Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Simulation of the Downshear Reformation of a Tropical Cyclone

AbstractThe downshear reformation of Tropical Storm Gabrielle (2001) was simulated at 1-km horizontal resolution using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model. The environmental shear tilted the initial parent vortex downshear left and forced azimuthal wavenumber-1 kinematic, thermodynamic, and convective asymmetries. The combination of surface enthalpy fluxes and a lack of penetrative downdrafts right of shear allowed boundary layer moist entropy to increase to a maximum downshear right. This contributed to convective instability that fueled the downshear convection. Within this convection, an intense mesovortex rapidly developed, with maximum boundary layer relative vorticity reaching 2.2 × 10−2 s−1. Extreme vortex stretching played a key role in the boundary layer spinup of the mesovortex. Cyclonic vorticity remained maximized in the boundary layer and intensified upward with the growth of the convective plume.The circulation associated with the mesovortex and adjacent localized cyclonic vorti.
Segmentation of Lung Lobes in High-Resolution Isotropic CT Images

Modern multislice computed tomography (CT) scanners produce isotropic CT images with a thickness of 0.6 mm. These CT images offer detailed information of lung cavities, which could be used for better surgical planning of treating lung cancer. The major challenge for developing a surgical planning system is the automatic segmentation of lung lobes by identifying the lobar fissures. This paper presents a lobe segmentation algorithm that uses a two-stage approach: (1) adaptive fissure sweeping to find fissure regions and (2) wavelet transform to identify the fissure locations and curvatures within these regions. Tested on isotropic CT image stacks from nine anonymous patients with pathological lungs, the algorithm yielded an accuracy of 76.7%-94.8% with strict evaluation criteria. In comparison, surgeons obtain an accuracy of 80% for localizing the fissure regions in clinical CT images with a thickness of 2.5-7.0 mm. As well, this paper describes a procedure for visualizing lung lobes in three dimensions using software-amira-and the segmentation algorithm. The procedure, including the segmentation, needed about 5 min for each patient. These results provide promising potential for developing an automatic algorithm to segment lung lobes for surgical planning of treating lung cancer.
MEDIATING IDEOLOGY AND CULTURAL REALITIES

This paper explores Chinese media reconstructions of the ideologies surrounding particular forms of address, informed by pre-reform legacies, such as “boss” and “comrade”. Specifically, it depicts how throughout the 1980s the official Chinese medium of Xinhua News Agency mediated between the pre-reform orthodox Marxist ideology and China's rapidly changing priorities to re-construct the meanings of “boss” by language use. Qualitative textual analysis revealed that the language use of China's official media alternated between the pre-reform political conceptualization and the post-reform economic references to endow meanings to “boss” according to the authority's needs at a particular time. Based on this case, it is inferred that during social reforms, government-controlled media retain and adapt pre-reform ideological legacies to fit the needs of the authority even when reconstructions are invented and widely used.
The approach to patients with “non-epileptic seizures”

Up to one fifth of patients who present to specialist clinics with seizures do not have epilepsy. The majority of such patients suffer from psychologically mediated episodes; dissociative seizures, often referred to as “non-epileptic seizures”. This paper describes the diagnostic evaluation of seizure disorders, including clinical assessment and the role of special investigations. The organic and psychiatric imitators of epilepsy are outlined and findings on psychiatric assessment are reviewed. This group of patients often proves difficult to engage in appropriate treatment and an approach to explaining the diagnosis is described. As yet there are no controlled trials of treatment in this disorder but preliminary evidence suggests cognitive behavioural therapy is both a rational and promising way forward.
Marijuana use in hepatitis C infection does not affect liver biopsy histology or treatment outcomes.

