impacts on Marketing Processes in Telecom Companies

Despite growing investments in Business Intelligence and Analytics, the business value generation process associated with the adoption of these technologies is still unclear. Consequently, managers face difficulties in justifying such initiatives and subsequently evaluating their results. In this study, we propose and statistically evaluate a causal model that connects the availability of BI&A resources and capabilities in a company to its operational marketing capabilities. Marketing processes are critical for the generation of innovations in products and services and operational revenues, and thus for a firm's performance and competitiveness. In order to assess our model, we applied structural equation modeling techniques to data collected in a large Brazilian Telecommunications company. Our results suggest that the positive effect of BI&A resources and capabilities on a company's marketing capabilities is fully mediated by its dynamic capabilities. The practical and theoretical implications of our findings are discussed.
Relevant Measures to Prevent the Spread of African Swine Fever in the European Union Domestic Pig Sector

During the past decade, African swine fever (ASF) has spread from the Caucasus region to eastern European Union countries affecting domestic pig and wild boar populations. In order to avert ASF spread, mitigation measures targeting both populations have been established. However, despite these efforts, ASF has been reported in thirteen different countries (Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Moldova, Czech Republic, and Romania). In the absence of an effective vaccine or treatment to ASF, introduction and spread of ASF onto domestic pig farms can only be prevented by strict compliance to control measures. This study systematically reviewed available measures to prevent the spread of ASF in the EU domestic pig sector distinguishing between commercial, non-commercial, and outdoor farms. The search was performed in PubMed and using a common browser. A total of 52 documents were selected for the final review process, which included scientific articles, reports, EU documents and official recommendations, among others. From this literature review, 37 measures were identified as preventive measures for the introduction and spread of ASF. Subsequently, these measures were assessed by ASF experts for their relevance in the mitigation of ASF spread on the three mentioned types of farms. All experts agreed that some of the important preventive measures for all three types of farms were: the identification of animals and farm records; strict enforcement of the ban on swill feeding; and containment of pigs, so as to not allow direct or indirect pig–pig and/or pig–wild boar contacts. Other important preventive measures for all farms were education of farmers, workers, and operators; no contact between farmers and farm staff and external pigs; appropriate removal of carcasses, slaughter residues, and food waste; proper disposal of manure and dead animals, and abstaining from hunting activities during the previous 48 h (allowing a 48 h interval between hunting and being in contact with domestic pigs). Finally, all experts identified that the important preventive measures for non-commercial and outdoor farms is to improve access of those farms to veterinarians and health services.
J an 2 01 3 Realizability with a Local Operator of

We study a notion of realizability with a local operator J which was first considered by A.M. Pitts in his thesis [7]. Using the Suslin-Kleene theorem, we show that the representable functions for this realizability are exactly the hyperarithmetical (∆11) functions. We show that there is a realizability interpretation of nonstandard arithmetic, which, despite its classical character, lives in a very nonclassical universe, where the Uniformity Principle holds and König’s Lemma fails. We conjecture that the local operator gives a useful indexing of the hyperarithmetical functions.
The Effects of Education on Health: An Intergenerational Perspective

This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and long-term health. We study intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling increase in Germany after World War II, which was implemented across federal states at different points in time. Maternal schooling reduces children's smoking and overweight in adolescence. The effects persist into children's adulthood, reducing chronic conditions that often result from unhealthy lifestyles. We find no effects of paternal education. Children's peer environment early in life and increased investments in their education are possible effect channels. The intergenerational effects exceed the direct effects on health.
Validation of Transmission Line Relay Parameters Using Synchrophasors

This paper proposes a method to measure transmission line parameters for protective relay settings. This method relies on synchronized phasor measurements taken at both ends of the line and compares them with the calculations from both the equivalent PI circuit and the distributed constant line parameters. This comparison determines which method provides more accuracy for determining relay settings. The method used for the calculation depends on whether the line is transposed or untransposed. The performance of the proposed method is verified using simulation software and field data from Entergy phasor measurement units (PMUs) on a transmission line. This paper discusses the data collected from the PMUs and compares the calculation from the measured data with actual relay settings. Finally, the paper proposes a method for validating the relay settings.
Complementarity reveals bound entanglement of two twisted photons

We demonstrate the detection of bipartite bound entanglement as predicted by the Horodecki's in 1998. Bound entangled states, being heavily mixed entangled quantum states, can be produced by incoherent addition of pure entangled states. Until 1998 it was thought that such mixing could always be reversed by entanglement distillation; however, this turned out to be impossible for bound entangled states. The purest form of bound entanglement is that of only two particles, which requires higher-dimensional (d > 2) quantum systems. We realize this using photon qutrit (d = 3) pairs produced by spontaneous parametric downconversion, that are entangled in the orbital angular momentum degrees of freedom, which is scalable to high dimensions. Entanglement of the photons is confirmed via a ‘maximum complementarity protocol’. This conceptually simple protocol requires only maximized complementary of measurement bases; we show that it can also detect bound entanglement. We explore the bipartite qutrit space and find that, also experimentally, a significant portion of the entangled states are actually bound entangled.
The Intelligent Pipe-Routing Layout for the Aero-engine Based on Improved Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm

The pipe-routing layout directly impacts the performance, the reliability, the cost as well as the lifecycle of the aero-engine. With the rapid development of aerospace industries, how to realize the intelligent pipe-routing layout for the aero-engine has become a hot issue to be urgently to be solved. Facing the complexity of the pipe-routing layout and the characteristic of its layout space for the aero-engine, a novel intelligent pipe-routing layout method based on the improved artificial fish swarm algorithm (IAFSA) is put forward in this paper. The method consists of two parts: the build of the local searching space and the searching of the optimized pipe-routing. The build of the local layout space is used to reduce the complexity of the problem solving. The searching of the optimized pipe-routing is used to find out an optimal trajectory in the solution space by the IAFSA which is involved in chaos mutation and gradient setting. At the end, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by a case study. Copyright © 2013 IFSA.
Selecting Priors for Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) has gained much attention from researchers and is increasingly being applied to uncover underlying semantic structures from a variety of corpora. However, nearly all researchers use symmetrical Dirichlet priors, often unaware of the underlying practical implications that they bear. This research is the first to explore symmetrical and asymmetrical Dirichlet priors on topic coherence and human topic ranking when uncovering latent semantic structures from scientific research articles. More specifically, we examine the practical effects of several classes of Dirichlet priors on 2000 LDA models created from abstract and full-text research articles. Our results show that symmetrical or asymmetrical priors on the document-topic distribution or the topic-word distribution for full-text data have little effect on topic coherence scores and human topic ranking. In contrast, asymmetrical priors on the document-topic distribution for abstract data show a significant increase in topic coherence scores and improved human topic ranking compared to a symmetrical prior. Symmetrical or asymmetrical priors on the topic-word distribution show no real benefits for both abstract and full-text data.
Semantic Image Retrieval via Active Grounding of Visual Situations

We describe a novel architecture for semantic image retrieval—in particular, retrieval of instances of visual situations. Visual situations are concepts such as “a boxing match,” “walking the dog,” “a crowd waiting for a bus,” or “a game of pingpong,” whose instantiations in images are linked more by their common spatial and semantic structure than by low-level visual similarity. Given a query situation description, our architecture—called Situate—learns models capturing the visual features of expected objects as well the expected spatial configuration of relationships among objects. Given a new image, Situate uses these models in an attempt to ground (i.e., to create a bounding box locating) each expected component of the situation in the image via an active search procedure. Situate uses the resulting grounding to compute a score indicating the degree to which the new image is judged to contain an instance of the situation. Such scores can be used to rank images in a collection as part of a retrieval system. In the preliminary study described here, we demonstrate the promise of this system by comparing Situate’s performance with that of two baseline methods, as well as with a related semantic image-retrieval system based on “scene graphs. ”
Soybean Meal Quality and Analytical Techniques

Soybean meal is considered the “gold standard” among intact protein sources used in the feed industry (Cromwell, 1999). It has an excellent amino acid profile that complements cereal grains in diet formulation, as methionine is typically the only limiting amino acid for poultry. Soybean meal is characterized as either from dehulled beans or beans having hulls (NRC, 1994). Dehulled soybean meal has a higher composition of crude protein, amino acids and metabolizable energy than soybean meal produced from soybeans having hulls (NRC, 1994); Soybean meal is known to vary in amino acid composition among samples. Geographical location of soybean production, soybean variety, and processing methods are factors known to influence variability of crude protein and amino acid composition of soybean meal (Parsons et al., 1991, 2000; de Coca-Sinova, 2008, 2010; Baker et al., 2011). de Coca-Sinova (2008) evaluated amino acid composition of soybean meal samples obtained from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, and the United States. Crude protein content varied from 45.2 to 50.6% with lysine expressed as a percent of crude protein ranging from 5.51 to 6.26%. Samples from Spain had the highest crude protein content, whereas lysine expressed as a percentage of crude protein was the highest for samples obtained in the United States. Moreover, soybean varieties are being selected to contain higher amino acid concentrations than conventional soybean varieties resulting in soybean meals having more balanced amino acid content for swine and poultry diets (Baker and Stein, 2009; Baker et al., 2011). Baker et al. (2011) reported high protein soybean meal having a crude protein and lysine composition of 54.86 and 3.56% compared with conventional soybean meal containing crude protein and lysine contents of 47.47 and 3.14%. Soybean meal is known to vary in crude protein and amino acid content among soybean production years and using current amino acid data bases of soybean meal composition are important to avoid variability in diet formulation with swine and poultry (Table 1). Amino acids originating from intact protein sources are not digested and absorbed with 100% efficiency. Formulating diets on a digestible amino acid basis is increasing around the globe and this formulation strategy allows for the use of lower cost feed ingredients that may contain amino acids that are less available to the animal while minimizing nitrogen excretion. Digestible amino acid composition is calculated by multiplying a digestible coefficient by amino acid total composition. Digestible coefficient is the digestibility percentage of an amino acid in a specific feed ingredient or a complete diet. In poultry,