BACKGROUND Marijuana smoking is prevalent among hepatitis C virus-infected patients. The literature assessing the influence of marijuana on liver disease progression and hepatitis C virus antiviral treatment outcomes is conflicting. METHODS The authors evaluated hepatitis C virus RNA-positive patients followed at The Ottawa Hospital Viral Hepatitis Clinic (Ottawa, Ontario) from 2000 to 2009. Using The Ottawa Hospital Viral Hepatitis Clinic database and charts, information regarding demographics, HIV coinfection, alcohol use, liver biopsy results, treatment outcomes and self-reported marijuana use was extracted. Biopsy characteristics and hepatitis C virus antiviral treatment outcomes were assessed for association with categorized marijuana use by adjusted logistic regression; covariates were specified according to clinical relevance a priori. RESULTS Information regarding marijuana use was available for 550 patients, 159 (28.9%) of whom were using marijuana at the time of first assessment. Biopsy fibrosis stage and marijuana use data were available for 377 of these 550 (F0-2 = 72.3%). Overall, marijuana use did not predict fibrosis stage, inflammation grade or steatosis. Sustained virological response and marijuana use data were available for 359 of the 550 cohort participants; a total of 211 (58.8%) achieved a sustained virological response. Marijuana use was not associated with premature interruption of therapy for side effects, the likelihood of completing a full course of therapy or sustained virological response. CONCLUSION Marijuana use did not influence biopsy histology or alter key hard outcomes of hepatitis C virus antiviral therapy.
Context Matters: Schools and the “Research to Practice Gap” in Children's Mental Health

Abstract Reviews have identified mental health interventions that are relevant to schools; unfortunately, this research pays insufficient attention to the school context. Several aspects of school context likely influence the ability of schools to change current practices or adopt new ones. Relying on an organizational framework, a three-level model of school context particularly relevant to the delivery of mental health interventions: (a) individual, (b) organizational, and (c) state or national-level factors are described. This article argues that effective school-based mental health care will result from the marriage of system reform efforts, capacity building, and the delivery of empirically driven intervention strategies.
Reasons University Students with a Learning Disability Wait to Seek Disability Services.

We interviewed 42 students with a learning disability attending a large competitive state university about their reasons for seeking disability services (DS) when they did and their transition services in high school. Students who sought services earlier performed better academically than students who postponed seeking services. All but eight students first sought services in response to academic crises. Students who were more proactive received more college transition services in high school, while students who sought services later reported limited knowledge as a barrier to seeking services. A highly scheduled freshmen year, a general feeling that things were going well, and a desire to forge an identity free of a disability were also reasons given for postponing services. Implications for transition services at the high school and postsecondary levels are discussed.
Idea generation through computer‐mediated communication: the effects of anonymity

Purpose – Brainstorming is a well‐known group process for generating new ideas and stimulating creativity. Important as well as robust findings have been achieved in determining which factors contribute most to facilitating or hindering the group's ideas productivity. Research aimed at comparing face‐to‐face (FTF) with computer‐mediated communication (CMC) led to the conclusion that this latter shared with the nominal group technique the advantages of avoiding either the blocking effect or the identification of the source. More recently, attention has turned to the possible effects of group support system (GSS) in the mediating cognitive processes of generating new ideas. The present study aims to examine the effects of the type of tool and of the anonymity condition on the quality, quantity and diversity of the generated ideas, as well as on group members' satisfaction.Design/methodology/approach – Uses a 2 × 2 factorial design combining two different GSS tools (topic commenter vs EBS) with anonymity ver.
"The Blank Page" and the Issues of Female Creativity

Consider for a moment Ovid’s story of Pygmalion: a king, shocked at the vices of the female disposition, creates a beautiful statue, significantly an ivory statue white as snow, with which he falls in love. Pygmalion brings his lovely statue presents, dresses it, bedecks it with jewels, fondles its curves, takes it to bed, and prays to Venus that his wife be (or be like) his “ivory girl. ” When he feels the ivory under his fingers soften, “as wax grows soft in sunshine, made pliable by handling,” Pygmalion is astonished with joy: “It is a body! ” Not only has he created life, he has created female life as he would like it to be—pliable, responsive, purely physical. Most important, he has evaded the humiliation, shared by many men, of acknowledging that it is he who is really created out of and from the female body. Our culture is steeped in such myths of male primacy in theological, artistic, and scientific creativity. Christianity, as feminist theologians have shown us, is based on the power of God the Father, who creates the natural world of generation out of nothing. Literary men like Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Ruskin describe the author as priest, prophet, warrior, legislator, or emperor,
La prevalencia de los trastornos psiquiátricos en la población urbana adulta en México

El proposito de este estudio fue obtener un diagnostico de la magnitud de los problemas de salud mental en una submuestra aleatoria poblacional urbana de personas entre 18 a 64 anos, en el marco del levantamiento de la primera Encuesta Nacional de Adicciones (ENA) en 1988. Este estudio es el primero en su genero que, aplicado en una encuesta de hogares en la poblacion urbana a nivel nacional, intenta estimar la prevalencia de trastornos psiquiatricos especificos. La informacion se obtuvo por medio de un cuestionario estandarizado de facil aplicacion por entrevistadores no psiquiatras. Para elaborar la entrevista se seleccionaron reactivos de diferentes instrumentos que exploraran las areas importantes de la psicopatologia tratando de que estuvieran redactados en un lenguaje claro tanto para aplicarlos como para que la poblacion entrevistada los comprendiera y los contestara. Las variables exploraron la prevalencia de sintomatologia que sugiriera la existencia de los siguientes trastornos: depresion desesperanza, ideacion suicida, mania, estados de angustia, obsesiones-compulsiones, crisis, epilepticas y sintomatologia psicotica. La informacion se agrupo y se manejo siguiendo los criterios del PSE-ID-CATEGO para las clases diagnosticas no psicoticas y para los trastornos afectivos mayores, mientras que para los trastornos psicoticos se crearon clases tentativas en funcion de las preguntas del cuestionario. Para el analisis de la informacion se manejo el ponderador promedio. De esta manera se conserva la probabilidad de seleccion de los sujetos y, al mismo tiempo, se mantiene el tamano de la muestra estudiada. La muestra quedo integrada por 888 hombres y 1096 mujeres, lo que dio un total de 1984 personas adultas de 18 a 64 anos. La prevalencia global estimada fue de 16.7%; adicionalmente, la epilepsia alcanzo 3.7%. Los trastornos depresivos mayores y la depresion neurotica, asi como el trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo fueron mas frecuentes entre las mujeres. La prevalencia global por genero fue de 19.5% en las mujeres. La prevalencia global por genero fue de 19.5% en las mujeres mientras que en los hombres fue de 14.3. En los trastornos mas severos no hubo diferencias entre ninguno de los dos generos. Los resultados obtenidos se discuten comparativamente con los hallazgos de los estudios epidemiologicos mas recientes.
A “Proteomic Ruler” for Protein Copy Number and Concentration Estimation without Spike-in Standards

Absolute protein quantification using mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics delivers protein concentrations or copy numbers per cell. Existing methodologies typically require a combination of isotope-labeled spike-in references, cell counting, and protein concentration measurements. Here we present a novel method that delivers similar quantitative results directly from deep eukaryotic proteome datasets without any additional experimental steps. We show that the MS signal of histones can be used as a “proteomic ruler” because it is proportional to the amount of DNA in the sample, which in turn depends on the number of cells. As a result, our proteomic ruler approach adds an absolute scale to the MS readout and allows estimation of the copy numbers of individual proteins per cell. We compare our protein quantifications with values derived via the use of stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture and protein epitope signature tags in a method that combines spike-in protein fragment standards with precise isotope label quantification. The proteomic ruler approach yields quantitative readouts that are in remarkably good agreement with results from the precision method. We attribute this surprising result to the fact that the proteomic ruler approach omits error-prone steps such as cell counting or protein concentration measurements. The proteomic ruler approach is readily applicable to any deep eukaryotic proteome dataset—even in retrospective analysis—and we demonstrate its usefulness with a series of mouse organ proteomes.
The Functional Impact of Neurocognitive Deficits in Pediatric Cancer Survivors and Associated Risk Factors

Childhood cancer survivors are at risk for long-term neurocognitive morbidities. Current research has only recently begun to examine how these neurocognitive late effects translate into impairments across important aspects of daily living. Additionally, research remains in its early stages of identifying risk factors associated with neurocognitive and broad functional impairments. The current study explores a proposed model of neurocognitive late effects by examining the relationship between neurocognitive deficits and broad functional impairment in cancer survivors relative to healthy controls. The current study also explores the contribution of associated risk factors including treatment severity and time since treatment among cancer survivors and long-term stress reactivity among both cancer survivors and healthy controls. Cancer survivors and healthy controls were between the ages of five and eighteen years. Hair samples were collected from the children to assess cortisol, a measure of long-term stress reactivity. Parents completed a functional impairment questionnaire while a brief neurocognitive exam was administered to the children. Results found no differences in neurocognitive performance or levels of functional impairment in
Trauma: Culture, Meaning and Philosophy

Part I. Trauma. Meaning and Psychiatry. Introduction. Enlightenment. Psychiatry and The Nature of Mind. Post traumatic Anxiety. The Limitations of cognitive Approaches to Meaning and Trauma. Part II. A Phenomenological Approach to Meaning and its Loss. Heiddegger s Account of Human Reality. A Heideggerian approach to Psychology and Psychotherapy. Meaning Anxiety and Ontology. Authenticity in Question. Part III. Meaning and The Culture of Postmodernity. Modernity. Postmodernity and The Question of Meaning. Responding at postmodernity. Conclusion.
Comparative Potential of Aedes triseriatus, Aedes albopictus, and Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) to Transovarially Transmit La Crosse Virus

Abstract Aedes triseriatus (Say) (Diptera: Culicidae), the major vector of La Crosse (LAC) virus, efficiently transmits LAC virus both horizontally and transovarially. We compared the vector competence and transovarial transmission ability of Ae. triseriatus, Aedes albopictus Skuse, and Aedes aegypti (L.) for LAC virus. Ae. triseriatus and Ae. albopictus were significantly more susceptible to oral infection with LAC virus than Ae. aegypti. The three species also differed in oral and disseminated infection rates (DIRs). Transovarial transmission (TOT) rates and filial infection rates (FIRs) were greater for Ae. triseriatus than either Ae. albopictus or Ae. aegypti. These measures were integrated into a single numerical score, the transmission amplification potential (TAP) for each species. Differences in TAP scores were due mainly to the differences in DIRs and FIRs among these mosquitoes. Although the TAP score for Ae. albopictus was lower than that of Ae. triseriatus, it was 10-fold greater than that for Ae. aegypti.
Acute Toxic Effects of Nerve Agent VX on Respiratory Dynamics and Functions Following Microinsillation Inhalation Exposure in Guinea Pigs

Exposure to a chemical warfare nerve agent (CWNA) leads to severe respiratory distress, respiratory failure, or death if not treated. We investigated the toxic effects of nerve agent VX on the respiratory dynamics of guinea pigs following exposure to 90.4 μg/m3 of VX or saline by microinstillation inhalation technology for 10 min. Respiratory parameters were monitored by whole-body barometric plethysmography at 4, 24, and 48 h, 7 d, 18 d, and 4 wk after VX exposure. VX-exposed animals showed a significant decrease in the respiratory frequency (RF) at 24 and 48 h of recovery (p value.0329 and.0142, respectively) compared to the saline control. The tidal volume (TV) slightly increased in VX exposed animals at 24 and significantly at 48 h (p = .02) postexposure. Minute ventilation (MV) increased slightly at 4 h but was reduced at 24 h and remained unchanged at 48 h. Animals exposed to VX also showed an increase in expiratory (Te) and relaxation time (RT) at 24 and 48 h and a small reduction in inspiratory time (Ti) at 24 h. A significant increase in end expiratory pause (EEP) was observed at 48 h after VX exposure (p = .049). The pseudo lung resistance (Penh) was significantly increased at 4 h after VX exposure and remained slightly high even at 48 h. Time-course studies reveal that most of the altered respiratory dynamics returned to normal at 7 d after VX exposure except for EEP, which was high at 7 d and returned to normal at 18 d postexposure. After 1 mo, all the monitored respiratory parameters were within normal ranges. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) 1 mo after exposure showed virtually no difference in protein levels, cholinesterase levels, cell number, and cell death in the exposed and control animals. These results indicate that sublethal concentrations of VX induce changes in respiratory dynamics and functions that over time return to normal levels.
Erbium-Doped Amorphous Carbon-Based Thin Films: A Photonic Material Prepared by Low-Temperature RF-PEMOCVD

The integration of photonic materials into CMOS processing involves the use of new materials. A simple one-step metal-organic radio frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition system (RF-PEMOCVD) was deployed to grow erbium-doped amorphous carbon thin films (a-C:(Er)) on Si substrates at low temperatures (<200 °C). A partially fluorinated metal-organic compound, tris(6,6,7,7,8,8,8-heptafluoro-2,2-dimethyl-3,5-octanedionate) Erbium(+III) or abbreviated Er(fod)3, was incorporated in situ into a-C based host. Six-fold enhancement of Er room-temperature photoluminescence at 1.54 μm was demonstrated by deuteration of the a-C host. Furthermore, the effect of RF power and substrate temperature on the photoluminescence of a-C:D(Er) films was investigated and analyzed in terms of the film structure. Photoluminescence signal increases with increasing RF power, which is the result of an increase in [O]/[Er] ratio and the respective erbium-oxygen coordination number. Moreover, photoluminescence intensity decreases with increasing substrate temperature, which is attributed to an increased desorption rate or a lower sticking coefficient of the fluorinated fragments during film growth and hence [Er] decreases. In addition, it is observed that Er concentration quenching begins at ~2.2 at% and continues to increase until 5.5 at% in the studied a-C:D(Er) matrix. This technique provides the capability of doping Er in a vertically uniform profile.
THACO: A test facility for characterizing the noise performance of active antenna arrays

This paper discusses an outdoor test facility for the noise characterization of active antenna arrays, using measurement results of array noise temperatures in the order of 50 K for a number of small aperture arrays. The measurement results are obtained by a Y-factor method with hot and a cold noise sources, with an absorber at room temperature as the hot load and the cold sky as the cold load. The effect of shielding the arrays by the test facility, with respect to noise and RFI from the environment, will also be discussed.
Prehypertension and cardiovascular risk factor clustering among Mongolian population in rural and animal husbandry area, Inner Mongolia, China.

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether and to what extent there is clustering of cardiovascular risk factors in the prehypertension phase among Mongolians in the rural and animal husbandry area of Inner Mongolia, China. METHODS AND RESULTS The 2,589 Mongolian people aged > or=20 years served as subjects. Demographic data, lifestyle factors and family history of hypertension, blood pressure measurements, physical examination and blood samples were obtained and analyzed for all individuals. The proportions of 2 and > or =3 risk factors clustering were higher in hypertensives than in prehypertensives, and higher in prehypertensives than in normotensives (both P<0.01). After adjustment for age, sex and family history of hypertension, both prehypertension and hypertension were associated with mutually clustering of 5 risk factors; odds ratio (OR) of prehypertension with 1, 2 and > or =3 factors was 1.30 (1.02, 1.65), 1.93 (1.40, 2.67) and 2.44 (1.62, 3.68), respectively, and for hypertension the OR were 1.75 (1.31, 2.35), 3.84 (2.68, 5.48) and 6.95 (5.04, 10.63), respectively. CONCLUSIONS There is clustering of risk factors in the phase of prehypertension among Mongolian people, so intervention measures should be taken to prevent progression to hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases.